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: Discuss novels, nonfiction books, stories, essays, plays, poems, graphic novels or comic books that involve a game or games (mind games included)
Ideas for prompts are always welcome! (seriously folks, I could use some help!)
Today’s literary birthdays:
Heo Mok (1596), Korean poet and philosopher (RIP 1682)
Francesco Algorotti (1712), Italian poet, philosopher and essayist (RIP 1764)
Christian Dietrich Grabbe (1801), German playwright and poet (RIP 1836)
Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay (1810), French playwright, poet and novelist (RIP 1857)
Georgi Plekhanov (1856), Russian philosopher and Marxist theorist, “the Father of Russian Marxism” (RIP 1918)
René Bull (1872), British illustrator (RIP 1942)
C. Subramania Bharati (1882), Indian poet (RIP 1921)
Marjorie Henderson Buell (1904, AKA Marge), American cartoonist, creator of Little Lulu (RIP 1993)
Naguib Mahfouz (1911), Egyptian novelist, short story writer and playwright, winner of the Nobel Prize (RIP 2006)
Elana Garro (1916), Mexican novelist, short story writer and playwright (RIP 1998)
Aleksander Solzhenitsyn (1918), Russian novelist, short story writer and historian, winner of the Nobel Prize (RIP 2008)
Grace Paley (1922), American short story writer and poet (RIP 2007)
Morrie Turner (1923), American cartoonist, creator of Wee Pals (RIP 2014)
John Buscema (1927), American comic book illustrator (RIP 2002)
Keith Waldrop (1932), American poet (RIP 2023)
Jim Harrison (1937), American poet, novelist and essayist (RIP 2016)
Thomas McGuane (1939), American novelist and short story writer
Peter Bagge (1957), American cartoonist, known for Neat Stuff and Hate
Colleen Hoover (1979), American YA and romance novelist
Adi Keissar (1980), Israeli poet
All information courtesy of Wikipedia
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