Khadaji’s Whatcha Reading Thread - March 2026 edition

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March… and we are 1/5 of the way throught this dumpster fire of a year. Can you say exhausted? On the up side I am gettting a fair bit of reading done. And it seems so are some of you!

So Whatcha all reading?

Print: Network Effect by Martha Wells. A third?.. fourth? reread

Audio: Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? by Dame Agatha Christie. The young woman reading it has a lot of bounce in her voice which suits the plot and the characters of Bobby and Frankie extremely well.

Khadaji was one of the earlier members of SDMB, and he was well-known as a kindly person who always had something encouraging to say, particularly in the self-improvement threads. He was also a voracious, omnivorous reader, who started these threads 'way back in the Stone Age of 2005. Consequently, when he suddenly and quite unexpectedly passed away in January 2013, we decided to rename this thread in his honor and to keep his memory, if not his ghost, alive.

Khadaji’s Whatcha Reading Thread - February 2026 edition
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Last month: Oh hey on top of everything, I’m sick. Yippee!

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I FINALLY finished The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King’s The Stand. As I believe has already been noted, this is a collection of 34 short stories by different authors, based on the events during, after, and long after the original novel’s pandemic. I listened to the audio book, and it’s a whopping 26 hours long.

Some of the stories are really good, and others are good but not great, and others are not at all good. Unfortunately, it seemed to me that the better stories were among the first 1/3 of the book. The quality declined as I worked my way through the collection, IMO.

It’s okay as a whole, but I’m not going to give it a glowing review.