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: Books, fiction or nonfiction, that you stopped reading or avoided because you know too much about the subject and the book has inaccuracies. Thanks to Gabs for the suggestion!

Suggestions for prompts are always welcome! If you have a prompt idea, 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:
Friedrich Ludwig Georg von Raumer (1781), German historian (RIP 1873)
Alexander Kaufmann (1817), German poet and folklorist (RIP 1893)
Hal Borland (1900), American author of fiction and non-fiction books about nature (RIP 1978)
Gul Khan Nasir (1914), Pakistani poet and historian (RIP 1983)
Frederik H. Kreuger (1928), Dutch author of books on science, other nonfiction books, and thrillers (RIP 2015)
Barbara Branden (1929), Canadian nonfiction author known for her books on Ayn Rand (RIP 2013)
Robert Greene (1959), American author of nonfiction books on strategy and power
All information courtesy of Wikipedia