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NetGalley July 2020
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Start of Month:
Books on Shelf : 7
Books:
Feedback ratio: 95%
FINISHED
review
review
reviewADDED
End of Month:
Books on shelf: 9
Feedback Ratio:94%
I'm in again. I really need to make a dent in my backlog.Start of month:
Books on shelf: 52
Feedback Ratio: 82%
Already Read, Need to Review:
Books (ordered by pub date):
Added:
Finished:
This Earl of Mine | My Review
A Good Duke is Hard to Find | My Review
Never Look Back | My Review
This Eternity of Masks and Shadows | My Review
To Catch an Earl | My Review
The Silent Dolls | My Review
The Birthday Girl | My Review
End of Month:
Books on shelf: 47
Feedback Ratio: 84%
I'm in! My goal is to read at least The Book of Lost Names, Paris Never Leaves You, and The Orphan Collector and to review All the Broken People. Beginning of Month:
Books on Shelf: 8
Published:
July:
21
August:
4
September:
1
21
2021:
April:
13
Netgalley Ratio: 96%
End of Month:
Read: 3
Reviews: 3
All the Broken People review
Name Tags review
Cast-Iron Cookbook review
Added: 9
9/15
8/4
8/4
11/3
9/8
6/30 (published)
🎧8/18
🎧 8/4
🎧 7/7 (published)Books on Shelf: 14
Ratio: 93%
Other: Publisher/Bookish/Edelweiss -
7/28
8/18
beginning of monthBooks on shelf: 13
Feedback ratio: 80%
Current:
Past Pub:
Read:
Side Trip
The Shadows
The Perfect Father: The True Story of Chris Watts, His All-American Family, and a Shocking Murder
What You Wish For
Added:
(audible)
(audible)
end of month
Books on shelf: 14
Feedback ratio: 83%
Beginning of the MonthBooks on Shelf: 49
Feedback Ratio: 70%
TBR (Audios):
TBR (Ebooks):
Finished:
DNF:
EDELWEISS
Read:
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July Goal - Read & Review 4 Books.Books on shelf - 137 Approved / 68 Feedback Sent
NetGalley Feedback - 50%
New Titles (9)
Older than 3 months (56)
Approved 2020
Approved 2019
Approved 2018
Approved 2017
Approved 2016
End of the Month
Reviews
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...Added -
Books read in 2020 - 9
Feedback Ratio - 50%
START OF THE MONTH
Feedback 92%
Books on Shelf 23
Aim - Maintain
READ IN JULY
1. Grave Secrets: The Lavington Windsor Mysteries Book 1 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
2. The Rhino Conspiracy https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
3. The Consequences of Lovehttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
4. . The Gates of Athens: Athenian https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
5. The Assisted Living Facility Library 29/07/2020https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
6. The Liar's Dictionary 31/07/2020 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
ADDED IN JULY
END OF THE MONTH
Books on Shelf 27
Feedback Ratio 91%
WHY AM I SO CRAP AT READING MY KINDLE!!START
To Be Read: 41
Feedback Ratio: 18%
2016:
2017:
2018:
2019:
2020:
FINISHED IN JULY: 1
Feedback Ratio: 19%
READ:
⭐️⭐️⭐️
NetGalley July 2020Beginning of Month
Shelf count/books on shelf: 22
Ratio: 92%
Review links posted when books are read, and books listed are in publication order as found on NG
Still Knife Painting
Cheryl Hollon 7/1/20Witch Hunt
Cate Conte 7/3/20Death on Windmill Way
Carrie Doyle 7/2/20Murder at the Falls
Arlene Kay 7/18/20Lineage Most Lethal
S.C. Perkins 7/22/20From Beer to Eternity
Sherry Harris 7/25/20Tea & Treachery
Vicki Delany 7/29/20Death of a Wicked Witch
Lee Hollis 7/30/20Checked Out for Murder
Mums and Mayhem
The Key Lime Crime
For Whom the Book Tolls
Murder Most Sweet
Peachy Scream
Death at High Tide
Boston Scream Murder
Doggone Dead
15 Minutes of Flame
Murder in the Bayou Boneyard
Little Bookshop of Murder
Death Long Overdue
On Borrowed Crime
A Deadly Edition
End of month stats:
Updated shelf count/books to read: 19
Updated ratio: 93%
Books read in July: 8
Books added in July: 4
Gobble, Gobble Murder
Murder at the PTA
Mrs. Morris & the Ghost of Christmas Past
A Waffle Lot of Murder
Beginning of the month
Books on shelves: 21
Older than 3 months:
Feedback Ratio: 97%
End of the Month
Books I read in July: 2
Reviews:
DNF: 0
Added: 0
Shelf count: 19
Feedback ratio: 96%
Beginning of the Month
Feedback Ratio: 37%
62 Approved | 23 Feedback Sent
Books on shelf: 23
Older than 3 months: 17
End of the Month
Books Read in July:
Review Links:
Books Added in July:
Updated Feedback Ratio:
I just saw that NetGalley is going to be adding audiobooks next week. I'm afraid my shelf is going to be feeling the change.
