Khadaji’s Whatcha Reading Thread - October 2025 edition

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My apologies! I totally forgot the new thread in all the hubbub of discovering a couple new Youtube channels. I am such a teenaged sexagenarian :laughing:

So Whatcha all readin?

The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi. I either love or hate his characters although I am currently a bit meh with our scientist.

I tossed Come and Get It by Kiley Reid because I just can’t relate to a bunch of college aged kids and their issues? And honestly, nothing had happened and we were in the second flash back in the first third of the book…

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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September: Please summer go away, I miss my cozy hoodies

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I finished a reread (re-listen?) of The Institute by Stephen King. It was as I remembered: An interesting plot with interesting characters, then became too weird as well as too long. Twice is once too many.

Just started Eruption by Michael Crichton and James Patterson. Crichton died in 2008, but his widow discovered the unfinished manuscript after his death, and she asked Patterson to finish the novel. It was released last year.