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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!

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Start of Month:

Books on Shelf : 8

Books:
published

to be published



Feedback ratio: 95%


FINISHED


ADDED


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

I have 23 that need reading and 2 are embarrassingly from 2018. Completion percentage: 79%

Books:
2018:
2019:

2020 so far:
Jan:
March:
April:
May:
June:
July:
Aug:
Sept:

Not soon:

End of Month:
Reviews: 2
Books Added: 4
Review percentage: 78% (wrong direction, going down)

I AM SO IN.
I have been waiting for this post to go up. At the start of summer I felt like I was in a good place w/my NetGalleys. I had less than 30 to read. Since then I've accumulated at least a dozen more...

Beginning of Month:
46 books, including 1 currently reading but not including 2 books read but still lacking reviews (not pictured)
Feedback ratio: 91%

Read:
Plain Bad Heroines (my review)
Raybearer (my review)
Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream (my review)
Black Sun (my review)
Daddy: Stories (my review)
Fable (my review)
The Secret of White Stone Gate (my review)
The Trials of Koli (my review)

DNF:
The Zoo (my review)



End of month:
39 books -- including 1 currently reading and 1 new addition; not including 4 books read but still lacking reviews [went back and added later]
Feedback ratio: 92%

Lexi wrote: "I have 23 that need reading and 2 are embarrassingly from 2018. I'll be back to update my post."

I think I've cleared my 2018 ones, but still have a few from 2016-2017. *hides*

Alysa wrote: "Lexi wrote: "I have 23 that need reading and 2 are embarrassingly from 2018. I'll be back to update my post."

I think I've cleared my 2018 ones, but still have a few from 2016-2017. *hides*"

I started in 2018 so I am safe from further back.

Yikes!
First step is acknowledgment of your problem, so well done. LOL

I'm in again. Hoping to make a dent in my backlog.

Start of month:
Books on shelf: 43
Feedback Ratio: 86%

Books (ordered by pub date):






Added:


Finished:

End of Month:
Books on shelf: 49
Feedback Ratio: 84%

Alysa wrote: "Lexi wrote: "I have 23 that need reading and 2 are embarrassingly from 2018. I'll be back to update my post."

I think I've cleared my 2018 ones, but still have a few from 2016-2017. *hides*"

Add me to the list of those with super old ones on my list.

I have 3 2018 ones left and I'm slowly chipping away at them, but man do I hate seeing those super old ones linger.

I'm in.

Beginning of Month:

Books on Shelf: 11
Published:
🎧

September:
1 8 15 21

November:
3

2021:
January:
26

April:
13

Netgalley Ratio: 94%


End of Month:

Read: 6


Reviews: 6
Deadly Waters review
The Shadows review
Anxious People review
Don't Look for Me review
The Coast-to-Coast Murders review
Under Pressure review

Added: 0

Books on Shelf: 5
Ratio: 97%

Additional: (view spoiler)[

Physical:


Bookish:
8/4

Edelweiss:
8/18

(hide spoiler)]

I also have one old one from 2018. I never get around to it because I need a gap in my current books to have the time to read it. I'm hoping by the end of this year I'll finally get around to it.

I also was in a good place and added a bunch recently. Unfortunately, many of them published in August and September, so I've been struggling to keep up. I'm not in too bad shape though. Hopefully, I'll be looking good again by the end of September or October.

Hoping to do better this month.

