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NetGalley February 2017
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Start of Month:
Books on Shelf : 9
Books:
Feedback ratio: 88%
FINISHED
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End of Month:
Books on shelf: 8
Feedback Ratio:89%
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I'm in!Beginning of month:
Books on shelf: 8
Netgalley ratio: 91%
End of month:
read: 1
reviews:
The Forgotten Girls review
added: 2
books on shelf: 9
ratio: 90%
NetGalley Challenge – FebruaryBooks on shelf: 12
Books:
Feedback Ratio: 64%
Books Added During the Month:
Read + Review:
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Ratio 69% Shelf 31 unread
To read:
Beginning of Month
Feedback Ratio 73%
Books on Shelf: 34
Planning to Read
Read & still to Review
Reviews Posted
Books Added:
Current
Feedback Ratio 73%
Books on Shelf 34
I just read January's posts and I want to join in the fun!2 books on my shelf
My feedback ratio is 96% likely because I don't get approved for many of my requests.
Added:
Review: The Inconceivable Life of Quinn https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
1. At the beginning of the month, post any/all of the following:a: How many books on your NetGalley shelf: 10
b: What books are on your NG shelf
Palace of Spies (2013)
The Dominant (2013)
Truth (2013)
Lip Service (2012)
Grave Mercy (2012)
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The Girl Who Knew Too Much (archive 6/9/17)
Etched in Bone (archive 4/7/17)
Silence Fallen (archive 4/7/17)
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America (archive 4/4/17)
Books Added During the Month:
c: What your Netgalley feedback ratio is: 92%
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.)
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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
Welcome, Sarah! Good to have you here. We'll help you change that and end up with heaps of books on those shelves of yours :D
February
Start: 3 books on shelf, 92% feedback ratio
Added in February:
Finished in February:
→ 3★ review
(no review)
→ 5★ review!
→ abandoned, not for meCurrent ratio: 93%
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I'm in again!Start of month:
Books on shelf: 15
Feedback Ratio: 40%
Books:
Finished:
Added:
End of Month:
Books on shelf: 19
Feedback Ratio: 34%
February starting Books on Shelf: 38February starting ratio: 79%
Books I've had too long: 11
(Other) Books that have been published: 11
Books being published in February: 2
The rest: 14
New additions: 10
Reviews posted: 13
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Beginning of monthBooks on my NetGalley To-Read shelf: 64
Feedback ratio: 82%
Read:
City of Miracles (my review)
Dead Souls (my review)
The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe (my review)
Final Girls (my review)
Murder Once Seen (my review)
The Weird Wild West (my review)
DNF:
The Book of the Damned (my review)
Extracted (my review)
The Mesmerist (my review)
End of month
Books on my NetGalley To-Read shelf: 59
Feedback ratio: 83%
Challenge Complete!
I reviewed six books last month. . . gonna see if I can beat that this month :DHow many books on your NetGalley shelf: 8
What your Netgalley feedback ratio is: 62%
What books are on your NG shelf: (ordered by archived date)
(May/4/16) 
(May/5/16)
(June/30/16)
(July/6/16)
(Oct/25/16)
(pub. date: Jan. 17) 
New
(pub. date: Feb. 7)
(pub. date: Aug. 8) (pub. date: Feb. 24)Read but not reviewed [feedback sent]
Read & Reviewed
(pub. date: Feb. 7) ReviewEnd of the month(view spoiler)
Nicole wrote: "Welcome, Sarah! Good to have you here. We'll help you change that and end up with heaps of books on those shelves of yours :D"Your vibes must have already helped. I just got approved for another! Just what I need, more on by TBR. :D
Do you ever find yourself so behind on reviews, like you got over five to write, and you start forgetting what they're about. Then you get so stressed because you don't feel like you can just sit and read, instead you feel compelled to review but you never seem to do?
Yeah, that's me right now. Any suggestions, how do you peeps deal with it?
Yeah, that's me right now. Any suggestions, how do you peeps deal with it?
