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NetGalley June 2016
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Books on Shelf : 6
Books:
Feedback ratio: 91%
FINISHED
ADDED
End of Month:
Books on shelf: 6
Feedback Ratio:90%
I'm in. (Of course)Feedback Ratio as of 6/1/16: 25%
Books finished:
I'm in too! I just added a sampler so it's time to reevaluate....June
Beginning of month - 83%
(St. Martin First Sampler Spring/Summer 2016) Added:
Reviews Posted:
-> 3★ review
-> abandoned
-> abandonedCurrent ratio - 95%
I'm in again! Hope I do better than last month! I really want to work up to that 80%. For June, I plan to read all my books that archive in June before their archive dates. Plus, I hope to read Lilac Girls for a challenge. June
Beginning of the month:
Books on shelf - 17
Books:
(6/24)
(6/28)
(6/30)
(7/14)Archived:
Netgalley ratio: 73%
End of the month:
Books read: 5
Reviews: 5
Buzz Books reviewed on NetGalley only
Buzz Books YA reviewed on NetGalley only
The Art of Not Breathing review
Food52 review
The City of Mirrors review
Shelf count: 14
Ratio: 79%
Review Weekend: June 17th & 18th
Books Added: 5
(11/30)
(10/17)
(8/30)Books removed from shelf (note to publisher): 3
I'm inbooks on my shelf June 1: 46
feedback ratio: 21%
Read and reviewed: 5
Netgalley books
6/8
6/9The Doctor's Baby Secret
6/5
will read
first 6/12
6/2
6/7
I think June is the month for making progress! I've already started one of these and hope to focus on them. June 2016
Books on Shelf: 13
Feedback Ratio: 0
Books to read:
This challenge sounds right up my alley! I joined NetGalley last month and I went a little crazy requesting books. Start of June:
10 books on shelf: (first is archived)
Feedback ratio: 17% (I've only read 2 books out of 12 requested)
Read and Reviewed: 5/10
REVIEW #1
REVIEW #2
REVIEW #3
REVIEW #4
REVIEW #5Added in June:
End of June:
Books on Shelf: 13
Feedback Ratio:35%
I over doubled my feedback ratio, but it's not as high as I would have liked. I got it up to 42% but I got approved for 4 books in the last couple days of June, which killed it. I read more than a NetGalley book per week, which was my goal!
I'm in again for June. NetGalley Challenge: June
Start of Month
Feedback Ratio: 68%
Books on Shelf: 25
Read & Reviewed
Read to Review
Planning to Read
Archived - 11
End of Month
Books on shelf:
Feedback Ratio:
59 on shelfRatio 69%
Completed
From Fake TO Forever
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
Claimed by the mate Vol 2
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Parkers Passion
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Chasing Chaos
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Chaos Bound
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Power Play
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book on shelf 61
Ratio 69%
Starting backwards again! I downloaded Buzz Books 2016: Fall/Winter today. I should be able to review it pretty quickly though. I also plan to finish The Art of Not Breathing soon too. That is the one that held me up last month, so I need to get through it asap.
Next up, I am starting The City of Mirrors and All the Missing Girls. Hopefully, I'll be starting them both within a couple of days and will make some decent progress this month.
