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

I am absolutely enamored with Heather Evans Smith's promotional shoot for Vintage Garden Designs. Her work exudes an ethereal sensuality and is beautifully whimsical. Visit her: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hsmithphotography http://hsmithphoto.blogspot.com/

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)