Books on shelf - 66 (141 Approved / 71 Feedback Sent)
NetGalley Feedback - 50%

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

Added -
Books read in 2020 - 13
Feedback Ratio - 52 %

I am in
this gives me motivation

START OF THE MONTH
AIM - Increase feedback by 2%

FEEDBACK 91%



READ IN SEPTEMBER

1. Space Hopper https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
2. Dear Reader: The Comfort and Joy of Books https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
3. The Phone Box at the Edge of the World https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
4. The Secret of The Alchemist: Uncovering the Secret in Paulo Coelho's Bestselling Novel 'the Alchemist' 10/09/2020 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
5. Eight Detectives https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
6. No Precedent 12/09/2020 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
7. The Day She Came Back https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
8. The Thief on the Winged Horse 18/09/2020 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
9. The Thursday Murder Club 25/09/2020
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
10. Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
11. Atomic Love 30/09/2020 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

ADDED in SEPTEMBER


END of MONTH
30 books on shelf
feedback 91%

I have one left from 2018 as well.
And 4 from 2019.
The problem is if I start there, I will get behind with my current reads. Am going to try to read one per month.
A good problem to have, too many good books!

Plus school starts on Monday for my students (2nd grade, all online) so the last two weeks I have done almost zero reading while getting ready.

BEGINNING OF MONTH
Books on Shelf: 14
Feedback Ratio: 84%

Current:


Past Publication:


READ
Tell Me A Secret

ADDED

END OF MONTH
Books on shelf: 13
Feedback ratio: 85%

Vicki Willis wrote: "Plus school starts on Monday for my students (2nd grade, all online) so the last two weeks I have done almost zero reading while getting ready."

Good luck with your upcoming school year, Vicki. I really feel for teachers and parents right now. It's a difficult situation to be in with no good solutions.

August was good. I finished 19 Netgalley arcs, DNF'ed 2, and finished 3 Edelweiss arcs.

STATS
Starting point: 57 books
Requests approved: 17 books
Books reviewed:
End of the month:

TBR:
(excerpt)



Finished: 29


EDELWEISS
Finished: 8


(view spoiler)[
->Not reviewed : 367



(hide spoiler)]

NetGalley Challenge – September
Feedback ratio - 75%

On shelf 9/1/20 - 126
Read: 5
Added: 2
On Shelf 9/30/20 - 123

2014 (0/8):


2015 (1/23):


2016 (1/12):


2017 (2/21):


2018 (1/37):


2019 (0/14):


2020 (0/13):


Completed/Reviews:

Fishing with RayAnne by Ava Finch - 9/7/20 ♥♥♥♥ - My Review
Cowboy Stole My Heart by Soraya M. Lane - 9/10/20 ♥♥♥♥ - My Review
Taking a Chance by Maggie McGinnis - 9/12/20 ♥♥♥♥ - My Review
Lucas by Sawyer Bennett - 9/20/20 ♥♥♥♥ - My Review
Murder In Missoula by Laurence Giliotti - 9/30/20 ♥♥♥♥ - My Review

@Kelly - I also have Black Sun and the audio for To Sleep in a Sea of Stars! ETA: and at least one of your Edelweiss titles.

Maybe a Buddy Read would be additional motivation.
That goes for anybody here, not just Kelly :)

I will post my NG TBR Covers now, up in #5.

NetGalley September 2020
Beginning of Month
Shelf count/books on shelf: 21
Ratio: 92%

Books will be linked to GR review when read

Checked Out for Murder
Allison Brook 9/8/20
Murder Most Sweet
Laura Jensen Walker 9/12/20
Murder in the Bayou Boneyard
Ellen Byron 9/17/20
For Whom the Book Tolls
Laura Gail Black 9/19/20
Little Bookshop of Murder
Maggie Blackburn 9/25/20
Murder at the PTA
Lee Hollis 9/27/20
Mrs. Morris & the Ghost of Christmas Past
Traci Wilton 9/30/20
For Letter or Worse
Death Long Overdue
On Borrowed Crime
A Waffle Lot of Murder
Deadly Edition
Without a Brew
Christmas Card Murder
A Crime of a Different Stripe
Finished Off in Fondant
Christmas Cupcake Murder
Wine Tastings Are Murder
A Curious Incident
Grounds for Murder
Puzzling Ink


End of month stats:
Updated shelf count/books to read: 21
Updated ratio: 92%
Books read in September: 7

Books added in September: 7
A Deadly Chapter
Rhubarb Pie Before You Die
The Malt in Our Stars
Death at a Country Mansion
The Broken Spine
Sit, Stay, Slay
Gobble, Gobble Murder

@Alysa - Yes, that sounds great! I'd love to buddy read arcs. I already planned to listen to the audio at the beginning of the month (on the 4th maybe?) Would that work for you? As for Black Sun, when do you want to read it ?

