How has your ARC reading been in November? For me, I felt like I wasn’t even tracking much. I know I went through some of my older ARCs, which is nice! But since I’m finally catching up, I find myself noticing ARCs less and less. Despite that, I’m always happy to check out my stats 🙂 so let’s see how they are.
~ For Those Who Are New To The Meme ~
Anyone is free to participate! If you want to, just link up anytime during this month and refer to this page as to the rules of what to put in your post and how to link up. The next State of the ARC post is going to be on (probably) December 27th, so if you can’t make this one, mark it down!
~ My Current State of the ARC ~
You might think that seeing over 60 total ARCs is a lot, but when I started out this meme last year, I was over 130 or something like that. Which is why I feel that I’ve made tremendous progress! I can finally *sort of* see the end of the ARCs, and to be honest, I’m not sure if I’ll be requesting that much more afterwards! ARCs are just stressful. And these stats feel good!
I have to say though, my ARCs bingo situation stilll hasn’t changed. But I still have one month to go! I think I’m going to have to tackle my oldest ARC, huh!
~ Bricks Knocked Down ~
The most memorable reads from this batch were The Eleventh Trade which I’ve already extolled countless times and you can read the review here, The Bride of the Blue Wind, which I didn’t review because it’s kind of short, but there’s a sort of mini review on this post, and List of 13 and What Would Boudicca Do, which I’ll be reviewing in the two upcoming weeks. Click the book covers to be taken to Goodreads and learn more about the books.
It seems I’ve been reading 8 ARCs every month! Reading steadily is part of the plan 😀
~ Let’s Get Motivated! ~
I actually don’t have that many new ARCs, as I’ve mentioned! But my newest ones are Trina Bell’s Humming Summer, which is written by Silke Stein, who wrote Sleep, Merel, Sleep, which I loved with all my heart – so I’m also excited about this one. And then there’s the Moon Mission, which I haven’t been able to read yet, but since it’s publishing only in like April or May, that’s fine! I’m always very excited about my space stories.
That’s that! So what ARCs did you get and which ones are you excited this November?
I’m Evelina and I try to blog about books that matter, with a bit of fun there too! Disability and equality will be topics you see a lot, but there’s also a lot of scifi, fantasy and… GIFs. I’m also the proud founder of #ARCsAnonymous.
That’s a fantastic achievement on your ARCs! You must be pretty proud of your progress 🙂
I spotted the Pashto stories book here earlier in the month and have it on my wishlist to read hopefully soon too.
Here’s my State Of The ARC post:
http://stephjb.blogspot.com/2018/11/state-of-arc-november-2018.html
Thanks 🙂 ah, I wonder what you’ll think about that one!
I’ve been requesting fewer ARCs, but my reading has also been sloooooooow. And I got a couple unexpected ARCs in the mail recently. Unsolicited but welcome!
Oh, that’s nice! I almost never get those 😀
You’re doing great! It really helps when you find some wonderful ones. I am very careful about my ARCs. I do well with Netgalley / Edelweiss but I got a little messed up on audio arcs. First of all, they come from like 15 different publishers. It’s harder to track than my other stuff is 98% Netgalley, so it’s in one place. I had to fix up my entire system. All my ARCs are on my master TBR spreadhsheet. All the new ones for awhile go straight into the Google calendar review schedule when I receive them and also on… Read more »
I am impressed with your system and your organization 🙂 I also have a master sheet – where would we be without one, haha 🙂 my old ARCs come from before I even had a blog and knew what it entails. I barely request anymore! And yeah, tracking NetGalley ones is easiest because it’s all on the system. I don’t know why I am going for the 80% – NetGalley is very unfriendly to internationals, so I probably won’t be requesting much anymore. But I still want to clean up my list 😀
Ugh, I didn’t do well this month. 3 ARCs, one of those is a graphic novel, and one I started months ago but only finished now. University and work are stealing all my time and energy 🙁 I hope 2019 will be better.
November is one of the hardest months! It should be easier in the spring 🙂
I didn’t know Silke Stein had a new book. It looks wonderful! And great job getting down to 60, and almost filling up your bingo board.
I didn’t enjoy the adult one as much as I enjoyed her MG, but I still have another one of her MGs, so I’m looking forward to that one 🙂
I kept going Ooh when I scrolled these books. LOL Like I need more to haunt my TBR! I think you’re doing great with your ARCs. My progress is slow but I’m not adding too many new ones and reviewing those as quick as I can after receiving them.
Thanks, Laura 🙂 agreed, same with me – I get the newest ones done quickly, but then the really old ones just get stuck there…
What a great meme! i’m afraid of how old my oldest unread ARC is. Can i just go back one year?
Whatever makes you read an old ARC counts in my book! 🙂
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60 down from 130 is a real achievement, and it makes my very moderate Netgalley binges more acceptable. I have done my first ever state of the ARC post as I am determined to get my 80% badge, hopefully early next year.
Here’s my post:
https://engrossedblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/30/my-first-ever-state-of-the-arc
Sorry for my linky not being there! I always forget to set it up. Thank you for joining the meme 🙂
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Congrats on your progress! That is a great achievement! I hope to get there someday. I have way too many outstanding. Good luck for December!
Thank you 🙂
I love that your State of the ARC always brings me back to my blog. This month I took a bit of a longer break because work (which I really love lately) and barely made any time to visit other blogs or blog myself. Anyway, I am trying not to miss any month because of this so thank you!
Congrats on your progress!!
Awww, thank you for being so dedicated to the meme 🙂 I can relate so much, I’ve also been blog hopping so much less. Almost not at all xD
You are making good progress! I only read one ARC in November, but most of the ones I have in the queue are 2019 releases. 3 more to go for 2018!
Nice! Mine are mostly 2016 and 2017, but ar least they also qualify for Beat the Backlist xD
Congrats on the progress! It’s such a weird feeling to be seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, isn’t it??
It really is 😀
Good job reading steadily Evelina!! And if all of them can be arcs and back arcs then more power to you!! <3 But withholding from requesting is probably the best feeling for me.
Thank you 🙂 agreed!
Congratulations on your progress this month. Like you, I think I’m going to be cutting back on requesting ARCs. I’m shifting my focus and interest away from YA to concentrate more on adult books.
Thank you, Kathy! Agreed, cutting back on ARCs is probably the best thing for our enjoyment of reading.
You’re so close to completing your bingo! Nice! I’ve got a pretty full load for December, so we’ll see how that goes. 🙂
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I am, but xD one last one! I don’t know if I can complete it xD Because that means I’d have to purposefully choose the oldest one, which seems to be… the easiest category to fulfill… Yet I haven’t done it yet xD fail! xD
man you’ve done so well yet again,
i dont know what happened last month to my reading but apparently it just didn’t exist haha
Well, the same thing that happened to my blogging, I guess 😀 😀 😀