2012 in Review: Top Commenters and Top Posts

January 4, 2013 Ti 16 Comments

I hardly ever look at stats but WordPress created this awesome report and is allowing me to share it! Thank you top commenters and everyone else who stops by this blog.

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

19,000 people fit into the new Barclays Center to see Jay-Z perform. This blog was viewed about 75,000 times in 2012. If it were a concert at the Barclays Center, it would take about 4 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

Click here to see the complete report.

Bookish Talk, Lists

Tournament of Books 2013

January 3, 2013 Ti 18 Comments

I’ve mentioned this tournament before but I am so excited when they announce the book list for the coming year. Beginning in March, these books will be matched-up against one another and will duke it out until a winner has been chosen. The judges for each match are usually very funny and extremely well-read and they change every year.

Even if you choose not to follow the tournament itself, what a great book list. Everyone loves a good list.

The 2013 Tournament of Books Finalists

HHhH by Laurent Binet
The Round House by Louise Erdrich
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Arcadia by Lauren Groff
How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti
May We Be Forgiven by A.M. Homes
The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
Ivyland by Miles Klee
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Dear Life by Alice Munro
Where’d You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
Building Stories by Chris Ware
[Winner of the Pre-Tournament Playoff Round. Who will it be??]

Pre-Tournament Playoff Round

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