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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 October 20/21



**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 : 7

Books:




Feedback ratio: 94%


FINISHED


ADDED


End of Month:
Books on shelf: 7
Feedback Ratio:94%

I'm in again. Really hoping to do better this month as the past few haven't been great.

Start of month:
Books on shelf: 33
Feedback Ratio: 82%

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
My Review My Review My Review My Review
My Review My Review My Review My Review

End of Month:
Books on shelf: 21
Feedback Ratio: 89%

I'm in!

Beginning of Month:

Books on Shelf: 15
Older than 30 days:

Current:


Netgalley Ratio: 89%


End of Month:

Read: 2


Reviews: 2
My Real Name Is Hanna review
Coordinates of Loss review

Added: 4


Books on Shelf: 17
Ratio: 88%

Beginning of Month

Books on Shelf: 7


Feedback Ratio: 74%

FINISHED:



ADDED:


End of Month
Books on Shelf: 6
Feedback Ratio: 79% (almost there!)

Start of Month:
October Books on Shelf : 16
Feedback ratio to start: 81%

Books:
Current titles:

Older than 3 months:


ADDED IN OCTOBER

FINISHED


End of Month:
Books on shelf: 15
Feedback Ratio: 82%

Start of Month
Feedback ratio: 48%
Books on Shelf: 15



Books added in October:


Read and Reviewed:

October

Start of Month
Books On Shelf: 3
Feedback Ratio: 89%

Books:


Added:


Read:


End Of Month
Books On Shelf: 7
Feedback Ratio: 83%

Beginning of the month

Books on shelves: 19



Older than 3 months:



Feedback Ratio: 96%

End of the Month

Books I read in October: 2

Reviews:


DNF: 0

Added: 0

Shelf count: 17

Feedback ratio: 96%

I have seriously got to get my butt in gear and write up some reviews this month. Although planning to move house at the start of November so questionable whether I actually will :)

Beginning of Month

Feedback Ratio 76%
Books on Shelf: 63

Planning to Read



Read & still to Review


Reviews Posted


Books Added:


Current
Feedback Ratio 75%
Books on Shelf 69

Month 2 complete - starting to get the hang of this :D ...went a little crazy adding more books last month when I said I wasn't going to add any but they're great titles and mostly publishing in 2019 so I'm not at all mad at it. Loving what I'm reading so far! This is fun!!

Feedback Ratio: 33%
Books on Shelf: 20
Goal: 4 books, 2 graphic novels

Sort by Publishing Date:


Books Added in October:


Reviews:


Feedback provided - not posted to GR


Feedback provided - not posted to GR


Review

Conveniently His Princess
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Deadly Ties
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
How to Marry A Cowboy
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I'm in!
Books in shelf: Too many
Feedback: 62%

I have 32 books that I've read but not reviewed.

I'm reading 2 more NetGalley books right now and hopefully will have read a total of 4 in October

Haha Kirby - I think we all go a little crazy adding books sometimes! I’m glad you’re enjoying it

NetGalley


🎃 Beginning of October
Feedback Ratio 67%
Total # of Books on Shelf - 7


4★'s

Books Older Than Three Months

Books Read & Reviewed
3★'s
4★'s
5★'s


Books Added:


🎃 End of October Update:
Feedback Ratio — 78%
Books on Shelf —5

My spot. Will update later

Super excited. Just got approved forAn Anonymous Girl . I really liked her other book. I am going to start this right away.

Start of Month:

October Books on Shelf : 7
Feedback ratio to start: 24%

Books:
Current titles:
Confessions of a Teenage Leper
Unstoppable Moses
After the Fire
The Revolution of Jack Frost
Pink Hair and Other Terrible Ideas
The Goodbye Girls
The Commandment

ADDED IN OCTOBER


FINISHED


End of Month:
Books on shelf:
Feedback Ratio:

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Haha Kirby - I think we all go a little crazy adding books sometimes! I’m glad you’re enjoying it"

I have to be very careful or I can't read them on time!
I like your creepy pic, Karen!

Vicki Willis wrote: "Super excited. Just got approved forAn Anonymous Girl . I really liked her other book. I am going to start this right away."

Nice, Vicky!

I just signed up for NetGalley.

I have one book on my shelf and am currently reading it. I am looking forward to increasing my NetGalley reads.

On shelf:
Into the Fire

Feedback Ratio: 0%

October
Added to Shelf:

And Then You Were Gone by R.J. Jacobs


Nightmare Before Christmas: Zero's Journey by D.J. Milky

Reviewed:
by Sonia Orchard
my review

by D.J. Milky
My Review

End of the month

Books Reviewed:
Link to reviews:
Books on Shelf:
Feedback Ratio:

Welcome Kate!

