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April I spent a decent chunk of change - I bought the yearly audible deal for premium plus and 12 credits for 99.50, and I also did a used bookstore trip on Independent bookstore week and spent 65.00 and some change. Bought a few audio without credits during a sale, and also a few pre-orders, and random sales. Total spent with service fees and books purchased for April was $217.29
I read a lot of mystery series. Finished the White House Chef mysteries and read a lot of the Psychic Eye series by Victoria Laurie. Total read count for April is 25, page count 7097. 4 of those were Kindle Unlimited Rentals, 2 from Scribd. Format breakdown: 7 Audiobooks, 11 E-books, and 10 Paperbacks. Finally I made progress on the goal with physical books this month. 19 Mysteries, so again it was mainly mysteries, but also 1 Sci-fi, 4 romance and 1 "Action/Adventure" general. 22 of these books were series and 3 were standalones, so it was series heavy as usual. 10 of these books were purchased in various ways and 15 were free or from subscription services.
Breakdown: Author Gender 22 Female and 3 Male, Protagonist Gender 22 Female and 1 Male with Ensemble being 2. 22 in the United States and 3 in Other countries, one in Germany and one in Canada. Diversity output was low. Paranormal creature most read for Paranormal was "Psychic" this month.
For book and author specific goals of the year, one of my categories was Victoria Laurie, so completed that section. I did not get other author-specific goals done since I stayed with 2 authors most of the month.
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