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: Does reading ever affect your travel choices? If you are bringing books on a trip, are your choices influenced by your destination? Have you ever traveled somewhere because of a book you read? Has a trip ever inspired you to read a book? Thanks to ThingyBlahBlah3 for the prompt idea!

Ideas for prompts are always welcome!

Today’s literary birthdays (All info courtesy of Wikipedia)
Paolo Sarpi (1552), Venetian historian (RIP 1623)
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (AKA L.E.L., 1802), English poet and novelist (RIP 1838)
Richard von Krafft-Ebing (1840), German psychiatrist and writer best known for Psychopathia Sexualis (RIP 1902)
Margaret Lindsay Huggins (1848), Irish-English astronomer and writer (RIP 1915)
Ernest Thompson Seton (1860), Canadian-English writer and illustrator, best known for writing the original Boy Scout Handbook (RIP 1942)
Ernest Thayer (1863), American writer and poet best known for Casey at the Bat (RIP 1940)
John Galsworthy (1867), English writer and playwright best known for the Forsyte Sage, winner of the 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature (RIP 1933)
Russell Baker (1925), American journalist, winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for his autobiography, Growing Up (RIP 2019)
René Goscinny (1926), French writer, cocreator of the comic book Asterix (RIP 1977)
Lee Hoffman (1932), American fanzine writer and editor, author of science fiction, western and romance novels (RIP 2007)
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!