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The Book Nook: Still in Surround Sound!

Welcome to the Book Nook! The weekly thread for all book nerds on The Avocado. This is the place to talk about books you’re currently reading, discuss genres, ask for recommendations, and post serious literary criticism.

This week’s prompt: Do you listen to music while you read? If so, what kind? Do you vary it depending on what you’re reading? Thanks to Pupshaw for suggesting this one!

Ideas for prompts are always welcome!

Today’s literary birthdays (per Wikipedia):
Jo Sik (1501), Korean poet and philosopher (RIP 1572)
Marcel Proust (1871), French novelist (RIP 1922)
Hugo Raudsepp (1883), Estonian playwright (RIP 1952)
Nicolás Guillén (1902), Cuban poet (RIP 1989)
John Wyndham (1903), English short story writer and novelist (RIP 1969)
Mildred Benson (1905), American journalist, short story writer and novelist, she wrote many of the early Nancy Drew mysteries and is credited with creating the character’s independent and liberated (for the time) personality (RIP 2002)
Salvador Espriu, (1913), Catalan poet (RIP 1985)
Joe Schuster (1914), Canadian-American comic book artist, co-creator of Superman (RIP 1992)
Pierre Gamarra (1919), French poet and novelist (RIP 2009)
Jean Kerr (1922), American essay writer and playwright (RIP 2003)
G. A. Kulkarni (1923), Indian short story writer and translator (RIP 1987)
Fred Gwynne (1926). American writer and illustrator of children’s books, best known as an actor (RIP 1993)
Julian May, AKA Ian Thorne, (1931), American novelist and science writer (RIP 2017)
Alice Munro (1931), Canadian short story writer (RIP 2024)
Feel free to comment about any of these folks, and/or let us know if I missed somebody.

Posting pictures is fine as long as they are book related, but I would like this thread to continue to be a NO GIF/YouTube/social media embed zone as much as possible. Thanks, and happy commenting!


Posting pictures is fine as long as they are book related, but I would like this thread to continue to be a NO GIF/YouTube/social media embed zone as much as possible. Thanks, and happy commenting!