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 weeks prompt: Analyzing books. Do you like to analyze what you read on a literary or technical level? Or do you prefer to let the story speak for itself and not worry about deeper meanings? Does analyzing the craft of writing take away some of the magic for you? This prompt was inspired by a discussion on the OT.
Ideas for prompts are always welcome!
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:
Georges Courtelin (1858), French playwright and novelist (RIP 1929)
Rose O’Neill (1874), American cartoonist, illustrator, novelist and poet (RIP 1944)
Géza Gyóni (!884), Hungarian poet (RIP 1917)
Frigyes Karinthy (1887), Hungarian playwright, poet, short story writer and novelist (RIP 1938)
Kay Sage (1898), American poet (RIP 1963)
George Orwell (AKA Eric Blair, 1903), English novelist, poet, essayist and critic (RIP 1950)
Willard Van Orman Quine (1908), American philosopher (RIP 2000)
Claude Seignolle (1917), French folklorist and horror short story writer (RIP 2018)
P. H. Newby (1918), English novelist (RIP 1997)
Dorothy Gilman (1923), American YA and adult novelist, known for her Mrs. Polifax spy novels (RIP 2012)
Ingeborg Bachmann (1926), Austrian poet, short story writer and poet (RIP 1973)
Peyo (AKA Pierre Culliford, 1928), Belgian cartoonist, creator of the Smurfs (RIP 1992)
Eric Carle (1929), American writer and illustrator of children’s books (RIP 1921)
Taufiq Ismail (1935), Indonesian poet
Larry Kramer (1935), American playwright, novelist and nonfiction author (RIP 2020)
Charles Sheffield (1935), English-American science writer and science fiction novelist and short story writer (RIP 2002)
A. J. Quinnell (AKA Philip Nicholson, 1940), English thriller novelist (RIP 2005)
Michel Tremblay (1942), Canadian playwright, novelist and short story writer
Anthony Bourdain (1956), American writer of food and travel books and novels (RIP 2018)
Yann Martel (1963), American novelist and short story writer