What a fun little event for the summer! I wish I had figured it out sooner so I could have participated more fully! I'm looking forward to the next one!

Very fun event for NetGalley! Thank you for hosting. I will be sure to lay more attention in the future and participate.

Super cute and fun! Great way to interact with NetGalley users and make new friends with similar book interests!

I’ve added my link in the box below but it here too: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6627825305

So I downloaded Camp NetGalley but have a major quibble. Our summer in the UK starts way later than that in the US. I would have loved to have had the whole of August to do this but unfortunately, I only had ten days. Please make note of this for next year.

Also, instructions were very unclear about how to submit to Bingo board.

My Talent Show entry is a book that I reviewed last year. The author picked it up, quoting from it for a promotional social media post.

As they say, it's always better to be late than never because I was certainly late for this online Netgalley event. It's a good thing that I was looking for titles yesterday and I came across the Camp Netgalley in the Read Now titles. Hehehe. So I joined because having a #CampNetgalley badge is kind of cool. When I checked the things that need to be done for a successful participation in the Camp, I thought that "OK FINE. These are all doable given the time that I have so let's do this."

So here I am right now, writing this review because Camp Netgalley is almost at conclusion. What I found the most challenging in the event is the Bingo. Wow. I joined late into the party so my time is very limited and I was just saying while playing the Bingo "Please not this one...no, not Horror...not Thriller..." Thank the heavens because I got lucky with the Bingo, I got the row 1 across which is easy because when I joined the Camp, I have a lot of books and ARCs written by POC authors. It's just a matter of choosing what book so I asked a friend from the office to choose among the books and ARCs that I have. And the verdict is ...chan chadadan.... The Hurricane Wars by Thea Guanzon, a fellow Filipina.

I have already posted the link of my review for the book. It's not as enjoyable as I thought it would be but nonetheless, it was not a complete flop. I will also be reading the second book and I hope things such as plot development will get better. Anyway, let us forget the books for now and get down to business. So what are my thoughts about Camp Netgalley? Well, I enjoyed it despite that I was late into the game. As a busy person, I find that the challenges perfectly fitted my schedule. I was able to do the challenges without getting too stressed about completing the camp's Bingo game.

Here is what the Bingo card has in store for me:

Share review to social media - Check!
BIPOC author - Check!
Share pic of your Camp reading spot - Check! (Look at my IG)
Raise your Feedback Ratio - Check! (I don't think I can raise it any higher as I am already at around 96% reviewing ratio)
Friend picks what you’ll read - Check! (My review here: Book Review: The Hurricane Wars - Snoozly Kitsune)

All in all, this was a fun camp and I'm certainly proud with my Bingo accomplishments.  My only wish for this event, however, is that Netgalley should consider adding a forum wherein all the participants can gather and discuss their Camp Netgalley journey together. I'm so excited to get that badge and more events like this in the future, please Netgalley. :D

This was a nice feature to add in this summer. Would love to see seasonal or holiday inspired activities to come.

Might be worth doing a feature post with specific hashtags for a sort of competition. Maybe by individual or by book club?

Thank you for the something new here this summer.

This was such a fun activity and idea for us to do! I reall;y loved this idea and thought this was such a fun time to do.

Here is my review of Go To Hell by Erika Engelhaupt:

She does it again! Engelhaupt has an outstanding ability to take science- based topics and present them in an informative yet totally approachable and exciting way. I was blown away by Gory Details and Go to Hell will be another I will be recommending as I begin impatiently waiting for the next book by my newest auto-buy author!

In Go To Hell, we venture across the globe to find places associated with concept of Hell through folklore, physical features, unlivable conditions, and otherworldly attractions. While I enjoyed reading about each one of these places and their connection to the concept of Hell, I can safely say that not all the locations made it on my personal destination bucket list as many were truly -well- hellish!

This was a bit fun from Netgalley! I like any excuse to pretend it's not winter in Aotearoa-New Zealand!

Well, this was a fun way to enhance the NetGalley experience. I liked that it had ideas of ways to stretch reading in different ways - by types of books, by activities, and by finding good "stuff" to read. I also liked that it added a layer of community to the NetGalley experience - something I hope continues. Thanks to NetGalley for adding a neat dimension to being a reviewer on here!

I found this to be a really fun way to add a little additional interaction between NetGalley reviewers. It was great to play along on social media and see what others were adding to the discussion.


My most recent reviews linked:
Tangled Up in You by Christina Lauren - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6311704612
House of Glass by Sarah Pekkanen https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6133195911

This was my first time doing "Camp Netgalley" and it is adorable! I love the Bingo, although I was not able to get a full bingo. I think it would be fun in the future to earn points for doing different activities that enter you into a raffle of some sort! One of my libraries is doing that this summer and I love it.

This was a cute idea. It didn't work with my Christmas in July theme, but was still a cool idea! I hope they do something like this again.

What a fun way to celebrate summer! I love all the positive attention focused on the NetGalley reviewers!

I loved Camp NetGalley and will absolutely be participating next year. I would love to see it expand beyond Instagram and find a home on TikTok with video challenges and book clubs and cabin hashtags. I think it would be fun to have a quiz sort participants into cabins and have weekly cabin competitions across social media platforms where participants in winning cabins get exclusive prizes.

Oh there are so many positive things to say about Camp NetGalley! From the colorful and lively branding to the fun month-long activities, Camp NetGalley provided many opportunities to explore new stories and broaden one's typical book preferences. If I had to share one area of improvement for future summers, I wish there were weekly recap newsletter/emails that also gave campers reminders of current and upcoming weekly events. Summer is a busy time and I admittedly did not give the bingo card as much time and energy as I hoped because I unfortunately forgot about it a few times throughout the month. Little email reminders would have been great!

Here are review links to my favorite July read!
https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R1AQUTJ8J50IT?ref=pf_ov_at_pdctrvw_srp
https://www.instagram.com/p/C9xIsFaOudw/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA

Such a fabulous bit of summer fun from Netgalley! July just flew by! Really hope there will be more of these activities to look forward to.

This was such a fun summer collaboration! I’ve enjoyed following the hashtag on Instagram and seeing everyone’s posts 🩷 no notes, I hope Camp NetGalley is back next summer!!

Camp NetGalley is such a fun and creative idea to get us interacting and excited about reviewing more ARCs

Wish I had been able to participate more, it looked like fun but work life got in the way and it was over before I realised