triptych_turning's reviews
146 reviews

Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution by Carlo Rovelli

challenging funny hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Dubliners by James Joyce

emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

How to Read Literature Like a Professor Revised Edition: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines by Thomas C. Foster

4.0

Frankenstein: Or `the Modern Prometheus': The 1818 Text by Mary Shelley

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater

adventurous dark emotional inspiring lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

The Tempest by William Shakespeare

2.0

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

challenging dark emotional funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Contact by Carl Sagan

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

If you're ever looking at my Storygraph, and you choose to read one book, please please please make it this one. I do not have the words to describe how much I adore this book. It scratched an internal psychoemotional itch I did not even know I had. It's quicker, cheaper, and more immediately rewarding than therapy. I read it in about four days, returned it to the library, and checked it out again about a week later so I could reread it. There is not a single part of this book that I disliked. I would invest in a nice hardcover edition of this book just so I could annotate it. Please read Contact by Carl Sagan. You will not regret it.