<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Books @ emperorp.blog-city.com</title><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/</link><description>(Books) </description><copyright>Copyright 2008 emperorp.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:26:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Books @ emperorp.blog-city.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>What I&apos;m Reading 2008: Update</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://emperorp.blog-city.com/what_im_reading_2008.htm</guid><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/what_im_reading_2008.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:41:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=what%5Fim%5Freading%5F2008</comments><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. -Henry David Thoreau. I've been reading a lot of very good books these last few months and I'm still holding Thoreau's words close as I make my selections.]]></description></item><item><title>My Book Loving Birthday</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://emperorp.blog-city.com/my_book_loving_birthday.htm</guid><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/my_book_loving_birthday.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 07:30:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=my%5Fbook%5Floving%5Fbirthday</comments><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[My beloved husband, and fellow book lover, has given me the gift of Joyce for my birthday. Since reading, and enjoying, 'Dubliners' when I was 16 years old, and then 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' when I was 17, it has crossed my mind from]]></description></item><item><title>A Sad Goodbye to Melissa Nathan</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://emperorp.blog-city.com/a_sad_goodbye_to_melissa_nathan.htm</guid><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/a_sad_goodbye_to_melissa_nathan.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 05:58:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=a%5Fsad%5Fgoodbye%5Fto%5Fmelissa%5Fnathan</comments><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I was searching Amazon tonight to see if authors I like have anything new coming out. I do it now and then and it's always such a thrill to find a new read from an author I enjoy. Tonight there was no thrill, just the sad discovery that Melissa Natha]]></description></item><item><title>An Evening with Dinaw Mengestu</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://emperorp.blog-city.com/an_evening_with_dinaw_mengestu.htm</guid><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/an_evening_with_dinaw_mengestu.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 11:09:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=an%5Fevening%5Fwith%5Fdinaw%5Fmengestu</comments><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A couple of book club friends and I attended Dinaw Mengetsu's reading and discussion of his debut novel. The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears had been chosen for the Seattle Reads program at the Public library, which means that the library makes]]></description></item><item><title>Being the Change</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://emperorp.blog-city.com/being_the_change.htm</guid><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/being_the_change.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:46:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=being%5Fthe%5Fchange</comments><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Those who think-and their name is legion-that they know how the universe could have been better than it is, how it would have been if they had created it, without pain, without sorrow, without time, without life, are unfit for illumination. Or]]></description></item><item><title>Arthur, Ice-Cream and Dancing in the Sun</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://emperorp.blog-city.com/arthur_icecream_and_dancing_in_the_sun.htm</guid><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/arthur_icecream_and_dancing_in_the_sun.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:33:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=arthur%5Ficecream%5Fand%5Fdancing%5Fin%5Fthe%5Fsun</comments><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We had a nice turn in the weather this morning. Sun, sun and more sun forecast for the rest of our stay. After an early start seeing James off on his ride up to Mission Ridge, the girls and I returned to our room for a little down time. Being awake p]]></description></item><item><title>An Evening with Jhumpa Lahiri</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://emperorp.blog-city.com/an_evening_with_jhumpa_lahiri.htm</guid><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/an_evening_with_jhumpa_lahiri.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:03:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=an%5Fevening%5Fwith%5Fjhumpa%5Flahiri</comments><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Although it's Monday night, which means Yoga Night, I'm keeping up the recent pattern of getting to class every other week. Tonight I chose to skip class to attend a reading by author Jhumpa Lahiri at the Central branch of the Seattle Public Library]]></description></item><item><title>Rainbow Magic</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://emperorp.blog-city.com/rainbow_magic.htm</guid><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/rainbow_magic.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 05:27:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=rainbow%5Fmagic</comments><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[My friend Rosemary and I recently started a babysitting exchange, in the hopes that each of us will have a chance to get out with our hubbies on a regular basis. One night in February, when it was Rosemary's turn to mind our girls, she arrived arm]]></description></item><item><title>An Irish Magic Tree House</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://emperorp.blog-city.com/an_irish_magic_tree_house.htm</guid><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/an_irish_magic_tree_house.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:33:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=an%5Firish%5Fmagic%5Ftree%5Fhouse</comments><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We finished reading Day of the Dragon King last night, book #14 in The Magic Tree House series. Prior to that we read about Pompeii in Vacation Under the Volcano. Ashley and Caitlin were very interested in the the idea that a whole town was lost beca]]></description></item><item><title>My Favourite Things: Quotations Pt 1: Reading</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://emperorp.blog-city.com/my_favourite_things_quotations_pt_1_reading.htm</guid><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/my_favourite_things_quotations_pt_1_reading.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:25:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=my%5Ffavourite%5Fthings%5Fquotations%5Fpt%5F1%5Freading</comments><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As I was writing my post about my iPod and the books I have listened to on it, I thought about some of my favorite quotations about reading and books. My favorite is the first one on the list below (see an excuse to put together another list ).]]