THE JESSICA JOURNALS

It is typically hard for a story so short to captivate its reader, but I truly did fall under Kafka’s spell through his novella, The Metamorphosis . The novella follows a travelling salesman named Gregor Samsa, who wakes up one morning to find he has inexplicably turned into a gigantic cockroach. Following this, he struggles to acclimate to his new body, and to sound human when he speaks. But, despite these issues, Gregor’s main concern is the possibility that he won’t be abl

Franz Kafka's tragic allegory for dehumanisation takes our October book club spot. Context Written in early 20th-century Prague, during the Austro-Hungarian Empire, where Kafka lived as a German-speaking Jew in a predominantly Czech-speaking city, the novella perhaps draws from Kafka’s experience of cultural isolation. He was surrounded by rising anti-Semitism and tension between Czechs, Germans and Jews. This unrest manifests itself in Gregor Samsa, the protagonist. Kafka wa

My Year of Rest and Relaxation is one of the most unique novels I have ever read. It follows a young, beautiful, wealthy yet severely...

This September we read Ottessa Moshfegh's controversial 2018 novel, My Year of Rest and Relaxation.

Upon picking up Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, I expected it to be much of what it was: a relatively slow paced, rather beautiful, magical...

Let's talk about Piranesi by Susanna Clarke for our August Book Club.

Welcome to our monthly Book Club, where we will post both of our reviews of the book we have been reading over the month. For July, we enjoyed the gothic classic, Rebecca!

Welcome to our monthly Book Club, where we will post both of our reviews of the book we have been reading over the month. For July, we enjoyed the gothic classic, Rebecca!