# Khadaji's Whatcha Readin' Thread - February 2016 Edition **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 30, 2016, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-readin-thread-february-2016-edition/744636 "2016-01-30T03:45:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Cardboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Cardboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardboard)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2016, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-readin-thread-february-2016-edition/744636/101 "2016-02-27T19:18:23Z")
I’m currently reading _If at First: A Season With the Mets_ by Keith Hernandez and Mike Bryan and _Think and Grow Rich_ by Napoleon Hill. I recently finished\* The Power of Now\* by Eckhardt Tolle. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2016, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-readin-thread-february-2016-edition/744636/102 "2016-02-28T15:30:08Z")
Currently reading _Arcadia_ by Iain Pears. Very strange genre mixture, I’m enjoying it so far. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2016, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-readin-thread-february-2016-edition/744636/103 "2016-02-28T16:30:35Z")
I’m reading another Longmire book, **Junkyard Dogs** , and I think it’s my favorite of the series. Craig Johnson’s comic bits are worth the price of admission. N’yuh huh! ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2016, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-readin-thread-february-2016-edition/744636/104 "2016-02-28T18:19:52Z")
On the home stretch of Robert Harris’s _Fatherland_, a realistic and chilling alt-history thriller about a murder investigation in 1964 Nazi Germany. Also resuming Dan Balz’s _Collision 2012_, about Romney v. Obama. Good behind-the-scenes political stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2016, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-readin-thread-february-2016-edition/744636/105 "2016-02-28T22:06:31Z")
> [@koeeoaddi](#): > > I’m reading another Longmire book, **Junkyard Dogs** , and I think it’s my favorite of the series. Craig Johnson’s comic bits are worth the price of admission. > > N’yuh huh! I was pleased to find that the books have more humor than the TV show. ---
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2016, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-readin-thread-february-2016-edition/744636/106 "2016-02-28T22:34:44Z")
> [@Malthus](#): > > Currently reading _Arcadia_ by Iain Pears. Very strange genre mixture, I’m enjoying it so far. That was probably my favourite novel last year! (It came out earlier in the UK than the US) Currently reading Monday Begins on Saturday by the Strugatsky Brothers, which I’be not read for decades! ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-readin-thread-february-2016-edition/744636/107 "2016-02-29T12:42:15Z")
Finished Burroughs, on to he Brian Aldiss anthology **Galactic Empires** , which I’d never read. I’ve gone through the first few stories and am hugely disappointed – no actual Galactic Empires in them. On audio, I’m re-reading **Stranger in a Strange Land**. This book is still interesting for its take on philosophy and religion, but its technology gets less likely every year. Its view of Mars was outdated when it was written (although the general public didn’t know that), but much of the rest of the book now seems downright quaint. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-readin-thread-february-2016-edition/744636/108 "2016-02-29T13:51:25Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Started this morning on [Tiny Beautiful Things: advice on love and life from Dear Sugar](http://www.amazon.com/Tiny-Beautiful-Things-Advice-Sugar/dp/0307949338/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1456406735&sr=1-1&keywords=tiny+beautiful+things) by Cheryl Strayed. When I picked it up at the library, the librarian said, “Oh my gosh, I loved this book! I cried the whole way through.” I wasn’t sure that was an auspicious sign, but now I’m thinking someday I’ll see someone else reading this book and say the exact same thing. 🙂 Finished _Dear Sugar_. At the end of this book, I don’t know if her advice was actually helpful to anyone, but it was still moving and I enjoyed the autobiographical parts. I’m going to try something else by Strayed in future. This morning, I read up to page 55 of a novel, [Black Rabbit Hall](http://www.amazon.com/Black-Rabbit-Hall-Eve-Chase/dp/0399174125/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1456753722&sr=1-1&keywords=black+rabbit+hall). It’s not hooked me yet, so we shall part amicably. ---
**Author:** ![DZedNConfused](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dzednconfused/32/15991_2.png) [@DZedNConfused](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DZedNConfused)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-readin-thread-february-2016-edition/744636/109 "2016-02-29T16:37:49Z")
Potato chip reading 😃 i started **Conspiracy in Death** by J D Robb. I continue to enjoy her cute look at policing in the near future, not so much for the plots because it’s easy to figure that out, but just for the whole wish fullfilment and Mary Sueness of it all. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-readin-thread-february-2016-edition/744636/110 "2016-03-01T01:28:25Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Continuing my Edgar Rice Burroughs streak with **Beyond Thirty/The Lost Continent** , which I’ve never read before. My favourite Burroughs! First read it fifty years ago; have reread it several times since. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-readin-thread-february-2016-edition/744636/111 "2016-03-01T01:33:44Z")
It’s March 1 over here. New thread coming? ---
**Author:** ![DZedNConfused](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dzednconfused/32/15991_2.png) [@DZedNConfused](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DZedNConfused)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-readin-thread-february-2016-edition/744636/112 "2016-03-01T01:38:12Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > It’s March 1 over here. New thread coming? Let me finish dinner 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-readin-thread-february-2016-edition/744636/113 "2016-03-01T01:42:03Z")
Last finished: _Ink and Bone_, YA AH by Rachel Caine. Looking forward eagerly to the sequel, which comes out in July. Now reading: _Old Man’s War_, military SF by John Scalzi. I’m also rereading _Hot Rod_, YA fiction (teens and cars) by Henry Gregor Felsen, which I first read around 50 years ago. Next up: _Death Lights a Candle_, the second Asey Mayo mystery by Phoebe Atwood Taylor. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-readin-thread-february-2016-edition/744636/114 "2016-03-01T01:43:18Z")
> [@DZedNConfused](#): > > Let me finish dinner 😃 Well geez, you got two hands, doncha? ---
**Author:** ![DZedNConfused](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dzednconfused/32/15991_2.png) [@DZedNConfused](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DZedNConfused)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-readin-thread-february-2016-edition/744636/115 "2016-03-01T02:10:03Z")
NEW THREAD! [Don’t step on the bunnies!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=785635) ---
**Author:** ![DZedNConfused](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dzednconfused/32/15991_2.png) [@DZedNConfused](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DZedNConfused)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-readin-thread-february-2016-edition/744636/116 "2016-03-01T02:11:18Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Well geez, you got two hands, doncha? French toast… how much syrup did you want all over the thread? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-readin-thread-february-2016-edition/744636.md?page=5)