></description></item><item><title>My Favorite Things: My iPod</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://emperorp.blog-city.com/my_favorite_things_ipod.htm</guid><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/my_favorite_things_ipod.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=my%5Ffavorite%5Fthings%5Fipod</comments><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[My iPod is one of my most cherished, and most used, possessions. I have the Apple 30 GB iPod Video AAC/MP3 Player White (5th Generation), which I bought 2 years ago (and for $200 less than the current price of $489.99 at Amazon???). I keep all the]]></description></item><item><title>Out of the Mouth of Kids...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://emperorp.blog-city.com/out_of_the_mouth_of_babes.htm</guid><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/out_of_the_mouth_of_babes.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2007 05:12:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=out%5Fof%5Fthe%5Fmouth%5Fof%5Fbabes</comments><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This morning the girls joined us in our newly restored bed (yes, we finally sorted that all out yesteraday afternoon and are now equipped with a mattress of usual odor). We snuggled and read a Christmas story and then Caitlin flopped down and dramati]]></description></item><item><title>Mothering Without a Map: Mothers Need Others Pt 2: Ambivalence</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://emperorp.blog-city.com/mothering_without_a_map_mothers_need_others_pt_2_ambivalen.htm</guid><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/mothering_without_a_map_mothers_need_others_pt_2_ambivalen.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=mothering%5Fwithout%5Fa%5Fmap%5Fmothers%5Fneed%5Fothers%5Fpt%5F2%5Fambivalen</comments><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Ambivalence is not mixed feelings, but contradictory impulses and emotions toward the same person...Problems can arise in how mothers deal with the guilt and anxiety ambivalence provokes. Parents who can tolerate these feelings, rather th]]></description></item><item><title>Mothering Without a Map: Mothers Need Others</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://emperorp.blog-city.com/mothering_without_a_map_mothers_need_others.htm</guid><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/mothering_without_a_map_mothers_need_others.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:13:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=mothering%5Fwithout%5Fa%5Fmap%5Fmothers%5Fneed%5Fothers</comments><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[?Whether mothers need expert advice to get along is debatable, but without question they need other pairs of hands besides their own. As members of what anthropologists call a ?cooperative breeding? species, women require help to mother. Those ready]]></description></item><item><title>A Good Book (or Two, or Three...)</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://emperorp.blog-city.com/a_good_book_or_two_or_three.htm</guid><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/a_good_book_or_two_or_three.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 05:36:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=a%5Fgood%5Fbook%5For%5Ftwo%5For%5Fthree</comments><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Now that we're at the start of December I've been looking over my Reading List for the past year. As I peruse the list of those read I feel a warm glow that I enjoyed each one. I've certainly read fewer books this year than in years]]></description></item><item><title>The Magic Tree House</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://emperorp.blog-city.com/the_magic_tree_house.htm</guid><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/the_magic_tree_house.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:31:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fmagic%5Ftree%5Fhouse</comments><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In September I started reading The Magic Tree House Series to the girls. At first I wasn?t sure how it would work out. It is shelved in book shops for ages 5-8 and, being a chapter book, it has only a few pictures, all of which are black and white.]]></description></item><item><title>Mothering without a Map: Sacrifice</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://emperorp.blog-city.com/mothering_without_a_map_sacrifice.htm</guid><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/mothering_without_a_map_sacrifice.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:23:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=mothering%5Fwithout%5Fa%5Fmap%5Fsacrifice</comments><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Most every mother decides, again and again, what she's willing to give her children and to give up on their behalf. And every mother eventually arrives at the charged concept of sacrifice. The word means to forfeit something highly valued for the]]></description></item><item><title>Mothering Without a Map</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://emperorp.blog-city.com/mothering_without_a_map.htm</guid><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/mothering_without_a_map.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:32:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=mothering%5Fwithout%5Fa%5Fmap</comments><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I finished reading 'Mothering Without a Map' by Kathryn Black while at my Yoga Retreat this past weekend. It was very well written and dealt with the subject of under-mothered women and their path to being good mothers. There was great compassion in]]></description></item><item><title>So Many Great Unreads</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://emperorp.blog-city.com/so_many_great_unreads.htm</guid><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/so_many_great_unreads.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:27:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=so%5Fmany%5Fgreat%5Funreads</comments><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I am such a huge book lover and have been for as long as I can remember. I sometimes pause to think about what my life would be like if I didn&rsquo;t read books or if I just gave away all the books I have amassed. It&rsquo;s hard to contemplate what]]></description></item><item><title>Playmates</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://emperorp.blog-city.com/playmates.htm</guid><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/playmates.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:10:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=playmates</comments><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Yesterday Caitlin and I had a lovely afternoon playing with our little friend Eliza. We have known Eliza since she was an infant and we used to spend a lot of time with her and her family. In the last year Life has intervened and our opportunities to]]></description></item></channel></rss>