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February UpdateCongrats to those >16% and on track!
For those >30% perhaps time to think about increasing your goal? 🤔
Name % Progress to goal
Gabby 51%
Jessica 45%
Sammy 40%
Charlie 37%
Toni 37%
MelanieJoy 35%
Melindam 35%
Wendy 30%
Cindy 28%
Elizabeth 28%
Carmen 27%
KelB 27%
Jim 25%
Karen ⊰✿ 25%
Marla 25%
Sophie (mod) 25%
Trisha 25%
Keely 24%
Cat 23%
The other Sandy 23%
Cordelia 22%
Melanie 20%
Angie ☯ 19%
Cheryl 17%
Patty 17%
Yasmine 17%
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Elena 16%
Vicki Willis 15%
Jenner 15%
Jillypenny 15%
Linda C 15%
Karen ♐ 14%
Jenny 14%
Janis 13%
Rocsana 12%
Annalisa 10%
Chrissie 10%
Marty 10%
Sophie 10%
Jamie 6%
Roe 6%
✿Danielle✿ 5%
Eldarwen 4%
Christina 4%
Denise 3%
Sonja 3%
Jenn 3%
Gwen|| Bookish Blondie 1%
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Feed Your Readers, the NetGalley Challenge
Duration: Monthly
How to Participate:
The NetGalley Challenge is designed to not only get you to read your NetGalley books, but to also advertise your reviews for others to see because after all, that's what NetGalley is all about.
Though you may pop in/out at any time, the NetGalley Challenge will run on a monthly basis so you are able to see progress being made.
1. At the beginning of the month, post any/all of the following:
a: How many books on your NetGalley shelf
b: What books are on your NG shelf
c: What your Netgalley feedback ratio is
2. During the month, read the NetGalley books that you can AND update your post with your reviews. (You can do this after each book or wait until the end of the month.)
3. At the end of the month, update your post and with:
a: What books you read
b: Link(s) to your review(s)**
c: Your updated shelf count
d: Your updated books to read
e: Your updated ratio
Then start a new post for the next month!
**When linking your reviews, please link only to the book(s) here at GoodReads. At this time, linking to a personal blog is not allowed. Thank you!
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How to Participate:The Audiobook Challenge is designed to not only help you to read your audiobooks, but to also find out about other great audiobooks from other challenge participants!
Though you may pop in/out at any time, the Audiobook Challenge will run on a monthly basis so you are able to see progress being made.
There are no minimum page requirements, and you can read abridged or unabridged audiobooks!
1. At the beginning of the month, post :
a: How many audiobooks in total you want to read for the month
b: How many audiobooks in the monthly category you want to read
c: Post the audiobooks (as you decide on them) by linking them to Goodreads in your post
2. During the month, read the audiobooks that you can AND update your post with your reviews. (You can do this after each book or wait until the end of the month.)
3. At the end of the month, update your post and with:
a: What books you read
b: Link(s) to your review(s) - note: can only be linked to Goodreads and not an external site
c: How many audiobooks you have read for this challenge this year
Then start a new post for the next month!
FORMAT YOU CAN COPY AND PASTE:
Start of Month
Total audiobooks to read:
Audiobooks in monthly category to read:
Books in category:
FINISHED
End of Month
Total audiobooks read this year:
Audiobooks in monthly category read:
MY MONTHLY RECOMMENDATION (and why):
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EXAMPLE : (under spoiler)(view spoiler)
~ Monthly Audiobook Challenge ~
Each month we will have a different theme of audiobook for you to listen to.
Read one, two, three, or thirty. Up to you! Just post at the start of the month which books you will read in the category, update through the month and post a link to your Goodreads review (no links to external sites).
Let's find some great audiobooks together!
Duration: Monthly
March 2025 Theme:
◈ What job is that?
Audiobooks with an MC in a profession you don't often encounter.
( each and every reader can choose whatever that means for them. Some don't read a lot of books with gardeners as MC, some don't read a lot of books with Navy officers as an MC, etc. etc.)
Feb 11, 2025 07:52AM
Days have been assigned!
FYI - We will clean up the 2025 tab on the spreadsheet over the next week or so. At the moment we have kept 2024 players on there but without a link, so if they don't join over the next week or so we will remove them
Tina Reads wrote: "
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
Jason Dessen is walking home through the chilly Chicago streets one night, looking forward to a quiet e..."
