2017 Blogger Shame Challenge
Anna @ Herding Cats and Burning Soup is hosting the Blogger Shame challenge once more. And I keep needing this one, too. I have some review books that are way, way overdue, and I know I want to read them still. Even if I am definitely ashamed of myself for not having read them sooner. Now, I kind of feel like I’ll get a prize for getting over that shame and just read, so here goes!
Books that count for the 2017 Blogger Shame Challenge:
Any review book that is 4+ months PAST DUE.
Yep. Only OLD review requests that have slipped through the cracks count.
Any format, any length.
How to Keep on Track with the 2017 Blogger Shame challenge:
There will be three posts for the challenge.
Sign Up Post: Link Up your sign up post on this page
(let us know what you’ll be tackling! make a list of specific titles or just the number of books you’re tackling)
Mid Year Check In: First week of June
Wrap Up Post: Last week of December
I don’t exactly have a list of books I will read, but here’s a little preview from my spreadsheet. Note that the titles in red are the ones I haven’t gotten to yet. And these were all 2015 ARCs, that I received for review in 2015, so they are definitely books that can count for the 2017 Blogger Shame Challenge:
So that’s me – are you a ‘bad’ blogger too, when it comes to some of those ARCs? Or are you always up to date on things, never one to leave a poor ARC behind?
If you do participate, good luck!!
About Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms
Linda is an English as foreign language teacher and has a Master's degree in English Language and Literature. She's an avid reader, blogger, compulsive one-clicker and a genre omnivore. Ever since she learnt how to read she has been seen with a book or two in her hands everywhere she goes.
I’ll be taking the challenge with you, Lexxie. I still have a dozen or so older review books that need my attention. Good luck and wish me luck, too. 🙂
Oh you are good, then, Sophia! ‘Only’ a dozen or so older review books? Good luck to you 🙂 We can do it!!
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I really should sign up for this one but trying to cut down on my challenges this year…lol. I am hoping to do a lot of backlogged books next year and get my netgalley score up as well as not some edelweiss books out. Meant to do it this year but got to many new ones…lol. I will think about it…even cutting down I am still a sucker for a challenge! 🙂
This is one of those challenges I really need, Stormi. I am usually quite good with my ARCs, but especially in the beginning, I’d click the widget if I was invited to see a book, and it was automatically added to my shelf :O I don’t do this anymore, so most of my more recent ARCs have been read and reviewed, thank goodness.
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I’m feeling so much better that it’s not just me! But I’ve got like literally 50 titles sitting in my shame list! I think I’ll sign up when I’m on the computer later.
Yeah, it’s pretty bad, right? I think it can ‘just happen’ if we let those ARCs slide just a little bit, and then, we end up feel so overwhelmed it’s impossible to get back to them 😀
Now, we have help, though 🙂 You should sign up!!
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With me it’s more like I MUST HAVE ALL OF THESE WHILE THEY’RE AVAILABLE and then it just goes out of hand xD
I’m definitely signing up 🙂 I’ll just have to figure out my goals 😀
LOL, I still do that sometimes, too, and it also happens that the publishers take a very long time to accept my request, and by the time I actually get it (over a month later) I’m just not all that interested anymore…
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I think I’ll always do that, because like they say, at least where I live – the eyes are hungrier than the stomach. And we’re such a bargain mindset society, aren’t we? That’s why I’m staying off NetGalley for a while now! And trying not to think of all the potentially awesome books I might be missing there. Not thinking about that at all. Nope.
You’re right though, I’ve found that when you request a few books and it takes them a while to respond, you really do tend to forget ‘the hype’. That’s kind of sad, but then I guess, maybe it’s better to view the book without expectations?
LOL denial is our friends sometimes, for sure! Especially when it comes to those books we just might miss out on. That is a lot scarier than leaving an ARC unread for too long 😉
Where do you live? we say ‘the eyes are bigger than the stomach’ in French, and in Norwegian, too, I think it’s ‘the eyes are hungrier than the stomach’ it’s funny how some sayings can be translated eh? I love language!!
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This seems like perfect for me since I had to stop blogging for like three months! Thanks for sharing Lexxie!
Oh that’s good that I could help you out with that, Dragonfly 🙂 I hope you’ll join in!
I have gotten so much better at not letting my review books set that long, mostly by taking on less, but there was a time that this would have been a great way to motivate me. I will be sure to add it to the challenge directory. It’s a great challenge.
Yeah, Anna really helps me out with this one, Steph! And I have gotten much, much better lately (partly with the help of this challenge, too…) as most of my older ARCs are from a long time ago now.
