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: Having books read to you. What are some of your memories about being read aloud to? Thanks to Mongo Only Pawn for the idea!

Suggestions for prompts are always welcome! If you have one, please @ me in your comment so it doesn’t slip past me.

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:
David Hume (1711), Scottish philosopher, historian, economist and essayist (RIP 1776)
Olympe de Gouges (1748), French playwright, philosopher and political writer (RIP 1793)
Robert Browning (1812), English poet and playwright (RIP 1889)
Rabindranath Tagore (1861), Bengali poet, playwright and philosopher, winner of the 1913 Nobel Prize (RIP 1941)
Władysław Reymont (1867), Polish novelist, winner of the 1941 Nobel Prize (RIP 1925)
Willem Elsschot (1882), Belgian poet and novelist (RIP 1960)
Archibald MacLeish (1892), American poet, playwright and essayist (RIP 1982)
Nikolay Zabolotsky (1903), Russian poet and translator (RIP 1958)
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1927), German-British-American novelist and short story writer (RIP 2013)
Gene Wolfe (1931), American science fiction and fantasy novelist and short story writer (R!P 2019)
Angela Carter (1940), English novelist, short story writer and poet (RIP 1992)
Peter Carey (1943), Australian novelist and short story writer
Michael Rosen (1946), English children’s author and poet
Almudena Grandes (1960), Spanish novelist and short story writer (RIP 2011)