Kristie wrote: "I just saw that NetGalley is going to be adding audiobooks next week. I'm afraid my shelf is going to be feeling the change."I'm feeling it already, oh boy. I just got the email alert about 5 minutes ago and immediately made a shelf for that TBR on here.. We're all in trouble now! Haha.
Beginning of month:Books on shelf : 18
Feedback ratio : 89%
On shelf:
♡ Neeka ♡ wrote: "Kristie wrote: "I just saw that NetGalley is going to be adding audiobooks next week. I'm afraid my shelf is going to be feeling the change."I'm feeling it already, oh boy. I just got the email alert about 5 minutes ago and immediately made a shelf for that TBR on here.. We're all in trouble now! Haha."
Good point... off to make a new shelf!!
Oops, I added a book.I don't like audio books so no danger to me.
Beginning of the month:Books on shelf: 24
Feedback ratio: 23%
Aim: Ratio of at least 50%
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Review Links:
The Tea Dragon Tapestry review
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Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Most of my reading is audiobooks so I’m pretty excited about that prospect! I hope they are decent books though - other sites I’ve been to over the years that give audios for reviews have been pret..."I hope so too. NetGalley tends to have a great selection, so I'm hoping their audiobooks are at the same level.
Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Most of my reading is audiobooks so I’m pretty excited about that prospect! I hope they are decent books though - other sites I’ve been to over the years that give audios for reviews have been pretty disappointing"Have you tried Libro.fm's audio review program? It's something you have to apply for, but I've heard great things about the program. Might be worth a try?
https://libro.fm/alc-program
I caved and added another September pub book. Don't Look for Me is read now for the next couple of days. I wasn't going to get it, but 7 of my GR friends have already reviewed it and everyone of them gave it 5 stars. So, of course, I had to give it a try. I've only read one other book by this author and I gave it 3 stars, so we'll see.
Kristie wrote: "I caved and added another September pub book. Don't Look for Me is read now for the next couple of days. I wasn't going to get it, but 7 of my GR friends have already reviewed it an..."I added it too, sounds good and like another book i'm reading right now.
July NetGalley ChallengeBeginning June Books on Current Shelf: 23
Beginning June Books on Older Shelf: 35
Beginning June Feedback Ratio: 16%
Books added in July:
Finished in July: The Unbroken https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
End of July Books on Current Shelf:
End of July Books on Older Shelf:
End of July Feedback Ratio:
Second review of the month and I'm up to 97%! That's the best ratio I've ever had. The next couple of months, I have a lot of books to review to keep up with pub dates, but I'm at the point were I can finally start adding books again without feeling too stressed, as long as they publish after September so I don't make myself crazy again.
Name Tags and Other Sixth-Grade DisastersI read this one with my grandson and he loved it. He isn't much of a reader, but he looked forward to reading this one all the time.
Name Tags review
I added another book. It's just a fairly short children's book that publishes Aug 4th. I think I've created a monster with my grandson. lol He has started requesting NetGalleys. He loves looking through the books to choose one and thinks it's pretty cool that they aren't published yet, so he's one of the first to read the books. He chose Believe
We are reading it now.
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And that’s great - I hope your grandson finds some awesome books 👍😃
Well, I was in the mood to check out a cookbook. I hadn't done that for a while. I picked up
before I realized that it already published on June 30th. My brain is struggling to remember that we're in July. I was thinking the pub date was the end of this month, not last month. Oh well, I'll get through it in a few days. Anyway, I'm heading in the wrong direction and still considering picking up an audio or two. The only thing holding me back is that I'm hearing they're awfully glitchy.
