NetGalley Addicts Support Group discussion

This is a long shot . . . but does anyone remember a 2021 memoir that had a title such as: "When The Alligators Come . . . ." I think it was a NetGalley book, but am not sure. I'm asking because it oddly was at the top of My Books list this morning, and I deleted it without thinking I was deleting the review for good. (I know, very smart!)

I wrote it in April 2021 and it's no longer there listed in April of that year. I don't have a document copy of it, either, as I do many other reviews. And since I deleted my NetGalley membership for that time period, I have no record of the review there, if you can even go back that far in Feedback Sent.

Any ideas as to why it would show up at the top of My Books list? Since I can't find the book using the alligator title, is it possible the book was being deleted from Goodreads and elsewhere by the author? It's no big deal my review is gone, but it just seems very strange. Has anyone else found an old book at the top of their My Books list here at GR?

There's one on my page right now! I had read and reviewed it in Jan 2022, but for some reason, it's popped right on top of my feed.
GR keeps doing this randomly, I've no idea why. It is not as per user but as per books. it first started a few weeks ago with Dan Brown's 'Angels and Demons' which appeared at the top of the page of every user who read it, regardless of the year. Since then, it has been a fairly regular situation. Only GR knows what's happening, I've given up trying to understand.

Are you sure you have the book title right? There's nothing coming up even in Google search, which is odd. Even deleted books would show up somewhere or the other. Also, authors can't delete a book on Goodreads. Only librarians can.

Thanks for the info. I'll know now not to "x" out any additional books that are out of place. I'm pretty sure the title said "when the alligators arrive" or "come". Like you, though, I could find nothing on it anywhere on the internet. Maybe that was a subtitle that's not coming up.

It may have been because someone liked the review - that’s normally what boosts those older reviews

Dee wrote: "It may have been because someone liked the review - that’s normally what boosts those older reviews"
Oops . . . now it's gone.

Oh—this happens when someone merges the edition of the book that you had on your shelves into another edition (or possibly when another edition is merged into yours—I can't remember offhand). Support is aware of it, but it's definitely somewhere near the bottom of their priority list in terms of things to fix :)

This happened with Outlove this week too; you can see in the Reading Progress at the bottom of my review that I reviewed it in 2021 but GR has now decided that I only shelved it on July 26: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Liralen wrote: "Oh—this happens when someone merges the edition of the book that you had on your shelves into another edition (or possibly when another edition is merged into yours—I can't remember offhand). Suppo..."

Good observation!