I'm in again. :) Did well beginning of May, and badly end of May. Wobble should help! Ratio: 69% (start of challenge: 68% | lowest: 67%)
Books on Shelf: 38 (start of challenge: 31 | highest: 39)
Currently Reading:
To Be Read & Reviewed: (Listed oldest to newest)
(view spoiler)
Read Since Joining Challenge: (not reviewed)
May 2016 Reviews: (view spoiler)
April 2016 Reviews: (view spoiler)
Running to this challenge again
a: How many books on your NetGalley shelf: 3 books
b: What books are on your NG shelf:
(view spoiler)
c: What your Netgalley feedback ratio is: 63%
Reviewed this Month:
-https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... 3.5 stars
by Amanda Greenslade
Review>>https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... 1 Star
a: How many books on your NetGalley shelf: 3 books
b: What books are on your NG shelf:
(view spoiler)
c: What your Netgalley feedback ratio is: 63%
Reviewed this Month:
-https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... 3.5 stars
by Amanda GreensladeReview>>https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... 1 Star
I want to try this. I saw it when I joined but decided not to jump in for May. I'm ready to give it a shot for June!1. At the beginning of the month, post any/all of the following:
a: How many books on your NetGalley shelf: 17
b: What books are on your NG shelf
Perfectly Seduced
Surrender to You
Wanting It All
Hollywood Hot Mess
Just What I Needed
The Curse of Tenth Grave
Roped In
Don't Tempt Me
To Have and to Hold
The Sapphire Affair
The Sapphire Heist
Wild Embrace
c: What your Netgalley feedback ratio is: 60%
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.)
my link text
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
Books read:
review
review
review
Review
Review
June 1:Feedback ratio: 79%
Number of books on shelf: 22
Read: 6
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
NetGalley Challenge – JuneFeedback ratio - 59% down to 57%
On shelf 6/1/16 - Too many
Read: 4
Added: 9
On Shelf 6/30/16 - More and more!
Titles to read in June:
Off the Hook by Laura Drewry - 6/7/16 ♥♥♥♥
- Off the Hook ReviewBound by Bliss by Lavinia Kent - 6/10/16 ♥♥♥♥
- Bound by Bliss ReviewRavishing Ruby by Lavinia Kent - 6/23/16 ♥♥♥♥
- Ravishing Ruby ReviewHideaway Cove by Anna Sullivan - 6/30/16 ♥♥♥
- Hideaway Cove Review
For Pete's sake, I already added 1 to my list and it's only June 2! But it's impossible to resist when they send you an email saying you're already approved. Duh, of course I'm going to download it!
NetGalley Challenge: June 2016On Shelf: 10
Titles on Shelf:
Feedback Ratio: 83%
Read/Reviewed:
The Invisible Library Review
Connie N. wrote: "For Pete's sake, I already added 1 to my list and it's only June 2! But it's impossible to resist when they send you an email saying you're already approved. Duh, of course I'm going to download it!"Don't worry Connie. Just remember it's supposed to be fun. The books you chose for June look like the should be enjoyable reads.
Thank you to those who mentioned requesting and getting
. I requested it, was given access, and just finished it. It was great, right up my alley. Now I'll have to check out the other books in the series. Amra is an awesome heroine.
Connie N. wrote: "For Pete's sake, I already added 1 to my list and it's only June 2! But it's impossible to resist when they send you an email saying you're already approved. Duh, of course I'm going to download it!"Haha, I'm having that kind of a month too, Connie. It's June 3rd and I've downloaded 3 books already.
Fortunately, two of them were just the Buzz Books and easy to review. I also got The Other Einstein (which I read part of in Buzz Books...) and it does't archive until November 30th. I have requested 3 others too.
I did so well not requesting lasting month. At least I hope to review more this month too. :)
I also have read and reviewed a book from NetGalley, but also I got the awesome opportunity of the publisher sending me a physical paperback copy!
It's
by Genevieve Cogman and here is my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
It's
by Genevieve Cogman and here is my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
That sounds very interesting, Marcelina. Good review.
1. At the beginning of the month, post any/all of the following:a: How many books on your NetGalley shelf
I have 2 books on the shelf i only joined Netgalley this week
b: What books are on your NG shelf
The Light of Paris
Buzz Books 2016: Fall/Winter
c: What your Netgalley feedback ratio is
No feedback yet as only just joined
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
Welcome, Marie! Hope you love it as much as we all seem to. :)
Beginning of the montha: No. of books on the NetGalley shelf~ (unread- 11) (all- 16)
b: Books on the NG shelf~ (unread)
c: Netgalley feedback ratio~ 31% (going to remedy that now :) )
End of the month
a: Books read~
b: Link(s) to review(s)~
c: Updated shelf count~
d: Updated books to read~
e: Updated ratio~
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It's
..."Oh that reminds me that I need to get to book 2 :o
Oh I didn't know that the second book in that series in available, Karen. But now that I look it up it's apparently archived? Hmm I'll look into that later.
