Melanie’s Comments (group member since Sep 01, 2014)

Melanie’s comments from the Nothing But Reading Challenges group.

I'm hoping to get through some more of my older books this month plus all the May ones. Here's hoping I have as successful of a month as last month.

Start of month:
Books on shelf: 22
Feedback Ratio: 90%

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End of Month:
Books on shelf: 28
Feedback Ratio: 88%

There are two options.

1. You can write in your review section that you're not reviewing it and why. This way it will count towards your ratio.

2. Use the "I will not be giving feedback on this title" option on the right side of the page when you're giving feedback. This option will not increase your ratio and the titles will always count against your ratio as if you didn't review them.

I'm hoping to get through some of my older books this month.

Start of month:
Books on shelf: 30
Feedback Ratio: 86%

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End of Month:
Books on shelf: 22
Feedback Ratio: 90%

I only got to one Netgalley book in February, so I'm hoping March will be a lot better. I really need to get through my backlog.

Start of month:
Books on shelf: 31
Feedback Ratio: 85%

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End of Month:
Books on shelf: 30
Feedback Ratio:86%

Just got to the oldest book left on my shelf and one of only two books I had left from 2017. I loved this book and can't believe it took me so long to get around to it.

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Welcome to the craziness Sarah!

Sarah wrote: "I just noticed that there are archive dates,so I’m going to try to read them in that order and review as I go."

Just a note, if you use the "Send to Kindle" option for the books then you can send them to your Kindle/Kindle App now and you'll be able to read them after the archive date in case you don't get to them in time. That way you're not left with books not downloaded that you won't be able to provide feedback on.

I didn't read a single book in January (not even non-Netgalley books), so here's to hoping February is better. I am now massively behind on my ARCs so I really need to play catch up this month.

Start of month:
Books on shelf: 27
Feedback Ratio: 87%

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Finished:
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End of Month:
Books on shelf: 31
Feedback Ratio: 85%

Kristie wrote: "Actually, this is the second time this happened to me this month. NetGalley says the book will be published July 30th, but Goodreads says June 4th. Just went to Amazon and they say July 30th too. GR must be wrong..."

I hate when this happens, but it always makes me glad I'm a GR librarian and can fix it.

Originally Home for Erring and Outcast Girls was scheduled for a June 4th release which was changed after the book was added on GR. I fixed the date on the book, so you'll see the July 30th date now.

I'm in again. December was abysmal for me in terms of reading, so I'm hoping January will be better.

Start of month:
Books on shelf: 27
Feedback Ratio: 87%

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End of Month:
Books on shelf: 27
Feedback Ratio: 87%

This was such a fun challenge and I had a blast! I definitely plan to join in on future team challenges because for my first one I enjoyed this immensely!

Plus this challenge was amazing for my reading, I read 42 books in the last 6 weeks (3 were too short for the challenge but were short stories that went with series I was reading). That's the most I've read in such a short period of time in a while.

Sorry, cutting it a little close with my last book!

Completion Post

Book: Four Weddings and a Sixpence: An Anthology
Author: Julia Quinn, Elizabeth Boyle, Laura Lee Guhrke, and Stefanie Sloane
Date: 12/8/18
Pages: 407
Letters: E (author first name - Elizabeth Boyle), L (author first name - Laura Lee Guhrke), S (author first name - Stefanie Sloane)
Mini-Challenge: #7 Play Dreidel by reading a book with "four" in the title - Four in title

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Book: Cowboy, It's Cold Outside
Author: Lori Wilde
Date: 12/8/18
Pages: 387
Letters: M (character last name - Paige MacGregor), T (series name - Twilight, Texas), L (author first name - Lori Wilde), E (character first name - Emma Cheek)
Mini-Challenge: #34 Read a book with an Christmas ornament on the cover - Ornaments on wreath

So I saw in a few other threads where people mentioned the mods ruled for task 9 that the BBQ needs to be on the cover. Does this mean Kaley's book doesn't work? Or was what I saw wrong?

Alright I'm on track to finish my last two books tomorrow before the deadline.

Cowboy, It's Cold Outside (covers mini challenge task #34 - ornament on cover) - This works for M, S, T, & L from what I can tell without having read it yet.

Four Weddings and a Sixpence: An Anthology (covers mini challenge task #7 - four in the title) - Works for at least E, L, & S based on authors alone, I may find more letters with characters.

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Book: Patience for Christmas
Author: Grace Burrowes
Date: 12/7/18
Pages: 160
Letters: M (character last name - Dougal MacHugh), E (character first name - Elizabeth Windham)
Bonus: Word on cover - Mistletoe above the couple's head

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Book: Dashing Through the Snow
Author: Debbie Macomber
Date: 12/7/18
Pages: 256
Letters: M (author last name - Debbie Macomber), S (character last name - Dashiell Sutherland)
Mini-Challenge: #17 Read a book with a dog on the cover - Dog on cover

Ok I'll pick that up since I'm not covering task 6 anymore.

Most of my reading will be done tomorrow and Saturday when I have a lot more time. I'll have no trouble reading my word on cover book and my remaining 3 mini tasks. I don't know that I'll get to anything after that.

Ok for task 34 (read a book with a christmas ornament on the cover), would you say those are ornaments on the wreath?

Annie wrote: "I am currently reading a book that would fit for mini task 6, so I can cover that. Hopefully, I would finish it tomorrow. "

Ok, I'll take that book off my tbr and see if I can find something else for a different task.

If anything needs to be switched around, I haven't started the other 3 books I have down for mini tasks 6, 7, or 17 yet. I'll be reading them tonight and tomorrow, so if need be I could switch them for other books if something else fits those tasks.