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: What book or author sounded like they were something you would like but then didn’t click for you for some reason? Thanks to Mongo Only Pawn for the prompt idea!

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:
Barnabe Googe (1540), English poet and translator (RIP 1594)
Ben Jonson (1572), English playwright and poet (RIP 1637)
George Wither (1588), English poet (RIP 1667)
Renée Vivien (1877), English-French poet (RIP 1909)
Yasunari Kawabata (1899), Japanese novelist and short story writer, winner of the Nobel Prize, (RIP 1972)
Jacques Cousteau (1910), writer of nonfiction books on the oceans and underwater exploration (RIP 1997)
William Styron (1925), American novelist and essayist (RIP 2006)
All information courtesy of Wikipedia