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

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

Totals:

Spent This Month: $15.95
Total Spent since 5/1/17: $64.85
Total Saved This Month: $14.99
Total Saved since 5/1/17: $22.22
Books Donated to Library this Month: 27
Books Donated to Library since 5/1/17: 27



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