I looked at your arcs and I think we have The Kingdom of Liars and The Once and Future Witches in common. Also, The Space Between Worlds is the book of the month in Challenge Corner's group if you want to participate :)

Kelly wrote: "@Alysa - Yes, that sounds great! I'd love to buddy read arcs. I already planned to listen to the audio at the beginning of the month (on the 4th maybe?) Would that work for you? As for Black Sun, w..."

I don't have a ton of time for audio until later in the month, alas, because of some significant schedule changes IRL, so I'm hesitant to commit to that. But how about either Black Sun or The Once and Future Witches, with any start date from this Sunday onwards :)

Funny about The Space Between Worlds. I wasn't planning on joining another GR group but I'm tempted. Do their monthly challenges usually get action during the entire month, or does it tend to be heavy towards the beginning and lonely towards the end?

@Alysa - Well about Challenge Corner, I love their challenges so I'm a bit biased but I've never really noticed if the 'action' slowed down. I feel like it's slower toward the middle of the month, maybe? It also depends of the group you're in :)

How about we start Black Sun on Monday 7th? I'm never done a BR in this group so I'm not sure how it works here.

I will go over to the BR request thread and ask them to set up a page... Then we can decide how formal/informal we would like to be (e.g., keep it loose, or specify # of chapters per day, etc.)

Our BR thread for Black Sun is here :D

Alysa wrote: "Our BR thread for Black Sun is here :D"

Thank you :)

I go again....I'm so embarrassed by the age of some of these!!

START
To Be Read: 41
Feedback Ratio: 18%

2016:


2017:


2018:


2019:


2020:


END
To Be Read: 40
Feedback Ratio: 20%

COMPLETED:
1/40
: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 08 SEPT

So I have a bunch of books published last month that I need to read and probably just as many that are going to be published this month. I'll need to read 18 books if I want to get caught up. I only have to read 7 to get to my ratio goal so let's see how many I can knock out this month.

Start
TBR: 29 books
Feedback Ratio: 35%
Goal: 50%

TBR:


End of the Month
Books Read:


Reviews:
The Assignment
Stranger Danger

Books Added:

Algeria: Struggle for Truth and Justice: A Personal View of 50 Years of Military Rule by Roger Goldsmith (which apparently isn't in Goodreads?)

Feedback Ratio: 36%

First review of the month done! Pub date was today, so I just snuck it in.

I just finished Deadly Waters by Dot Hutchison. I loved her collector series, but this was not nearly as good. It was generally a drunken, angry, man-hating story. I gave it a generous 3 stars basically because I think the bones of the story were good and I generally like her writing style. Unfortunately, the story was buried under a lot of drunkenness and too many men blatantly sexually assaulting women without any concerns for recourse.

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

Really having a hard time with this at the moment. Not only am I not interested in reading fiction at all currently, I'm also fed up with writing reviews (I still have 4 or 5 to write from books read back in June/July...). No idea when I will finally get to those.

Beginning of the month

Books on shelves: 22


Older than 3 months:



Feedback Ratio: 96%

End of the Month

Books I read in September: 4

Reviews:


DNF: 0

Added: 1

Shelf count: 19

Feedback ratio: 96%

Kristie wrote: "First review of the month done! Pub date was today, so I just snuck it in.

I just finished Deadly Waters by Dot Hutchison. I loved her collector series, but this ..."

Good job for finishing a book and writing a review. Too bad it didn't live up to expectations.

Yzabel wrote: "Really having a hard time with this at the moment. Not only am I not interested in reading fiction at all currently, I'm also fed up with writing reviews (I still have 4 or 5 to write from books re..."

