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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 July 16th & 17th



**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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Start of Month:

Books on Shelf : 6
Books:


Feedback ratio: 90%


FINISHED
review
review
review

ADDED



End of Month:
Books on shelf: 5
Feedback Ratio:92%

I'm in again! These monthly challenges are helping so much!

July

Beginning of the month:

Books on shelf - 14

Books:
(7/14) (8/30) (11/30)

Netgalley ratio: 81%


End of the month:

Books read: 3


Reviews: 3
All the Missing Girls review
Caillou Goes to School - reviewed on NetGalley only
The Invisible Library review

Shelf count: 13

Ratio: 82%

Review Weekend: July 16 & 17


Books Added: 2
(10/1)

I'm in!

Beginning of month
Books on my NetGalley To-Read shelf: 60
Feedback ratio: 79%



Read:
Bitterwood (my review)
Blood Moon (my review)
A Density of Souls (my review)
Followed by Frost (my review)
Hope & Red (my review)
Nightshades (my review)
The Pirate of Fathoms Deep (my review)
Sorting the Beef from the Bull (my review)
Summoned (my review)
Tell the Wind and Fire (my review)



DNF:
Fire Catcher (my review)
The Snow Garden (my review)
Ticker (my review)
Wytchfire (my review)



End of month
Books on my NetGalley To-Read shelf: 50 (including a few new ones, heh)
Feedback ratio: 83%

I'm over 80%! Yay!


Challenge Complete!

July
a: How many books on your NetGalley shelf:8

b: What books are on your NG shelf:
( just got invited to view)








c: What your Netgalley feedback ratio is:80%


Books read:
, 6/2/17 2 stars https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

7/4/16 five stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

7/8/16 five stars https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Books DNF 100%


, 7/5/16
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Next one to pick up:

July

I have two outstanding requests that have been that way for over a month now... hopefully they'll make a decision soon! Until then...

Beginning of month - 95%


Added:


Reviews:
-> 2★ review

End ratio - 91%

NetGalley Challenge – July
Feedback ratio - 57% to 59%

On shelf 7/1/16 - Too many!
Read: 4
Added: 11
On Shelf 7/31/16 - Hopefully less...

Titles to read in July:


Risking It All by Christi Barth - 7/3/16 ♥♥♥♥
- Risking Review

The Sound of Glass by Karen White - 7/10/16 ♥♥♥♥♥
- Sound of Glass Review

I Knew You Were Trouble by Soraya Lane - 7/12/16 ♥♥♥
- I Knew You Were Trouble Review

Miss Match by Laurelin McGee - 7/30/16 ♥♥♥♥

Miss Match Review

I'm in too. I hope to do better this month.

July 1:
Feedback ratio: 77%
# books on shelf: 27


Read: 11
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

NetGalley Challenge – July

July 1:
Feedback ratio: 57%
# books on shelf: 8 books



Archived: and



Read: 2

Reviewed: ~https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
~https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
~https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I just went to do a bit of housekeeping in NetGalley and realized that there was still a book sitting there from a couple of years ago that I had no interest in. I was just learning how to use NetGalley and I received an email stating that I was preapproved for a book. When I clicked on it to see what it was about, it automatically added it to my shelf, but I had no interest in reading it and never downloaded it. I just sent a message to the publisher explaining my error. So, without changing any of the books on my shelf, my percentage is actually 81%! Yay!

Kristie wrote: "I just went to do a bit of housekeeping in NetGalley and realized that there was still a book sitting there from a couple of years ago that I had no interest in. I was just learning how to use NetG..."

YAY! That's definitively a reason to celebrate, a big accomplishment that I'm personally slowly working towards. :-)

just started my first NetGalley book for this month which is already 40 % in it, : book synopsis:The first story in the thrilling Nordic crime series The Snow White Trilogy, an international success published in 46 countries worldwide. 'Fans of Nesbø and Larsson won't be disappointed' Publishers Weekly The streets of Finland are frozen and white with snow. And nothing is as red against snow as blood . . . Seventeen-year-old Lumikki Andersson is hardly your average teenager. She lives by herself in the city of Tampere, Finland, and has a firm rule to mind nobody's business but her own. But that rule is put to the test when she happens upon five hundred washed euro notes hanging up to dry in her school's darkroom, and it is shattered once Lumikki realises who owns them. Caught in an increasingly tangled web of deception, corruption and danger, Lumikki finds herself navigating Tampere's dark underbelly in her quest to expose its shocking connection to the international drugs trade. Lumikki is smart, but is she smarter than a master criminal? Can she bring down the infamous 'Polar Bear' - or will she become another one of his victims.

