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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 first Review Weekend is set for April 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!

Participants:

Emily
Teri-K
Karsyn
Karen
Alison
Sonia
Kazen
NancyHelen
Bobbi
Renee
Nikk
Melissa
Kristie
Joanne
Amanda
Lara
Joyce
Myst

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I'm in
62 on Shelf
Ratio 67%

End of Month
Books on Shelf 64
Ratio 67%

Completed 6
After We Fall by Marquita Valentine 4.2
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My Tempting Highlander by Maeve Greyson 4.5
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Never Sweeter
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
QuinnII
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Wicked Whisper
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Jagger
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I'll play, if I can get my internet to cooperate... I try to keep my reviews up to date but don't always succeed, so this will be good for me.

Feed Your Readers, the NetGalley Challenge
Duration: Monthly
April
On shelf - 8
Feedback ratio - 82%

Titles on shelf April 1:
Stand Firm: A Guided Journey through the Challenges of Philippians
The Power of Weakness: Embracing the True Source of Strength
Song of Silence
A Spirituality of Listening: Living What We Hear
Small-Town Brides Romance Collection: 9 Romances Develop Under the Watchful Eyes of Neighbors
Crossing the Divide: John Wesley, the Fearless Evangelist
Searching for Happiness
Their Rock Is Not Like Our Rock: A Theology of Religions

Completed:
1. Song of Silence by Cynthia Ruchti 4/5
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
2. Crossing the Divide: John Wesley, the Fearless Evangelist by Jake Hanson 4/5
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

End of Month:
Books on shelf: 6
Feedback Ratio: 83%

I'm in! Wanna get my stuffs under control!


Ratio: 70% (start of challenge: 68% | lowest: 67%)
Books on Shelf: 32 (start of challenge: 31 | highest: 35)

Currently Reading:

To Be Read & Reviewed: (Listed oldest to newest)
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Read Since Joining Challenge: (not reviewed)

Read & Reviewed Since Joining Challenge:

- 1.5 star Review ~ boring, flat and just sucky!
- 1 star review ~ awful characters, horrible book, boring story
4 star review
4 star review
5 star review ~ Awesome book! Loved it!
3.5 star Review


Reviewed Apr 16th, Read prior to Challenge: (view spoiler)[
3 star review
3.5 star review
3.5 star review (hide spoiler)]

Here we go!

Books on Shelf : 7
Books:

Feedback ratio: 87%

FINISHED
Review

review

ADDED


End of Month:
Books on shelf: 6
Feedback Ratio: 89%

NetGalley Challenge
April 2016
Books on Shelf: 22

Read & Reviewed


Read, To Review


Planning to Read


Archived (oops) 11

Feedback Ratio 67%

Me!


Feed Your Readers, the NetGalley Challenge
Duration: Monthly
April 2016:

Books on NetGalley shelf
14

Read. Needs Review


To Read&Review


Netgalley feedback ratio:66%

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April Progress
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Books on NetGalley shelf
13

Feedback Sent
- review - review - Review

Read Now Requests


Netgalley feedback ratio:69%

Awesome challenge!

April 2016

April 1st:
Books on shelf - 3
Feedback ratio - 67%



Finished:
(review written, to be posted in June)

(review written, to be posted in May)

(review written, to be posted in January 2017(!!) )

This is just what I needed to give me the kick up the...well, you know...to get my NetGalley books read.

April 2016

Books on shelf: 7


Feedback ratio: 53%

I'm in. This will run well with a challenge I created on another group. I will add my information here later today.

Great Challenge - I'm in!

April
8 books on shelf

Shtum (read - need to write review) - done https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Rest of My Life (read - need to write review) Done
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Carry On Read -
Heartbreaker (read - need to write review) done https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Bluegrass Bend read -
The Farmer's Perfect Match
Love, Reality Style
The Peppercorn Project

Feedback ratio - 93%

Summer at Rose Island

I am in! I really need to get my netgalley ratio higher because it is appalling at the moment

Books on shelf: 64
Ratio: 24% - yes, yes i know! *Hangs head in shame :-(*

Read and reviewed

Review is Here
Review is here


Read but not yet reviewed


Currently Reading



to Be Read


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+ more which i will add if i get through these :-P
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I'm in too! Great challenge to help get books read and feedback ratio higher!!

Books on shelf: 7
Ratio: 43% (ugh)

A Muddied Murder
Tumbledown Manor
Keep Me Posted
Riverside
Glory over Everything: Beyond The Kitchen House
First Comes Love
The Second Chance Shoe Shop

I'm going to have to be in on this one too. I'm always behind on my NetGalley reviews. Most of the books I have to read are quite old and have already been archived.

