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)
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
And here are 10 posts I’m the most proud of:
‘Outdated cultural depictions’: a discussion
A paperback, an e-book and an audiobook walk into a bar
Film of the book: The ShiningΒ
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 π
What an amazing achievement! Congratulations!
Thank you very much Louise π
Amazing! I’m happy to have been a reader for the last couple of years π
Thanks! π And I’m happy to have you as a reader too.
Congrats on the milestone! π
Thanks very much!
Congrats on your achievements!! Interesting to see there’s no overlap between the list of “most viewed”and the list of “most proud of” π
Thank you so much π 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.
Congratulations, a brilliant achievement. I always enjoy reading your posts π
Thank you kindly, I’m glad you enjoy my posts!
Congrats on the blogging milestone. 500 is so amazing! Thanks for what you do here–always fun and informative!
Many thanks! I always have ideas and things to write, so I appreciate everyone who takes the time to read them.
Congratulations!
Thank you! π
Waw congratulations! π I’ll have to check how many I wrote so far, I have no idea!
Thanks! π I can tell from my WordPress dashboard how many posts I’ve done… and today it say 500.
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!
Yes – providing I still have the time to do it and that I’m still reading books π
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! π
Thank you kindly! LOL it is not a competition. I will look out for your post in 10 years π
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… π
Congratulations! I enjoy your posts enormously π
Many thanks! I’m glad you’re a fan of my posts π
What a great achievement! You should be proud of yourself. Here’s to the next 500 posts – onward and upwards!
Thanks very much! I will do another milestone post when I reach 1000 (which should be in 3 years or so).
Congratulations, NS! Here’s more to come! What an outstanding achievement. I’ve always enjoyed reading your posts π
Thanks Jee! π I’m glad you enjoy my posts. I certainly have lots more on the way π
Congratulations on this beautiful milestone! Keep it up! π
Thank you kindly! π
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!
Thanks very much! I always have a lot of ideas, I don’t think I’ll run out of them.