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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)[

Start of Month

Total audiobooks to read: 6
Audiobooks in monthly category to read: 2

Books in category:


FINISHED


End of Month
Total audiobooks read this year: 9
Audiobooks in monthly category read: 1

MY MONTHLY RECOMMENDATION (and why):

Great story about women, culture and love set in Nigeria. I loved the characters and the setting, and the audio narrator was great with the different voices and bringing the story to life (hide 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


July 2024 Theme:

◈Chunkster time!
Books more than 15 hours in length

Volunteers have been randomised and posted above

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

2nd Million Page Relay has begun.

Participation Verified

Beth M https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Sammy https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Angie https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Judy https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Lisa (AG) https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Christina https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Keli https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Preeti https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Shannon https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Randomised List

There were 15 items in your list. Here they are in random order:

District 1 - Angie (weekend day pref) (backup Jenny, Sammy)
District 12 - Beth (extra entry)
District 11 - Fiona (backup Christina)
District 1 - Angie (extra entry)
District 8 - Lexi (extra entry)
District 5 - Annalisa
The Capitol - Preeti (backup Yasmine)
District 4 - Tammie (extra entry)
District 9 - Melissa
District 9 - Melissa (extra entry)
District 12 - Beth
District 8 - Logan (backup Lexi)
District 7 - Teddie (backup Melindam, Cat)
District 4 - Stacey (backup Tammie)
District 2 - Alisha (backup Tara)

Timestamp: 2024-07-14 11:33:03 UTC

Volunteers

District 6 - Lisa (Aussie Girl) - NOMINATOR (back up E)
District 12 - Beth
District 12 - Beth (extra entry)
District 7 - Teddie (backup Melindam, Cat)
District 1 - Angie (weekend day pref) (backup Jenny, Sammy)
District 11 - Fiona (backup Christina)
District 2 - Alisha (backup Tara)
The Capitol - Preeti (backup Yasmine)
District 9 - Melissa
District 4 - Stacey (backup Tammie)
District 8 - Logan (backup Lexi)
District 5 - Annalisa
District 1 - Angie (extra entry)
District 9 - Melissa (extra entry)
District 8 - Lexi (extra entry)
District 4 - Tammie (extra entry)

Chapter Breakdown

Date		Chapters 		MPDQs
16 Jul 		Prologue - Chapter 7	Lisa (Aussie Girl) 
17 Jul 		Chapters 8 - 16 	Beth
18 Jul 		Chapters 17 - 25 	Fiona
19 Jul 		Chapters 26 - 34 	Lexi
20 Jul			Break Day
21 Jul 		Chapters 35 - 41 	Angie
22 Jul 		Chapters 42 - 49 	Annalisa
23 Jul 		Chapters 50 - 58 	Preeti
24 Jul 		Chapters 59 - End 	Tammie

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

A boy has lived his whole life trapped within a vast library, older than empires and larger than cities.

A girl has spent hers in a tiny settlement out on the Dust where nightmares stalk and no one goes.

The world has never even noticed them. That's about to change.

Their stories spiral around each other, across worlds and time. This is a tale of truth and lies and hearts, and the blurring of one into another. A journey on which knowledge erodes certainty, and on which, though the pen may be mightier than the sword, blood will be spilled and cities burned.

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nominator: Lisa (Aussie Girl)


Official page count: 576

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Participation Verified

Angie
Beth
Lisa (Aussie Girl)
Audrey
Karen (mod)
Judith
Tammie
Judy
Keli
Melindam
Preeti
Christina
MelanieJoy
Melissa

D7 Melindam (back up Catherine) auto entry

There were 10 items in your list. Here they are in random order:

D12 Beth extra entry
D8 Judith (last day please)
D9 Trisha (back up Melissa)
D6 Ashley (back up Lisa, Karen)
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D4 Tammie (back up Stacey)
D12 Beth (back up Amanda)
D1 CB (back up Jenny, Angie)
The Capitol Carrie
D4 Tammie (extra entry)
D11 Christina (back up Fiona)

Chapter Breakdown

Date		Chapters 			MPDQs
2 July 	Chapter 1 -12 (20%)		D7 Melindam	
3 July 	Chapter 13 - 23 (41%)		D12 Beth 
4 July	Chapter 24 - 33 (60%)		D9 Trisha
**Break / Catch up Day**
6 July	Chapter 34 -44(80%)		D6 Ashley
7 July	Chapter 45 - end		D8 Judith 

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

In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump of a servant cowering in the kitchen is actually hiding a talent for little miracles, she demands Luzia use those gifts to better the family's social position.

What begins as simple amusement for the bored nobility takes a perilous turn when Luzia garners the notice of Antonio Pérez, the disgraced secretary to Spain's king. Still reeling from the defeat of his armada, the king is desperate for any advantage in the war against England's heretic queen—and Pérez will stop at nothing to regain the king's favor.

Determined to seize this one chance to better her fortunes, Luzia plunges into a world of seers and alchemists, holy men and hucksters, where the line between magic, science, and fraud is never certain. But as her notoriety grows, so does the danger that her Jewish blood will doom her to the Inquisition's wrath. She will have to use every bit of her wit and will to survive—even if that means enlisting the help of Guillén Santangel, an embittered immortal familiar whose own secrets could prove deadly for them both.

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nominator: Melindam

Official page count: 387

Posts beyond this point do not count for points for Book Games.

Please continue to chat to your heart's desire about The Hunger Games though!

Buddy Read thread for Catching Fire is up and live

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

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