====== House of Leaves ====== My all-time favorite novel, //House of Leaves// almost never leaves my head. If you hang around me long enough, I'll eventually pull out my copy and talk at length about the text. I take away something different each time I reread it. On my first read, I wondered about the nature of the monster stalking Johnny; after the second, I questioned its existence as something separate from his own mind. With my latest read, I am confident that the “monster” is nothing more than Johnny's (and Navidson's) self-destructive habits.