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Above by Roland Smith
Bobo the Sailor Man! by Eileen Rosenthal
Camp Spirit by Axelle Lenoir
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Volume 1: The Crucible by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Robert Hack
The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin
Clock Dance by Anne Tyler
Daring Darleen, Queen of the Screen by Anne Nesbet
Dead to the Last Drop by Cleo Coyle
Descender, Volume 1: Tin Stars by Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen
Descender, Volume 2: Machine Moon by Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen
The Doldrums and the Helmsley Curse by Nicholas Gannon
The Four-Story Mistake by Elizabeth Enright
A Game of Fox and Squirrels by Jenn Reese
A Gift for a Ghost by Borja González
Gotham High by Melissa de la Cruz
Hansel and Gretel by Neil Gaiman and Lorenzo Mattotti
Lift by Minh Lê and Dan Santat
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
My Girlfriend is a T-Rex, Volume 1 by Sanzo
No Cats Allowed by Miranda James
The Only Black Girls in Town by Brandy Colbert
Paperboy by Vince Vawter
Rick by Alex Gino
The Silence of Bones by June Hur
Sometime After Midnight by L. Philips
The Storm Runner by J.C. Cervantes
The Terrible Two's Last Laugh by Mac Barnett, Jory John, and Kevin Cornell
Waiting for Tom Hanks by Kerry Winfrey
The Walking Bread by Winnie Archer
We Didn't Ask for This by Adi Alsaid
White Colander Crime by Victoria Hamilton

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April 2020 Sources
April 2020 Summary

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April 2020 Sources: 05/02/20

Previous month's book sources

April was a full month of shelter in place for COVID-19 precautions, and May will be too. Time at home was divided up between caring for the puppy, painting, playing video games, chores and finally reading.

ROOB Score for the last three years

In April, like March, I read 12 TBR books. I also read two books published in April. Four books were for research. None were from the library. My ROOB score was the second best April, down significantly from the previous month (-3.42 vs March's -2.36).

ROOB score mapped year after year to compare trends

April 2020, the ROOB trendline continues downwards. April is much lower (meaning better) than March and February. With library books out of the picture for COVID-19, I predict a continued low ROOB score for May.

ROOB monthly averages

My average for March decreased nicely from -2.25 to -2.36.

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