# Whatcha Readin' Dec 2012 Edition **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 30, 2012, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-dec-2012-edition/642625 "2012-11-30T23:38:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2012, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-dec-2012-edition/642625/1 "2012-11-30T23:38:32Z")
As always this time of year - First and foremost Happy Birthday to me! Tomorrow I’ll be 51. I’m reading the newest Dresden by Jim Butcher and so far I’m enjoying it. Next up after that will be the newest Iron Druid _Trapped._ [November’s thread.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=670632) ---
**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:** [November 30, 2012, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-dec-2012-edition/642625/2 "2012-11-30T23:47:33Z")
Reading **Sempster’s Tale** by Margaret Frazier… I have a love hat realtionship with Sister Frevisse, she’s too detached to laove but I can’t hate her either… Up next will be Murder Most Medieval, a collection of short stories. OH! And Happy Birthday Khadaji! ---
**Author:** ![wonderlust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonderlust/32/7237_2.png) [@wonderlust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonderlust)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2012, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-dec-2012-edition/642625/3 "2012-11-30T23:55:51Z")
\*\*Khadaji: \*\* Happy Birthday tomorrow! **DZedNConfused** : I want a love hat too. ---
**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:** [December 1, 2012, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-dec-2012-edition/642625/4 "2012-12-01T00:32:23Z")
Oh good heavens! I even edited that once! Love Hate relationship, I blame NaNoWriMo all my brain cells are DEAD! _but I won_ ---
**Author:** ![wonderlust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonderlust/32/7237_2.png) [@wonderlust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonderlust)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2012, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-dec-2012-edition/642625/5 "2012-12-01T00:34:52Z")
Yays! That’s a real accomplishment. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2012, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-dec-2012-edition/642625/6 "2012-12-01T00:38:09Z")
I’m stuck in 1972. I polished up _Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72_, by Hunter S Thompson a couple weeks ago, and now I’m almost through _All the President’s Men_, by Woodward and Bernstein. ---
**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:** [December 1, 2012, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-dec-2012-edition/642625/7 "2012-12-01T01:09:48Z")
> [@wonderlust](#): > > Yays! That’s a real accomplishment. Thank you, this was one story that really didn’t want to come out of my head.😛 ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2012, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-dec-2012-edition/642625/8 "2012-12-01T01:36:58Z")
> [@DZedNConfused](#): > > Reading **Sempster’s Tale** by Margaret Frazier… I have a love hat realtionship with Sister Frevisse, she’s too detached to laove but I can’t hate her either… Have you tried the Joliffe books? I like them a bit better, though I quite like Sister Frevisse. I cannot hide my love of the medieval period. ---
**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:** [December 1, 2012, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-dec-2012-edition/642625/9 "2012-12-01T02:40:02Z")
Happy Birthday, youg 'un! Still on _A Mencken Chrestomathy_, which I just recently started. Selected writings by HL Mencken. ---
**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:** [December 1, 2012, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-dec-2012-edition/642625/10 "2012-12-01T06:15:04Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > Have you tried the Joliffe books? I like them a bit better, though I quite like Sister Frevisse. I cannot hide my love of the medieval period. I haven’t yet, they are on my list of things to check out. I gotta read some of these piles down first 😃 ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2012, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-dec-2012-edition/642625/11 "2012-12-01T17:36:44Z")
Happy Birthday Khadaji. I am reading **Marmee and Louisa: The Untold Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Mother** by Eve LaPlante. It’s sort of depressing. Basically Alcott’s father was a head in the sand philosopher who did not want to or couldn’t do much work. Abigal Alcott was constantly pregnant, contantly in debt and contantly barely able to feed her family. As a woman during that period she had no rights at all. They both bravely stood up against slavery and for integration and full rights for African Americans. But bravely alone was not enough to ward off near constant homelessness. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2012, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-dec-2012-edition/642625/12 "2012-12-01T18:26:20Z")
> [@DZedNConfused](#): > > I haven’t yet, they are on my list of things to check out. I gotta read some of these piles down first 😃 B-but, you’re supposed to drop everything and go read them RIGHT NOW so I can know what you think! 😃 ---
**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:** [December 1, 2012, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-dec-2012-edition/642625/13 "2012-12-01T18:39:36Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > B-but, you’re supposed to drop everything and go read them RIGHT NOW so I can know what you think! 😃 Bahahahaha! Umm well money, I errrr got bored over the summer and spent WAY too much on books.:smack: But I check the Paperback Exchange here on a regular basis. ---
**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:** [December 4, 2012, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-dec-2012-edition/642625/14 "2012-12-04T21:39:05Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > As always this time of year - First and foremost Happy Birthday to me! Tomorrow I’ll be 51. > > I’m reading the newest Dresden by Jim Butcher and so far I’m enjoying it. Happy birthday, **Khadaji**! I’m reading _Cold Days_ as well. ---
**Author:** ![Future\_Londonite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9dc877/32.png) [@Future\_Londonite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Future_Londonite)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2012, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-dec-2012-edition/642625/15 "2012-12-04T22:33:00Z")
About to finish **Johannes Cabal:The Fear Institute** by _Jonathan Howard_. Going to start reading **Dead Harvest** and **The Collector** by _Chris Holm_ ---
**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:** [December 4, 2012, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-dec-2012-edition/642625/16 "2012-12-04T23:23:11Z")
Mmmmm finished **The Sempter’s Tale** and yeah… Do ANY of these books end with the murderer getting punished? Started **Making Money** … I need some Discworld right now. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2012, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-dec-2012-edition/642625/17 "2012-12-04T23:55:00Z")
Terry Pratchett’s novel _Wintersmith_. Excellent as usual. ---
**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:** [December 5, 2012, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-dec-2012-edition/642625/18 "2012-12-05T00:08:22Z")
> [@Dendarii\_Dame](#): > > Terry Pratchett’s novel _Wintersmith_. Excellent as usual. I enjoyed it a lot… nice reading during a summer heatwave!😃 ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2012, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-dec-2012-edition/642625/19 "2012-12-05T01:10:46Z")
Just polished off _ **Deathless** _. I loved it when I started, but it lost me. Felt like I was lacking the necessary cultural grounding. The writing was lovely, though. Just started Oliver Sacks’s _ **Hallucinations** _. I’m looking forward to it, because Oliver Sacks is in the dictionary for both “win” and “awesome.” ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2012, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-dec-2012-edition/642625/20 "2012-12-05T02:07:36Z")
_Team of Rivals_, Doris Kearns Goodwin (biography of Lincoln, if you don’t know). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-dec-2012-edition/642625.md?page=2)