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 favorite short stories, novellas, essays, one act plays or brief poems?

Ideas for prompts are always appreciated!

Header image: Knock (1948), by Fredric Brown

Today’s literary birthdays:
Augustine of Hippo (354), Roman theologian and philosopher (RIP 430)
Johann Eck (1486), German theologian (RIP 1543)
Charles Simon Favart (1710), French playwright (RIP 1792)
Petar II Petrović-Njegoš (1813), Montenegrin poet and philosopher (RIP 1851)
Mir Mosharraf Hossain (1847), Bengali novelist, playwright and essayist (RIP 1912)
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850), Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer (RIP 1912)
Helene Stöcker (1869), German feminist, pacifist, and author of works on these subjects (RIP 1943)
C. Vann Woodward (1908), American historian, winner of the Pulitzer Prize (RIP 1999)
William Bradford Huie (1910), American novelist, journalist and non-fiction writer (RIP 1986)
Pat Reid (1910), British memoirist (RIP 1990)
Dimitrios Hatzis (1913), Greek novelist (RIP 1981)
Robert Bonnaud (1929), French historian (RIP 2013)
Ojārs Vācietis (1933), Latvian poet (RIP 1983)
William Taubman (1941), American political scientist and biographer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Stanisław Barańczak (1946), Polish-American poet, literary critic, editor and translator (RIP 2014)
Humayun Ahmed (1948), Bengali novelist and playwright
Harry Hurt III (1951), American journalist and writer of non-fiction books
Rivkah (1981), American graphic novel writer and artist
All information courtesy of Wikipedia

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