Welcome to the Book Nook! This is the weekly thread for Avocados to discuss books we’re currently reading, recommendations, genre, and serious literary criticism.

This week’s recommended discussion: mannered prose. When a writer makes specific choices in their prose, what works and what doesn’t work so well? This includes speech or narration style, jargon or slang, rhythms, and lyricism (just for starters).
(hat tip to lebkuchen)

Because we’re here to use our words, this is a NO GIF/YouTube/social media embed zone. The OTs are full of clutter, and I want to keep that out of this thread. Pictures of books related to a post are fine, though.

upcoming topics:
1/22: writers who ruin their own series (h/t to upvote moneydog)
1/29: short stories (h/t to Thomas the Fifth)

Book Nook posts every Wednesday at 8:15 AM Eastern.