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: Dialogue. What books and short stories have you read that had memorably good or bad dialogue?
Suggestions 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:
John Davies (1569), English poet (RIP 1629)
Charles Montagu (1661), English poet (RIP 1715)
Octave Crémazie (1827), French-Canadian poet (RIP 1879)
Anatole France (1844), French novelist and poet (RIP 1924)
Kandukuri Veeresalingam (1848), Indian novelist and playwright (RIP 1919)
John Millington Synge (1871), Irish playwright and poet (RIP 1909)
Gertrude Chandler Warner (1890), American author of children’s books, created The Boxcar Children (RIP 1979)
Dorothy P. Lathrop (1891), American writer and illustrator of children’s books (RIP 1980)
Howard Mumford Jones (1892), American historian, poet and critic (RIP 1980)
Germaine Guèvremont (1893), French-Canadian novelist and short story writer (RIP 1968)
Berton Roueché (1910), American writer of books on medical issues for a general audience (RIP 1994)
Behçet Necatigil (1916), Turkish poet and translator (RIP 1979)
Spike Milligan (1918), Irish humorist, memoirist, novelist, poet and writer of children’s books (RIP 2002)
Wolfgang Leonhard (1921), German historian (RIP 2014)
Kingsley Amis (1922), English novelist, poet and critic (RIP 1995)
Madanjeet Singh (1924), Indian art historian (RIP 2013)
Joan Bakewell (1933), English novelist, playwright and general nonfiction author
Sarah Kirsch (1935), German poet (RIP 2013)
Margot Adler (1946), American author of books on neopaganism (RIP 2014)
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (1947), American author and co-author of nonfiction books, detective novels and memoirs
Ioan Mihai Cochinescu (1951), Romanian novelist and essayist