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 (recycled) prompt: What books have made you angry? We’ve all been there, but the interesting thing is why. Wasted potential, killed a favorite character, sexist/racist/other-ist, bad editing, whiffed the ending? The reasons are endless, so what are some that angried up your blood? Thank you to Group Therapy for writing the original prompt, which I shamelessly copied and pasted, and to lebkuchen, who came up with the idea back in the day.

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:
Sarah Orne Jewett (1849), American novelist, short story writer and poet (RIP 1909)
Sally Benson (1897), American short story writer (RIP 1972)
Loren Eiseley (1907), American philosopher, anthropologist, essayist and author of books on natural science (RIP 1977)
Tereska Torrès (1920), French novelist and memoirist (RIP 2012)
Alison Lurie (1926), American novelist and non-fiction author (RIP 2020)
Cherry Wilder (1930) New Zealand science fiction and fantasy novelist and short story writer (RIP 2002)
Sarah Bradford (1938), English historian and biographer
Sergei Dovlatov (1941), Soviet short story writer and novelist (RIP 1990)
Martha Saxton (1945), American biographer and author of books on women’s studies (RIP 2023)
Andy Griffiths (1961), Australian children’s short story writer and novelist
Kiran Desai (1971), Indian-American novelist