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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 August 21/22



**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: 95%


FINISHED

None! :o


ADDED


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

Hoping this month is better than the last few months. I have a lot of books already published I need to catch up on plus 9 releasing this month.

Start of month:
Books on shelf: 36
Feedback Ratio: 85%

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

End of Month:
Books on shelf: 33
Feedback Ratio: 87%

I'm in. I feel like every month I'm trying to squeeze in one more book before the end of the month and this month is no different. I'm hoping to at least finish one of the three that I have started. If I do, I'll come back and update.

Beginning of Month:

Books on Shelf: 12
Published:

September:
3
October:
1 8

Netgalley Ratio: 93%


End of Month:

Read: 2


Reviews: 2
The Long Call review
Grace Year review

Added: 2


Books on Shelf: 12
Ratio: 93%

September 2019 Netgalley
Books on Shelf: 168
Feedback Ratio: 24%



Books over 3 months Old (135)


Other Books (33)

As You Feel, So You Heal: A Write of Passage
Ghost Signs: Clues to Downtown New York's Past


Total Starting Book Count: 168

ARC Books for September (13 books)
3 -
10 -
24 -
28 -
Oct 1 -

Books Read in September: 2
1. Last Pen Standing read 9/20/19 Review
2. The Phantom of the Opera read 9/27 Review
3.

Books DNF'd in September: 3


Books Added in September: 8


End of Month:
Books on Shelf: 171
Feedback Ratio: 24%

September 2019 NetGalley Challenge
Beginning of Month:
Shelf count/books on shelf: 13
Ratio: 93%
All my titles are linked to my GR review once I've read the book

Listed by publication date:

Out of the Picture
Tracy Gardner 9/5/19
A Curio Killing
Mary Ellen Hughes 9/9/19
Buried in the Stacks
Allison Brook 9/11/19
Fatal Cajun Festival
Ellen Byron 9/13/19
Last Pen Standing
Vivian Conroy 9/17/19
Tide and Punishment
Bree Baker 9/23/19
Two Bites Too Many
Debra H. Goldstein 9/24/19
Read and Buried
Homicide by Horse Show
Deadly Ride
Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover
Bound for Murder
A Crafter Quilts a Crime

End of month:
Updated shelf count/books to read: 11
Updated ratio: 94%
Books added in September:
Christmas Cow Bells
Mollie Cox Bryan 9/17/19
Christmas Cocoa Murder
Carlene O'Connor 9/20/19
Fudge Bites
Nancy CoCo 9/21/19
Murder in the First Edition
Lauren Elliott 9/22/19
Beyond a Reasonable Stout
Death on the Page
Three Widows and a Corpse
Apple Cider Slaying
Christmas Sweets
Books read in September: 11

SEPTEMBER CHALLENGE

Books on Shelf : 9
Feedback ratio : 82%
Current


Past publication:


READ
Date Night
Stumptown, Vol. 1: The Case of the Girl Who Took Her Shampoo


ADDED

End of Month
Number on shelf: 12
Ratio: 78%

START OF THE MONTH = 32

FEEDBACK RATIO (beginning)



READ
Whisper Network https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Nickel Boys https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Day We Meet Again https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Killing Dylan https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Giver of Stars https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

ADDED IN SEPTEMBER


FEEDBACK RATIO (End) 87%

Start of the month: 4

Feedback Ratio: 93%!

Books:



Added in September (I'm trying for ZERO):

Read:



Feedback Ratio:

My spot. August did not go well

Beginning of the month

Books on shelves: 10



Older than 3 months:



Feedback Ratio: 98%

End of the Month

Books I read in September: 2

Reviews:


DNF: 0

Added: 6

Shelf count: 14

Feedback ratio: 97%

September 2019 NetGalley Challenge:

Beginning of the Month:

Books on shelf: 6


Feedback Ratio: 83%

End of the Month:

Books Read with Links to Reviews: 1
review

Books Added: 1


Updated Books on Shelf: 6



Updated Feedback Ratio: 81%

💜 💜 SEPT: 💜 💜
I’d like to get my Ratio up to 90% ♥️

SOM
Ratio: 87%
7 # Books on Shelf:


Read - With Link To Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Added:



EOM
# Books on Shelf:
Ratio:

September

Beginning Of Month:
Books on shelf: 9
Feedback Ratio: 92%

Books:


Added:


Read:


End Of Month:
Books on shelf: 8
Feedback Ratio: 94%

Has anyone else been having problems with emails from publishers lately? In the last week HQ have sent me three emails about titles with links to "Read it Now" which I assumed meant I'd been pre approved. When I click the link however it isn't taking me to the title page but the home screen. If I log in and search for the title I get the usual Request option only.

I can't figure out whether the publisher is sending me a widget or just sending a this book is available to request email. Has this happened to you? Do you think it's OK to email the publisher to ask them?

