<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!-- generator="wordpress.com" -->
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>zusak &amp;laquo; WordPress.com Tag Feed</title>
	<link>http://wordpress.com/tag/zusak/</link>
	<description>Feed of posts on WordPress.com tagged "zusak"</description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 10:29:52 +0000</pubDate>

	<generator>http://wordpress.com/tags/</generator>
	<language>en</language>

<item>
<title><![CDATA[The Book Thief]]></title>
<link>http://dentonlibrary.wordpress.com/?p=277</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 14:26:13 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>dentonpl</dc:creator>
<guid>http://dentonlibrary.pt-br.wordpress.com/2008/05/19/the-book-thief/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Written from the point of view of Death, this wryly narrated book tells the story of Liesel Meminger]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://dentonlibrary.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/the-book-thief.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-278" src="http://dentonlibrary.wordpress.com/files/2008/05/the-book-thief.jpg?w=61" alt="" width="61" height="96" /></a>Written from the point of view of Death, this wryly narrated book tells the story of Liesel Meminger, a young German girl living in the birthplace of Nazism during World War II. <a href="http://library.cityofdenton.com/search?/YThe+Book+Thief&#38;searchscope=4&#38;SORT=R/YThe+Book+Thief&#38;searchscope=4&#38;SORT=R&#38;SUBKEY=The%20Book%20Thief/1%2C39%2C39%2CB/frameset&#38;FF=YThe+Book+Thief&#38;searchscope=4&#38;SORT=R&#38;3%2C3%2C">The Book Thief</a> focuses on Liesel's love of books and how books help her, her family and her community cope with the horrors of war.</p>
<p>  If you love the written word, Zusak's subject matter and writing style will pull you into Liesel's world.  Many people have trouble getting into the story at first, but I say give it at least one-hundred pages.  I was hooked from page one; this is one the best young adult novels I have ever read.  The Book Thief is highly recommended for both teens and adults.<br />
-Dana</p>
]]></content:encoded>
</item>
<item>
<title><![CDATA[A Cat and Mouse Chase (Me and the Holocaust)]]></title>
<link>http://bookcrazy.wordpress.com/?p=112</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:26:48 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>bookcrazy</dc:creator>
<guid>http://bookcrazy.pt-br.wordpress.com/2008/03/21/a-cat-and-mouse-chase-me-and-the-holocaust/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Yes, the Nazi genocide has been chasing me. I have no idea why. First, it was the Book Thief by Mark]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes, the Nazi genocide has been chasing me. I have no idea why. First, it was the <em><a title="Amazon Link" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375842209/104-9675329-5052763?ie=UTF8&#38;tag=boocra01-20&#38;linkCode=xm2&#38;camp=1789&#38;creativeASIN=0375842209">Book Thief</a> </em>by Markus Zusak. Then it was Imre Kertsze's <a title="Amazon Link" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/140007505X/104-9675329-5052763?ie=UTF8&#38;tag=boocra01-20&#38;linkCode=xm2&#38;camp=1789&#38;creativeASIN=140007505X"><em>Liquidation</em></a>. And now, I just finished reading Gunter Grass's <a title="Amazon Link" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0156155516/104-9675329-5052763?ie=UTF8&#38;tag=boocra01-20&#38;linkCode=xm2&#38;camp=1789&#38;creativeASIN=0156155516"><em>Cat and Mouse</em></a>. And as if that was not enough, <img src="http://a1055.g.akamai.net/f/1055/1401/5h/images.barnesandnoble.com/images/14900000/14900941.JPG" alt="" width="125" height="193" align="left" />I ended up watching <em><a title="Amazon Link" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005JLT5/104-9675329-5052763?ie=UTF8&#38;tag=boocra01-20&#38;linkCode=xm2&#38;camp=1789&#38;creativeASIN=B00005JLT5">The Pianist</a> </em>today.</p>
<p>It is not that I want to stay away from the holocaust history - the fact is that I am as far from it as can be. I live in a country where there are not many Jews, none of my acquaintance have anyone who has anyone having faced that trauma. It is also not that i was never aware of (in general terms) what Hitler had done to the Jews. However, for some reason I kept myself away (consciously) from any literature or movie that describes the Jewish execution. It leaves me shaken to the core.</p>
<p>But the cat catches the mouse, sooner or later; only this time I was the mouse. First the books, then the dilemma</p>
<p>The <a title="Amazon Link" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375842209/104-9675329-5052763?ie=UTF8&#38;tag=boocra01-20&#38;linkCode=xm2&#38;camp=1789&#38;creativeASIN=0375842209"><em>Book Thief</em></a> is mostly a humane story written with amazing simplicity and originality (imagine Death as the narrator). There is only one Jew character sheltered and loved by a stranger German family. I consider that family as the definition of 'humanity'. However, you need to read it to understand why I say that. <em><a title="Amazon Link" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375842209/104-9675329-5052763?ie=UTF8&#38;tag=boocra01-20&#38;linkCode=xm2&#38;camp=1789&#38;creativeASIN=0375842209">Book Thief</a> </em>is the only book by Zusak that I have<img src="http://a1055.g.akamai.net/f/1055/1401/5h/images.barnesandnoble.com/images/20480000/20488176.JPG" alt="" width="125" height="193" align="right" /> read, and if it is representative of his brand of literature, I am simply in awe.</p>
