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: What are your thoughts on e-readers? Love them, hate them, indifferent? If you use one, is it for everything you read? Any recommendations or warnings about different kinds?

Ideas for prompts are always welcome!

Today’s literary birthdays: (all information courtesy of Wikipedia)
Alonso de Ercilla (1553), Spanish poet (RIP 1594)
Georg Stiernhielm (1598), Swedish poet (RIP 1672)
August Ahlqvist (1826), Finnish poet and critic (RIP 1889)
C. Buddingh’ (1918), Dutch poet (RIP 1985)
Betsy Byars (1928), American children’s book author (RIP 2020)
Rien Poortvliet (1932), Dutch painter and illustrator, best known for the Gnomes series of books (RIP 1995)
Jerry Pournelle (1932), American science fiction writer (RIP 2017)
Garrison Keillor (1942), American humorist, short story writer and novelist
Anne Fadiman (1953), American essayist
Vladimir Sorokin (1955), Russian short story writer, novelist and playwright
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!