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: Tough guys and gals. Who are your favorite rough, tough, ready to rumble characters in fiction or nonfiction?
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 Georg Hamann (1730), German philosopher and translator (RIP 1788)
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770), German philosopher (RIP 1831)
Edward Beecher (1803), American theologian (RIP 1895)
Ivan Franco (1856), Ukrainian poet, novelist, detective story writer and critic (RIP 1916)
Amado Nervo (1870), Mexican poet (RIP 1919)
Theodore Dreiser (1871), American novelist (RIP 1945)
Kenji Miyazawa (1896), Japanese novelist, poet and children’s writer (RIP 1933)
C. S. Forester (1899), English novelist and short story writer, creator of Horatio Hornblower (RIP 1966)
Norah Lofts (1904), English historical and mystery novelist (RIP 1983)
David Rowbotham (1924), Australian poet (RIP 2010)
Saiichi Maruya (1925), Japanese novelist, translator and critic (RIP 2012)
Jaswant Singh Neki (1925), Indian poet (RIP 2015)
Ira Levin (1929), American novelist and playwright (RIP 2007)
Antonia Fraser (1932), English biographer, historian and mystery story writer
Michael Holroyd (1935), English biographer
Joan Smith (1953), English novelist, historian and nonfiction writer
Tom Lanoye (1958), Belgian poet and playwright
András Petőcz (1959), Hungarian novelist and poet
Jeanette Winterson (1959), English novelist
Lana Bastašić (1986), Serbian-Bosnian novelist and short story writer