Finished A Fine Dark Line, one of the best Lansdales I’ve read. It was actually a sweet story, y’know, aside from the murders and beatings and racism and sexual assault. 
Next up, Sunset and Sawdust, and then I’m going to move on to some different authors for a while.
Thanks for the tip. Haven’t read that myself, but I’ve read an awful lot about Lincoln over the years (and am now working on a speech about his Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton). If you want some other Lincoln book suggestions, PM me or ask here.
I’m about one-fourth of the way through I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell by Tucker Max. It remains to be seen whether or not I’ll finish it. His stories are amusing, but he is such a colossal jackass. He keeps talking about his own assholishness, but I can’t decide if that makes it better or worse. I just don’t know.
Finished Into the Silence and loved it. I got it because I was fascinated by the story of George Mallory, but the book has a much broader scope, which I appreciated. The author, Wade Davis, did a great job of tying the experiences of WWI into the British exploring generation of the 1920s. I was a bit surprised by how little prepared the mountaineers were for those first couple of attempts at the Everest summit, to the point of including inexperienced climbers on both the 1922 and 1924 attempts. It’s a great read for anyone interested in Everest, climbing, or that time in history.
Moving on now to The Prisoner of Heaven, the third book in Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s “Cemetery of Forgotten Books” story. I loved the first one, The Shadow of the Wind, and was kind of ambivalent about the second, The Angel’s Game, so I’m hoping this one is more like the former than the latter.
I dumped an Amazon loaner, The Burning Man by Alan Russell, after one too many paragraphs of filler and exposition. Two cops explaining how they work a crime scene?
Thanks to all the recs here, started Ready Player One and am digging it, as the kids say.
I started Hounded, the first Iron Druid book today. I’m quite pulled in by it.
I like Kearne’s view of the Old Gods in the modern world MUCH better than Neil Gaimon’s.
I just finished Wolf Hall and thoroughly enjoyed it. I downloaded the sequel, Bring Out The Bodies, despite the fact that it’s bloody expensive! I noticed I had a couple of other unread books waiting for me on my Kindle, which I’d forgotten about - a nice bonus!
I finished “A Stolen Life” by Jaycee Dugard. It was heart-wrenching, if not particularly well-written. She switched tenses a lot during the first 3/4 of the book and it was distracting. It got much better toward the end when she was talking about her return. I was particularly touched by the scenes where she reunites with her two childhood friends.
Some bad news in case you’ve not seen it. 
That’s awful!
Thank you for telling us about it, Siam Sam.
I can’t believe it. These threads will not be the same without him. 
Oh no! The flu?! How absolutely terrible.
Aw, damn. Thanks for the link, Siam Sam. Khadaji started this very thread! He will be missed.
He started this very thread every month. We have to keep up the tradition.
I agree! It’s a fitting memorial that we keep the monthly “Whatcha Readin” threads going.
May I suggest that we nominate one of us to start the thread, and that it be named something like ‘Khadaji’s Whatcha Readin’, [month][year]’ in his memory?
Good idea. Maybe rotate the [del]duty[/del] honour between a few volunteers/nominees.
Thirded! Excellent idea.
I think that would be a lovely tribute.
Four or fifthed! I think it’s a fantastic idea.
I like the idea of rotating who starts it as well.