NetGalley June 2018

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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 16/17



**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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[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

Start of Month:

Books on Shelf : 12

Books:




Feedback ratio: 90%


FINISHED
review

ADDED



End of Month:
Books on shelf: 13
Feedback Ratio:90%

[Kristie]

I’m in. I'll edit if I need to, but I think I'm done for May.

Beginning of Month:

Books on Shelf: 15



Netgalley Ratio: 88%


End of Month:

Read: 2


Reviews: 2
The Summer Children review
Bring Her Home review

Added: 2


Books on Shelf: 15
Ratio: 89%

[Melanie]

I'm in again. May wasn't a great month for me, so here's hoping June is better.

Start of month:
Books on shelf: 26
Feedback Ratio: 82%

Books (ordered by pub date):




Added:


Finished:
My Review My Review My Review My Review
My Review My Review My Review My Review
My Review My Review My Review My Review
My Review

End of Month:
Books on shelf: 24
Feedback Ratio: 85%

[Michelle's Empty Nest]

I just requested books for the first time in May and will be joining this challenge for June.


Start of Month:
a: How many books on your NetGalley shelf: 3
b: What books are on your NG shelf:

c: What your Netgalley feedback ratio is: N/A


Added:


End of Month:
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:

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

Welcome to the mad house Michelle!

[Michelle's Empty Nest]

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Welcome to the mad house Michelle!"

LOL, thanks! :-D

[Alison]

Beginning of Month

Feedback Ratio 78%
Books on Shelf: 53

Planning to Read



Read & still to Review


Reviews Posted


Books Added:


Current
Feedback Ratio 79%
Books on Shelf 51

[Abbey]

I'm in! I joined NG last month officially and reviewed 3 books, but committed to more for June. So this should help my accountability.

Start of Month
A. # of Books on Shelf: 5

B. Books on Shelf


C. Ratio: 38% (I was at 100% before I requested books for June, but I only have 8 books total, so each book carries more weight being new.)

Finished

Game Changer Review
Planting Gardens in Graves II Review
Body Swap Review

End of Month:
a: What books you read:

b: Link(s) to your review(s): See above
c: Your updated shelf count: 10
d: Your updated books to read: 5
e: Your updated ratio: 60%

Overall, a decent month, but I also added a few too. So far, I've enjoyed every (all 6 of them, lol) Netgalley book I've read!

[Kristie]

Don’t worry about your ratio, Abbey. It’ll go up quickly as you review books. It’s a bit of a shock when you’re new and it takes such a big hit after each new request is granted.

[Yzabel]

Beginning of the month

Books on shelves: 14



Older than 3 months:



Feedback Ratio: 97%

End of the Month

Books I read in June: 6

Reviews:


DNF: 0

Added: 5

Shelf count: 15
Feedback ratio: 97%

[Emily]

Ratio 81%
Books on Shelf 71
10 books

[Tiffany]

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
Current:
c: What your Netgalley feedback ratio is 12

I have more books but will just add them as I read them. It's too slow to do this on my phone lol

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)**
1. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
2. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
3. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
4. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
5. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
6. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
7. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
8. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
9. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
10. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
c: Your updated shelf count
d: Your updated books to read
e: Your updated ratio 15%

[Vicki Willis]

June Challenge

Beginning of month

How many books on my NetGalley shelf: 9

The books on my NG shelf



My Netgalley feedback ratio is 63%

FINISHED
my review


my review

Added



End of Month
Number of books on my shelf: 9
My Netgalley feedback ratio: 68%

[Vicki Willis]

What do you like to usually do when you get a backlog of books? Do you read from the one on the shelf the longest? Start with the newest on the shelf? Or read what interests you at the moment?

[Tiffany]

I’m doing a combination of reading the oldest one and reading books that fit other challenges.

[Melanie]

Vicki Willis wrote: "What do you like to usually do when you get a backlog of books? Do you read from the one on the shelf the longest? Start with the newest on the shelf? Or read what interests you at the moment?"

Typically I read the books releasing next and then when I'm ahead of schedule on those, I'll read the ones already published. When I read those ones, I just choose what interests me the most or what I can get on audio from the library/scribd.

My ultimate goal is to have no already published books still on my shelf by the end of the year and I've slowly been chipping away at the backlog until last month when life got in the way and I fell a bit further behind.

[Michelle]

Start of Month:

June Books on Shelf : 18
Feedback ratio to start: 79%

Books:
Current titles:


Older than 3 months:


ADDED IN JUNE


FINISHED


End of Month:
Books on shelf: 16
Feedback Ratio: 81%

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

Vicki Willis wrote: "What do you like to usually do when you get a backlog of books? Do you read from the one on the shelf the longest? Start with the newest on the shelf? Or read what interests you at the moment?"

I read in publication order. So I try and read them in the month of publication, or (like now) when Im quite behind, as close as possible. I think I'm currently reading what was released in April 2018

[Michelle]

Oops, a little late again :'D

How many books on your NetGalley shelf: 12
What your Netgalley feedback ratio is: 69%

What books are on your NG shelf:


New


No Feedback


Feedback Sent


Read & Reviewed


End of the month(view spoiler)[
Updated books on your NetGalley shelf: 12
Updated Netgalley feedback ratio is: still 69% (hide spoiler)]

[Kristie]

First one finished for the month:

The Summer Children review

[Abbey]

Kristie wrote: "First one finished for the month:

The Summer Children review"

Thanks for the confidence boost on the ratio! Just reviewing 2 books already moved it back up to 63%, so I can't wait until I have more books in my total.

Also, I LOVED The Summer Children! It was the first book I reviewed on NetGalley. What did you think of the first two books? To be honest, I read it not knowing it was the third in a trilogy, but fell in love with the characters and have since bought the first two :)

[Kristie]

Yes, my ratio is at a point where I can add or review a book or two and it doesn't change at all. If I want any movement I need to really make an effort. lol

I think this was my favorite because you really start to get to know the team. I love their relationships and their banter. The first book was mostly from the view of the butterflies and it was really good, but a different style. The second book is where you start to get to know the team, as well as meet Priya. I really enjoyed all three. I can't wait for the next one! Let me know what you think of the first two when you get them. I'd love to see your thoughts on them.

[Kristie]

I need to stay off NetGalley. I just added and . I also requested two others, but they're really popular titles, so we'll see how it goes. Fortunately, my ratio didn't change at all. Unfortunately, that means I have a lot of reading to do to increase my ratio as well. lol

[Vicki Willis]

Both of those look good...
Ok, I added Lies.
I AM reading one from Netgalley right now though, so read one, add one... :)

[Kristie]

I’m reading one from NetGalley now too, Vicki. So, hopefully I’ll at least break even again this month. :)

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

lol

I can't add any more because I'm totally ignoring Netgalley books at the moment in favour of all these BRs I've signed up to in Tower Teams! :o

[Kristie]

Finished another! That means I've reviewed two and added two. Another break even month! I probably won't have time to finish another this month, which is ok. I started with an 88% ratio and ended with 89%. :)



Bring Her Home review

[Vicki Willis]

Good job Kristie!

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July thread is here

[Melanie]

Well I added more than I wanted to this month, but my shelf count went down by 2 and my ratio up by 3%, so overall still a good month.

Start of month:
Books on shelf: 26
Feedback Ratio: 82%

Added:


Finished:
My Review My Review My Review My Review
My Review My Review My Review My Review
My Review My Review My Review My Review
My Review

End of Month:
Books on shelf: 24
Feedback Ratio: 85%