NetGalley June 2016

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

Kristie wrote: "

I did it!!

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woohoo!

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

There are 4 standard badges and then every so often there will be others (like I have a "challenge participant one" for when they did a challenge)

1. Professional Reader - Every member starts with this badge, to acknowledge your contributions in helping books succeed!

2. 80% - Members who provide feedback for 80% (or more) of their approved titles will receive this badge. In order to qualify for this badge, members must have been approved for 20 titles (or more).

3. Top Reviewer - Members will receive this badge when 3 or more of their reviews have been added to any NetGalley title details page by a publisher. (To see which reviews have been added just go to your Shelf, then under Feedback Sent you will see a little icon next to the titles where your review now appears on its Title Details page.)

4. Frequently Auto-Approved - Members will earn this badge when they are auto-approved by 4 or more publishers. (To see which publishers have auto-approved you, look at the bottom of your Dashboard for the list.)

[Kristie]

Thanks, Karen! I think it will be a long time before I get the auto approval badge. I don't think I have any auto approval publishers yet. Maybe I should favorite some.

[Madeline]

One more down!


Review

Ratio up to 69 percent.

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

Kristie wrote: "Thanks, Karen! I think it will be a long time before I get the auto approval badge. I don't nothing I have any auto approval publishers yet. Maybe I should favorite some."

I got approved for one very early on, but none since! haha. I do have lots of publishers as "favourites" based purely on location because otherwise most of the books I look at in a general search are for US readers only.
The publisher that auto approved me is a small Canadian one, so maybe small publishers are more likely to do auto approvals? It is Dundurn.
Anyone else have auto approvals and who are the publishers? Maybe I should try and get that badge :o

[[deleted user]]

Yeah I was also wondering about how auto-approval works and how to get one. Thanks for explaining Karen.

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

Oh, I just checked and I finally got my reviewer badge! hooray!

[Kristie]

Yay, Karen! Way to go! :D

[Connie N.]

Great job, Karen!

[Connie N.]

Ravishing Ruby by Lavinia Kent - 6/23/16 ♥♥♥♥
- Ravishing Ruby Review

I'm happy to have finished another review, but I cannot tell a lie: I downloaded another 9 books this month! 9! It's those darn emails and "read-now" books that tempt me......There. I feel better now that I've confessed. *sigh*

[Lara]

This has been a slow reviewing month for me. I have added more than I've reviewed and need to step it up! So far, I've only read and reviewed 5 books, though I've started a 6th and hope to get to a couple cookbooks in the next week.

[[deleted user]]

Yeah Lara, I've had that exact same experience I'm ashamed to say. A lot of books that I've read this month were review copies, although they weren't fulfilled through NetGalley so I didn't really gain any percentages. Hopefully next month will prove more fruitful for me!

[Kazen]

It's been a slow reading month for me - a NetGalley book put me in a reading slump, boo!

- abandonded review

[Kristie]

That stinks, Kazen! Boo!! Hope your next book is better and pulls you right out of the slump.

[Kazen]

Thank you Kristie! My next book comes highly recommended by (seemingly) my entire Wobble team so I feel like I'm in good hands. :)

[[deleted user]]

Kazen wrote: "Thank you Kristie! My next book comes highly recommended by (seemingly) my entire Wobble team so I feel like I'm in good hands. :)"

Which book is it? (just curious for recommendations ;)

[Kazen]

Marcelina wrote: "Which book is it? (just curious for recommendations ;) "

Hehe. It's Darkfever, the beginning of a long urban fantasy series by Karen Marie Moning. I don't know if I would put it with my all-time favorites just yet but it's doing a great job of breaking my slump. :)

[Renee]

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Kristie wrote: "Thanks, Karen! I think it will be a long time before I get the auto approval badge. I don't nothing I have any auto approval publishers yet. Maybe I should favorite some."

I got ap..."
I'm auto approved for Chock Lit & Blue Moon Publishers. Just requested on from Dundurn ...

[Lara]

I just finished and didn't care for it at all. While the sex scenes were well written, the world building was weak (she tried, but it just didn't really make sense), there were too many characters, and I didn't start to feel like there was any meaningful action until the second half of the book. Until then it was all description and explanation, but I didn't feel like I was really in the characters' heads.

[Madeline]

Inched up to 70 percent with this review! The highest my percentage has ever been!


Review

[Kristie]

Congrats on reaching a all time high, Madeline! Great review too. :)

[Connie N.]

Kazen wrote: "It's been a slow reading month for me - a NetGalley book put me in a reading slump, boo! - abandonded review"

This is a well-done review despite your disappointment. Good job, Kazen.

