Late July Wrap Up

 I ended up reading 23 books making it 154 books for this 2020 Challenge.

I have 3 unfinished books and a single DNF.

I have accomplished 68% of the challenge.


Let's get into some stats 







I tried to vary my readings but as usual, I ended up with the idea that I will need to do better.


There was also a bit of variation of the authors, but again this month was very small but we will try to do better.



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