September NetGalley Challenge

Beginning of September:
Books on shelf: 18
Feedback ratio : 82%

Books:


Added in September:


Finished :
Review Review Review Review Review Review Review Review Review

End of month:
Books on shelf: 18
Feedback ratio: 83%

I have stopped adding quite as much but have not felt like reading the ones I already have so 3 are now over 3 months old.

Start of Month:
Books on Shelf : 15 (3 over 3 months)

Books:
, ,

Feedback ratio: 80%

Finished: ,
Added: ]

End of Month:
Books on shelf: 14 (6 over 3 months)
Feedback Ratio: 82%

September NetGalley Challenge

Beginning of September:
Books on shelf: 47
Feedback ratio: 79%

Books:


Added in September:


Read:


End of month:
Books on shelf:
Feedback ratio:

Books on Shelf : 3
Feedback ratio : 56%

Books:



Past publication:



Read:
review

Added in September:

End of Month:

Books on shelf:
Ratio: 63%

Books on shelf 66
Feedback Ration 83%
Read 10

Completed 3'
Tenth Girl
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Orchid Throne
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Fever
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I finished . It was good. I want to read more by this author.
I am starting next, but am already behind because it publishes tomorrow!

I have This Tender Land to review too, Vicki. I am also going to be late. It was supposed to be my "next book" but I started The Long Call which also publishes tomorrow and it is taking a lot longer than I expected. Now, I need to read my RL book club book before I can get to This Tender Land. Hope you love it.

Beginning of September
Books on shelf: 3
Feedback Ratio: 0% (just starting out)

Books: Playing Dead
Abduction
At Daddy's Hands

Added:
Finished:

End of September
Books on shelf:
Feedback Ratio:

Just spotted Eoin Colfer new book Highfire is read now on UK netgalley if anyone is interested. Haven't read any of his books but sounds bizarre (so basically perfect for me)

Finished my first book this month. This one took a long time to get through. I'm glad to have it done.



The Long Call review

I didn't read many ARCs last month but I'm hoping to catch up in September.

Start of the month Books: 18 Ratio: 79%

August
September


Finished: 3

Start of month
Books on shelf: 25
Feedback Ratio: 79%

Books on Shelf:



Books Past Publication:



Added:

Finished: Review

End of Month
Books on shelf:
Feedback Ratio:

I messed up a bit and requested a lot of books knowing I wasn't reading the last few months D:

How many books on your NetGalley shelf: 17
What your Netgalley feedback ratio is: 71%

What books are on your NG shelf:
-Apr 2 -april 16 -april 16 -april 22 -may 7 -July 2nd -July 2nd -July 16th -July 19th


New



Read


Reviewed


End of the month
Updated books on your NetGalley shelf: 22
Updated Netgalley feedback ratio is: 66%

I just picked up Big Lies in a Small Town by Diane Chamberlain. It is currently read now.

Well, I've done it again. I picked up Into the Fire . It is the fifth book in the Orphan X series and now I need to read them all. Fortunately my ratio hasn't changed, but now I have too many books on my shelf again.

Kristie wrote: "Well, I've done it again. I picked up Into the Fire . It is the fifth book in the Orphan X series and now I need to read them all. Fortunately my r..."

I've read the first two books in this series and they were fantastic. I have a print ARC of book five, so I really need to catch up on the other books before it releases.

Thanks, Melanie! They were highly rated so I was hoping that was the case. I own books 1 and 3, but my library doesn't carry the others so I'll just have to pick up those two.

I added 2


And then I read Stumptown. It was my first graphic novel ever. I needed to shake things up because I am in a slump.
I am reading right now and though it is good, it is very slow going and taking me forever to read.
Which this unfortunately has put 2 books behind publication for me. And I was doing so well this year with that!

I just finished The Grace Year. I thought it was excellent.



Grace Year review

Could we get the October thread, please? Thank you!

October challenge is now posted here

I think this is the first month I haven't finished a netgalley book :o
I started one, but just haven't had the chance to finish. It has been a crazy month

I'm happy with my month, added 9 books in September and read 11 (not all from that same 9), decreased shelf count by 2 and increased % by 1. Thanks for the link, I got my October ready to roll now.

September end of month: Updated shelf count/books to read: 11
Updated ratio: 94%

I made some headway this month, I added quite a few books but overall my number of books went down by 3. I just have such a hard time resisting the shiny new books.

Start of month:
Books on shelf: 36
Feedback Ratio: 85%

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

End of Month:
Books on shelf: 33
Feedback Ratio: 87%

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "I think this is the first month I haven't finished a netgalley book :o
I started one, but just haven't had the chance to finish. It has been a crazy month"

I've had a couple of crazy months recently too. September just seemed to go by exceptionally fast. There's always next month.

This month I read two:

and added two:

I started and ended in the same place-
Books on Shelf: 12
Ratio: 93%

Beginning of September
Books on shelf: 3
Feedback Ratio: 0%

Books: Playing Dead
Abduction
At Daddy's Hands

Added: 5
Finished: 2

End of September
Books on Shelf: 6
Feedback Ratio: 25%