Stop me people, I already added 3 books this month and only read 2.
I finished the cookbook I added.
was a really great introduction to cast-iron. Cast-Iron Cookbook review
I finished my first one of the month. It started out only ok for me. It seemed like a predictable romance. But the last quarter really saved the book and it was completely unpredictable for me and I ended up really liking it!
Side TripJust an interesting note. I have read one other by this author and she really is into "damsel in distress" type women, which is irritating for me so I probably wouldn't read others by her. I don't like weak woman for my main characters. But I think romance people would really like her.
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Recommended for HF fans review
And I just noticed they have removed that forced split on the shelf with titles downlowded over 3 months ago. Hooray! That was such a useless and annoying feauture. So glad they removed it
Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "And I just noticed they have removed that forced split on the shelf with titles downlowded over 3 months ago. Hooray! That was such a useless and annoying feauture. So glad they removed it "I agree! I love it the way it is now. You can sort by audio v ebook if you want to, but don't have to. You can also click on the headings (pub date, archive date, downloaded) to order your books differently too.
The only thing I would change is that you should be able to choose how you want to order your books and keep it that way. Right now the default is download date and it automatically goes back to that each time. I prefer pub date. But at least the option is there and it is so much better than the useless 'over 3 months' way.
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I also just downloaded the app. Looks like it could be a good option for the PDFs as well as audios
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(oh slippery slope)
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Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "and maybe just one other audio LOL"I haven't grabbed an audio yet, though I'm dying to do so. I was considering the one, but I'm not sure I'm ready for another unreliable narrator.
If you are going to listen to audiobooks with the app, be careful of the chapters narrated. If you click on the audiobook and listen to it looking at the page of that audiobook, it will automatically change from chapter 1 to 3, 3 to 5, etc. What you need to do is click on the audiobook and then go back to the menu and listen like that. That's the only solution I found :)
So... I've gone and messed up my NetGalley again. lolI received a widget for Under Pressure, which they are recommending to me because I loved Orphan X, which I did. It publishes August 4th and there is no way I will be able to read it before then, but I accepted it anyway.
While I was on NetGalley I saw Shadow Sands was read now, so I got it because I liked Robert Bryndza's writing with the Erika Foster (The Girl in the Ice) series.
Both books are second in a series and I still need to read the first books. At least I already own the first one in the Robert Bryndza series, but I still need to get the first in the other series and my library doesn't carry it.
As if that wasn't enough, I really wanted to try an audio book. I passed on The Shadows because of all the talk of lucid dreams and I skipped out on His & Hers because reviews mentioned animal abuse/mutilation and I'm not sure I can handle that right now, particularly if it's graphic. So, I ended up requesting The Night Swim (though I'm not sure how a book about rape will be any better than one with animal abuse). Unfortunately, the request wasn't instant gratification so I also picked up The Switch. I figure I'm going to need something lighter anyway.
So, when all the damage is accounted for, I have added 3 to my to be read pile, two of which publish next month, and one to my pending list, which also publishes next month. What was I thinking?? I am absolutely swamped in August.
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Haha Kristie. Those widgets get us every time 😂😉
I just finished The switch and it is really sweet. I hope you'll like it. I'm about to start The night swim as well ^^
Kelly wrote: "I just finished The switch and it is really sweet. I hope you'll like it. I'm about to start The night swim as well ^^"Thanks! I need to finish my current audio either today or tomorrow, then I'm starting The Switch next.
Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Haha Kristie. Those widgets get us every time 😂😉"They definitely do! lol
Well, apparently there is no stopping me this month. lol I just added two more. I requested Anxious People a while ago and it's been sitting on my pending shelf forever. They just sent me a widget. So, of course I accepted.
While I was there, I saw that my request for The Night Swim was approved.
That makes 8 add-ons this month. I started the month with 8 on my shelf, so I'd say that's probably the opposite of what I should be doing. Plus, only 1 of the add-ons publishes after September.
I was just auto-approved by Macmillan Audio and now I have my auto-approved badged! Woot!
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huzzah!
I haven't read a Backman book I didn't love. Can't wait.
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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!
**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!