# Khadaji’s Whatcha Reading Thread - November 2022 edition **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** books-writing-myths\ **Created:** [October 30, 2022, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-november-2022-edition/974044 "2022-10-30T21:45:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Boycott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boycott/32/6741_2.png) [@Boycott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boycott)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2022, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-november-2022-edition/974044/42 "2022-11-13T12:27:26Z")
Finished **Breathless by Amy McCulloch** Six strangers on a mountain. One killer. Not an unusual theme for a thriller but it is the theme I get the most excitement reading. ---
**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:** [November 13, 2022, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-november-2022-edition/974044/43 "2022-11-13T15:41:46Z")
Finished Lute. It started off with a good premise but I didn’t like where it went. Too much prosaic island life, not enough eerie unexplainables, and no likable characters. ---
**Author:** ![zimaane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a3d4f5/32.png) [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2022, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-november-2022-edition/974044/44 "2022-11-14T16:22:42Z")
**Einstein and the Quantum: The Quest of the Valiant Swabian** A. Dougles Stone Albert Einstein is best known for the theory of relativity, but he also made major contributions to quantum theory, including the photoelectric effect, wave particle duality and thermodynamics. Ironically he later rejected much of it, famously saying that God does not play dice. With a mix of biography and history of science, the author does his best to describe the development of quantum physics for a general audience. It’s sometimes tough reading, but it’s worth the effort. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2022, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-november-2022-edition/974044/45 "2022-11-14T16:32:12Z")
I finished Robert Crais’ **Racing The Light**. I enjoyed it, although it wasn’t my favorite. Next up is Stephen King’s **Fairy Tale**. ---
**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:** [November 14, 2022, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-november-2022-edition/974044/46 "2022-11-14T16:54:45Z")
Started today on [Ghost Eaters](https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Eaters-Novel-Clay-Chapman/dp/1683692179/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2POZ175YO9REP&keywords=ghost+eaters+clay+mcleod+chapman&qid=1668444612&sprefix=the+ghost+ea%2Caps%2C90&sr=8-1) by Clay McLeod Chapman. It’s a story about a drug that allows users to see the dead. Man, if that was a real thing, I would get haunted off my ass. ---
**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:** [November 14, 2022, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-november-2022-edition/974044/47 "2022-11-14T19:35:31Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Next up is Stephen King’s **Fairy Tale**. According to the Libby app, I’m 21% into this book right now. I anticipate doing a whole lot of nothing else until I finish it. ---
**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:** [November 14, 2022, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-november-2022-edition/974044/48 "2022-11-14T20:06:46Z")
Can’t blame autocorrect–this one’s on me. Finished Seanan McGuire’s _Letters to the Pumpkin King_, which is a collection of essays and poems, which I enjoyed. Now I’m reading _HWJN_, by Ibraheem Abbas and Yasser Bahjatt. ---
**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:** [November 15, 2022, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-november-2022-edition/974044/49 "2022-11-15T16:11:47Z")
Finished _HWJN_, by Ibraheem Abbas and Yasser Bahjatt. Meh. Now I’m reading _White Collar Girl_ by Marjory Hall. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2022, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-november-2022-edition/974044/50 "2022-11-15T20:17:10Z")
Finished Stephanie Schorow’s **The Cocoanut Grove Fire** – great book. Now I’m reading **The Mouse on the Moon** by Leonard Wibberley. It’s the first sequel to his classic **The Mouse that Roared**. I read both books and the second sequel (The Mouse on Wall _Street_) ages ago, but my copies disappeared. I found this in a used bookshop. Like the original, this one was turned into a movie, which was pretty awful. This edition has photos from the movie on the back cover. He wrote two other books in the series (_Beware the Mouse_ and _The Mouse that Saved the West_), but I’ve never even seen copies of those. Apparently they’re all available as e-books, and I may have to read them that way. On audio, I finished **Charles Dickens’ Ghost Stories** and Preston and Child’s **Dance of Death**. Now I’m listening to volume 2 of **The Complete Sherlock Holmes** , at least untuilk I can find something else. I’m also reading **The 2 ounce Backpacker** by Robert S. Wood, a sort of “STrunk and White” book for backpacking. It’s got a lot of weird dodges they never taught me in Boy SCouts. My bedside reading on KIndle is alternating between **The Case of Charles Dexter Ward** and **The Complete Gary Larson Collection** , depending upon my mood ---
