Khadaji’s Whatcha Reading Thread - November 2025 edition

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As my four year old once famously said *HAPP HOWWEEN! GIMMIE CHEEZ!” (Said 4 year old is almost 30 now, but still enjoys cheese especially the queso version of it.)

Final quarter of 2025 is upon us, up North the nights are getting cold, leaves are falling and the days are shorter, however, down South, the night are warming up, leaves are growing and the days are getting longer….. and some of us still have our noses buried in a book.

So Whatcha All Readin?

Print: What Stalks the Deep by T.Kingfisher. Caves… I hate underground….

Audio: Voyage of the Damned by Frances White, so far enjoying it, though all the wrong people are turning up dead…

Kindle: A Whisper of Death by Darcy Burke, murder and the paranormal in gaslit England.

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.

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Last month: Everything is pumpkin flavored!

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I’m not too far into The Shattering Peace by John Scalzi, the seventh novel in his military sf Old Man’s War series. The book is set ten years after the sixth novel, The End of All Things, which, not so coincidentally, came out ten years ago. The protagonist is Gretchen Trujillo, who was a teenager and a relatively minor character in some of the earlier books. So far, so good.

About two-thirds of the way through the audiobook of The Fate of the Day by Rick Atkinson, the second book in his anticipated historical trilogy on the American Revolution. This volume covers 1777-1780 and is just as good as the first, The British Are Coming. Highly recommended.

Also intermittently reading with my son Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, which isn’t as good as The Martian IMHO but still worth a read.

Just started I See You’ve Called In Dead by John Kenney, a comic novel about an obit writer whose life is going badly. It’s not all that funny, but I’ll keep going with it for now.