We went to the Half Price Books clearance sale today, and then they gave us a coupon to the actual store... so then we went there too. This is our #bookhaul. 😁📚
#catsoflitsy #Phoenix
I‘m becoming acquainted with Kafka for the first time this week.
“In the Penal Colony” is something, all right. 😬
I‘ve been dying to reread The Hunger Artist and The Metamorphosis.
#pick #books #kafka #homer #epic #litsy #tbr #fiction
I have an especially strong weakness for leatherbound books.
The #riotgrams prompt today is “Mugs, Tees, Totes, Swag” so here‘s my literary mug tree! (There are even more mugs in the cupboard above including my heat-reactive Harry Potter mug from the Harry Potter experience.) @bookriot
Rest In Peace, Sam, the flightless butterfly.
Along with his 'brother' Greg (the pair were named after Gregor Samsa in The Metamorphosis), these two disabled butterflies have been our pets for the last 5 weeks.
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Here's Lola cat "protecting" our two disabled butterflies on a safe field trip to the back garden.
I've decided to call them Greg and Sam in honour of Gregor Samsa.
pickMay I introduce you to one of my disabled butterflies?
We have been raising some caterpillars, and 2 of them had a metamorphosis that was not quite right. They emerged from the chrysalis with unformed wings. They now live with us as they can't fly.
Poor Gregor Samsa. He has his own metamorphosis and turns into some unnamed insect. Kafka may be a bit of an acquired taste but I certainly have it now.
Maybe I should name this butterfly Gregor?
"As Gregor Samsa woke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed into some kind of monstrous vermin."
(Photo from Google.)
"Was he a beast, that music should move him like this? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for was being revealed. "
Poor Gregor Samsa.
Truth.
At least my current read, Kafka's Metamorphosis, is a slim volume!
(Photo from the Bookstr page on Facebook.)
This author is one of my favorites. Could read his books all the time, again and again!
#quoteoftheday
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories | 
