# Khadaji’s Whatcha Reading Thread - June 2026 edition **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** comic-books-manga, books-writing-myths\ **Created:** [May 30, 2026, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-june-2026-edition/1030498 "2026-05-30T21:27:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2026, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-june-2026-edition/1030498/61 "2026-06-26T18:48:25Z")
Just finished The Butcher’s Masquerade, #5 in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series. These aren’t perfect books, but man. I’m enjoying them so, so much that I’m starting to get the Nearing-the -End-of-the-Series blues. 😬 Thank goodness they’re all doorstops. They get so complicated, though! I keep trying to imagine how Matt Dinniman manages to keep track of all the characters, stats, magical items, etc. He must have a writers’ concordance the size of a refrigerator, or maybe a room with scraps and notes pinned to the walls, connected with hundreds of pieces of string… Anyway, up next, something lighter in tone (and physical weight): [The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances by Glenn Dixon | Goodreads](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/235991934-the-infinite-sadness-of-small-appliances) ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2026, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-june-2026-edition/1030498/62 "2026-06-27T12:11:56Z")
I’m reading _Everything Is Tuberculosis_, which is good except for this one sentence that I just ran across: “Even in the 1940s, TB infections and disease remained common–twentieth-century TB **survivors** include Beatle Ringo Starr (who was institutionalized with TB as a teenager), the novelist George Orwell (who **died** of TB in 1950, just as curative treatment was becoming available), the writer Thomas Wolfe (who **died** of tuberculous meningitis in 1938), and the actor Vivian Leigh (who lived with TB for over twenty-five years).” The dictionary is your friend. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2026, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-june-2026-edition/1030498/63 "2026-06-28T04:30:03Z")
I finished Ali Hazelwood’s _Mate_, about love, sex, secrets and power in a werewolf-dominated Pacific Northwest. It was OK. Also finished _Star Trek: Log Eight_ by Alan Dean Foster, which was good, but not as good as I remembered. It does have a cool concept, though, about massive but fragile energy-consuming creatures which can live only in zero-gravity extragalactic space. Next up: _The Greatest Sentence Ever Written_ by Walter Isaacson, a slim volume about that memorable phrase from the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2026, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-june-2026-edition/1030498/64 "2026-06-28T20:26:48Z")
Finished The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances. I thought it was very glurgey and weak, but folks at Goodreads loved it. Nearly every review mentioned The Brave Little Toaster, which I never saw, so I assume the nostalgia vibes may have boosted it. ---
**Author:** ![DZedNConfused](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dzednconfused/32/15991_2.png) [@DZedNConfused](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DZedNConfused)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2026, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-june-2026-edition/1030498/65 "2026-06-28T22:28:48Z")
New thread: [The best part of the World Cup is Europeans discovering American gas stations](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-july-2026-edition/1031256) ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2026, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-june-2026-edition/1030498/66 "2026-06-29T18:17:37Z")
Finished _Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman’s March and the Story of America’s Largest Emancipation_, by Bennett Parten, which I recommend to anyone interested in American history; and _My Land Has a Voice_, which is a collection of short stories by Jesse Stuart, of which the best is “April”. Next up: _A Torch Kept Lit: Great Lives of the Twentieth Century_, by William F. Buckley, Jr.; and _1776_, by David McCullough. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2026, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-june-2026-edition/1030498/67 "2026-06-29T18:23:36Z")
I temporarily gave up on _Find Me_ by Alafair Burke. I may or may not resume reading it, after I finish _Ironwood_ by Michael Connelly. This is the second in his ‘Catalina’ series, which focuses on a detective on Catalina Island. Good so far. ---
**Author:** ![DZedNConfused](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dzednconfused/32/15991_2.png) [@DZedNConfused](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DZedNConfused)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2026, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-june-2026-edition/1030498/68 "2026-07-01T02:25:37Z")
In just under the wire, I finished _Clockwork Boys_ by T. Kingfisher and enjoyed it even more the second time. It’s a bit rough in spots, it is one of her earliest books, but all the imagination, creativity and world build,ing - not to mention humor- tat we love in her books is there; Up next: _Displeasure Island_ by Alice Bell. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-june-2026-edition/1030498.md?page=3)