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 were the best books you read in 2024, regardless of what year they were actually published?
Ideas for prompts ate always welcome!
Today’s literary birthdays:
Soame Jenyns (1704), English poet and essayist (RIP 1787)
Giovanni Battista Mancini (1714), Italian author of books on singing (RIP 1800)
Kristijonas Donelaitis (1714), Lithuanian poet (RIP 1780)
Maria Edgeworth (1768), British author of adult and children’s novels (RIP 1849)
William Clowes (1779), English publisher, pioneer in the use of steam powered printing presses (RIP 1847)
Arthur Hugh Clough (1819), English poet (RIP 1861)
Sándor Petőfi (1823), National poet of Hungary (RIP 1849)
Ludovic Halévy (1834), French playwright (RIP 1908)
Ouida (AKA Maria Louise Ramé, 1839), French novelist (RIP 1908)
E. M. Forster (1879), English novelist (RIP 1970)
Chesley Bonestell (1888), American illustrator, the “Father of Modern Space art” (RIP 1986)
Seabury Quinn (1889), American short story writer, creator of occult detective detective Jules de Grandin (RIP 1969)
Audrey Wurdemann (1911), American poet, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry (RIP 1960)
Nikiforos Vrettakos (1912), Greek poet (RIP 1991)
J. D. Salinger (1919), American novelist and short story writer (RIP 2010)
Ismail al-Faruqi (1921), Palestinian-American philosopher (RIP 1986)
Ernest Tidyman (1928), American novelist, creator of John Shaft (RIP 1984)
Gerhard Weinberg (1928), German-American historian
Larry L. King (1929), American playwright and novelist (RIP 2012)
Joe Orton (1933), English playwright (RIP 1967)
Mati Unt (1944), Estonian novelist (RIP 2005)
All information courtesy of Wikipedia
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