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: Do you like to read authors and/or series in order of publication? For series where order matters, have you aver accidentally read books out of order?
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:
Johann Nikolaus Götz (1721), German poet (RIP 1781)
Ann Radcliffe (1764), English novelist and poet (RIP 1823)
Matthew Lewis (1775), English novelist (RIP 1818)
Jan Neruda (1834), Czech poet, short story writer, playwright and critic (RIP 1891)
Georges Lecomte (1867), French novelist and playwright (RIP 1958)
Samuel Eliot Morison (1887), American historian (RIP 1976)
Barbara Cartland (1901), English romance novelist (RIP 2000)
Basil Wolverton (1909), American cartoonist and illustrator (RIP 1978)
Mervyn Peake (1911), British novelist, poet and illustrator (RIP 1968)
Murphy Anderson (1926), American comic book artist (RIP 2015)
Oliver Sacks (1933), English author of books on medicine for a popular audience (RIP 2015)
June Jordan (1936), American poet and essayist (RIP 2002)
Thomas Ligotti (1953), American horror short story writer
Michael Lederer (1956), American playwright, novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist
Masami Tsuda (1970), Japanese manga writer and artist
Junauda Petrus (1981), American novelist