NetGalley (Goodreads) Book Tag

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THE RULES

• Link back to the tag’s creator (Kourtni Reads)
• Thank and link back to the person who tagged you
• Answer the questions the best you can. If you don’t use NetGalley, you can substitute other sites or places where you get books!
• Tag a few people to do this too

Auto-Approved: Who’s one author whose books you automatically want to read, regardless of what they’re about?
 
Easy-peasy! Sherman Alexie. Damn I love him! Wait? One? Can I sneak in a second from my list? (Alice Hoffman)

Request: What makes you want to request a book that you see on Goodreads/NetGalley?

I find this a hard question. I pick books to read without knowing I've picked any. But I must pick them because I have a stack knee deep waiting to be read, and I've read 70 so far this year. My process is mysterious to myself, but I can say that the title usually grabs me first. Intrigues me. A smile across a room. The cover isn't as important, but it's in there. It's part of the appeal. What does the back of the book say? Even if it's online, it's got a "back" to tell me something. Online, I get to see what someone else said. Sometimes that intrigues me, sometimes it turns me off. I usually prefer to just read it's description. Earlier this year I attended a conference in Hawaii (I know so sad...) and the speakers (librarians!) suggested tweeting what you're reading to your students. Facebook, Instagram, anything to show them what you're reading. I've read close to a dozen student recommends since January when I started sharing what I was reading with my students. In fact one of the books currently out from the library is a student recommend, and a second is a recommend from a friend's daughter!

Title, cover, premise, recommendation... that's how I pick books...

Feedback Ratio: Do you review every book you read? If not, how do you decide what books to review?
 
I don't review any of the books I read. I do share them with my students, and I've started sharing the books with a quote from the book that grabbed me. This is easier when I'm reading on my Kindle... (I don't belong to NetGalley or Goodreads...)

Badges: If you could create your own badge to display on your blog, what would it be for?

Well, I haven't considered a badge before, but I did decide just last night that I was going to give an award to 5 books I read this year that moved me. That seem to be a part of my being now. Books that I can't let go of or rather books that can't let me go...

Wish for It: What’s one book that you are absolutely dying to read?

Well, the only reason for me to be dying to read a book is it's not out yet. I literally can't read it. So that would be the latest Harry Dresden book (Peace Talks). I love Jim Butcher's writing and I so love Harry!!!

I am very interested in the next Charley Davidson book ( Eleventh Grave in Moonlight by Darynda Jones) and This Shattered World (the next book in the Starbound Series by Amie Kaufman & Megan Spooner).

But if we are talking about books that don't exist... I'd looooooooove to read Sherman Alexie's sequel to The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian told from Rowdy's perspective. Or... another story from Thomas Builds the Fire. I love his voice!!! "Hey, Victor!"

2016 Goodreads Challenge: What was the last book that you received as an ARC that you reviewed? If you’ve never received an ARC, what’s the last book you reviewed?

I can tell you the last book I read was Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng. And holy crap!!! It's AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Tagging (Feel free to ignore if you’re not interested):

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