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 fancy editions of books do you own or fantasize about owning? Feel free to post pictures!

Ideas for prompts are always welcome!

Today’s literary birthdays:
Thomas Campion (1567), English poet (RIP 1620)
Caspar Barlaeus (1581), Dutch theologian, poet, and historian (RIP 1648)
Cotton Mather (1663), Colonial American theologian and historian(RIP 1728)
Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué (1777), German poet and playwright (RIP 1843)
Charles Darwin (1809), English naturalist, geologist, botanist (RIP 1882)
Dayananda Saraswati (1824), Indian theologian (RIP 1883)
George Meredith (1828), English novelist and poet
Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861), Russian novelist, critic and essayist (RIP 1937)
Lev Shestov (1866), Russian philosopher (RIP 1938)
R. F. Delderfield (1912), English novelist and playwright (RIP 1972)
Julian Simon (1932), American economist (RIP 1998)
Judy Blume (1938), American novelist
Terry Bisson (1942), American science fiction and fantasy short story writer and novelist, winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards (RIP 2014)
Judd Winick (1970), American cartoonist and comic book writer
All information courtesy of Wikipedia

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. Thanks, and happy commenting!