<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Jessica West @ hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com</title><link>http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/</link><description>(Jessica West) </description><copyright>Copyright 2008 hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 04:29:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Jessica West @ hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>Black Juice by Margo Lanagan</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/blackjuice.htm</guid><link>http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/blackjuice.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 18:01:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[&quot;In the winter you come to the pit to warm your feet in the tar. You stand long enough to sink as far as your ankles - the littler you are, the longer you can stand. . . But in summer, like this day, you keep away from the tar . . . Ikky was tal]]></description><category>margolanagan</category><category>blackjuice</category></item><item><title>Fledgling by Octavia Butler</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/fledgling.htm</guid><link>http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/fledgling.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:59:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[This was one of those books that I could not put down, and that finishing was more difficult than usual. Octavia Butler is one of my favorite writers, who passed away last year, the same year that Fledgling was published. When I finished reading Fled]]></description><category>fledgling</category><category>octaviabutler</category></item></channel></rss>