<p><em><a title="Amazon Link" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0156155516/104-9675329-5052763?ie=UTF8&#38;tag=boocra01-20&#38;linkCode=xm2&#38;camp=1789&#38;creativeASIN=0156155516">Cat and Mouse</a> </em>turned out to be my introduction to Gunter Grass. I had his <em><a title="Amazon Link" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0156029707/104-9675329-5052763?ie=UTF8&#38;tag=boocra01-20&#38;linkCode=xm2&#38;camp=1789&#38;creativeASIN=0156029707">Crabwalk</a> </em>lying with me for a long time, but I ended up buying and reading this one straight away. These are the kind of coincidences that make me feel that I have been the mouse in this strange game. I found Grass's style endearing and personal. For some reason, in all the time that I had been anticipating his literature, I had assumed he will be dry, serious, and effective. Effective and powerful he is, but without the baggage. Through a strange teen-friendship, Grass has plotted the regular life of the youth in Hitler's Germany during the war - without any bias, without any excess. I am definitely picking up the <em><a title="Amazon Link" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/067972575X/104-9675329-5052763?ie=UTF8&#38;tag=boocra01-20&#38;linkCode=xm2&#38;camp=1789&#38;creativeASIN=067972575X">Tin Drum</a> </em>soon.</p>
<p><a title="Amazon Link" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/140007505X/104-9675329-5052763?ie=UTF8&#38;tag=boocra01-20&#38;linkCode=xm2&#38;camp=1789&#38;creativeASIN=140007505X"><img src="http://a1055.g.akamai.net/f/1055/1401/5h/images.barnesandnoble.com/images/14820000/14827736.JPG" alt="" width="125" height="193" align="left" /></a>Imre Kertsze is different. I think he is in the category of Kafka and Beckett, only with lesser use of metaphors. I hear <em><a title="Amazon Link" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/140007505X/104-9675329-5052763?ie=UTF8&#38;tag=boocra01-20&#38;linkCode=xm2&#38;camp=1789&#38;creativeASIN=140007505X">Liquidation</a> </em>is not one of his best books, but that was the one I stumbled upon, read and loved. He has attempted to characterize 'holocaust survivor mentality' as a whole and has tried to negate it. Being a survivor himself, I guess he was aware that it was necessary for the Jews to move on. However, I find myself incompetent to judge whether it is desirable, if at all possible.</p>
<p>And then came the <a title="Amazon Link" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005JLT5/104-9675329-5052763?ie=UTF8&#38;tag=boocra01-20&#38;linkCode=xm2&#38;camp=1789&#38;creativeASIN=B00005JLT5"><em>Pianist</em></a>. All the literature I had read, had never <em>described </em>the Hitler brand of torture. I also know that the three books I have mentioned do not intend in any way to  achieve that. However, the <em>Pianist</em> does. I just cannot watch it! I have stopped my DVD thrice by now, and I do not know whether I will end up watching it completely. My head is<img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2087/2228189828_5931ab4a27_m.jpg" alt="" width="240" height="160" align="right" /> occupied with a single question - WHY?</p>
<p>Why does holocaust trouble me? I do not live in Europe, not in the US, not even in a country where a single individual might have been directly affected. No Jews live around me. Then, why? Why so much so that I conciously avoid literature and movies related to it? I do not have answers. Probalities, yes. But no answers.</p>
<p>There are another set of Whys, deeper and more troublesome kind. Why did Hitler do it? I can understand a politician in a democracy trying genocide for votes, but why a dictator? It is not even that he gained power through the holocaust, he started it all at his peak - WHY?  And why did he not order a shoot-at-sight? Why the methodical execution? Why the gas chambers when one absurd bullet could have done the job? Why? Why?</p>
<p>I have decided that I am done with running from this Cat of the holocaust. I want to read good literature, fiction or non-fiction which gives me a some idea of the those times; and I need suggestions from you. In this Cat and Mouse game, the mouse surrenders. Why? I have too many others to answer.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
</item>
<item>
<title><![CDATA[Kip's favorite authors]]></title>
<link>http://kiperoo.wordpress.com/?p=20</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 02:13:50 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>kiperoo</dc:creator>
<guid>http://kiperoo.pt-br.wordpress.com/2008/03/05/kips-favorite-authors/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Kips love reading.
