# Khadaji’s Whatcha Reading Thread - September 2025 edition
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-september-2025-edition/1022554
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Tags:** comic-books-manga, books-writing-myths
**Created:** [August 28, 2025, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-september-2025-edition/1022554 "2025-08-28T18:38:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2025, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-september-2025-edition/1022554/61 "2025-10-02T09:45:04Z")
Finished _Isaac’s Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History_, by Erik Larson. About the September 1900 hurricane that hit Galveston, Texas, killing 8000, give or take. Also tells the story of Isaac Cline, the chief meteorologist in Galveston at the time and who lost his pregnant wife in the storm. Very good, but the subtitle really should read _the Deadliest Hurricane in **US** History_, as while it is the worst natural disaster in American history, 8000 is a paltry figure compared with the hundreds of thousands routinely killed in Bangladesh’s cyclones. I especially found it interesting because in school in West Texas in the 1960s and ‘70s, we learned next to nothing about it. Barely a mention. As I recall, the state history texts ran something like, “… blah, blah, blah. Then there was a big hurricane that hit Galveston in 1900, killing many people. And in other history, …” And that was all.
Have started another Larson: _Thunderstruck_.
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### Author:  [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2025, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-september-2025-edition/1022554/62 "2025-10-02T13:24:29Z")
Finished Play Nice, it was cozy. Also gory, but there was a lot more in the story about what people were eating and wearing than what the evil entity was doing.
Started today on [Replaceable You: adventures in human anatomy](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXWHJPLL). Like all Mary Roach books, it’s really interesting and amusing. That said, I probably won’t finish it. I’m up to the chapter about using pig organs in people, and it’s not “sparking joy”. I’ll skim a bit further before I take it back to the library this weekend.
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### Author:  [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2025, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-september-2025-edition/1022554/63 "2025-10-02T14:33:15Z")
Will there be a thread for October?
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2025, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-september-2025-edition/1022554/64 "2025-10-02T14:35:09Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> My current audiobook is _Hotel_ by Arthur Hailey, a 1965 big novel about a once-grand New Orleans hotel which has seen better days. There are several intertwining plot threads: the hotel’s owner considers selling it, a cat burglar plies his trade, some drunken frat boys almost commit a gang rape, an ambitious assistant manager is flattered to be wooed by two different women, a posh British couple tries to cover up a terrible crime, and racial integration finally comes knocking.
Finished it, and enjoyed it. It has a very satisfying and mostly-happy ending.
My next audiobook is Rick Atkinson’s new book _The Fate of the Day_, the second in his trilogy about the American Revolution. This one covers the people, politics, diplomacy, society, economics and warfare of 1777-1780. I’m not too far into it yet, but like his first, _The British Are Coming_, it’s excellent.
I’m also nearly finished with Jim Bishop’s 1955 short history, _The Day Lincoln Was Shot_. He has a dry, journalistic tone that works well as he describes, hour by hour, what happened; even knowing how it turns out, it’s still a tense and very engaging account.
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### Author:  [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2025, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-september-2025-edition/1022554/65 "2025-10-02T17:37:49Z")
I’m reading _The Cadaver Princess_ by Chuck Rothman, who is a Doper (I can’t remember which one) and I’m enjoying it very much. It’s a historical fantasy where 12-year-old Princess Victoria unexpectedly shows up as a zombie in a surgeon’s anatomy lab. Even though it deals with black magic, the tone is more fun than dark. I’ve always been fascinated by this era of history, perhaps because of the stark class divide – a theme that also shows up in this book. I think I’m actually gonna finish this one.
ETA: should have known: @RealityChuck
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### Author:  [@DZedNConfused](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DZedNConfused)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2025, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-september-2025-edition/1022554/66 "2025-10-03T01:48:52Z")
Yes, my bad.
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### Author:  [@DZedNConfused](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DZedNConfused)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2025, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-september-2025-edition/1022554/67 "2025-10-03T01:56:09Z")
Two days late! October: [Time to get the pumpkins out!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-october-2025-edition/1023626)
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2025, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-september-2025-edition/1022554/68 "2025-10-03T14:23:45Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#):
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> I’m reading _The Cadaver Princess_ by Chuck Rothman, who is a Doper (I can’t remember which one) and I’m enjoying it very much. It’s a historical fantasy where 12-year-old Princess Victoria unexpectedly shows up as a zombie in a surgeon’s anatomy lab. Even though it deals with black magic, the tone is more fun than dark. I’ve always been fascinated by this era of history, perhaps because of the stark class divide – a theme that also shows up in this book. I think I’m actually gonna finish this one.
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> ETA: should have known: @RealityChuck
Thank you. I’m glad you’re enjoying it.
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