So, thanks to this challenge, I'm much more aware of what's on my NetGalley shelf. I realized that I still have a book on there from 2014! It is one that I am really not interested in reading now. I think I am going to work up the nerve to email the publisher through the feedback area. (I am such a chicken.) I wonder if they'll be shocked to see a book that archived just over a year ago come through. lolHas anyone else done this? How'd it work out for you? I think it was Amanda that suggested it a couple of months ago (and yes, I'm just working up the nerve now).
I know that Amanda did suggest to do this and that was actually a very helpful thing to alleviate my stress load even though I have barely nah review copies. I just sent a quick replaced up note to the publisher and never heard anything back from them at all. I wasn't nervous or anything like that, because this action didn't lower me in any way, in fact I did have. A higher percentage after. You can do it Kristie!
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It was released late last year and book 3 is this year. It is good when a series is published quickly like that. Gives me motivation to finish it!
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I agree. Go for it Kristie!
I absolutely agree. I really like when the author takes the long time to write most of the novels on a series and then publishes them closely together. That way you don't have to feel like you're waiting forever for the next book or having a massive book hangover. I'm actually planning to continue on with this serried I think, even of it's just to satisfy my curiosity.
I'm running into that series issue now with The City of Mirrors. I am reading it as a NetGalley review. I was so excited for this book when I read the first two in the series back in 2013, but it took so long for the last one to be released. I felt like I was waiting forever. I lost some interest in it after waiting so long and it is taking a bit for me to get reacclimatized to the story because I've forgotten so much. Unfortunately, the books are too long for me to do a reread before this one. I would have loved to have read it a couple of years ago.
I'm going to send in the note for a couple of old books that I'm not interested in any more. I know I have at least two that will just sit there. Might as well increase my percentage.update: I sent notes for 3 books. All had been on my shelf for over a year, so just sitting there. I felt terrible sending the note, but a bit relieved at the same time. Ratio went from 74% to 77%. I may make it to the elusive 80% this month, if I don't get too many more.
Will re-post mine when im back on a laptop. At least my % is better. Are we still using the review stickers?
I finally finished The Art of Not Breathing. This book took me forever to read. I just couldn't get engaged. The writing felt very detached to me. 2.5★The Art of Not Breathing review
Woot! My percentage is up to 79%! Almost there! I started The City of Mirrors today and I plan to start All the Missing Girls tomorrow. So, hopefully I'll at least get through those two (and before they archive!).
Kristie wrote: "Woot! My percentage is up to 79%! Almost there!
I started The City of Mirrors today and I plan to start All the Missing Girls tomorrow. So, hopefully I'll at least..."
Yay! Just as a quick question, do you have to give feedback before its archived or is it just strongly suggested (bring your % up?) I have read that the publisher still accepts and receives your feedback but I'm just wondering about that. (I know I'm still like a brand new member and very confused.)
I started The City of Mirrors today and I plan to start All the Missing Girls tomorrow. So, hopefully I'll at least..."
Yay! Just as a quick question, do you have to give feedback before its archived or is it just strongly suggested (bring your % up?) I have read that the publisher still accepts and receives your feedback but I'm just wondering about that. (I know I'm still like a brand new member and very confused.)
I need to do this My NetGalley percentage is major bad. In the beginning of June it was a 2%. :O Shame. I know.1. At the beginning of the month, post any/all of the following:
a: How many books on your NetGalley shelf
- 61 archived
- 5 pending
- 31 on my to read shelf
- 6 read & reviewed
- The Total is 97 (Not sure why the Math doesn't add up)
b: What books are on your NG shelf
- I need to read these by the end of the month (3 books):
- On the To Read Shelf (31 books):
- On the Archived List (61 books):
- Never downloaded, luckily I found them at the library (3 Books):
c: What your Netgalley feedback ratio is
- At the beginning of the month 2%. I know. I know. That's really bad.