I’m doing this challenge again this year as well, Lexxie. I only read 11 books last year but hey, it’s 11. 🙂 And I love the idea of creating a spreadsheet…I may have to create one for myself. I haven’t ever come up with a good way of keeping track of Netgalley reads for myself. Maybe a spreadsheet would work?? Anyway, you know I’ll be cheering for you, wifey! *smooches* {{HUGS & LOVE}}
I have read 12 so far, but it’s better than none, right? And I may have just let those books linger for even longer on my kindle if it wasn’t for this challenge. My spreadsheet is nice, especially if I can’t remember when a book will be released! And I think it’s nice to see when I downloaded a book, too, as I usually do that on the day that I’m accepted. That means that if I receive an ARC when it’s already published, I don’t have to stress to get it read, you know?
*smooches* {{{BIG HUGS}}} Love you and miss you!!
Ahhh yes. The shame. We has it. lol Mine is terrible! I’m good at keeping up with my currents but man I have a stack from 2014-2015 that taunt me so bad. Good luck with your list! Hopefully we’ll all conquer our piles this coming year 😀
LOL, the worst part is that I’m not actually ashamed of myself *grins* I’m badass that way, Anna. I’m much better at keeping up with my currents, too, and like you the 2014 and 2015 ones are what I need the help for. I think I went way too click-happy back then, too.
Thanks for hosting us, Anna!
Gosh yeah. It was really easy to do that NG one click binge. Ahhh to be a young blogger again. lol
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I live in Lithuania 🙂 small country in Eastern Europe. I guess most European languages will have that saying then – I’m not surprised 🙂 I also love the way languages work out, I used to be a sort of language nerd, could speak 7 at one point. French wasn’t one of them, unfortunately 😀
I haven’t been to Lithuania, but it’s one of the Eastern European countries on my bucket list 🙂 Language nerds unite!! I have a degree in general linguistics, and I love picking languages apart and try to understand how they work 😀
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Really? 🙂 wait, where do you live? If you ever do visit, I’d gladly take you on a little tour 🙂
Picking languages apart is just so much fun! Especially when you learn more of those and figure out how they interconnect. That’s a total lang-nerd-gasm. lol
I live in Geneva, Switzerland 🙂 And my husband and I try to go on small two-three day trips a couple of times every year, just the two of us, leaving the children and the dog behind 😀
Yes, the more languages you know, the more fun it is to both find the connections and the ways to pick them apart 😀 You got me all happy and smiling now with the lang-nerd-gasm 😀 I might even be able to continue writing up my thesis draft now, that’s how linguastic your comment was, Evelina!
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Oh cool, you are pretty close then 🙂 if you ever do visit, let me know 🙂
Good luck on your thesis 😀
Hahaha! this sounds like fun and really strikes a chord with me too…maybe not with books, but with tea. I have at least 20 I need to review. thankfully, 18 of those are recent purchases (November). Really need to get on the stick and plan these reviews as Tea for Tuesday and Thirsty Thursday posts in 2017.
Also need to get back in the groove with book reviews too. Hearing “tsk, tsk, tsk” in my head. 😀
Oh, that would be fun, Xyra! Maybe other tea-bloggers would help you to keep you on your toes? That’s a lot of tea, for sure, I hope they’ll all be delicious!
Still haven’t gotten to the tea reviews; however, it is only the first week in National Hot Tea Month. 🙂
I hope they are all delicious too. Lately, I’ve noticed some that I used to like a lot don’t taste nearly as good as I once thought.
OMG I LOVE THIS! So. I am currently a pretty solid reviewer. I think there are maybe one or two books that I lost interest in from Edelweiss over the years. BUT. (There’s always a but, right? 😉 ) When I first started blogging, I got a little caught up in people emailing me and asking for reviews- and I felt too guilty to say no! So I have eARCs of books that once I started them (or even really THOUGHT about starting a few of them) I realized I should have said no to… and felt too guilty to mark as DNF (or, tell whoever sent them that I didn’t like them). So under that little mess, I have probably 15 or so eARCs that I have never read. And I DO feel guilty about them. BUT… I also don’t want to read them so there’s that ?
Also, I have a spreadsheet too, but on the off chance that a book stops interesting me after a few months, I delete it, because it stresses me out too much. I felt soooo guilty but… I am usually REALLY reliable, so if a (very) few books slip through the cracks…. I need to live with it. This is still fun though! Good luck with yours!! 😀