August 2025

August is always a chaotic month, figuratively and literally. With school starting back up, that adds to the literal chaos, and with school starting back up, that adds to the mental chaos, too. Hours of back-to-school setup, device distribution, platform rostering... all that leaves less time for reading than I'd like. Somehow I still managed 17 books, including eight ARCs and some fantastic, out-of-my-genre reads as well! I'm at 12 non-fiction books, too, which means I've kept up with my goal of at least one non-fiction book a month! Go me!

5 stars:
The Freedom Seeker by Rucharia Gupta

4.5 stars:

Ollie In Between by Jess Callans, The Wedding People by Alison Espach, A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandana

4.25 stars:

Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn, Kills Well with Others by Deanna Raybourn

4 stars:

Trouble Finds Evie Lefkowitz by Diana Harmon Asher, The Library of Unruly Treasures by Jeanne Birdsall

3.75 stars:

See You in the Cosmos by Jack Cheng

3.5 stars:

The Incredibly Human Henson Blayze by Derrick Barnes, The Unexpected Lives of Ordinary Girls by J. Anderson Coats, Palm Meridian by Grace Flahive, Confessions of a Grammar Queen by Eliza Knight, Where Did Everybody Go? by Don Martin, Confessions of a Junior Spy: The Mean Girl Mission by Rosaria Munda, Disney High by Ashley Spencer, Pasta Girls by Taylor Tracy

For reference, here is my ratings explanation. I'm also going to add that I think The Freedom Seeker and Ollie In Between are on track for some big things in the future - awards, recognition, you name it. They were incredible reads!