As of June 11, 2016 - At 6%
- Review
- Review
- Review
- Review
- Review
Ah how did it go all the way down to 2%? -too much books too little time? I know how hard it is to have self-control while just browsing or surfing NG, which is a reason that I try to avoid it and go on only to give back feedback. :) This challenge has helped me and a lot of the others too so hopefully it helps you too!
Pretty much it was a combination of too many books and then not following through. The majority of them when into archive. All of it is my own fault. So, my mission is to get those books finished. There are only two books I didn't download, so I'll have to find them somewhere else. I also have some on my own kindle that I gave away. I will see if I can track those down or not.
Learn from my lesson, don't let this happen to you!
Don’t worry I honestly don’t think that I could live with the stress of that. Personally, numbers have always stressed me out so I’ve decided to not get anything in my shelf above 10. I’m currently at 4 and reading one of them and planning to start another one this evening. I truly feel comfortable knowing that my pile is quite manageable, and with summer and WOBBLE coming up, I’m sure that these will be quite useful!
Perhaps, with 80 books to read I'm sure I'm bound to find a few that will work for W.O.B.B.L.E.
For the month of June:Started with: 106 (2 unlisted Romantic Samplers)
Started Ratio: 29% (Better than last month's 25%)
TBR Shelf:
Absolutely need to read this month
Update notes as of 6.9
Finished Books & Review Links
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...Dropped/No longer interested:
Marcelina wrote: "Kristie wrote: "Woot! My percentage is up to 79%! Almost there! I started The City of Mirrors today and I plan to start All the Missing Girls tomorrow. So, hopeful..."
Your percentage still increases, even if the book is archived. You can send it in whenever you want, but before the archive date is preferred. I had one book that I reviewed after a year. It was a bit embarrassing to send it in at that point, but they accepted it and my percentage still went up.
One tip - On and after the archive date, you can no longer download the books, even if you were approved, so make sure you download right away.
Wow Myst that's a lot of books! :o I'm happy that you made progress with at least one of those and hopefully if everyone on here is on a roll we can encourage each other to push our limits and % up! Good luck with finishing that TBR (and that's not meant in a sarcastic way, but genuine)
Oh yeah, I don't know if this is too weirdly OCD for me to ask but since you have a hefty amount of covers maybe you could possibly put that in a spoiler?(haha I also put my books in spoilers, even if its like only 4 of them :P)
Oh yeah, I don't know if this is too weirdly OCD for me to ask but since you have a hefty amount of covers maybe you could possibly put that in a spoiler?(haha I also put my books in spoilers, even if its like only 4 of them :P)
Kristie wrote: "Your percentage still increases, even if the book is archived. You can send it in whenever you want, but before the archive date is preferred. I had one book that I reviewed after a year. It was a bit embarrassing to send it in at that point, but they accepted it and my percentage still went up."
Oh ok so it's just legistic or when the downloads are available. or some I thought it was like a tentative deadline from the publishers.Yeah, I'm pretty good with downloading it immediately, or at least I try to do so within a couple of days of getting the request accepted. Thank you!
Oh ok so it's just legistic or when the downloads are available. or some I thought it was like a tentative deadline from the publishers.Yeah, I'm pretty good with downloading it immediately, or at least I try to do so within a couple of days of getting the request accepted. Thank you!
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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!
Do you ever get so caught up in your reading that you don't want to stop to write your reviews?
Thinking about that, it was decided we need a "Review Weekend", once each month, set aside to write those reviews you've been not doing in favor of reading!
Review Weekends will vary randomly each month and is meant to be a time set aside to review. Take one, or both days and get caught up on reviews so you can spend the rest of the month reading!!
The next Review Weekend is set for June 17th & 18th
**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!