# Khadaji's Whatcha Readin' thread -- April 2017 Edition **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-readin-thread-april-2017-edition/783418 **Category:** Cafe Society **Created:** [March 31, 2017, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-readin-thread-april-2017-edition/783418 "2017-03-31T15:45:41Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 73
### Author: ![BrassyPhrase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@BrassyPhrase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrassyPhrase) #### Post date: [April 19, 2017, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-readin-thread-april-2017-edition/783418/73 "2017-04-19T20:13:52Z")
> [@Sangahyando](#): > > I greatly liked Bujold’s Vorkosigan novels, but couldn’t get, much, into the Chalion material. I found \*The Curse of Chalion \* good-ish; but got bogged down in, and came to find annoying, _Paladin of Souls_ – packed it in maybe halfway through. Have tried no more “Chalion”. Feel sometimes that I’m hard to please, not in a good way ! That’s funny. She had loaned me some of Vorkosigan too and I tried reading one ( **Shards of Honor** , I think). I got about halfway thru it and felt like, “Urrgh, this is like a bad romance novel” and returned it to her. When I told her I didn’t care for it, she said, “Oh, they are but it ends up being interesting in the series…” That’s when I realized the other five or so books she lent me were that series. I’ll probably try another one though, just to make sure. **The Collapsing Empire** by Scalzi was awesome! He needs to get busy writing on that series. I didn’t start the Old Man’s War series until it was over, so I didn’t have to wait. I’m already chomping at the bit. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-readin-thread-april-2017-edition/783418)._