<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?><rss xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><title>Nafella - NafLogger</title><link>http://www.nafella.com/</link><description>Set up many smarter social sharing networks with different privacy levels and personalized profiles</description><language>en-US</language><copyright>Refer Terms of use in the website www.nafella.com.</copyright><category>NafNotes</category><image><url><![CDATA[http://www.nafella.com/classifieds/images/homeLogo_Nafella.gif]]></url><title><![CDATA[Nafella - NafLogger]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.nafella.com/]]></link></image><item><title>The Florist's Daughter: A Meditation On Modest Lives</title><link>http://www.nafella.com/naflogger/?Bookworm/The_Florists_Daughter_A_Meditation_On_Modest_Lives</link><description><![CDATA[
    "Nothing is harder to grasp than the relentlessly modest life"      Patricia Hampl's elegant and profound meditation on middle class, midwestern lives in 20th century America begins   aptly at her dying mother's bedside. For all her life, the author has been the caretaker of her parents, never marrying   nor moving away from her childhood home. But, it is as this moment as she sits into the night holding her mother's hand and writing her obituary that she begins to realize her role as daug...]]></description><category>Inner Space</category><guid>http://www.nafella.com/naflogger/?Bookworm/The_Florists_Daughter_A_Meditation_On_Modest_Lives</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:43:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>The Dalai Lama: Accidental Celebrity or Mystic?</title><link>http://www.nafella.com/naflogger/?Bookworm/The_Dalai_LamaAccidental_Celebrity_or_Mystic</link><description><![CDATA[ How does a monk, a self effacing Buddhist whose discourse is often translated from Tibetan to English, have the power to attract people in the western hemisphere?  What sets him apart from others, to be &#39;recognized as the world&#39;s conscience keeper…courted and feted by heads of state, movie stars, and scientists with equal exuberance...&#39; and &#39;inspire people to fall at (his) feet in abject reverence&#39;?   Anyone remotely interested has a succinct easy read in the Dalai Lama: Man...]]></description><category>Inner Space</category><guid>http://www.nafella.com/naflogger/?Bookworm/The_Dalai_LamaAccidental_Celebrity_or_Mystic</guid><pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 10:21:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Tramps Like Us: A New Jersey Tale</title><link>http://www.nafella.com/naflogger/?Bookworm/Tramps_Like_UsA_New_Jersey_Tale</link><description><![CDATA[ The author of Tramps Like Us: A New Jersey Tale, Kristen Buckley, is best known as a screen writer - her most recent movie being "How To Lose A Guy In Ten Days".  Having never heard of her, I had little expectations of this memoir.  Which was just as well.  On the surface, Ms Buckley&#39;s autobiography is a biting, fall-down funny memoir of growing up in a wacky family in a New Jersey suburbia of the 70s and 80s.  If, at times, you find yourself suspending disbelief, keep in mind Buckley&#39;s...]]></description><category>Inner Space</category><guid>http://www.nafella.com/naflogger/?Bookworm/Tramps_Like_UsA_New_Jersey_Tale</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2007 00:32:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Mother Daughter Stories in Ethnic Upper Class America</title><link>http://www.nafella.com/naflogger/?Bookworm/Mother_Daughter_Stories_in_Ethnic_Upper_Class_America</link><description><![CDATA[     Mother - daughter stories and " narratives  bear witness to "the great unwritten story," the mother&#39;s, that was killed off when western civilization was founded on the myth of paternal authority."  When that narrative is "ethnic", one is never sure if they are cursed also by the stereotypes held dear by publishing houses: show how such mothers/daughters/sisters/friends fall in love; out of love; fight and make up and/or die. Always around food;complex recipes, very welcome.    Now, don&...]]></description><category>Inner Space</category><guid>http://www.nafella.com/naflogger/?Bookworm/Mother_Daughter_Stories_in_Ethnic_Upper_Class_America</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:29:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Driving Yourself Nuts Over Six Fingered Kinfolks</title><link>http://www.nafella.com/naflogger/?Bookworm/Driving_Yourself_Nuts_Over_Six_Fingered_Kinfolks</link><description><![CDATA[  What should you do when your baby sitter threatens you with the six- fingered boogeyman?  Look for him, of course.  That&#39;s what   Lisa Alther   does to overcome her "chronic identity crisis" in a delightfully wicked journey of discovery of self, in   Kinfolks - Falling Off the Family Tree: The Search for My Melungeon Ancestors.    This memoir is interesting from three perspectives. One, it underscores our obsession with race.  We need to know who we are in terms of what we are.  The other ...]]></description><category>Inner Space</category><guid>http://www.nafella.com/naflogger/?Bookworm/Driving_Yourself_Nuts_Over_Six_Fingered_Kinfolks</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:50:00 EST</pubDate></item></channel></rss>