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NetGalley May 2017
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Start of Month:
Books on Shelf : 8
Books:
Feedback ratio: 91%
FINISHED
ADDED
End of Month:
Books on shelf: 5
Feedback Ratio:94%
(view spoiler)
Beginning of Month:Books on Shelf: 11
Netgalley Ratio: 89%
End of Month:
Read: 2
Reviews: 2
The Trophy Child review
The Idea of You review
Added: 1
Books on Shelf: 10
Ratio: 90%
Ratio 79% Shelf 27 books
To read:
Beginning of Month
Feedback Ratio 74%
Books on Shelf: 38
Planning to Read
Read & still to Review
Reviews Posted
Books Added:
Current
Feedback Ratio 76%
Books on Shelf 36
NetGalley Challenge > NetGalley April 2017Beginning of the month books NetGalley shelf: 12
personal goal is to read 4 of these this month
Netgalley feedback ratio is 37%
Books read and Reviewed
Added to Shelf
End of the month books on NetGalley shelf
Updated ratio
I'm in again!Start of month:
Books on shelf: 19
Feedback Ratio: 60%
Books (ordered by pub date):
Added:
Finished:
My Review
My Review
My Review
My Review
My ReviewDNFed and gave feedback on
End of Month:
Books on shelf: 26
Feedback Ratio: 56%
Can I post the books I've read now (for April) or should I wait til the beginning of May to post for that month onwards? Interesting challenge!
Katherine wrote: "Can I post the books I've read now (for April) or should I wait til the beginning of May to post for that month onwards? Interesting challenge!"Hi Katherine! This is the challenge for May, specifically. Karen opens a new thread for each month. If you'd like to post the books you've read in April, April's challenge is here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
I'm in againNetGalley Challenge – May
Books on shelf: 25
Books:
Feedback Ratio: 92%
Books Added During the Month:
Read + Review:
review review 
review review review review review review review review review review 
review review
This sounds like fun and a good way for me to keep up with my Netgalley reads. I should have done this last month as I knocked off quite a few!Start of Month:
Books on Shelf : 3
Books:
Feedback ratio: 86%
FINISHED
ADDED
End of Month:
Books on shelf:
Feedback Ratio:%
How many books on your NetGalley shelf: 11What your Netgalley feedback ratio is: 60%
What books are on your NG shelf:
2016
2017
New
Read but not reviewed [feedback sent]
Read & Reviewed
End of the month(view spoiler)
1. At the beginning of the month, post any/all of the following:a: How many books on your NetGalley shelf - 7
b: What books are on your NG shelf -
5/9
5/16
5/16
5/18
6/6
6/6
7/18c: What your Netgalley feedback ratio is - 47%
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.)
✔ The Book of Summer - Review
✔ The Dire King - Review
✔ The Simplicity of Cider - Review
✔ Quinsey Wolfe's Glass Vault - Review
3. At the end of the month, update your post and with:
a: What books you read - see above
b: Link(s) to your review(s)** - see above
c: Your updated shelf count - 10
d: Your updated books to read
5/16
5/18
6/6
6/6
7/11
7/18
8/1
9/12
9/19
9/26e: Your updated ratio - 50%
May starting books on shelf: 42May starting ratio: 80%
Books that have been published: 24
Being published in May: 9
The rest: 10
Added in May: 9
Read and reviewed: 4
review
review
review
review
Starting the month going in the wrong direction. Just got approved for
. But it is exciting as it's my first approval from Random House.
On Shelf 80Ratio 76%
Goal 10 books
Current
On Shelf
Ratio 77%
Obsession
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Shift In The Water
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
See You At Sunset
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Talen
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Irish Prince
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Brown-Eyed Girl
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Sin With Me
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Romancing the Bachelor
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
It's about to be one year since we started these monthly Netgalley challenges, and look what I just got! 
1. At the beginning of the month, post any/all of the following:a: How many books on your NetGalley shelf
89 as of the 1st of May
b: What books are on your NG shelf
c: What your Netgalley feedback ratio is
20%
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
88
d: Your updated books to read
Above - 1
e: Your updated ratio
21%
Number of books on shelf: 17Ratio: 64%
Books on shelf:
Added in May:
Read and Reviewed:
Review
Review
Review
ReviewNumber of books at the end of May:
Updated ratio:
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Woot woot!
Holy crap, I've only got 20 books on my shelf!! I don't think that's ever happened. That might sound a lot to everyone else, but I'm usually closer to around 30!
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. :)"Ah! I so want to read that! My request is still pending :(
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Nice one!!
Well done Nicole. My aim for the year is to get below 20 but am currently sitting nearer 40.
Karen, it took a while for them to get back to me. Hopefully, you'll get it soon too. :)
Just did that thing where I go onto NetGalley to have a look at my shelf, have a bit of a panic about the number of books, calm down because it's not that bad. Then request three more books :/
It's only one of the first badges, but I was very excited to see I got my 25 reviews badge with my most recent review!
Alison wrote: "Just did that thing where I go onto NetGalley to have a look at my shelf, have a bit of a panic about the number of books, calm down because it's not that bad. Then request three more books :/"Ahh time honoured traditions
Congrats, Melanie! Haha, Alison. I've done that so many times.
I finally finished a book this month! I read The Trophy Child and it was really great. I'll write a review soon.
Four of my GR friends have read Beartown now and they have all given it 5 stars. I can't wait to get to it.
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wow
I was a bit blindsided by it because I didn't have high expectations ; I just really like Backman. That probably helped contribute to my rating because I had no idea how much I would love it
Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "wowI was a bit blindsided by it because I didn't have high expectations ; I just really like Backman. That probably helped contribute to my rating because I had no idea how much I would love it "
I hope to get to it next month. I also hope that I love it as much as everyone else now that I've seen all the high ratings!
I've just started The Idea of You.
All right, i haven't finished a lot of books this month, but I have gotten them off my shelf because of a bunch of DNFs. So this is what my shelf is looking like now. It's scarily small. Ratio 85%
Shelf 17 books
To read:
Big congrats to you Nicole! My TBR on NetGalley is so out of control that I just almost gave up trying to manage it (I think like over 100 unreviewed right now and just ugggh how did this happen?)
I haven't added more than 2 books a month for hte past several. I wanted to go on a spree this morning.... but then I found there was nothing on there that I was interested in :/
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The Idea of You review"
Nice review. I agree with you on this one. Not really my cup of tea but I can see the appeal
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Ratio 85..."
Excellent work!
Number of books on shelf (beginning of May): 11Books on shelf:
Feedback ratio: 69%
Feedback already sent: 7
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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 May 20/21
**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!