I'm actually like the story and I also think the name Lumikki is so cool Because its Snow White .

Thanks, Marcelina! I was very excited about it. :)

1. Beginning of the Month:

a: How many books on your NetGalley shelf: 23

b: Books I want to review this month:

Like last month, my goal is to get to a point where I'm posting reviews right around the date they are published. I've got 8 books from May to get through. I'm shooting for all of those this month, which will not be easy, but I'm going to try!



c: What your Netgalley feedback ratio is: 70%

2. Reviews:

Review Review Review Review Review Review

This was really helpful last month, I'm in again!

July
Books on Shelf: 13



Feedback Ratio: 35%

Last month I read 5 and added 8 books to my shelf, this month my goal is to have more out than in.

I'm in! :)
I'm going to try to use some Netgalley books for Wobble, so that is an extra goal this month.

To Read This Month:


Finished Books:



Still To Review (from previous months)

books on shelf 61
Ratio 69%



Finished
56 on shelf
70% ratio

Under Your Skin
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Seared n My Soul
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Edge of Control
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Stripped Bare
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Billionaires Favorite Mistake
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Totally Sweetly Irrevocably
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Purified
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Icing
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Need You For Mine
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Once Kissed
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Perfect Rage
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

June got some reviews off my shelf, so I'll continue with this again for this month.


1. At the beginning of the month, post any/all of the following:
a: How many books on your NetGalley shelf: 14

b: What books are on your NG shelf
Perfectly Seduced
Wanting It All
Hollywood Hot Mess
Just What I Needed 7/27/16
The Curse of Tenth Grave 7/1/16
Roped In 7/8/16
Don't Tempt Me 7/20/16
To Have and to Hold 7/3/16
The Sapphire Affair 7/9/16
The Sapphire Heist 7/10/16
Wild Embrace
Fool Me Once 7/29/16
Connection Error
Ravage

c: What your Netgalley feedback ratio is: 63%

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

Review

Review

Review

Review

Review

Review

Review

a: How many books on your NetGalley shelf: 44
b: What books are on your NG shelf:
c: What your Netgalley feedback ratio is: 38%

Books archiving this month:


Already archived:

I finished my first book for the month. It was a graphic novel, so a pretty quick read.
was okay. I generally really like Sanderson's writing, but in this case I felt that the complexity of the story wasn't supported by its development.

I finished my first book for July, All the Missing Girls! I'll write my review tomorrow and post. Too tired to do it tonight!

Kristie wrote: "I finished my first book for July, All the Missing Girls! I'll write my review tomorrow and post. Too tired to do it tonight!"

Hope you liked it or loved it,I know I did

My NetGalley percentage is major bad. In the beginning of June it was a 2%. :O Shame. I know. At the end of June it was 6%. I'm slowly moving upwards, bad things is I've added more books. Good thing W.O.B.B.L.E. is here. I will get books read!

1. At the beginning of the month, post any/all of the following:
a: How many books on your NetGalley shelf
- 67 archived
- 2 pending
- 44 on my to read shelf
- 7 read & reviewed (working on a few more)
- The Total is 111

b: What books are on your NG shelf
- I need to read these by the end of the month (9 books):

- On the To Read Shelf (44 books not all listed here):

- On the Archived List (61 books):

- Never downloaded, luckily I found them at the library (2 Books):


c: What your Netgalley feedback ratio is
- At the beginning of the month 6%. I know. I know. That's really bad, but I'm moving up. It was 2% last month. Bad thing is I did add more books.



Reviews go here.

All the Missing Girls review

New ratio: 82%

NetGalley Challenge: July 2016

On Shelf: 5

Titles on Shelf:


Feedback Ratio: 92%

Read/Reviewed:


Wrecked Review
In the Hope of Memories Review

Really need this right now!


July 1st:
How many books on your NetGalley shelf: 16!!
What your Netgalley feedback ratio is: 9%

What books are on your NG shelf:


a: What books you read: NOT EVEN ONE TT.TT But I did start two --I was just busier than expected xD
Everything else is the same, hoping for a better August.

I'm in for July!

