# Khadaji’s Whatcha Reading Thread - October 2021 edition **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** books-writing-myths\ **Created:** [October 2, 2021, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-october-2021-edition/951764 "2021-10-02T06:53:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 22
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I’ve been on a giving up on books streak lately. 1. Read the prologue of [Wilmington’s Lie](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51243325-wilmington-s-lie) by David Zucchino and gave up on it. It angried up my blood too much. Plus it reminded me of why I left eastern North Carolina. It did inspire me to look up my alma mater to see if they renamed Charles B. Aycock dorm. Narrator: [they did](https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article10882847.html). 2. Read the first hundred pages of [Trilby](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/788085.Trilby) by George du Maurier, gave up on it because the edition the local library had (Everyman from the 1970s) did not have any footnotes, endnotes, or a helpful person to translate the pages of French. Ich spreche kein Französich. I’ll have to hunt down a Penguin edition through interlibrary loan because I know they translate the French. 3. Read the first five pages of [All the King’s Men](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5527.All_the_King_s_Men) by Robert Penn Warren and closed it firmly. It’s mid-20th century white male literature, a genre I loathe. Also I hate the Penn Warren’s writing style. The one book that has survived the culling from my latest library trip is [Augustus](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/89231.Augustus) by John Williams. We’ll see how long that one lasts. Ancient Rome is totally in my wheelhouse so I’m predicting (hopefully) that I’ll get all the way through it. I told a lie in the last paragraph. There is one other book that survived: [Death Ex Machina](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23012645-death-ex-machina). I know I’m going to get through that one, probably in one sitting. I love the Nico and Diotima mysteries. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-october-2021-edition/951764)._