My August 2025 Reads
Hello September and the ‘ber months!! I am ready for Fall and everything that comes with it!
I completed six books in August and they were all audiobooks. Who says audiobooks are not reading? Definitely NOT me! Two of those audiobooks were Freida McFadden as well.
GOAL FOR SEPTEMBER: I WILL finish The Survivor Wants to Die at the End by Adam Silvera. I was hoping to finish it in August, but that did not happen. I did make it from 31% to 64%. I am on page 461/720. Setting this goal, I WILL finish it! 😊 Just remember how long this one is and I don’t have a lot of time working 9.5- 10 hours a day, five days a week. And these last two weeks of August I worked 100 hours (From normally 40 hours to 50 hours a week). This coming check will be a big one, but I’m tired!
Here are the books I completed in August. They are listed in the order that I finished them:
The Tenant by Freida McFadden- 4 stars
It’s a Date (Again) by Jeneva Rose- 3.5 stars
The Names by Florence Knapp- 4 stars
The Surrogate Mother by Freida McFadden- 4 stars
The Otherworld by Abbie Emmons- 3 stars
The Measure by Nikki Erlick- 5 stars
My ‘favorite read’ was The Measure by Nikki Erlick. I really enjoy speculative fiction and the way this novel went, it just seems like this is how the world would go if one day we all woke up and had a box with a string in it that would tell us how long our life was going to be (or not be). All the characters were interconnected and I came close to tearing up at the end!
I have decided to change from ‘least favorite read’ to ‘lowest rated read’. “Least favorite’ just has a bad connotation to it when it might not have been a ‘bad’ book for me and I don’t want to say this unless the book is one or two stars…
My lowest rated read was The Otherworld by Abbie Emmons. This book… Well, it’s YA as the main character just turned 18, but a love triangle with two brothers. I did not have a problem with the age difference between Orca and Adam (she is 18 and he is 28), but her living on an island with just her father, she has an innocence and then her naiveté that made her come off younger. In some ways this reminded me of Disney’s The Little Mermaid with Ariel and Eric. But no villain.
What did YOU read in August? Let’s bring on our September reading!