MONTH IN REVIEW: August 2025

By Denise @ Life With No Plot on September 4, 2025 • ( 1 )

If July was a weird month, then August was even weirder. I’ve been feeling very disconnected from a lot things lately, which has made it hard for me to do things that I really enjoy. I sort of disappeared from the blog for most of last month and my reading goals disappeared with it. Still, there was some reading that happened, so let’s take a look.

August Reads

The Conjurer by Luanne G. Smith
The Glamourist by Luanne G. Smith

Ugh, that’s a lot of empty days with no reading. I think that’s what bothers me the most. It looks so sad! I only read two books BUT these books were extremely helpful challenge-wise. Speaking of which . . .

Challenge Updates

GoodReads Challenge: My goal is to read 75 books this year. As of the end of August, I have 43 books read. I have accepted the fact that I will most likely not reach 75 books at this point and I have changed my official goal to 65 books for the year. That seems attainable.

GoodReads Awards Challenge: My goal was to read all fourteen of the winners of 2024’s GoodReads Choice Awards. I did not read any additional books for this challenge, so I’m still sitting at 9 of 14. Still plenty of time to get to the other ones!

Complete the Series Challenge: My goal was to complete seven series that I have not finished (you can see my list here). With finishing the Vine Witch trilogy, I have completed this challenge! Yay! This is the first year that I have ever done this with this challenge and I’m so happy about that!

Blog Updates

This won’t take long, lol.

I made three posts. Three. Month in Review for July, one Teaser/Top Ten Tuesday, and one WWW Wednesday. Meh. With this post, I’ve already posted that much in September and it’s only the 4th, so this month will definitely be better.