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 optional discussion topic: making time. I haven’t had a lot of free time lately, and I realized I’m spending too much of my mental and leisure capital on things that aren’t helpful.  After four years of running this thread, I don’t always do a good job of making relatable or even intelligible headers.  I hope to do better on all fronts.  In the meantime, I guess this is technically (another!  sorry!) a free skate.  Happy reading, and happy posting.

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:
2/19: your personal Ready Player One (h/t to Warmerdam)

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