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: Someone once said that writing about music is like dancing about architecture. Despite that, what are your favorite fiction or nonfiction books about music, composers, musicians, etc.?

Ideas for prompts are always welcome!

Today’s literary birthdays (All info courtesy of Wikipedia)
Bernardo Accolti (1465), Italian poet (RIP 1536)
Pierre de Ronsard (1524), French poet (RIP 1585)
James Thomson (1700), Scottish poet and playwright (RIP 1748)
Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1836), American author and journalist, best known for his autobiographical book The Hasheesh Eater (RIP 1870)
Juhani Aho (1861), Finnish novelist, short story writer and journalist (RIP 1921)
D. H. Lawrence (1885), English novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, literary critic, travel writer and essayist (RIP 1930)
Jessica Mitford (1917), English-American nonfiction writer and journalist, best known for The American Way of Death, one of the famous Mitford sisters (she was the leftwing one) (RIP 1996)
Primož Kozak (1929), Estonian playwright and essayist (RIP 1981)
Jean-Claude Forest (1930), French writer and illustrator of comics and the creator of character Barbarella (RIP 1998)
Andre Dubus III (1959), American novelist and short story writer
Samin Raja (1961), Pakistani poet (RIP 2012)
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!