April

Beginning of the month:
Books on shelf - 15

Books:
✓From Junk Food to Joy Food: All the Foods You Love to Eat...Only Better (archive not set)
Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned From Eighties Movies (archive 6/30)
Lilac Girls (archive 5/30)
The Art of Not Breathing (archive 4/26)
Hidden Bodies (archive 4/30)
Archived:
The Girl You Lost
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
The Forgotten Girls
Hiding Places
My Sister's Secret
The Flying Circus
✓Pastel Orphans
The Lie
Golden State
What You Left Behind
(some of these are ancient)

Netgalley ratio: 74%


Archived:



End of the month:

Books read: 2
From Junk Food to Joy Food: All the Foods You Love to Eat...Only Better
Pastel Orphans

Reviews:
Junk Food to Joy Food review
Pastel Orphans review

Shelf count - 17

Books to read -
Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned From Eighties Movies (archive 6/30)
Lilac Girls (archive 5/30)
The Art of Not Breathing
Hidden Bodies
The Girl You Lost
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
The Forgotten Girls
Hiding Places
My Sister's Secret
The Flying Circus
The Lie
Golden State
What You Left Behind
All the Missing Girls (archive 6/28)
The City of Mirrors (archive 6/24)
Escape from an Italian-American Kitchen aka Not My Mother's Kitchen (archive 5/6)
The Goodbye Year (archive 5/3)

Ratio - 72%

✓Review Weekend: April 16th & 17th


Books Added: 4
All the Missing Girls (archive 6/28)
The City of Mirrors (archive 6/24)
Escape from an Italian-American Kitchen aka Not My Mother's Kitchen (archive 5/6)
The Goodbye Year (archive 5/3)

I also just accepted an invitation from the publisher to review All the Missing Girls. I assume that it will go through NetGalley, but it is not there yet.

Melissa(SweetMelissa) wrote: "I'm in too! Great challenge to help get books read and feedback ratio higher!!

Books on shelf: 5
Ratio: 43% (ugh)

A Muddied Murder
! Give it a try and hopefully you'll live it, too. :)

Netgalley Challenge
How many books on your NetGalley shelf: 2 (just signed up)
What your Netgalley feedback ratio is: 33%

Current Books on Shelf:


Finished This Month:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I'm in! I desperately need this challenge... >.<

a: How many books on your NetGalley shelf? I'd really rather not say! ;)
b: What books are on your NG shelf A lot! But the ones I'm going to try to read this month are:



Finished:
- 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...

I agree that this is a great challenge!

4/1 Books on shelf: 20
Feedback ratio: 78%

I have a couple of cookbooks where the publisher has asked the review not be posted until around the publication date--months in the future (sigh). However, I'll use this to work my way through the other books on my shelf.

To finish and review:


To read and review (well, as many as I can this month):


Finished: 13
4/2 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
4/2 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
4/2 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
4/2 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
4/6 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
4/16 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
4/16 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
4/17 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
4/18 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
4/20 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
4/23 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
4/23 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
4/23 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

End of Month Report
Books finished and reviewed: 13
Ratio: 80%
Books on my shelf: 19

Initial Challenge Updated with a new part! Check it out!!

That is an amazing idea.

This is a great idea. I'm new to NetGallery I would not have known about it unless posted here.

Books on shelf: 8
Books on my Shelf:



Smokin' Hot in the South - New Grilling Recipes from the Winningest Woman in Barbecue Finished
Ancient Magic Finished
24-Hour Crochet Projects Finished
Finished
Finished
Finished

Feedback ratio: 0% (just started)

updated 4/15/2016 Feedback Ratio 23%

REVIEWS DONE
24-Hour Crochet Projects
Ancient Magic
Smokin' Hot in the South - New Grilling Recipes from the Winningest Woman in Barbecue

I have wayyyy too many as I've been taking a break from reviewing for some non-arc reading.

For the month of April:
Started with: 54 books it's 92 (1 unlisted Romantic Suspense Sampler)
Started Ratio: 27%

TBR Shelf:



Update notes as of 4.28.16

Finished Books & Review Links
Must Love Ghosts by Ani Gonzalez
Jae's Assignment by Bernice Layton
His to Protect by Stacey Lynn
Summer at Rose Island by Holly Martin
The Peppercorn Project by Nicki Edwards
Operation White Christmas by Nicki Edwards
In the Line of Fire by Jett Munroe
62 Blog Posts to Overcome Blogger's Block by Marcie L. Hill
Her Quicksilver Lover by Lynne Connolly


Dropped/No longer interested:
Samantha Watkins


c: Your updated shelf count 92

d: Your updated books to read

e: Your updated ratio 25

Welcome Everyone!