Tina, we've already had this as a BOM, and we don't repeat - please nominate another :)
Jan 30, 2025 02:04PM
Days assigned!I've put a break day in, but feel free to run riot and remove it :)
Enjoy!
Jan 27, 2025 08:57AM
Sammy wrote: "Re-read for me, but I'll come play 😁"Come play with DQs, or just for the craic of the chat?
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Theme Book Of the Month
The theme for April 2025 is FORESTS
Time to take some time out for some forest-bathing to refresh our soul, with some forest inspired titles.
and possibly it's finally time to have that book as a Backroom BOM? ;-P
Nominations will be open until 25 February, UK evening
***Please pay special attention to the Rules and Guidelines listed below.***
Rules and Guidelines
1. Books nominated after the deadline will not be included in the polls. Sorry.
2. Each person is limited to nominating ONE book per category.
3. Please use the add book/author tool located at the top of the comment box when nominating a book. (Please make your nomination clear because side conversations do happen and we don't want to accidentally miss a nomination)
4. Please add the Goodreads synopsis for the book you nominate; you should also include an explanation of how it fits the theme for the month.
5. Books that were read as a past BOM will not be considered for the poll. (link to the sheet under the spoiler (view spoiler))
6. Books that are #2 or higher in a series will only be considered if all earlier books in the series have been a past BOM.
7. Books must be published at the time of nomination.
8. If your book is successful in being picked as the BOM you are expected to actively participate in the discussion. This will include writing a set of DQs as well as engaging in conversations.
The BOM nominations are for our members to nominate a book they are truly interested in and have no affiliation with. Promotional activity is NOT permitted and nominations that the Moderators perceive to be promotional will be deleted without warning
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Please nominate an Adult Fiction or a Non Fiction book that you would like to read in the month of April 2025.Nominations will be open until 25 February, UK evening
***Please pay special attention to the Rules and Guidelines listed below.***
Rules and Guidelines
1. Books nominated after the deadline will not be included in the polls. Sorry.
2. Each person is limited to nominating ONE book per category.
3. Please use the add book/author tool located at the top of the comment box when nominating a book. (Please make your nomination clear because side conversations do happen and we don't want to accidentally miss a nomination)
4. Please add the Goodreads synopsis for the book you nominate; optionally you can include a reason why we should read your nomination.
5. Books that were read as a past BOM will not be considered for the poll. (link to the sheet under the spoiler (view spoiler))
6. Books that are #2 or higher in a series will only be considered if all earlier books in the series have been a past BOM.
7. Books must be published at the time of nomination.
8. If your book is successful in being picked as the BOM you are expected to actively participate in the discussion. This will include writing a set of DQs as well as engaging in conversations.
Also, please be aware of your nomination's genre and list them in the appropriate BOM category.
Genres that DO NOT go here:
Young Adult
Middle Grade / Children's
Erotica
The BOM nominations are for our members to nominate a book they are truly interested in and have no affiliation with. Promotional activity is NOT permitted and nominations that the Moderators perceive to be promotional will be deleted without warning
Jan 27, 2025 07:22AM
Participation VerifiedAngie https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Judith https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Shannon https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Catherine https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Christina https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Jan 27, 2025 07:21AM
DQ VolunteersNominator (Day 1, unless a specific alternative requested): Chelsea
Judith
Catherine
Cat
Shannon
Jan 27, 2025 07:21AM
Chapter Breakdown
Date Chapters %age MPDQs
16 Feb 1 - 14 20% Chelsea
17 Feb 15 - 29 41% Judith
18 Feb 30 - 46 62% Catherine
19 Feb 47 - 62 81% Shannon
20 Feb 63 - 78 100% Cat
Guidance for DQ setters
Aim for a reasonable number of questions: 4 - 5 is typical. Please don't post too many - any more than 7 gets unwieldy!
Use consecutive numbering of the DQs for your days. So, for example, if Day One is posted as questions 1-4, Day Two should start at number 5 etc.
Don't worry too much about your questions: you aren't being tested on how clever your questions are!
Hints and tips:
- Is there a quote that jumped out at you? Use that in a question.
- What about the characters - do they generate strong feelings? No feelings? - either way, we can explore that!
- What about that plot twist?!
- Explore the writing style: is there an unusual structure being used? what's the tone of voice like? or the point of view?
Want more information about how NBRC runs their Book of the Month discussions? Check out the information here
