Beginning Balance June 1, 2017: $48.90 spent
What I Hope to Accomplish
- Stick to a realistic budget. I stuck to my budget of $40.00 (way under budget really!) So for July I am going to see how $30.00 works.
- Use the library more. I’d love to see a number where I save more than I spend.
Books Purchased: 5
- Heat Exchange by Shannon Stacey – $1.99
- Burn for Me by Ilona Andrews – $2.99
- X by Sue Grafton – $1.99
- On the Plus Side by Alison Bliss – $5.99
- The Hard Way by Lee Child – $2.99
Total Purchased: $15.95
Free eBooks: 10
- Beautiful Storm by Barbara Freethy
- Chills by Heather Boyd
- The Substitute by Denise Grover Swank
- The Start of Us by Lauren Blakely
- One Perfect Night by Bella Andre
- Taken by Love by Melissa Foster
- Reasonable Doubt by Whitney G.
- Betrayal by Aleatha Romig
- A Demon’s Promise by Kristie Cook
- Rocky Mountain Heat by Vivian Arend
ARCs Received This Month: 12
What I Hope to Accomplish
- Stick to a realistic budget. I stuck to my budget of $40.00 (way under budget really!) So for July I am going to see how $30.00 works.
- Use the library more. I’d love to see a number where I save more than I spend.
Books Purchased: 5
- Heat Exchange by Shannon Stacey – $1.99
- Burn for Me by Ilona Andrews – $2.99
- X by Sue Grafton – $1.99
- On the Plus Side by Alison Bliss – $5.99
- The Hard Way by Lee Child – $2.99
Total Purchased: $15.95
Free eBooks: 10
- Beautiful Storm by Barbara Freethy
- Chills by Heather Boyd
- The Substitute by Denise Grover Swank
- The Start of Us by Lauren Blakely
- One Perfect Night by Bella Andre
- Taken by Love by Melissa Foster
- Reasonable Doubt by Whitney G.
- Betrayal by Aleatha Romig
- A Demon’s Promise by Kristie Cook
- Rocky Mountain Heat by Vivian Arend
ARCs Received This Month: 12
I went a wee bit nuts this month. I’ve learned my lesson and I am definitely backing off my requests.
- Club Deception by Sarah Skilton
- The Forbidden by Jodi Ellen Malpas
- The Perfect Recipe for Love and Friendship by Shirley Jump
- Summer on Firefly Lake by Jen Gilroy
- Too Scot to Handle by Grace Burrowes
- Can’t Stop Lovin You by Lynnette Austin
- The Summer That Made Us by Robyn Carr
- Wrecked by JB Salisbury
- Maybe This Summer by Jennifer Snow
- Sugar Pine Trail by RaeAnne Thayne
- Serenity Harbor by RaeAnne Thayne
- The Nearness of You by Dorothy Garlock
ALA 2017 Books: 47
- All the Crooked Saints by Maggie Stiefvater
- Before I Let Go by Marieke Nijkamp
- The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton
- The Breathless by Tara Goedjen
- A Casualty of War by Charles Todd
- The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
- The Devils You Know by M. C. Atwood
- The Dollmaker of Krakow by R. M. Romero
- The Doubt Factory by Paolo Bacigalupi
- The Duchess Deal by Tessa Dare
- Ever the Brave by Erin Summerill
- Everything, Everything by Niola Yoon
- Expelled by Emily Raymond and James Patterson
- Four Weddings and a Sixpence Anthology
- Genuine Fraud by e. Lockhart
- The Girl with the Make Believe Husband by Julia Quinn
- The Glass Spare by Lauren DeStefano
- The Glass Town Game by Catherynne M. Valente
- Gunslinger Girl by Lyndsay Ely
- Hate to Want You by Alisha Rai
- Haunting the Deep by Adriana Mather
- Hunting Prince Dracula by Kerri Maniscalco
- The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert
- That Inevitable Victorian Thing by E. K. Johnston
- Invictus by Ryan Graudin
- Jane, Unlimited by Kristin Cashore
- Keep Her Safe by Sophie Hannah
- The Knowing by Sharon Cameron
- The Last Day of Emily Lindsey by Nic Joseph
- Mask of Shadows by Linsey Miller
- More Than We Can Tell by Brigid Kremmerer
- The Names of Dead Girls by Eric Rickstad
- Odd and True by Cat Winters
- One Dark Throne by Kendare Blake
- One for Sorrow by Mary Downing Hahn
- The People at Number 9 by Felicity Everett
- The Refrigerator Monologues by Catherynne M. Valente
- Right Where You Left Me by Calla Devlin
- Shimmer and Burn by Mary Taranta
- The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
- A Taxonomy of Love by Rachael Allen
- There’s Someone Inside Your House by Stephanie Perkins
- Things I’m Seeing Without You by Peter Bognanni
- The Traitor’s Game by Jennifer A. Nielsen
- Unearthed by Amie Kaufman and Megan Spooner
- Warcross by Marie Lu
- When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon
Books Read This Month (TBR Goals: Read 3 each month 0/3 TBR = Before 5/1/17)
- One Week to the Wedding by Olivia Miles (ARC)
- Maybe This Summer by Jennifer Snow (eARC)
- Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco (ARC)
Borrowed from Library:
I use the current price on Amazon for the Kindle format of that book to calculate my library savings. I’m a major Kindle user and that would have been my choice of format so that’s the price I’ll use to calculate my savings.
- The Black Book by David Ellis and James Patterson ***** – $14.99
Books Being Donated this Month: 27
- I was in such a hurry that I forgot to snap pictures of what was donated this month. I’d guess in total there were around 25. I know for sure I donated 5 ARCs.
- One Week to the Wedding by Olivia Miles
- Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco
Beth W
You’re doing so well! And that list of ALA books is loooooong. Yay! 😀
Stephanie
I’m hoping to keep reducing what I spend each month. Considering how many unread books I own it is almost embarrassing that I keep buying more. One step at a time right? 🙂