image credit: Lydia Welcome to the Book Nook!  This is the weekly thread for Avocados to discuss books we’re currently reading, recommendations, genre, and serious literary criticism.  This week’s recommended discussion:  translations.  A good translation can bring us phenomenal world … Continue reading The Book Nook

image hat tip to Hegel Exercises Welcome to the Book Nook!  This is the weekly thread for Avocados to discuss books we’re currently reading, recommendations, genre, and serious literary criticism.  This week’s recommended discussion:  exotic settings.  What books have familiar … Continue reading The Book Nook

Welcome to the Book Nook!  This is the weekly thread for Avocados to discuss books we’re currently reading, recommendations, genre, and serious literary criticism.  This week’s recommended discussion:  world literature.  I don’t know how to start a discussion that isn’t … Continue reading The Book Nook

Welcome to the Book Nook!  This is the weekly thread for Avocados to discuss books we’re currently reading, recommendations, genre, and serious literary criticism.  This week’s recommended discussion:  In honor of Valentine’s Day, what are some of your favorite books … Continue reading The Book Nook

Welcome to the Book Nook!  This is the weekly thread for Avocados to discuss books we’re currently reading, recommendations, genre, and serious literary criticism.  This week’s recommended discussion:  books without romance.  There’s no room for lovers this week, as we … Continue reading The Book Nook

Welcome to the Book Nook!  This is the weekly thread for Avocados to discuss books we’re currently reading, recommendations, genre, and serious literary criticism.  This week’s recommended discussion:  every time I base a discussion on events in America, I realize … Continue reading The Book Nook

Welcome to the Book Nook!  This is the weekly thread for Avocados to discuss books we’re currently reading, recommendations, genre, and serious literary criticism.  This week’s recommended discussion:  inspired by today’s Presidential swearing-in ceremony in the US, what book would … Continue reading The Book Nook

Welcome to the Book Nook!  This is the weekly thread for Avocados to discuss books we’re currently reading, recommendations, genre, and serious literary criticism.  This week’s recommended discussion:  mashups and mixed elements.  What are some of your favorite books that … Continue reading The Book Nook

Welcome to the Book Nook!  This is the weekly thread for Avocados to discuss books we’re currently reading, recommendations, genre, and serious literary criticism.  This week’s recommended discussion:  turn a fresh page, hello to 2021.  Now that we’re in our … Continue reading The Book Nook

photo credit:  man-in-the-moon-man Welcome to the Book Nook!  This is the weekly thread for Avocados to discuss books we’re currently reading, recommendations, genre, and serious literary criticism.  This week’s recommended discussion:  highs and lows 2020.  Instead that tired old best-of/worst-of … Continue reading The Book Nook

Welcome to the Book Nook!  This is the weekly thread for Avocados to discuss books we’re currently reading, recommendations, genre, and serious literary criticism.  This week’s recommended discussion:  book gifts.  Tell your friends and family not to peek, and let … Continue reading The Book Nook

Welcome to the Book Nook!  This is the weekly thread for Avocados to discuss books we’re currently reading, recommendations, genre, and serious literary criticism.  This week’s recommended discussion:  gateways to the classics.  Which books inspired you to dig into something … Continue reading The Book Nook

Welcome to the Book Nook!  This is the weekly thread for Avocados to discuss books we’re currently reading, recommendations, genre, and serious literary criticism.  This week’s recommended discussion:  What makes for a good biography, memoir, or autobiography?  Historical or current, … Continue reading The Book Nook

photo credit:  Lydia Welcome to the Book Nook!  This is the weekly thread for Avocados to discuss books we’re currently reading, recommendations, genre, and serious literary criticism.  This week’s recommended discussion:  In the spirit of the New Cult Canon created … Continue reading The Book Nook

Welcome to the Book Nook!  This is the weekly thread for Avocados to discuss books we’re currently reading, recommendations, genre, and serious literary criticism.  This week’s recommended discussion:  In a nod to America’s Thanksgiving holiday, what book-related thing are you … Continue reading The Book Nook

photo credit: Lydia Welcome to the Book Nook!  This is the weekly thread for Avocados to discuss books we’re currently reading, recommendations, genre, and serious literary criticism.  This week’s recommended discussion:  snobbery and bias.  Do you have any opinions for … Continue reading The Book Nook

photo credit: Lydia Welcome to the Book Nook!  This is the weekly thread for Avocados to discuss books we’re currently reading, recommendations, genre, and serious literary criticism.  This week’s recommended discussion:  Classics that don’t quite live up to the hype … Continue reading The Book Nook

Welcome to the Book Nook!  This is the weekly thread for Avocados to discuss books we’re currently reading, recommendations, genre, and serious literary criticism.  This week’s recommended discussion:  (no topic).  I’m writing and scheduling this post in the middle of … Continue reading The Book Nook

Welcome to the Book Nook!  This is the weekly thread for Avocados to discuss books we’re currently reading, recommendations, genre, and serious literary criticism.  This week’s recommended discussion:  For Halloween, how can we not talk about our favorite horror books?  … Continue reading The Book Nook

photo credit: Mikey Insanity Welcome to the Book Nook!  This is the weekly thread for Avocados to discuss books we’re currently reading, recommendations, genre, and serious literary criticism.  This week’s recommended discussion:  trick or treat.  Name an author, then pick … Continue reading The Book Nook

Welcome to the Book Nook!  This is the weekly thread for Avocados to discuss books we’re currently reading, recommendations, genre, and serious literary criticism.  This week’s recommended discussion:  We’re all familiar with required reading from our school days.  It’s great … Continue reading The Book Nook