Have you ever been in love?

This week, I reread Neil Gaiman's Fragile Things, and rather than select just this one work from his extensive library, I chose to feature him and all he has written and recorded.

BOOKS

A Walking Tour of the Shambles (with Gene Wolfe)
The Absolute Death

Adventures in the Dream Trade

All New Stories (with All Sarantonio)

American Gods

Anansi Boys

Angels & Visitations

Coraline

Day of the Dead

Don't Panic

Fragile Things

Good Omens (with Terry Pratchett)

Interworld (with Michael Reaves)

M is for Magic
MirrorMask (with Dave McKean)

Neverwhere

Now We Are Sick (with Stephen Jones)

Odd and the Frost Giants

Smoke & Mirrors

Stardust

The Absolute Death

The Alchemy of MirrorMask

The Dangerous Alphabet

The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish

The Graveyard Book

The Sandman Book of Dreams

Wolves in the Walls

COMICS

1602

Black Orchid

Books of Magic (with Dave McKean)

Creatures of the Night

Death: The High Cost of Living

Death: The Time of Your Life

Harlequin Valentine

Midnight Days

Mr. Punch: The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy

Murder Mysteries

Sandman: The Dream Hunter

Signal to Noise

Stardust

The Absolute Sandman, Vol. 1-4

The Last Temptation

The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes and Noctures

The Sandman Vol. 2: The Doll's House

The Sandman Vol. 3: Dream Country

The Sandman Vol. 4: Season of Mists

The Sandman Vol. 5: A Game of You

The Sandman Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections

The Sandman Vol. 7: Brief Lives

The Sandman Vol. 8: The Worlds' End

The Sandman Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

The Sandman Vol. 10: The Wake

The Sandman: Endless Nights

Violent Cases

AUDIO

A Study in Emerald

American Gods

Anansi Boys

Coraline

Fragile Things

Good Omens

InterWorld

M is for Magic

MirrorMask

Neverwhere

Odd and the Frost Giants

Speaking in Tongues

Stardust

Telling Tales

The Graveyard Books

Two Plays for Voice: Snow Glass Apples & Murder

Warning: Contains Language

Wolves in the Walls

Come, my love, we have oceans to sail

New York poet, writer, rapper and actor Saul Williams knows. He knows how to capture the flutter of a heartbeat, the anger in a fist and the beauty in a blink. He knows pain, heartache and laughter. He knows how to weave simple words into music.

This summer, I read two of his poetry collections, S/HE and , said the Shotgun to the Head. Both seemed to catch emotions as if they were butterflies, lacing them into the inked words as they float across the pages and then suddenly swarm.

"I have seen the truth

many times

but for the first time

she saw me"

from S/HE

"intelligence is intuitive

you needn't learn to love

unless you've been taught

to fear and hate"

from , said the Shotgun to the Head

As Gregor Samsa awoke from unsettling dreams one morning...

"Let me go to Gregor, he's my unfortunate son! Can't you understand that I must go to him?"

Both slightly unnerving and oddly appealing, Franz Kafka's Die Verwandlung (The Metamorphosis) made top list this week. After sitting down and skimming the first page, I found myself engrossed and quickly read through the novella's 47 pages. I must warn readers that the story is not a happy one, no matter how you spin it, but entirely worth your time.

Flashback

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Must Read of the Week

I am a pathological book-lover. My bedroom is a library that just happens to have a bed in it. I wouldn't have it any other way.

Read the book that won my heart this week: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (Jonathan Safran Foer)