Internet connection woes have set me back and I missed my usual Tuesday post, but I did see this tag on Abigail’s blog post and thought I’d plug it in. Hoping then to clear my backlog, catch up with everyone, and get back to posting reviews on schedule!
Thank you, Abigail, and here are the questions. You’ll have to read to the bottom to see my score.
- Received an ARC and not reviewed it
Nope! If I’ve gotten an ARC, I’ve read and reviewed it! Score one for me!
- Have less than 60% feedback rating on NetGalley
My (current) score is at 93%. Once I got it back above 80%, I’ve been very, very careful with it.
- Rated a book on Goodreads and promised a full review was to come on your blog (and never did)
Actually, I think it’s more closely the opposite. If I get the blog review done, I reduce the word count and post on Goodreads, Amazon, and NetGalley the following day.
- Folded down the page of a book
Not since I started reading on my Kindle and cell phone and it doesn’t say “ever.” I have received a few printed books, but have bookmarks for those.
- Accidentally spilled on a book
NOPE! Am very careful around my cell phone–pretty much my entire life is on it.
- DNF a book this year
√ Oops, I have had to do this. I usually try to get through it, but would rather level with the author privately that I cannot.
- Bought a book purely because it was pretty with no intention of reading it
Nope.
- Read whilst you were meant to be doing something else (like homework)
√ Absolutely! All the time. It’s either that or Words With Friends2.
- Skim read a book
√ Unfortunately, I have had to resort to this solution to finish a book on deadline, or when it is really dragging and I’m trying not to DNF it!
- Completely missed your Goodreads goal
Have my Goodreads goal met. Now if I could just likewise meet the NetGalley Challenge and the Alphabet Challenge!
- Borrowed a book and not returned it to the library
They’ve all gone back. My library alerts me when it’s expired and updates it for me, usually another two weeks. Talk about accommodating!
- Broke a book buying ban
My books fortunately come via NetGalley, author requests, or BookBub free to me for an honest review. So, no.
- Started a review, left it for ages then forgot what the book was about
√ Unfortunately, yes, but usually read and not reviewed right away, rather than started and not finished.
- Wrote in a book you were reading
√ That’s the neat part about reading on my cell phone (or Kindle). I can mark stuff up and color code it depending on whether it is an edit problem, something I want to remember, or a comment I can use as a quote. Does that count?
- Finished a book and not added it to your Goodreads
My books are usually added to my tbr on Goodreads as soon as I get it.
- Borrowed a book and not returned it to a friend
I don’t borrow books, unless from the library, and they always go back.
- Dodged someone asking if they can borrow a book
No
- Broke the spine of someone else’s book
Hope NOT!
- Took the jacket off a book to protect it and ended up making it more damaged
The jackets can be a pain when you are actively reading the book. I may remove it, but hope it isn’t “more damaged.”
- Sat on a book accidentally
No
Duffy Brown
(From Amazon) 
Portland, Oregon is a beautiful city and certainly well known for its profuse blooms, wild vegetation, and trees, and cities coupled with big events like the Rose Festival definitely draw a crowd. Here is a marvelous opportunity to get inside a float creation and enjoy descriptions of flowers, flower pairing, their deeper meanings, and the proper fluids to prolong a cutting’s life.
Kate Dyer-Seeley aka Ellie Alexander writes multiple mystery series, all with a Pacific Northwest touch. She lives in the PNW with her husband and son, where you can find her hitting the trail, at an artisan coffee shop, or at her favorite pub. Better yet—at all three.
It’s Christmas time in beautiful Sylvan Creek, Pennsylvania and pet sitter Daphne Templeton is gearing up by providing lots and lots of treats for the community yearly event Bark the Halls Ball. She will be taking her basset hound Socrates and accompanied by BFF Moxie and possible romantic interest Detective Jonathan Black. It is a very pet-friendly town and she is a proud owner of storefront Lucky Paws Pet Sitting Service and Flour Power. She also has a surly black Persian named Tinkleston, whom she calls Tink.
Bethany Blake lives in a small, quaint town in Pennsylvania with her husband and three daughters. When she’s not writing or riding horses, she’s wrangling a menagerie of furry family members that includes a nervous pit bull, a fearsome feline, a blind goldfish, and an attack cardinal named Robert. Like Daphne Templeton, the heroine of her Lucky Paws Mysteries, Bethany holds a Ph.D. and operates a pet sitting business called Barkley’s Premium Pet Care.
Rosepoint Publishing 