Participant list is updated.

Uh oh. I just added 4 books to my shelf. Hmm, I hope I finish with fewer to read than I started.

Lara wrote: "Uh oh. I just added 4 books to my shelf. Hmm, I hope I finish with fewer to read than I started."

:o
I just got approved for another one too and had the same thought!

Lara wrote: "Uh oh. I just added 4 books to my shelf. Hmm, I hope I finish with fewer to read than I started."

Haha... I agreed to read another after I made my list and have requested a few more, as well. I'm hoping to to finish even. lol

Edit: I think I'm going to add a list of "books added" to my post. It will make it easier for me to keep up when I start my next post next month.

I have the same, well problem, but is it a problem? :) I got one off my shelf, even reviewed it, and added two more back on. And I got my first Auto-Approval from a publisher. I've been approved for random books before (that I hadn't requested) but this is my first auto-approval publisher. Yay. :D

It is more the peril of being a book lover--I keep adding to my list/shelf/ereader/bookcases. The issue with NetGalley is that I feel obligated to read and review them, whereas other books I just want to get to someday.

Congrats on your first auto-approval publisher, Karsyn!

I haven't read any yet this month. I have a few planned. I want to finish what I'm already reading first. But now, I just got approved for 2 more. One I really wasn't expecting because I requested it so long ago. That's ok though, at least it's one that I really want to read!

So my current challenge results:
Read - o / Added - 3

I think I might be doing this wrong! lol

Just curious, I have a tendency to request sneak peeks and buzz books which gives you extracts of books coming out. How do you deal with them as far as reviewing to get them off your shelf?

Alison wrote: "Just curious, I have a tendency to request sneak peeks and buzz books which gives you extracts of books coming out. How do you deal with them as far as reviewing to get them off your shelf?"

I've only reviewed one of those so far, but I mostly just said how I liked the extract and if it was enough to get me to pick up the entire book.
GR didn't have a "sneak peek" version of the book, so I reviewed the Kindle version and said in my review that I only had an excerpt.

Is there a Net Galley thread in this group? I'm new to it so was going to try this challenge but had some questions first. Thanks!

Greta wrote: "Is there a Net Galley thread in this group? I'm new to it so was going to try this challenge but had some questions first. Thanks!"

Only recomantations one. But I think people have asked questions there.

We have a Netgalley Recommendation Thread and a lot of people chat and ask questions over there.

Edit: Whoops! Tea beat me to it. :)

Ok, thanks both of you!

That thread has actually been moved to the chat area and retitled as "NetGalley Book Chat (Recommendations, Questions, How To...)," since we were all using it for discussion anyway. :)

I'm still heading in the wrong direction, as I was approved for another today. I only have one more pending, so I can't go too far backwards (unless that silly, little, click finger of mine goes off again!). I am starting The Art of Not Breathing this evening though. So, hopefully I'd start working in the right direction finally.

Current challenge results:
Read - o / Added - 4

Well... I haven't read anything so far, but wrote a review for one of the already read but with feedback needed... that counts, right?

Of course I missed the archive date BY ONE DAY *pouts*

At least you got one reviewed, Sonia! That's progress, definitely counts.

I finished one! :D


Review

Woohoo! Yay Karen!!

I'm pretty new to this website, but already obsessed/addicted to it.
a: How many books on your NetGalley shelf: 5
c: What your Netgalley feedback ratio is: 43 %, oops have to get this up!

Books on my shelf:




Finished:

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

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

I would really love to participate in this! I have a horrible feedback rate, which I will share once I kick myself and improve it!

Books on Currently Reading Shelf:




I hope I can get these reviewed quickly and get to reviewing others! Need to get my feedback ratio up!

Kristie wrote: "I'm still heading in the wrong direction, as I was approved for another today. I only have one more pending, so I can't go too far backwards (unless that silly, little, click finger of mine goes of..."
Mine is really bad for pending, I have 18 and most are HQ... {Which most of the time I get declined} Though I did get one I have already read so I can quickly do a review. XP

Sadness, one of the arc's I have isn't on here as it's a romance suspense sampler so I just tacked it on at the end.

Sooo, instead of reading books to improve ratio, I end up clicking the Read Now button... TWICE!

Added to my bookshelf: