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 about books. What are some of your favorite fiction or nonfiction books about a book or books, or reading?

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:
Thomas Moore (1779), Irish poet (RIP 1852)
Ian Fleming (1908), British short story writer, novelist and nonfiction author, the creator of James Bond and Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang (RIP 1964)
Patrick White (1912), Australian novelist and playwright, winner of the Nobel Prize (RIP 1990)
Walker Percy (1916), American novelist and essayist (RIP 1990)
Roger Fisher (1922), American author of books on international law and negotiation (RIP 2012)
Maeve Binchy (1939), Irish novelist, short story writer and playwright (RIP 2012)
K. Satchidanandan (1946), Indian poet and critic
William Shawcross (1946), British biographer and historian
Charles Saumarez Smith (1954), British cultural historian
Laura Amy Schlitz (1955), American author of children’s and young adult books
Miljenko Jergović (1966), Bosnian novelist
All information courtesy of Wikipedia