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: Any and all thoughts on fairy tales and folklore, including novels, nonfiction books, stories, essays, plays, poems, graphic novels or comic books that were inspired by them. (I know there is overlap, but please hold off on talking about myths and legends as we’ll be discussing those next week.) Feel free to post illustrations and book covers. Thanks to RED and Mongo for coming up with this prompt!
Ideas for prompts are always welcome!
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!
Today’s literary birthdays:
Vasily Trediakovsky (1703), Russian poet, playwright and essayist (RIP 1769)
Georg Friedrich Daumer (1800), German poet and philosopher (RIP 1875)
Howard Pyle (1853), American illustrator and author (RIP 1911)
Frank Norris (1870), American novelist (RIP 1903)
Rosa Luxemburg (1871), Polish-German Marxist theorist (RIP 1919)
Julian Przyboś (1901), Polish poet, essayist and translator (RIP 1970)
Karl Rahner (1904), German theologian (RIP 1984)
Fritz Fischer (1908). German historian (RIP 1999)
Ennio Flaiano (1910), Italian playwright and novelist (RIP 1972)
Wang Zengqi (1920), Chinese short story writer and essayist (RIP 1997)
Mike Resnick (1942), American science fiction writer and editor, Hugo and Nebula prize winner (RIP 2020)
Roy Gutman (1944), American journalist and author of books on current affairs
Robin Hobb (1952, aka Margaret Lindholm, Megan Lindholm), American fantasy novelist
Katarina Frostenson (1953), Swedish poet
Michael Sandel (1953), American political philosopher
Ray Suarez (1957), American historian and author of books on contemporary affairs
Yuu Watase (1970), Japanese manga artist
Nelly Arcan (1973), Canadian novelist (RIP 2009)
All information courtesy of Wikipedia
Header image by H.J. Ford