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My 500th blog post!

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Since I started this blog in 2018, I’ve gained over 2000 subscribers (thank you, all!) and had nearly 30,000 views. Today, I publish my 500th blog post! It’s not that long since I celebrated my 300th post but I thought that 500 was a milestone worth mentioning.

Here are my 10 most viewed posts so far:

The 5 themes of Roald Dahl (this post is a ‘Google featured snippet’ if you type in ‘Roald Dahl themes’ – no wonder it’s been getting so many views)

Battle of the classics!

Book review of Inheritance by Jenny Eclair

Book review of The Doll Factory by Elizabeth Macneal

Book review of The Library Book by Susan Orlean

Theatre review: James Acaster, ‘Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999’

Book review: Step by Step: The Life in My Journeys by Simon Reeve

Pineapples and toilets: Weird books from my shelf

Book review of The Light Keeper by Cole Moreton

Famous fictional hats

 

And here are 10 posts I’m the most proud of:

‘Outdated cultural depictions’: a discussion

Hamlet’s Bookish Poem

A paperback, an e-book and an audiobook walk into a bar

Film of the book: The Shining 

What are ‘classic’ books?

Book review of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Book review of Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

Book review of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve Brusatte

Paperback writers and neverending stories: books in songs!

Some favourite things from 1988

Thanks for reading, everyone 🙂

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Comments

31 responses to “My 500th blog post!”

  1. Louise avatar
    Louise

    What an amazing achievement! Congratulations!

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    1. nsford avatar
      nsford

      Thank you very much Louise 🙂

      Reply
  2. Jules_Writes avatar
    Jules_Writes

    Amazing! I’m happy to have been a reader for the last couple of years 🙂

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    1. nsford avatar
      nsford

      Thanks! 🙂 And I’m happy to have you as a reader too.

      Reply
  3. Callum McLaughlin avatar
    Callum McLaughlin

    Congrats on the milestone! 😊

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    1. nsford avatar
      nsford

      Thanks very much!

      Reply
  4. Georgiana avatar
    Georgiana

    Congrats on your achievements!! Interesting to see there’s no overlap between the list of “most viewed”and the list of “most proud of” 🙂

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    1. nsford avatar
      nsford

      Thank you so much 😀 Most of the views on my blog are through Google search results (and I can’t see the search terms people use) so I suppose the most popular are something to do with how well the posts show up on there, or something.

      Reply
  5. Jess @ beyondthefrontcover avatar
    Jess @ beyondthefrontcover

    Congratulations, a brilliant achievement. I always enjoy reading your posts 😄

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    1. nsford avatar
      nsford

      Thank you kindly, I’m glad you enjoy my posts!

      Reply
  6. Rebecca Moon Ruark avatar
    Rebecca Moon Ruark

    Congrats on the blogging milestone. 500 is so amazing! Thanks for what you do here–always fun and informative!

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    1. nsford avatar
      nsford

      Many thanks! I always have ideas and things to write, so I appreciate everyone who takes the time to read them.

      Reply
  7. nickimags @ Secret Library Book Blog avatar
    nickimags @ Secret Library Book Blog

    Congratulations!

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    1. nsford avatar
      nsford

      Thank you! 🙂

      Reply
  8. Inge | The Belgian Reviewer avatar
    Inge | The Belgian Reviewer

    Waw congratulations! 🎉 I’ll have to check how many I wrote so far, I have no idea!

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    1. nsford avatar
      nsford

      Thanks! 😀 I can tell from my WordPress dashboard how many posts I’ve done… and today it say 500.

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      1. Inge | The Belgian Reviewer avatar
        Inge | The Belgian Reviewer

        Ah I have 638 but then I started 5 years ago (the last year I only post once a week too) so you’ll be far ahead for the same amount of time!

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        1. nsford avatar
          nsford

          Yes – providing I still have the time to do it and that I’m still reading books 😀

          Reply
  9. stargazer avatar
    stargazer

    Congratulations, that is very impressive! I recently did my 100th post – if I keep it up, it should take me around 10 years to reach 500 posts! 😉

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    1. nsford avatar
      nsford

      Thank you kindly! LOL it is not a competition. I will look out for your post in 10 years 😉

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      1. stargazer avatar
        stargazer

        Hehe, no I know it’s not a competition, but I couldn’t help trying to figure out when I would write my 500th post celebration post. It will be a while… 😉

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  10. RoseReadsNovels avatar
    RoseReadsNovels

    Congratulations! I enjoy your posts enormously 🙂

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    1. nsford avatar
      nsford

      Many thanks! I’m glad you’re a fan of my posts 😀

      Reply
  11. Davida Chazan avatar
    Davida Chazan

    What a great achievement! You should be proud of yourself. Here’s to the next 500 posts – onward and upwards!

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    1. nsford avatar
      nsford

      Thanks very much! I will do another milestone post when I reach 1000 (which should be in 3 years or so).

      Reply
  12. Jee Wan avatar
    Jee Wan

    Congratulations, NS! Here’s more to come! What an outstanding achievement. I’ve always enjoyed reading your posts 🙂

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    1. nsford avatar
      nsford

      Thanks Jee! 😀 I’m glad you enjoy my posts. I certainly have lots more on the way 😉

      Reply
  13. Lashaan Balasingam @ Bookidote avatar
    Lashaan Balasingam @ Bookidote

    Congratulations on this beautiful milestone! Keep it up! 😀

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    1. nsford avatar
      nsford

      Thank you kindly! 🙂

      Reply
  14. Stephen Writes avatar
    Stephen Writes

    I didn’t get round to reading this post at the time, but congratulations on the milestone! You come up with lots of interesting and fun post ideas too. Great achievement!

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    1. nsford avatar
      nsford

      Thanks very much! I always have a lot of ideas, I don’t think I’ll run out of them.

      Reply

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