Reviews are tough. Maybe this will help: I try to get started on a review right away, as soon as I start a book, even just to get some bare bones written down. Then as the book progresses, I keep adding bits and pieces as they strike me. By the time I'm done with the book, there's just some finishing off to do and voila--the review is ready. Good luck!

Gem wrote: "I go again....I'm so embarrassed by the age of some of these!!"

I know what you mean, Gem! But once I put it all out there (here in this safe zone), I felt so much better and more motivated to get to them. Good luck!

Good luck with a new month, everyone!

Connie N. wrote: "Kristie wrote: "First review of the month done! Pub date was today, so I just snuck it in.

I just finished Deadly Waters by Dot Hutchison. I loved her collector s..."

Thanks, Connie.

Connie N. wrote: "Gem wrote: "I go again....I'm so embarrassed by the age of some of these!!"

I know what you mean, Gem! But once I put it all out there (here in this safe zone), I felt so much better and more moti..."

thank you Connie. I'm going to make a conscious effort to tick off as many as i can in 2021. Until then if I get any done I'll be chuffed

@Kristie - well done for finishing that one. Hopefully you get something much better next

@Connie - love your encouragement and positivity!

I just realized I have books from 2016 and I need to get my reading in order 😭

How many books on your NetGalley shelf: 32
What your Netgalley feedback ratio is: 61%

What books are on your NG shelf:
2016

2017

2018

2019

2020
Jan:
Feb:
Apr:
May:
Jun:
Jul:
Sep:


New
(sampler) -sep 29

Read



Reviewed
Review Review reviwed only on netgalley

End of the month
Updated books on your NetGalley shelf: 29
Updated Netgalley feedback ratio is: 64%

Kristie wrote: "First review of the month done! Pub date was today, so I just snuck it in.

I just finished Deadly Waters by Dot Hutchison. I loved her collector series, but this ..."

That is a bummer! I have that one in my list. I am going to try to get to it this month.

Vicki Willis wrote: "Kristie wrote: "First review of the month done! Pub date was today, so I just snuck it in.

I just finished Deadly Waters by Dot Hutchison. I loved her collector s..."

I'm curious to see what you think of it. I have a comment about the end and would like to ask your opinion, but I'll wait until you read it so there's no spoilers.

Second review of the month done!

4★

The Shadows review

A little late, but I'm here!

Start of September
267 books on my shelf.
26% Feedback ratio.

Since I have so many books, I'll just post the ones I plan on reading this month




End of Month
Books Read:

Reviews:
Behind the Murder Curtain
The Weaver
The Ballad of Ami Miles
Ellen Lives On

Updated Shelf Count:
Feedback Ratio:

Courtney wrote: "A little late, but I'm here! "

I am probably going to read Shielded this month too! Might end up being in Oct, but... it’s partly the intention that counts, right? 😂

September 2020 NetGalley Challenge:

I so much work that I didn't get a chance to read any NetGalley books in July or August. (I did manage to add a couple, though.)
I hope to get at least a couple done this month.

Beginning of the Month:

Books on shelf: 10


Feedback Ratio: 81%

End of the Month:

Books Read with Links to Reviews: 2

my review
my review

Books Added: 2



Updated Books on Shelf: 10



Updated Feedback Ratio: 81

Wrote my first NG review for this month:

I LOVED THIS BOOK SO VERY MUCH!!!


my review

Congrats on your first review, Alysa! Glad it was one that you loved.

Alysa wrote: "Wrote my first NG review for this month:

I LOVED THIS BOOK SO VERY MUCH!!!


my review"

You are not helping my TBR list. I just added it even though it is really long.

Third review for the month! Publication date was today, so I just snuck it in again. I didn't love this one as much as everyone else did. I typically enjoy Backman's writing and this was a widget, so I hope I am still on their list for his next release after giving this one an average 3 star review.


Anxious People review