# Khadaji's Whatcha Readin' - April 2013 Edition **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 30, 2013, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-readin-april-2013-edition/654364 "2013-03-30T17:10:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2013, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-readin-april-2013-edition/654364/162 "2013-04-30T18:30:15Z")
Currently reading _Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe_ by Norman Davies. I’m enjoying it very much - its a bunch of capsule histories together with his ruminations on the nature of historical memory. Very cogent for me was his chapter on Galicia - both my mother’s parents and my wife’s parents had ancestors from there, and already the memory is very hazy as to what exactly it was (my mother gets confused as to where her grandmother came from - was it Poland, Russia, Ukraine or Austria? It was … Galicia, a kingdom under the crown of the Austrian Empire). ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2013, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-readin-april-2013-edition/654364/163 "2013-04-30T21:37:45Z")
The new thread is up and running [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16247472#post16247472). ---
**Author:** ![PeacePlease](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/71c47a/32.png) [@PeacePlease](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PeacePlease)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2013, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-readin-april-2013-edition/654364/164 "2013-05-01T12:08:33Z")
> [@LawMonkey](#): > > I’ve never read Banks, but still sad to hear; any man’s death diminishes me. That’s beautiful. Thanks for being you. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-readin-april-2013-edition/654364.md?page=8)