I've joined NetGalley last summer. I really have to start reading these books. I don't have many, but they are bugging me constantly.

Beginning of the month
Books on shelf: 3
Books:

Feedback ratio: 20%

Added:


Finished:
my review my review my review

End of month
Books on shelf: 5
Feedback ratio: 40%

Welcome Heli!

So my whole request ban is not going well. Just got &

I had said I would only request if it was a fave author and a book I was going to buy anyway so it's all totally fine :/ Plus Kagawa's book was Read Now so I had to get it.

If anyone is interested Robin Talley's new book is also Read Now on UK NetGalley right now. I'm resisting, for at least the next half hour.

I finished one!
An Anonymous Girl
I really liked it. I had been looking forward to this one because I absolutely loved the first one they wrote. (There are 2 authors, but I don't know how they work together.)

I just saw that The Nowhere Child was put back on NetGalley prior to the US release (January 22nd). I was excited because I'd been watching for it. I requested it yesterday and got approved today! :D

I also got a widget for The Mother-in-Law, which I plan to accept. I loved the last book I read by Sally Hepworth and it doesn't publish until April 23rd, 2019 so i have plenty of time to review.

So, adding two:

Kristie wrote: "I just saw that The Nowhere Child was put back on NetGalley prior to the US release (January 22nd). I was excited because I'd been watching for it. I requested it yesterday and got ..."

Hooray!

And I love Hepworth! They sent me a widget for her last book, but I don't seem to have one for the new one :(
I've requested it and will cross my fingers

Hope you get it, Karen!

I'd better start reading! I just picked up another. Paper Wife: A Novel by Laila Ibrahim

Request denied :( apparently they are only offering it to Canada and USA. I guess they want to give her more of an international presence. I’ll just have to get it from the library

Oh, that’s too bad, Karen. Maybe you’ll luck out and get a widget later.

I think I may even just email the publisher from the widget they sent me last time and quietly beg
LOL

Good idea!

Of course the one month I don't sing up is the month when I'm reading the most Netgalley books lol

How many books on your NetGalley shelf: 12
What your Netgalley feedback ratio is: 73%

What books are on your NG shelf:



New


Read

Reviewed
(reviewed on NG)

End of the month(view spoiler)[
Updated books on your NetGalley shelf: 11
Updated Netgalley feedback ratio is: still 76% (hide spoiler)]

Well, I "finished" one. Really, I DNF one. I'm pretty disappointed too. I thought this would be one that I loved, but I just couldn't get into it. I really don't like giving negative reviews on NetGalley, but it just wasn't for me. Did you know that you can't give a review without a star rating? Bummer.



My Real Name Is Hanna review

Well done Michelle!

Oh that’s a shame Kristie 😦 I did see that book but didn’t request it because I’m on a self imposed WWII ban 😂

Finished book #2 for the month! Great book!



Coordinates of Loss review

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Well done Michelle!

Oh that’s a shame Kristie 😦 I did see that book but didn’t request it because I’m on a self imposed WWII ban 😂"

lol! I don't blame you. There seems to be an awful lot of them out there.

November thread is now open
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

I'm afraid I didn't read any in October. I did start one on Sunday, but it is a U which works better for wheelathon next week, so I've put it aside for now :o

November I want to get through at least 3

Alright I don't think I'll get to any more books tonight or tomorrow, so I'm calling October done. After having a terrible few months, I had a great month this month and got to 20 Netgalley books.

Start of month:
Books on shelf: 33
Feedback Ratio: 82%

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
My Review My Review My Review My Review
My Review My Review My Review My Review

End of Month:
Books on shelf: 21
Feedback Ratio: 89%

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "I'm afraid I didn't read any in October. I did start one on Sunday, but it is a U which works better for wheelathon next week, so I've put it aside for now :o"

I reviewed two, but added 3 and I just got a widget for one I may still add. I was hoping to finish at least one more, but the end of the month snuck up on me.

You really did have a great month, Melanie! Twenty NetGalleys is amazing!

That is fantastic Melanie - well done!

That’s pretty good Kristie. ! Mine are all getting so old. I don’t have many but they really need to be read soon 😉

Most of mine are old too, Karen. I really need to get through some of them. Of course, I say that while accepting a widget for I Owe You One. 🤷‍♀️

Great job everyone!
I read two and am calling that a success!

Not exactly the best month for me as I seem to have a net increase of 6 books. Although most of the books I've added are ones I already had on my TBR / Amazon wishlist rather than whatever jumped out at me.

There is a possibility my shelf is going to dramatically increase in the next couple of hours though as I've just noticed all of the Darynda Jones books are read now with the exception of the latest (which is request). I've already picked up the first book (it's a series I've always wanted to read) so if someone could talk me down from the other 11 that would be great.