What I Read in August 2025

August was crazily busy with Bookweek and a house move, and lots of reading for work thrown in, so I have only five books to report, and three of them being very short ones.  But hey, I made time for reading, and I’m pleased with that. Here’s what I read:

Books for Younger Readers

The Firework Maker’s Daughter, by Philip Pullman (Corgi, 1995). Been a while since I read any Pullman – reading this made me want to read more. Just lovely. Stick Man Early Reader, by Julia Donaldson & Alex Scheffler.  I don’t know how Stick Man managed to be in my to-read pile, but in the clean up to move house I found him, read him and smiled. I think my grandlings will do when I unpack at the other end.My Grandson Lew, by Charlotte Zolotow & William Pene Du Bois (Harper & Row, 1974). Another from the to-read pile, a lovely little offering about a child’s grief and love for his grandfather.Left and Right With Lion and Ryan, by Robert Littell & Phillip Wende (World’s Work, 1970). A third from the pile. A quirky book helping readers learn left from right.

Books for Young Adults

90 Packets of Instant Noodles, by Deb Fitzpatrick (Fremantle Press, 2010).  I love Deb Fitzpatrick as a human and as an author, so I’m not sure how I missed reading this one until now. But I’m glad I’ve read it – set in the bush not too far away from where I love.

 

That brings my total for the year to date to 69.  I am in the midst of unpacking the thousands of books that I moved, and this is making me want to read more and more and more, so hopefully that total will climb by the end of the year.