About three days ago, I saw an e-mail message in my inbox from Net Galley. Apparently, I had been inactive for about 3 years or so, and because of that, a message was sent to my address to notify me that they were going to close my account.
Because I had my notifications on, I actually read the message within a day of it being sent to me. I had forgotten my password at this point, so I had to dig around just to reactivate my account. To my horror, I realized that I have titles almost going back ten years that have not been reviewed.
As I mentioned in previous posts, I created this blog so that I could read titles from Net Galley. I also had every intention to write reviews for every book that I had signed up for.
However, a few things in my life happened over the past six years.
A family member's health started to decline, and this person eventually passed on. But the impact of her decline and death affected my family greatly, and we are still in recovery mode. Shortly after, another family member started showing marked signs of dementia. Writing book reviews just seemed to be beyond me at that time.
And so, I forgot about Net Galley. I was still aware of it, and I knew that I had books to review, but the years crept past me...and when I read the notification from Net Galley about my account closing, I received quite a jolt. I could not believe that so much time had passed by.
By some miracle, some of the titles have still not been archived yet, and so I will probably review those as quickly as possible. I have other titles that are still available in Kindle, even though they have been archived on Net Galley. My goal for this upcoming year is to get through as many titles through the list.
So, to the authors of the books that I signed up for, and to Net Galley...I apologize about not holding up my end. I hope to get reviews out as soon as I can.
