What We're Reading, while melting! (August 2025 Edition)

[Ashley, The Tipsy Challenger]

Welcome to the latest installment of our beloved “What Are You Currently Reading?” thread, your monthly excuse to gush, gripe, and geek out over your current reads!

Whether you're:
🔥 Sweating it out with a spicy romance
🍂 Sensing the first stirrings of fall reading moods
📚 Juggling way too many books (again)
🧘‍♀️ Or clinging to summer vibes like your life depends on it…

This is your space to shout out what you're reading right now!

💬 Jump in with:
• What you just picked up / just finished
• A quote that made your jaw drop or your heart ache
• A one-sentence review, or a wildly unhinged rant, we accept both
• How your August TBR is shaping up (or totally derailing)

✨ This thread will be open all month, and we’ll start fresh in September to keep things clean and cozy.

🆕 Bonus Fun: Don’t miss our other bookish convos:
→ Weekly Author Appreciation: A new author to spotlight (or side-eye) each week
→ Monthly Theme Chat: August's theme is Mythology Retellings 🏛️, from ancient epics to modern spins, join us for legendary reads!

So, what’s on your nightstand, your Kindle, or playing in your ears right now? Sound off below! 👇📖

[ilovebakedgoods (Teresa), Bibliotherapist]

Juggling too many books, per usual! 😆

Also, finishing up a few books I started the other day.

Trying to decide what I’ll tackle once those are finished.

[Susan]

📚 Juggling way too many books (again)

Finished The House in the Cerulean Sea this morning, that's book number six since August 1. Started The Poppy Fields a few days ago and it's slow going so far. Currently listening to You and it's sucking me right in!

[Christine]

I’m reading a book called Daughter of Mine by Megan Miranda

[Ashley, The Tipsy Challenger]

Currently reading A Curse Dark as Gold, which is a Rumplestiltskin retelling.

[Erin *Proud Book Hoarder*]

Ashley wrote: "
🔥 Sweating it out with a spicy romance
🍂 Sensing the first stirrings of fall reading moods
📚 Juggling way too many books (again)."


So, all three of these currently fit me right now in a way.

🍂 I'm starting to crave Halloween season and watching some Booktube spooky halloween plans. I am also so over FL heat and impatient for fall - although we don't truly get cool, fall weather for months still.

📚 As always, I juggle and overplan too many monthly books. September won't be any better with this either.

🔥 And I've been in the mood for series romance - with towers I've been reading countries and large books but I'm ready for a series and romance and shorter book break when it's over on the 17th this upcoming weekend.

[Christine]

I’m reading a book called The Girl Who Survived by Lisa Jackson

[Christine]

I’m reading a book called The House in the Pines by Ana Reyes

[Christine]

I’m reading a book called Oxygen by Carol Cassella

[Christine]

I’m reading a book called Under an Alaskan Sky by Jennifer Snow

[Christine]

I’m reading a book called Summit Lake by Charlie Donlea

[Ashley, The Tipsy Challenger]

September is getting away from me... here is our new thread for September!

What We're Reading, now that fall is creeping in! (September 2025 Edition)