# Khadaji's Whatcha Readin' thread -- July 2017 Edition **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-readin-thread-july-2017-edition/790241 **Category:** Cafe Society **Created:** [June 30, 2017, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-readin-thread-july-2017-edition/790241 "2017-06-30T23:51:21Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 69
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Okay, this will be ridiculously long, because I have been ridiculously bad about updates and have read/dnfed/started approximately ONE MEELION books lately. Recent reads: _The Element of Fire (Ile-Rien, #1)_, by Martha Wells. She’s really really good. If you like Lois McMaster Bujold (and you should), I think you’ll like Martha Wells. High fantasy. _Denton Little’s Deathdate_ (Denton Little #1), by Lance Rubin. Imagine a world where everyone knows exactly what date they will die on. Now imagine snarky teens, a weird conspiracy, and people turning hilariously purple. That’s this book! _Fallen_, by Celeste Bradley. Really terrible romance temporarily enlivened by graphic random sex scene of two minor characters. _Missing May_, by Cynthia Rylant. Part of the Newbery reads. Very poignant and sad but strangely not depressing. _Goose in the Pond_ (Benni Harper, #4), by Earlene Fowler. Cozy mystery with super arrogant macho dickhead cop and his irritating wife. And yet I enjoyed it! _Hearse and Buggy_ (An Amish Mystery, #1), by Laura Bradford. I should have hated this cozy, but it was competently written and I swear those are hard to come by. _Even Money_, by Dick Francis. Not one of my favorite of the Francis thrillers, but so readable. _Doggie Day Care Murder_ (Melanie Travis, #15), by Laurien Berenson. One of my favorite cozy series. It’s like fast food for your brain. _It Happened One Midnight_ (Pennyroyal Green #8), by Julie Anne Long. Romance with some solid moments and a lame-ass ending. _Gluten for Punishment_ (A Baker’s Treat, #1), by Nancy J Parra. DNF cozy mystery where characters explained things in dialogue. “As you know, you drive a van…” _Wicked Game_ (WVMP Radio, #1), by Jeri Smith-Ready. Imagine an urban fantasy with vampires that I found readable and even good! I’m shocked. I hate vampires. This is a different treatment of them, which I appreciated. _Death by Darjeeling_ (A Tea Shop Mystery, #1), by Laura Childs. No. Just no. Cozy. _Curiosity Killed the Cat Sitter_ (A Dixie Hemingway Mystery, #1), by Blaize Clement. DNF. Author has a weird fixation on cat anuses. Cozy. _The Midwife’s Apprentice_, by Karen Cushman. Newbery read. Good, but could stand to be longer. _The Probability of Murder_ (Sophie Knowles, #2), by Ada Madison. Cozy DNF, sleuth too stupid to live. Currently reading: _The Whispering Skull_ (Lockwood & Co., #2), by Jonathan Stroud. Barely started. YA fantasy. _The Last One_, by Alexandra Oliva. Barely started. SF. _Shame on You_ (Fool Me Once, #1), by Tara Sivec. Barely started. WTF. Almost certainly a DNF. _The Spirit Lens_ (Collegia Magica, #1), by Carol Berg. Barely started. Fantasy. _Beauty and the Spy_ (Holt Sisters Trilogy #1), by Julie Anne Long. Barely started. Romance. Almost certainly a DNF. _The Slave Dancer_, by Paula Fox. Barely started. Newbery. _A Geek Girl’s Guide to Murder_ (Geek Girl Mysteries #1), by Julie Anne Lindsey. Barely started. Cozy. _The Darkest Part of the Forest_, by Holly Black. Barely started. YA fantasy. _Death at Breakfast_, by Beth Gutcheon. Barely started. Cozy. _The Crossword Murder_ (Crossword Mysteries, #1), by Nero Blanc. Barely started (sense a theme?) Cozy. Now we actually get to the books I’ve read more than 10 pages of! _The Lie Tree_, by Frances Hardinge. Good fantasy. Just got distracted. _Crimson Bound_, by Rosamund Hodge. Fantasy. Probably a DNF. Isn’t holding my attention. _Range of Ghosts (Eternal Sky, #1)_, by Elizabeth Bear. Fantasy. My library check out expired and I have been waiting to check it out again. I’m not in love. _The Bronze Bow_, by Elizabeth George Speare. Newbery. When Jesus entered the plot, I grew wary. _Julie of the Wolves (Julie of the Wolves, #1)_, by Jean Craighead George. I’m a bit baffled by this book. _Killer in Crinolines_ (Consignment Shop Mystery #2), by Duffy Brown. Funny cozy but not clicking. _Freckles_ (Limberlost #1), by Gene Stratton-Porter. Oddly overwrought. I’ll finish someday. _The Sayers Swindle_ (Book Collector Mystery #2), Victoria Abbott. Funny cozy but not clicking. _Dark Currents_ (The Emperor’s Edge, #2), by Lindsay Buroker. Good fantasy! I got distracted! _The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Planet_, Neil deGrasse Tyson. Non-fiction I will finish. _Skeptic: Viewing the World with a Rational Eye_, by Michael Shermer. Non-fiction I will finish. _The Essential Ellen Willis_, by Ellen Willis. Non-fiction, I am bored. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-readin-thread-july-2017-edition/790241)._