2023 Long list V: Highlights of my blogging year

This is a very random list in which I cobble together things I want to talk about regarding the blog. The first two times I did this, it was to mention the excitement of having authors @ me on twitter. This year I may not have that kind of a detail to throw in here.

Last year I made this one: 2022 Long List V: Highlights of my Blogging Year. This was also done in a rush, very like how I am working now, which means it may appear equally sparse.

My complete list of Long lists for 2023:

• 2023 Long List I: Inspirational and/or Informational
• 2023 Long List II: Series I Started or Continued
• 2023 Long List III: Cozy reads of varying gravity
• 2023 Long List IV: Thrilling and Restless Reads

My Top 3 Viewed Posts:

• The Vanishing of Margaret Small by Neil Alexander
• The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley by Sean Lusk
• Non-Fiction November 2022 Week 1: My Year In Non-Fiction

My Most Liked Posts:

Unlike previous times, my most liked posts are not the most popular books, but the number of likes has also significantly reduced – I will not be drawing any assumptions from the results.

• Charming Cove #1,#2 by Linsey Hall
• How We Disappear by Tara Lynn Masih
• The Square of Sevens by Laura Shepherd-Robinson
• The Book That Wouldn’t Burn by Mark Lawrence
• Six in Six – 2023 Edition
• Now You See Us by Balli Kaur Jaswal
• River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer
• Beyond the Frozen Horizon by Nicola Penfold
• We Blend by Willa Drew
• The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy by Megan Bannen
• Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

My Least Viewed Posts – this is a last-ditch effort to direct visitors’ attention to my posts from this year (maybe)

• My Life Among Humans by Jed McGowan
• The Late Mrs. Willoughby by Claudia Gray
• Escape to Starshine Cove by Debbie Johnson
• Something Quite Beautiful: Seven short stories by Amanda Prowse
• Twistwood Tales by AC Macdonald

My least ‘Liked’ posts

• Marrying the Billionaire Best Friend by Holly Kerr
• Lights by Brenna Thummler
• With Regrets by Lee Kelly
• Non-Bookish Weekend post: Cardline/Timeline Card game
• September 2023 Books Vs Moods

Top 5 reviews liked on Goodreads

• Red Queen by Juan Gómez-Jurado
• Gut Driven by by Ellen Postolowski
• To Capture His Heart by Nancy Campbell Allen
• Sincerely, Me by Julietta Henderson
• The Castle Keepers by Aimie K. Runyan; J’nell Ciesielski; Rachel McMillan

Lowest Rated on Goodreads

• Music as I know it by Juan Carlos Molina
• The Piano Tuner by Chiang-Sheng Kuo
• Board to Death by CJ Connor

Top 5 Least Read/Number of ratings on Goodreads

• Quilt Step by Step
• Sokken haken à la Sascha by Sascha Blase-van Wagtendonk
• The Quarryman’s Girl by Melanie Ford
• Rhythms of the Heart by Ros Rendle
• The Altruistic Urge by Stephanie D. Preston

Top 5 books I disagreed with the popular rating on Goodreads ( I either rated a lot higher or lower than the average)

• Shanghai Immortal by A. Y. Chao
• The Sleepless by Victor Manibo
• A Gentle Murderer by Dorothy Salisbury Davis
• The Holly Berry Sweet Shop series 1-4 by Hannah Lynn
• Lilac Skies by Shivani Bansal

Games I reviewed this year

Finally, if you have gotten this far, one of the biggest highlights of my blogging year, although not directly related to the blog itself (but which directly contributed to the output), was the fact that I was pregnant for most of the year. It has been a long wait for this event, and I read tons more while doing nothing else, and this basically means a lot of pending reviews (still). We had a son last month, and I still do not know how it will impact this blog, but the new year will show me either way!