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: Heroes. Who are your favorite heroic figures from fiction or nonfiction books, stories, essays, plays, poems, graphic novels or comic books?

Ideas for prompts are always welcome!

Today’s literary birthdays:
Cho Ki-chon (1913), North Korean poet, considered to be his nation’s national poet (RIP 1951)
Zig Ziglar (1926), American author of business books (RIP 2012)
Michael Cunningham (1952), American novelist, winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Maria Shriver (1955), American journalist and author of non-fiction books
Colson Whitehead (1969), American novelist, short story writer, essayist and non-fiction writer, two time winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Ethan Hawke (1970), American novelist
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!