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

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.

'No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by...

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.