So I just noticed that if I keep pace, I can make 100 NetGalley ARC reviews by the end of the year (I'm at 83 today).
I will never reach 80% feedback ratio (you don't wanna know how many digital ARCs I have sitting in ye olde kindle--those seven plus years of not reading...), so I wonder if the "100 reviews" badge will make a difference for publishers who have been giving me the side eye.
I'm sitting at 99 book reviews published in 2023, which means I absolutely can hit the 100th before the end of the month/year.
However, I'm mad at myself: I didn't realize until right now that the review of Crime and Parchment I published on Wednesday (Nov 29, 2023) was my 500th review.
100 NetGalley ARC reviews in the bag, with my review of A Murder for the Books,, by Victoria Gilbert. Apparently the author's debut and the beginning of her long-running Blue Ridge Library series.
Last year I published 105 reviews, about half NetGalley ARCs; this got me the "100 reviews" badge. So this year I wanted to go for the next badge, for 200 ARC reviews.
But this year reading has not been even; it's feels like I have barely read anything at all, and that it would be impossible to read 100 books, let alone review them--never mind making sure they're all NetGalley ARCS.
Then I counted, and I've reviewed 25 books, 22 of them NetGalley ARCs.
Heads up: #NetGalley just updated their TOS. I know it's not fun, but I do recommend reading them as carefully as you can; I have refrained from accepting them for now, until I get answers to a couple of questions I have, including what's covered under "vulgar, obscene or otherwise objectionable" in reviews, and the reporting mechanism. Some people object to the existence of queer people and/or books/reviews talking about them, for example.
@herhandsmyhands Oh god, is it going to be like trying to post to Amazon with their restrictions?? I think I have Amazon's (it did take me 4 tries to get a recent review accepted) figured out for the most part, I don't have it in me to learn a new one. @romancelandia@bookstodon
I highly recommend emailing them (they tell you how) with any questions and concerns you may have about their updated TOS; the more people ask for clarification on how they are going to protect those users most likely to be reported in bad-faith, etc., the more likely they are to pay attention.
Sitting at 44 reviews published this year, 37 of which are for #NetGalley ARCs
Because arbitrary deadlines* are a thing for me, I wonder if I can publish 13 ARC reviews by the end of the month.
It's the symbolic symmetry of publishing 50 in the first half of 2024 and 50 in the second half, to get the coveted 200 reviews badge by the end of the year.
(More seriously I have discovered over the month of owning my new colour Kobo that trying it out has broken my own fiction reading slump, at least for now.)