I'm curious about how many people on here use NetGalley too and for how long/ their feedback ratios/how often they get declined/luck with authors. If you get ARCs elsewhere, drop that in too!

I'll go first. I've been a user since 2021 with 583 titles approved till date and 138 declined. My feedback ratio stands at 95% and I'm proud of it 💪. For some reason lately I haven't been getting emails when I get declined a title, so I have to go into the website and check. I've never been auto approved by a publisher, but I do get emails from agents sometimes offering me "Read It" of e-ARCS. Aaand the only publisher that's never approved a single request of mine is Berkely. At this point I'm convinced they have me on a blacklist (though I wouldn't know why) and I've long since given up sending them requests.

hey friends! a few of us discussed doing a buddy read for the starving saints in feb but i have completely lost the post where we decided on it, so i just wanted to chuck that here in case anyone is keen to join! (and for those who are already interested - when in feb works for you?)

EDIT: yay glad so many of us are keen! let’s loosely say february (starting on the 1st) so people can read any time during the month - there are lots of other readalongs so that should hopefully allow for some wiggle room!

I cannot for the life of me find the post about reading this book in february! Someone please help! 😂😂 When do we start?

Are any of you guys writers? I’m interested in the link between how much people read and whether that translates over to writing.

Not even half way through the book but Eddie already has my heart. The team better stop being jerks to him soon. He just wants someone to talk to 😭😭

Nothing is ever really wasted, she believed sensibly, even one's childhood, and then each year, one summer morning, the warm wind would come down the city street where she walked and she would be touched with the little cold thought: I have let more time go by.

I relate to this so bad </3 as the years have gone by I've come to realize that I get summer depression, and every year without fail the moment the sun goes from feeling warm to sweltering I suddenly get thrown into that "I'm wasting my life away" feeling, even if I know that's not true 🫠 siiigh

I recently bought two books, which finally made their arrival at my doorstep. I was literally jumping and kicking my feet as I opened the package, but I've been staring at them unable to read them.

They are from two different authors which could be my favourite ever. In the sense that I only read one of their books each, and I don't know if that one was just phenomenal or if they are phenomenal yet.

These are both novels which came out before the ones I read this summer. One is the first book of one of them, and it's a different genre. Which makes me a little anxious about possibly not liking their previous style.

The ratings of these are over 4 stars wherever I checked. It gets my hopes up so bad, but I'm still terrified.

They are A thousand perfect notes by C G Drews (I had read Don't let the forest in this summer), the one I'm thinking of starting with, considering it's the shortest;

and Hell followed with us by Andrew J White (I had read The spirit bares its teeth this summer, go read it because this should become a classic of our times in my opinion).

Does this happen to anyone else?