January Wrap up

So let's take a look at how my reading went the first month of 2020

 Total books read

 Next we will see a few details about the books and authors:

 Pages read this month.

 Book format

 Origin of the book

 Page length

 Age Range:

 Book Genre:

 Publication date

 Author Gender

 Countries Authors are from:
I want to hold myself accountable for the number of books bought.

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