100 posts!!

It is my 100 post extrodinaire!! And will probably be the most boring post ever. I'm sort of using it as a sounding board for how things are going in this first year and a bit... my thoughts about blogging... ya know... meh...

So, I started this blog in June of last year, so it took me just over a year to get to 100 posts. I'm not sure how often I really expected to blog, but I suppose I would say that seems reasonable. At first when I had a lot to say, I was posting every day and that seemed like overkill, but I start to feel guilty after a week without a post... so between 3 and 4 posts a week seems reasonable.

I have discovered that my blog has evolved differently than I expected. It's slightly more "crap I want to talk about" moreso than book reviews. 33 book reviews in 100 posts. I think this is partially because I feel an obligation to put out relatively regular posts, and I am not reading books as quickly as I used to. But that's not to say I'm disappointed with my blog. I've started to LOVE blogging. I enjoy when I have to time to sit down and type out my thoughts, I do WISH that I had more time to read more books and maybe bump the ratio from a 2:1 to a 1:1. Maybe that'll be my goal. But I don't want to post less other stuff, I just want to post MORE book reviews...

At the same time, I have noticed that people generally don't comment on my book review posts. Which I find slightly disappointing, because I interpret that to mean that people don't like those posts as much. But considering that they are intended to be the entire purpose of this blog, I am going to continue to do them anyway. So, if you don't like them, too bad! ;P

According to my statistics, I am getting, on average, about 30 views per post, or this could also be interpreted as just less than 8 views a day. This is actually higher than I expected when I started the blog, so YAY ME! I was expecting about 3 views per post, because I think initally I only thought there would be 3 people I know interested in reading my blog. So THANK YOU for reading this, and reading my blog! I know it's not the most interesting of blogs, but thanks for reading anyway!

On the topic of audience, I have noticed that there are occasional spikes in the number of views I have from Europe, and generally these are from non-English speaking countries, so I am wondering if some teacher is using my blog in her classroom and saying "Correct this Canadian woman's terrible grammar" as a way to help kids learn English.... that, or they use my blog for my impeccable grammar skills.... Or neither. But this is my teacher-brain's reasoning behind the European following. So if you are from Europe and are reading my blog: Thank you again! And if you want to post what draws you to my blog, please do! I am VERY curious. :)

I am also looking for any feedback at all about anything! So please post my weaknesses so I can work on them, or things that you think are strengths so I can feed off of those!