Adventures in Reading: e-ARC's

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Friday, January 17, 2014

ARC's, e-ARC's and Me

I struggled a lot with a topic for this week's discussion. I had covered a lot of topics in recent weeks but, after I made another review log last night (because I had accidentally deleted the first one) I realized that I wanted to do one on ARC's, e-ARC's and how I deal with them. I am a big fan of lists. I make lists of books I want to read, lists of books I have to read and lists of books that I've read.

Yet the only formal lists I make have to do with ARC's & e-ARC's. When I initially started blogging, I focused only on the books I already owned. I had no idea what ARC's were and more to the point, I didn't want to have ARC's. I'm not a greedy person and it's not in my nature to be grabby with things, even things I love, like books.

Acquisitions of ARC's & e-ARC's started off slowly. Since I have such an eclectic taste in books, I was getting a variety of review requests from indie authors and publishers. Many of them, I accepted because I was running out of books to read. The whole concept of "running out of books" suddenly became foreign to me. Things only got unmanageable when I discovered first Netgalley and then Edelweiss.

As a newbie blogger, the ratio of approvals to denials for both of these systems were pretty lopsided for awhile. I was still keeping up with my books for the most part until I was six months in and Edelweiss decided to auto-approve me for multiple publishers. Then, I'm mortified to say, I got overwhelmed and yes a bit greedy. Of course I'm embarrassed about that.No one wants to be called greedy. It's a terrible thing to be called.

I tried to use Excel spreadsheets to organize things, but it just didn't work for me. I ended up using just a straight up Word Document. I wrote the title of the book and the date it was scheduled to be reviewed on my blog. Whenever I finish reading the book, writing the review and scheduling it, I cross it off of the list.

So how do you keep your review pile organized?

Sunday, December 1, 2013

Stacking The Shelves #20

This feature is brought to you by Tynga @ Tynga's Reviews.

Hello everyone. As you probably noticed, there was no Stacking the Shelves last week. I had only gotten one book and I didn't think it made sense to do a whole Stacking the Shelves post for one book.

This week, I bought four e-books. I bought them mainly because I have the e-ARC's of their sequels and I needed to read the first books in the series before moving on to the e-ARC's.

I received one e-ARC from Edelweiss and 4 from NetGalley.Hoping to get a lot of these read and reviewed in the next few weeks.

Bought

The Madman's Daughter (The Madman's Daughter #1) by Megan Shepherd
Pushing The Limits (Pushing The Limits #1) by Katie McGarry
Dare You To (Pushing The Limits #2) by Katie McGarry

Mind Games (Mind Games #1) by Kiersten White

Received for Review

-Edelweiss-

Fake ID by Lamar Giles

-NetGalley-

Secret Lies by Amy Dunne
Doing Harm by Kelly Parsons
White Space by Ilsa J. Bick

The Moment Before by Suzy Vitello

Won

Gifted
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As always, please let me know if you've read any of these and what you thought of them. Don't forget to leave me a link to your Stacking the Shelves posts.

Sunday, November 3, 2013

Stacking The Shelves #17

Hello everyone! This was a crazy awesome week filled with excitement for me. First and most awesomely, I got auto approved for all HarperTeen titles on Edelweiss. That is a really big deal for book bloggers. Edelweiss had not been very kind to me in the past so to get auto approved was a major shock for me.

I tried hard to restrain myself as I am already far behind in my reading. Yeah, that did not last long. I had to download nearly all of the HarperTeen titles just in case this auto-approval thing was a total fluke.

Also on this day my copy of Allegiant FINALLY arrived. I may or may not have totally spazzed out and no there is no video of that. I also received an ARC of The Testing from Popcorn Reads which is really weird because I don't remember entering in contests or anything. But nonetheless, I'm SO excited.

I was also having issues with my Kindle at this point but after a quick conference with Amazon's customer service, everything was fixed and I was a happy lady.

Wednesday was another big day. I found out that I got auto-approved for HarlequinTeen's titles from Edelweiss as well.

So I got a grand total of 15 books this week. Yeeeeah, that's a LOT of books. Especially when I'm in the middle of a reading slump. I'm hoping to get out of this slump soonish. Maybe having all these awesome titles will help me out.

Just a reminder, this feature comes from Tynga's Reviews. Don't forget to stop by and link up your Stacking The Shelves posts & vlogs.

Bought

Allegiant (Divergent #3) by Veronica Roth

Received for Review

-Edelweiss-

Crash Into You (Pushing The Limits #3) by Katie McGarry

Great by Sara Benincasa

Faking Normal by Courtney C. Stevens

Perfect Lies by Kiersten White
Pawn by Aimee Carter
Panic by Lauren Oliver

No One Else Can Have You by Kathleen Hale

Heartbeat by Elizabeth Scott

Maybe One Day by Melissa Kantor

Speechless by Hannah Harrington

Uninvited (Uninvited #1) by Sophie Jordan

Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge

-NetGalley-

Random by Lark O'Neal

Gifted
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Won

The Testing (The Testing #1) by Joelle Charbonneau (From Popcorn Reads)

Let me know if we got any of the same books. Also let me know if you've read any of these and what you thought of them. Don't forget to leave a link to your Stacking The Shelves posts in the comments so I can stop by and see what you got this week.

Sunday, October 13, 2013

Stacking the Shelves #14

Hi, all of you awesome people. You may have noticed that I did not have a Stacking the Shelves post last Sunday. That reason was really because I had only received one book and I thought it was pointless to have a book haul post with only one book in it. This week,however NetGalley has been very kind to me. I received 5 books from NetGalley. Some of them are even early 2014 releases. Yipeee :) Broken Beauty was the only book I got 2 weeks ago and yes I did already read & review it. It just felt weird not to put it in the post.

I also received an e-ARC of The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year by Marie Landry. I am SO excited for this one.

Don't forget that this feature comes from Tynga's Reviews. Don't forget to stop by and link up your Stacking The Shelves posts/vlogs etc. As always don't forget to let me know if you have read any of the books that I got and if you did read it, what did you think of it.

Bought

Received for Review

Broken Beauty (Broken Beauty Novellas #1) by Lizzy Ford (writing as Chloe Adams)

(e-book from Netgalley)

Forever Innocent by Deanna Roy (e-book from Netgalley)

Above by Isla Morley (e-galley from Netgalley)

Once Upon A Lie by Maggie Barbieri (e-galley from Netgalley)

The Summer I Found You by Jolene Perry (e-galley from Netgalley)

The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year by Marie Landry (received e-ARC from Author)

Skin and Bones by Sherry Shahan (e-galley from Net Galley)

Won

Gifted
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See you all next week. Until then, happy reading.

Sunday, September 22, 2013

Stacking the Shelves #12

Hello again everyone. This weekly feature comes from Tynga's Reviews. Don't forget to stop by and link up your STS posts or vlogs.All bookish goodies count.

This week was a big week. I had won a mystery box of books from Skye @ Skye's Scribblings a few weeks ago and the box finally arrived this week, I was really happy to see that I hadn't read any of these books.Not only that but I hadn't even HEARD of any of them. So yay for me.

I swiped up a few things from Netgalley this week. I had finished several review books this week so this was my treat to myself since I didn't purchase anything for myself this week.

As always, be sure to let me know if you've read any of these and what you thought of them. Also leave me a link to your STS post or vlog so I can stop by and see what you got this week.

Bought

Received for Review