**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:** [November 15, 2022, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-november-2022-edition/974044/51 "2022-11-15T20:19:56Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Like the original, this one was turned into a movie, which was pretty awful. Yeah, The Mouse That Roared was an okay movie, but The Mouse on the Moon was just painful. ---
**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:** [November 16, 2022, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-november-2022-edition/974044/52 "2022-11-16T04:43:03Z")
I finished **Kaiju Preservation Society** by John Scalzi at about 12:10 am this morning. I enjoyed it a lot, the book was fun to read, kept me laughing and now I totally ship Jamie and Kahurangi. 😉 ---
**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:** [November 16, 2022, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-november-2022-edition/974044/53 "2022-11-16T16:34:36Z")
I finished Ghost Eaters, it wasn’t as good as I expected. It was more a story of drug addicts going through addiction and withdrawal than any communication with ghosts. Also, it was grody. Like totally. ---
**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:** [November 16, 2022, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-november-2022-edition/974044/54 "2022-11-16T19:55:47Z")
I’ve read and enjoyed Beware the Mouse. There’s a copy in my house somewhere. Finished _White Collar Girl_ by Marjory Hall. Meh. Now I’m reading _Voyage of Mercy: The U.S.S. Jamestown, the Irish Famine, and the Remarkable Story of America’s First Humanitarian Mission_, by Stephen Puleo. ---
**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:** [November 17, 2022, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-november-2022-edition/974044/55 "2022-11-17T15:53:37Z")
Started today on [The Hazel Wood](https://www.amazon.com/Hazel-Wood-Novel-Melissa-Albert/dp/1250147905/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1668699481&sr=8-1) by Melissa Albert, a novel about a girl who searches for her mother, who is kidnapped after _her_ mother, a writer of dark fairy tales, dies. It may be that the fairy tales were true! 🤯 I see this is the beginning of a trilogy, so if it works out I’ll have a couple more books coming. ---
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2022, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-november-2022-edition/974044/56 "2022-11-17T23:35:22Z")
I really liked The Hazel Wood although I haven’t yet read the other books. Also enjoyed her more recent Our Crooked Hearts. I’m currently reading the new book by S.J.Morden, The Flight of Aphrodite, about a manned mission to Jupiter in which the crew all seem to be being affected psychologically - possibly by an outside source (or maybe not!). Not bad but still 100+ pages to go. ---
**Author:** ![Boycott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boycott/32/6741_2.png) [@Boycott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boycott)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2022, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-november-2022-edition/974044/57 "2022-11-19T14:05:02Z")
Last night I finished **The Dying Game** by Asa Avdic. It was on my list of locked room mysteries to read. The description suggested an Agatha Christie type story but having finished it I don’t believe it justifies that comparison. It was not a bad effort and I did feel the sense of isolation that a locked room story should bring. However it didn’t feel like a mystery. Every time something big happened that should raise the tension and thrill of the story instead things moved on too quickly to let it sink in. Those are the points where everything should slow down allowing the characters sense of paranoia and suspicion to become greater. We don’t get that in this book. The ending gives away the reason why. Unfortunately I didn’t like the ending either. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2022, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-november-2022-edition/974044/58 "2022-11-19T14:13:12Z")
About a third of the way through **Stephen King** ’s _Fairy Tales_, and I’m completely hooked. In fact I’ve been completely hooked since the beginning. ---
**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:** [November 19, 2022, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-november-2022-edition/974044/59 "2022-11-19T14:43:59Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > About a third of the way through **Stephen King** ’s _Fairy Tales_, and I’m completely hooked. I’m 80% done with the audio book. Completely hooked as well. ---
**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:** [November 20, 2022, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-november-2022-edition/974044/60 "2022-11-20T16:37:18Z")
Finished _Voyage of Mercy: The U.S.S. Jamestown, the Irish Famine, and the Remarkable Story of America’s First Humanitarian Mission_, by Stephen Puleo, which was excellent. I had never heard of the assistance the U.S. gave to Ireland during its potato famine. Now I’m reading _The Mystery of Edwin Drood_ by Charles Dickens. ---
**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:** [November 21, 2022, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-november-2022-edition/974044/61 "2022-11-21T04:19:08Z")
I like Puleo’s writing. I have his book on the Boston Molasses Flood [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-november-2022-edition/974044.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-november-2022-edition/974044.md?page=4)