# Khadaji's Whatcha Reading Thread--April 2019 edition

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 30, 2019, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-reading-thread-april-2019-edition/831775 "2019-03-30T16:28:49Z")\
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**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:** [April 30, 2019, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-reading-thread-april-2019-edition/831775/81 "2019-04-30T18:06:44Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> …I’m now about a third of the way through an audiobook of Dashiell Hammett’s 1929 hardboiled private-eye novel _Red Harvest_. The Continental Op solves a murder case and then resolves to clean up a crooked town. Pretty good stuff.

Finished it. Got a little confusing and more than a little bloody by the end, but I liked it.

Next up: another private-eye novel, although very different in setting and style, Robert B. Parker’s 1981 novel _A Savage Place_. Spenser is hired by an LA reporter to guard her and help with her investigation into labor racketeering in the film biz. Enjoyable so far.

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**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\
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Finished _The Calculating Stars_, by Mary Robinette Kowal. Interesting premise.

Now I’m reading _Dawn_, by Octavia E. Butler.

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**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:** [April 30, 2019, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-reading-thread-april-2019-edition/831775/83 "2019-04-30T23:06:45Z")

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> [@Finagle](#):
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> Have you read “Bridge of Birds” by Barry Hughart?

Many, many, many times and the two sequels as well.

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**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:** [April 30, 2019, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-reading-thread-april-2019-edition/831775/84 "2019-04-30T23:28:37Z")

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