My favorite authors are:

Rainer Maria Rilke
Philip Pullman
Haruki Murakami
Joste]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Kips love reading.</p>
<p>My favorite authors are:</p>
<ul>
<li>Rainer Maria Rilke</li>
<li>Philip Pullman</li>
<li>Haruki Murakami</li>
<li>Jostein Gaarder</li>
<li>Stefan Zweig</li>
<li>Paul Celan</li>
<li>Pablo Neruda</li>
<li>Sylvia Plath</li>
<li>Ernest Hemingway</li>
<li>Markus Zusak</li>
<li>Javier Marías</li>
<li>Carlos Ruiz Zafón</li>
<li>Banana Yoshimoto</li>
<li>Jasper Fforde</li>
</ul>
<p>Except for the dead ones, I <i>have </i>to have new books by these people whenever they come out!</p>
]]></content:encoded>
</item>
<item>
<title><![CDATA[A menina que devora livros...]]></title>
<link>http://eusegundoeumesma.wordpress.com/?p=8</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Bruna Tissot</dc:creator>
<guid>http://eusegundoeumesma.pt-br.wordpress.com/2008/02/22/a-menina-que-devora-livros/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[
Foto: Google
Em março do ano passado, foi lançado pela Editora Instrínseca no Brasil um livro ch]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://eusegundoeumesma.wordpress.com/files/2008/02/livro_oculos.jpg" title="livro_oculos.jpg"><img src="http://eusegundoeumesma.wordpress.com/files/2008/02/livro_oculos.jpg" alt="livro_oculos.jpg" /></a></p>
<p>Foto: Google</p>
<p>Em março do ano passado, foi lançado pela Editora Instrínseca no Brasil um livro chamado <a href="http://www.cantodoleitor.com.br/blog/a-menina-que-roubava-livros/2008/01/07">"A menina que roubava livros"</a>, do australiano <a href="http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus_Zusak">Markus Zusak</a>.</p>
<p>O livro conta a história de Liesel Memminger, uma menina que foi adotada após seu irmão mais novo morrer. A narradora do livro é nada mais, nada menos do que a morte. Esta se encontra com Liesel várias vezes durante a história. E a observa o tempo todo durante o decorrer do livro.</p>
<p>A menina, que mora na Alemanha dominado pelo "Fuher", passa a roubar livros para satisfazer sua ânsia em ler. "A guerra e os temores que ela traz, tornam o enredo o mais humano possível, trazendo para nós, uma visão diferente do que era não ser judeu mas ter princípios humanos em plena Alemanha dominada pelo nazismo na segunda guerra mundial".¹</p>
<p>Ainda não tive a oportunidade de ler este livro. Mas confesso que estou curiosíssima para fazê-lo. Acredito que seja o tipo de livro pelo qual me encanto só de ver a capa. E daí em diante, parar de ler é um imenso sacrifício. Já li e ouvi críticas ruins quanto ao livro: de que é pesado, de que é sombrio demais, de que é péssimo, de que é de mau gosto. Mas como, dificilmente, levo em conta as críticas sem formar uma opinião própria, continuo com a mesma vontade de ler.</p>
<p>Mas o fato é: na praia, minha irmã resolveu que vai escrever um livro chamado "A menina que devora livros". O personagem principal? Eu. Rimos muito. Até que eu perguntei porque a implicância com meu "vício". Minha mãe me respondeu simplesmente "nenhuma implicância, só que tu lê a jato". Com esta até eu achei engraçado. Na praia eu li tres livros, em menos de um mês. Me chamavam pro almoço. Já vou... Me chamavam pra ir na praia. Já vou... Me chamavam pra qualquer outra coisa. Já vou.... Fora revistas, jornais e tudo mais que cai nas minhas mãos. Eu devoro tudinho. Minha estante de livros, no meu quarto, já está ficando pequena pra tanta coisa.  Aqui em casa, os outros ganham livros de presente e eu sou a primeira a ler.</p>
<p>Não posso dizer que ler, pra mim, seja um costume, um hábito. É sim um vício. Estou bem acima da média nacional de leitura (1,8 livros por ano) e da gaúcha (5,5 livros por ano). ²  Minha média é de 1 livro por semana.</p>
