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: How do you decide that it’s time to give up on a book or a series? Or do you hang in there to the bitter end? Thanks to Buck Dharma and Mayelbridwen for the inspiration!
Today’s literary birthdays (all information courtesy of Wikipedia):
Luke Wadding (1588), Irish historian (RIP 1656)
Charles Coypeau (1605, AKA D’Assoucy), French poet (RIP 1677)
Noah Webster (1758), American lexicographer (RIP 1843)
Vincente Riva Palacio (1832), Mexican novelist, poet and historian (RIP 1896)
Karl Kautsky (1854), Czech-Austrian Marxist philosopher and theorist (RIP 1938)
Oscar Wilde (1854), Irish playwright, poet and novelist (RIP 1900)
Charles H. Van Tyne (1869), American historian, Pulitzer Prize winner (RIP 1930)
Eugene O’Neill (1888), American playwright, Nobel Prize winner (RIP 1953)
Edward Ardizzone (1900), British author and illustrator known for his children’s books (RIP 1979)
Olivia Coolidge (1908), British-American author of biographies and books on mythology for young adults (RIP 2006)
Louis Althusser (1918), French Marxist philosopher (RIP 1990)
Kathleen Winsor (1919), American novelist (RIP 2003)
Sita Ram Goel (1921), Indian historian (RIP 2003)
Ed Valigursky (1926), American illustrator (RIP 2009)
Günter Grass (1927), German novelist, playwright and poet, Nobel Prize winner (RIP 2015)
Mary Daly (1928), American radical feminist and philosopher (RIP 2010)
John Polkinghorne (1930), English physicist and author of books on science and religion (RIP 2021)
Paul Monette (1945), American novelist and memoirist (RIP 1995)
Lorenzo Carcaterra (1954), American novelist
Meg Rosoff (1956), American author of books for children and young adults
Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah (1956), Bangladeshi poet (RIP 1991)
Priidu Beier (1957), Estonian poet
Marc Levy (1961), French novelist
James Thompson (1964), American-Finnish crime novelist
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!
Feel free to comment about any of these folks, and/or let us know if I missed somebody.