Short Stories, Irish literature, Classics, Modern Fiction, Contemporary Literary Fiction, The Japanese Novel, Post Colonial Asian Fiction, The Legacy of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and quality Historical Novels are Among my Interests








Saturday, January 4, 2020

2019 Year End Reading Life Review






writers from various countries, based on a count of posts

1. USA - 44
2. UK - 16
3. Ireland - 15
4. Poland - 11
5. Japan - 10
6. Canada - 8
7. India - 8
8. France - 7
9. Belarus - 5
10. Germany - 3
11. Russia - 4
12. Ukraine - 2
13. Singapore - 2
14. Vietnam - 2
15. Argentina - 1
16. Lithuania - 1
17. Australia - 1
18. Malaysia - 2
19. Austria - 1

There were 110 posts on works by women, 67 by men

There were 101 posts on living writers, 63 dead

Blog stats for 2019

Top Home countries of visitors in 2019

1. USA
2. The Philippines
3. India
4. Russia
5. UK
6. Ukraine
7. Germany
8. Canada

Posts currently on line - 3653

Pageviews since inception - 5,904,651

The five most read posts of the year were all on short stories.
Two were on authors from the Philippines, two from India, and one from Indonesia.


I offer my great thanks to Max u for the provision of Amazon Gift Cards

To those who take the time to leave comments, you help keep me going.

In a few days I will do a post in observation of completing a decade of blogging.  I will there talk of my future hopes and plans for The Reading Life

Mel u


2 comments:

Suko said...

Love the napping cat graphic! Congrats on another great year of blogging, Mel! Happy 2020 to you and your family!

Prashant C. Trikannad said...

I'd love to know the eight authors from India you read in 2019, and also look forward to reading about your future plans for the blog.