<p>Não tenho a mínima idéia de quando foi o primeiro livro que li. Sei que tenho guardados alguns livros de quando eu era bem pequena, como "Uma fada nos meus olhos", "Reizinho Mandão", "Aristogatas", etc. Me lembro de mim pequena, lendo (ou olhando as figurinhas) de uns livros que minha irmã tinha, que eram todos em um papelão grosso. E contavam diversas histórias. Uma delas de três gatinhos que comiam sempre de luvinhas. E suas luvinhas sujaram e eles nao podiam comer bolo da mamãe gata porque tinham lavado as luvinhas. Conforme se virava a página, em determinados lugares pegava luz e saía uma musiquinha. O livro ainda existe, mas não toca mais nada. Lembro de revistas e livrinhos que minha mãe trazia.</p>
<p>Pode ser que seja genético também. Minha vó materna, além de escrever poesias, gosta muito de ler. Talvez isto venha pelo DNA. Eu acredito que isto seja gosto e costume mesmo. Já vi pessoas dizendo que só lêem jornais e revistas porque trazem informações que serão úteis. Ou seja, na cabeça destas pessoas (que, com todo respeito, eu consideo minúscula...) só ler o que tem informação real e instantânea é o que importa. Acho que se fosse assim que a coisa funcionasse, os livros não existiriam e também não existiriam o número enorme de editoras e livrarias que existe. Mas tudo bem. Cada um com seu pensamento.</p>
<p>Comigo existe até uma história engraçada. Em 1995, minha família foi na Festa do Moranguinho, que acontece todo ano em Bom  Princípio - RS. Lá, o <a href="http://portalliteral.terra.com.br/verissimo/">Luís Fernando Veríssimo</a>, iria realizar uma sessão de autógrafos. Então fomos em uma livraria comprar livros para autografar. Minha irmã comprou um chamado "O santinho", de Luis Fernando Veríssimo. Nada mais natural. Um livro do autor, para ele próprio autografar. Pois eu, na época com 7 anos, comprei um outro: "Aristogatas". E fui para a fila. Todos estavam com livros do autor ou blocos de papel para que ele desse um autógrafo. E eu, faceira, com meu livrinho nada a ver. Pois ele autografou. Devo ser a única pessoa no mundo que tem um livro dos "Aristogatas" autografado pelo Luis Fernando Veríssimo.</p>
<p>Ler faz viajar. Faz pensar. Faz aprender. Amo ler. E se alguém me perguntar se eu quero me livrar deste vício? Com certeza eu vou responder que não. Prefiro continuar devorando livros.</p>
<p>¹ <a href="http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Menina_que_Roubava_Livros">Fonte: Wikipédia</a></p>
<p>² <a href="http://www.cereja.org.br/arquivos_upload/futuroleitura_jornalbrasilia.pdf">Fonte: Artigo "O futuro da leitura" - Edgar Lisboa</a></p>
<p>®  Bruna Tissot</p>
]]></content:encoded>
</item>
<item>
<title><![CDATA[The Book Thief]]></title>
<link>http://thereadingzone.wordpress.com/2007/10/09/the-book-thief/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:16:29 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>thereadingzone</dc:creator>
<guid>http://thereadingzone.pt-br.wordpress.com/2007/10/09/the-book-thief/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Every so often I read a book that I can&#8217;t review. Usually this is because I can&#8217;t finish]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Every so often I read a book that I can't review. Usually this is because I can't finish the book and end up abandoning it.</p>
<p>This is not the case for "The Book Thief".  This is a brilliant book, maybe even life-changing.  I finished the book on Sunday night, after staying up an extra hour to finish it.  It did take me about a week to finish the book, but only because it is such a heavy book that I would read a chapter or so at a time.  It was well worth it, though.</p>
<p>Run out and buy this book.  Read it.  Now.<a href='http://thereadingzone.wordpress.com/files/2007/10/518gtgzstfl_ss500_.jpg' title='518gtgzstfl_ss500_.jpg'><img src='http://thereadingzone.wordpress.com/files/2007/10/518gtgzstfl_ss500_.jpg' alt='518gtgzstfl_ss500_.jpg' /></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
</item>

</channel>
</rss>