It may not help much with this batch (sorry!) but I like to highlight on my ereader as I go through the book. Good parts, of course, but also bad parts, plot points, characterizations that are telling or good or annoying - all the stuff that makes me perk up. That way I can go through my notes later and jog my memory.Hope that helps... I'm curious to see how other people tackle this problem, too!
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I review as soon as I've finished the book as well, but also use Kazen's trick of highlighting or quoting the book here just to jog my memory over particulars.
Ugggh all of you guys are so organized about this. That was very helpful, I'll try to remember highlighting. I'd try to write a review immediately after I'm done reading, but I don't do well with pen and paper, and I don't always have a desktop & keyboard which is the best way for me.
Also another random question: how do y'all actual enforce a requesting ban? I've tried dozens of times to stop requesting more, but my self-control is weak and so on I sometimes get bored and start clicking. Any methods that have actually worked?
Also another random question: how do y'all actual enforce a requesting ban? I've tried dozens of times to stop requesting more, but my self-control is weak and so on I sometimes get bored and start clicking. Any methods that have actually worked?
OMGOMG My new book has come up on Netgalley!!
And also two of my friends, which I have just requested.
I am so bad at Netgalley. It's kind of you to say we're organised, Mars, but we really have to be with such poor impulse control.
Nicole wrote: "OMGOMG My new book has come up on Netgalley!! "How cool is that!?!
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That's so cool Nicole! I just got approved for
it doesn't come out for a while but I'm excited to probably read it soon :D I also couldn't resist and got
. . . Got 3 new books and haven't read anything. . . Feb is going great
Mars - I also write my reviews as soon as I finish reading so that I don't forget too much. Sometimes, I keep a few notes, maybe on my notes app on my phone or on my laptop. It just helps me to remember things I want to comment on. I do that more often with nonfiction books. I don't know about requesting bans. The only way I don't request is to not go on the site. I have also looked up some of the books (if they are previously published or soon-to-be published) in my library. Just knowing I can still read them for free sometimes helps me to not put the book on my shelf where I'm obligated to it.
Nicole wrote: "OMGOMG My new book has come up on Netgalley!! "Congrats, Nicole!
I just got Never Let You Go
. I've never read a book by Chevy Stevens, but I've been interested in many of hers. I'm looking forward to this one. Of course, since I haven't read any, that puts my monthly total at +1.
Well, I've just finished reading and reviewing Peter Darling (review)And Keeping Love Alive as Memories Fade: The 5 Love Languages and the Alzheimer's Journey (review)
So that totally means it's time to request new books, right??
Review two, request three!...that's the way the proverb goes, right? ;)
Certainly if you're in this group it does!! Oooh, I found an interesting Jack and the Beanstalk story!
Still making it through the backlog. That's my new year resolution, I've decided: to get down to 0 books that have been on my shelf for three months. And I am now down to 4.I'd also really love to have no more than 20 books on shelf total, but I don't see that happening anytime soon. Maybe next year's resolution...
How fun! I just started using NetGalley the second week of January, so this will be a fun way to structure my reading. 28 books on NG Shelf (to read)
24% Feedback ratio
I have 4 more almost finished, so hopefully I can get those finished in this short month!
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Sounds like a good goal!
I'm still reading my first book. . . I don't know why I'm having so many mixed feelings with this one! That's a great goal Nicole, mine right now is to at least finish one book!
I've got so many challenges going on, I haven't been as on top of the reviews. I hope to be able to get two more current ones done this month and maybe knock out one of the old ones as well.
1. a: How many books on your NetGalley shelf - 88
b: What books are on your NG shelf - too many to possibly name
c: What your Netgalley feedback ratio is - 17%
2.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
3. At the end of the month, update your post and with:
a: What books you read
b: Link(s) to your review(s)**
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
c: Your updated shelf count
89 - more than what I started with.
d: Your updated books to read
Too many. Aiming for minimum 3 next month.
e: Your updated ratio
18% a 1% improvement.
Well this month isn't going great so far I've added three books and have read none.Got these three,
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I have 342 Books on my shelf. Most of these date back to 2012. I only have a 2% feedback ration. I hope to leave feedback for at least 10 books this month and try to get caught up.
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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 Feb 19/20
**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!