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I'm excited to get involved with Camp NetGalley! I've got to plan out my BINGO ideas now. Can't wait to see what sort of activities there will be. I will need to look at my shelf and see what books are Talent Show worthy!
Updated: I enjoyed the posts this past month! I’ve added a review for the talent show.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/208499818

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Thank you for providing this Welcome Packet for Camp NetGalley! I had downloaded it in hopes of joining the challenge, but the summer had other plans for me. Well written and helpful like everything from We Are Bookish.

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I appreciate NetGalley & their continued creativity endeavors that allow the community to take part in fun challenges. Camp NetGalley is a really summer adventure project for book fans!

I would recommend doing an event like this doing the holidays as well. You could always partner with publishers to bolster engagement with a chance of widgets as a prize, just an idea. But this year was great & I applaud y’all!

I have attached a review I am very proud of!

Massive thanks to NetGalley for the gifted copy, which I voluntarily read & reviewed.

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Joined some of the challenges, didn't have time for all. Still had lots of fun! Hope we can go back to Camp Netgalley next year!

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The Camp NetGalley event is a fun idea. This welcome book has a few activities; however, the instructions for each week would be better if lumped into groups. Such as, week 1 instructions with week 1 activity page(s). I was a little lost flipping back and forth through the document.

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While Camp NetGalley was a fun idea, I do think it was kind of confusing as to what it exactly was. I downloaded the welcome packet in early July, but then I kind of forgot about it most of the month. However, I had some major family emergencies this month, so I was definitely sidetracked. I twill participate again next year, but I think it would be helpful to get emails each week about the different activities since it’s easy to miss social media posts.

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i really loved this summer challenge so much! i hope you guys keep doing things like this in the future! and thank you so very much for organizing it!

some of my favorite summer reviews:

The Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan, #1) by Robert Jackson Bennett: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6661731995?book_show_action=false

A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1) by Arkady Martine: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5315703577

Six Scorched Roses (Crowns of Nyaxia, #1.5) by Carissa Broadbent: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5783163283

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I thank you for this very fun and unique packet! My favorite has been participating in the weekly activities. I have chosen a review from Netgalley shelf showing one of my favorite books that I reviewed and received an orange pencil for. I hope we can have a Holiday packet next!?! Thank you Netgalley for all you do for the entire bookish community.

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Cute idea, but I got distracted by my father’s illness and then death and didn’t participate as much as I had hoped

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I really loved Camp NetGalley! It was so fun to participate in the different challenges. The photo scavenger hunt was so neat and I loved seeing everyone's photos as they shared and participated as well. Bingo was tons of fun and I loved the less stressful activity that could be done throughout the whole month of July. I kind of which there were some more stickers to put on the the banner though (but I love stickers and awards)

Thanks for an amazingly fun event to close out the summer months!

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This was such a fun event! My talent show review is here: https://www.instagram.com/p/C7eNjCuy2Qh/?igsh=MW4zZGszcDYwdnEweA==

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I loved the Camp NetGalley Welcome Packet. It was fun and interactive. Loved the Summer Camp theme and bookish stickers, as well as the Bingo. When I tagged Camp NetGalley on Instagram, other NetGalley campers could see my posts and I could see theirs as well. So it was great to connect with other Campers. I live in South Africa, so it's winter here now, so my reading spot pics were indoors. So for readers in the southern hemisphere, for next year's Bingo, could the request be for a summer/winter reading spot, depending where you are in the world. Then I would be able to take a photo of my reading spot at the window of a coffee shop with the rain coming down outside, or at a table with my hot chocolate and marshmallows. Otherwise I enjoyed the Camp activities. The book review that I am most proud of is for the book Such a Good Family by Caitlin Weaver. Left a review on Netgalley and my j9bookstash Instagram page and Goodreads.

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I really loved this idea from NetGalley! I ended up not reading as many books as I was hoping, but still found this idea to be so fun, and I do hope Netgalley continues to do challenges/activities like this one!!

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This was fun!! I really liked the activities! Not sure what I would add for future iterations though!

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I love the concept of Camp NetGalley as it brings eARC readers together in fun ways. The bingo and scavenger hunt ideas were really cute and I saw lots of participation with the story templates of campers and counselors. I liked the flexibility of activities and how participation wasn't required in everything as life often gets in the way and having to do too many tasks can take the fun out of reading. I can't think of anything that would make the experience better from my point of view, but I can't wait to see what y'all come up with for next year!

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Ok what a fun thing to do this summer for netgalley! I think it would have been fun to have been more involved like if there was a facebook group or something where we could share and hype each other up too!

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I lovvvveeee the Camp NetGalley Welcome Packet. It gave me the most awesome ideas and participating the events this month. I also loved all the activities, including the bingo, scavenger hunt, etc. highly recommended this to all my friends and family. Please bring all these fantastic ideas and activities next year July to your camp again.

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This was sucha fun activity to do during my summer break! I loved the different activities that were provided. Activities like this would be great to do either next year or throughout the year. I absolutely loved this idea!

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I have really enjoyed participating in Camp NetGalley! I love the bingo prompts and the template that can be easily shared on Instagram. The weekly prompts were also fun. I like that the bingo prompts were available for times when maybe the weekly ones weren't applicable. Mixed in with the fun was also the helpful revised TookKit. Overall, this was a fun experience and I'm looking forward to a new camping experience next summer with fun prompts and easy to update templates.

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This was a fun activity and I enjoyed doing it.

The idea of the talent show is fun and I love the idea of seeing everyone's examples of good reviews. I'm particularly interested to see which books everyone likes!

The bingo game was fun but since it was a pdf, I lost my marks every time I shut down my laptop and I was sad to not be able to send it to my Kindle. I never figured out how to use the stickers, sadly.

Thanks for the little extras for the reviewers; it was fun!

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