NetGalley Feedback Ratio: 83%

Books on my NetGalley shelf: 21

Incentive to get through my Netgalley reads and improve my ratio

Netgalley feed back ratio 63 %

Books on Shelf

Feedback ratio: 23%
Books on shelf: 58

Netgalley books read 2
The Doctor's Baby Secret currently reading 7/3 7/5

How many books on your NetGalley shelf: 7 books
What your Netgalley feedback ratio is: 36%

Completed 3/7 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... 5 stars
Completed 9/7 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... 5 stars
Completed 18/7 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... 3 stars
Completed 19/7 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... 4 stars
Completed 22/7 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... 3 stars
Completed 25/7 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... 4 Stars



To read:



I have a feeling I'm going to end up with more books on my shelf at the end of the month than I had at the beginning...

End of Month:
Books on shelf:
Feedback Ratio:

I posted reviews for two cookbooks:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

But, I also found out that I was approved for two books I had requested:
, which I had wished for
, Yea! Oberon is telling mystery stories!

Oberon has a story? Yes! :)

Kristie wrote: "Oberon has a story? Yes! :)"

Yes, it's a novella, so I plan to read it this week. I can hardly wait! Even better, it looks like it may the first of several.

Lara wrote: "Kristie wrote: "Oberon has a story? Yes! :)"

Yes, it's a novella, so I plan to read it this week. I can hardly wait! Even better, it looks like it may the first of several."

I've been trying not to request more, but I may have to request this one.

Elizabeth wrote: "just started my first NetGalley book for this month which is already 40 % in it, : book synopsis:The first story in the thrilling Nordic crime series The Snow W..."

Based on this, I was so interested in picking up this story only to log into Netgalley and see that it had already been archived :(:(

Will just have to follow it up at my library :D

Kristie wrote: "Oberon has a story? Yes! :)"

awesome!

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Kristie wrote: "Oberon has a story? Yes! :)"

awesome!"

I'm so tempted by this, but I'm not up to date with the main Druid series. Do you reckon that'll be a problem?

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Kristie wrote: "Oberon has a story? Yes! :)"

awesome!"

And of course I requested it. And was approved. :) lol

Adding (so excited!)
Ratio: 81%

Haha. I requested, but as they are asking for US readers I'm not holding high hopes.

I'm not sure Nicole, but I'm going to catch up just in case as I find novellas generally talk about events in the book immediately prior

Nicole wrote: "Elizabeth wrote: "just started my first NetGalley book for this month which is already 40 % in it, : book synopsis:The first story in the thrilling Nordic crime..."

hopefully your like it better then I did, it went from me really liking it to a 2 star rating for me.

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Haha. I requested, but as they are asking for US readers I'm not holding high hopes.

I'm not sure Nicole, but I'm going to catch up just in case as I find novellas generally talk about events in t..."

Oh, I hope they make an exception for you! :)

I still need to read the latest release in the series too, which is #8. I should probably read it before this one, which is listed as #8.5.

One down! Percentage inched up to 72% despite approval for .

Here's my review:


Review ***1/2

I'm almost done with books published on May 3. Unfortunately to read the next one, I have to read the first book in the series first, but it's a dystopian YA that I think I will burn through quickly! then

Nicole wrote: "Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Kristie wrote: "Oberon has a story? Yes! :)"

awesome!"

I'm so tempted by this, but I'm not up to date with the main Druid series. Do you reckon that'll be a problem?"

Well, the location and context will be different, but mostly it seems to be Atticus and Oberon investigating dognapping. So, you could probably get along okay.

Kristie wrote: "I still need to read the latest release in the series too, which is #8. I should probably read it before this one, which is listed as #8.5. "

I decided to go ahead and start it even though I still need to read as well. It is really funny. I was cracking up with the first paragraph, especially the last sentence. I don't want to ruin it for you, so will let you discover it yourself.

Here is my review of: The Last One by Alexandra Oliva

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Aha! I may not have been able to get a hold of before it was archived.

However! Both and are available as immediate reads that are set in the same world but with different main characters.

Oops, i think I just made my Netgalley percentage lower again >.>

Edit: Ack, I just had another three books approved, for a grand total percentage of 21% :(:(

*reads manically*

Kristie wrote: "Oh, I hope they make an exception for you! :)

I still need to read the latest release in the series too, which is #8. I should probably read it before this one, which is listed as #8.5. ..."


I got approved! :D
Ok, so now I need to catch up with the latest 3 books

Oh yay!! :D

Oh hey, Karen, you're up to the same book as me. I'm almost tempted to do a buddy read ;)