[Connie N.]

Madeline {Plan to Happy} wrote: "

Inched up to 70 percent with this review! The highest my percentage has ever been!"

This challenge is spurring many of us on to improving our percentages. Good for you! And, of course, I had to add this book to Mt. TBR!

[Connie N.]

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Oh, I just checked and I finally got my reviewer badge! hooray!"

Congrats, Karen. Yeah, I had no idea I had earned that badge too, with 4 featured reviews. Who knew?

[Kristie]

I was just approved for another book. This brings my ratio down to 79%, but I read the prequel and enjoyed it, so I'm looking forward to this one. Also, I'm almost done with All the Missing Girls, so hopefully I can get my ratio back over 80% before the end of the month.

[Lara]

I was up to 80% a few days ago, and have since been approved for 2 books and also picked up a Read Now book. Silly me. Fortunately I have a couple of cookbook reviews to do in the next week and am hoping to finish another book I'm 60% through.

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

I didn't have the best month. I just managed to finish another one in the dying hours of June so at least I didn't increase my shelf.
I intend to read at least 3 in July

Start of Month:

Books on Shelf : 6
Books:

Feedback ratio: 91%


FINISHED


ADDED




End of Month:
Books on shelf: 6
Feedback Ratio:90%

[Elizabeth]

June:
a: How many books on your NetGalley shelf:11

b: What books are on your NG shelf:
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2:Satan's Lambs
3:Shadows of the Stone Benders
4:The Last Time She Saw Him
5:Nessie: Exploring the Supernatural Origins of the Loch Ness Monster
6:The Body Reader
7:Something Wicked: A Ghost Hunter Explores Negative Spirits
8:As Red as Blood
9:As White As Snow
10:My Girl
11:The Lost Ones
12:The Perfect Horse: The Daring American Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped by the Nazis

c: What your Netgalley feedback ratio is:80%


books read:
:In the Barren Ground6/30/16
Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Kristie]

Nice badge, Elizabeth!

I'm hoping to finish All the Missing Girls today and start fresh next month. I didn't read all of the books I planned (I missed one), but I still had a good month. If I finish my book tonight, I'll be back to my 80% goal.

[Elizabeth]

Kristie wrote: "Nice badge, Elizabeth!

I'm hoping to finish All the Missing Girls today and start fresh next month. I didn't read all of the books I planned (I missed one), but I still had a good..."

I 've read and loved All the Missing Girls, I don't hardly keep them after I read them but that one I did. hope you love it like I do.

[Kristie]

Thanks! I'm at 82% now and looking forward to finishing.

[Elizabeth]

i'm right now 67% in so since its 48 chapters and I've already read 31 of them I only got like 17 left will be finish it today

[Elizabeth]

update my post 129 : finished the book I was reading:

[Connie N.]

One more review, in the nick of time for June. Not a very exciting way to end the month, although I'm happy to get it off my to-do list.

Hideaway Cove by Anna Sullivan - 6/30/16 ♥♥♥

- Hideaway Cove Review

[Connie N.]

I left a lot on the table for this month and added more than I reviewed, but the good news is that I finished up some old ones and got them off my to-review list.

NetGalley Challenge – June
Feedback ratio - 59% down to 57%

On shelf 6/1/16 - Too many
Read: 4
Added: 9
On Shelf 6/30/16 - More and more!

[Kristie]

I had no reading time tonight, so All the Missing Girls will be a part of my July challenge.

Beginning of the month:
Books on shelf - 17
Netgalley ratio: 73%

End of the month:
Books read: 5
Shelf count: 14
Ratio: 79% (oh so close!)
Books Added: 5

[Lara]

I read a lot of books this month, just not NG ones.

June 1:
Books on shelf: 22
Feedback ratio: 79%

June 30:
Books read: 6
Books on shelf: 27
Feedback ratio: 77%

[[deleted user]]

End Post:
June 1:
Books on shelf: 3 books
Ratio:63%

June 30:
Read and reviewed: 3 books
Books on shelf: 5
Ratio: 57%

[Sassafrass]

Month End Post:

Books read:
review
review
review
Review
Review

End of month shelf count: 11

End of month review ratio: 63%

[Elizabeth]

Greta wrote: "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:
by Marcia Clark and loved it can't wait to read the next book in the series.hope you like it or love it just as much as I do give it 5 stars

[Connie N.]

Great job to everyone for June!

[Greta]

Oh glad you liked it, Elizabeth! I didn't get to it yet :-) excited to read it though!