Author Archives: Rumeysa Bektas

My Year of Rest and Relaxation is one of the few books that I wouldn’t have ever read if I’ve seen it by itself on a bookshelf, not because it’s terrible, but because it’s so different from what I normally chose to read, however, despite that I truly did enjoy it very much. As frustratingContinue reading “Review of My Year of Rest and Relaxation (No Spoilers)”

I am truly getting tired of typing My Year of Rest and Relaxation every week. Today we’re diving into how MYORR relates back to almost everything I’ve read in class this year, mainly Catcher In The Rye and the infamous Hamlet. If you couldn’t already take away the fact that the narrator is obviously depressedContinue reading “Catcher, Sleep, and miserable reality. Yay!”

In my first blog post I failed to mention some very important things such as how our narrator had worked at an art gallery and is a Columbia Graduate who majored in Art History and ultimately her constant critique of every artwork that has come across her path. She trash talks these artworks and theContinue reading “The Death Of Marat In My Year of Rest and Relaxation”