Khadaji’s Whatcha Reading Thread - November 2025 edition

I will go on with the series, I’m intrigued to know what’s coming. First though, read some of the pile on my headboard before it topples over and kills me. :laughing:

Good call. Personal safety should always come before pleasure reading.

Finished The Graceview Patient, by Caitlin Starling. Well, technically finished. I skimmed the last hundred pages or so, to find out if the story had any resolution (it did not). It’s a long, tedious, nightmare about an unreliable narrator who has an extended hospital stay. I’ve had actual hospital stays that I enjoyed more than this book. Not recommended.

Got it back, and finished it. Really good stuff. Atkinson appears on Ken Burns’s new PBS documentary, The American Revolution, so the book and the series (which I’m halfway through) go well together.

Just started It’s Only Drowning by David Litt, nonfiction by a former Obama speechwriter who turns to surfing, of all things, to deal with his stress over Trump and COVID. Hasn’t wowed me so far.

New thread: Where’s the Muppets singing carols when we need them?!

Finished Worlds of the Imperium by Keith Laumer. Not recommended. Also finished Mathletics: A Scientist Explains 100 Amazing Things About the World of Sports, by John D. Barrow, which was interesting.

Next up: Expect Great things! How the Katharine Gibbs School Revolutionized the American Workplace for Women, by Vanda Krefft; and Rockin’ Around the Chickadee, by Donna Andrews.

Dang, I thought I could write a harsh review. {tips hat}

Sadly, it was true!

Today I read more than half of Midnight Timetable: a novel in ghost stories, by Bora Chung, but it refused to take off. Ditched.