Comments on: Reading Lately: August 2025 Book Reviews

By: Nichole Bradburn

Nichole Bradburn — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 13:17:52 +0000

In reply to Ann. Ann, I love Karen White'sbooks!! That series was really fun but all of the stand alones I've read have been great too! I hope you enjoy!!

By: Ann

Ann — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 15:39:53 +0000

I’m currently reading Lonesome Dove. Finally! I’m a Texan and Texas Monthly magazine and Texas Book Festival teamed up to start The Texas Book Club and this is their first selection. I cannot put my finger on what I love so much about Larry McMurtry’s writing. It is so comforting somehow. When I stop to think about it (I am about halfway through the 843 pages), the story is very slow motion. But you grow to love all the character’s so much, you don’t mind.

Also I picked up a copy of The House On Tradd Street by Karen White in a Little Free Library in a nearby neighborhood. Y’all, I never get tired of peeping in those. The book seems really sweet. Set in Charleston, I think it will be a bit of a romance, ghost story?! I’ve never read the author, but this is the first in a popular series.

My book club read Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate. That was one I had certainly seen. Not sure why, but I thought it was a WWII story, but it was about adoption. Very engrossing read and made for a great discussion and lots of questions. Based on true stories.

Lastly I read The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante. I recently read the whole Neapolitan series and discovered her writing. Interestingly, there are some shared things in this book.

I turned 65 this month and a big regret is not having read more when my eyes were younger, lol!!! My TBR is never ending and the search for what I will read next is part of the fun! If my eyes can just hold up!

Our local library underwent a cyber attack. Not sure what that even means, but our catalog has been down since February. We have been able to check out books, but have not had access to a catalog. So, I have actually enjoyed browsing the stacks the way we used to. We will be up and running next month. I will probably fall back into my habit of putting new releases on hold and just popping in and picking them up. But hopefully I will still find time for my home shelves and library crawl here and there.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 16:56:41 +0000

I felt the same as you about so many of these books!
I wanted to like Happy Wife more but it just fell flat and was very forgettable. I’ve definitely read a lot better thrillers/domestic mysteries.
Stacy Willingham used to be an auto buy author for me but each book of hers I like less and less to the point that I didn’t even buy or plan to read her latest – sad cause I really enjoyed her first book!
And The Small and Mighty – I wanted to like it more because I love Sharon on Instagram. However the book felt all over the place – like they were separate stories but also they tried to be woven together and all of it just left me confused. I also tried multiple times to figure out who the Twelve were and I got anywhere from 10 to about 15. I could never figure out how she landed on 12 – lol. Who were we counting and who were we not counting?