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: Discuss books that you realized that you had read before but completely forgotten, or books that you know you have read but don’t remember anything about. Thanks to Pastyjournalist for the prompt idea!

Ideas for prompts are always welcome!

Today’s literary birthdays (all info courtesy of Wikipedia):
Henri Nathansen (1868), Danish playwright, novelist and biographer (RIP 1944)
Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1887), Ukrainian-Israeli novelist, poet, and short-story writer (RIP 1970)
Erle Stanley Gardner, AKA A.A. Fair and several other pseudonyms (1889), novelist, short story writer and travel writer, best known for creating Perry Mason (RIP 1970)
Bruno Jasieński (1901), Polish poet, novelist and playwright (RIP 1938)
Christina Stead (1902), Australian novelist and short story writer (RIP 1983)
Christiane Rochefort (1917), French journalist and novelist (RIP 1998)
Karla Kuskin (1932), American children’s author, poet, illustrator (RIP 2009)
LaVyrle Spencer (1943), American romance novelist
Chris Crutcher (1946), American novelist and short story writer
Mark Bowden (1951), American journalist and author of non-fiction books
Robert R. McCammon (1952), American horror and mystery novelist
J. Michael Straczynski (1954), American screenwriter and comic book writer
Paul Stamets (1955), American mycologist and author of several books on mushrooms
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!