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Sunday, January 2, 2022

The Reading Life Review - 2021- Part One - Blog Stats for a Pandemic Year



The Reading Life is a multicultural

book blog, committed to Literary Globalism


Among frequently covered areas are 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.  I also try to feature at least two non-fiction works every month.


In 2021 there were fewer posts than in  any previous year.  

An empathetic impact of what for millions a terrible year?

A sense of futility after being in lockdown for 22 months in the Philippines with no end in sight?


Blog Stats for 2021


Our posts have been viewed 6,564,098:times


There are currently 4027 posts online


In 2021 there were 52 posts on male authors, 76 by women.


79 authors featured are living, 28 deceased.


81 writers were featured for the first time, 53 old friends


Top eight Home countries of featured writers in 2021


  1. USA - 45
  2. Russia - 21
  3. Japan - 11
  4. Ireland- 10
  5. UK - 9
  6. Canada - 7
  7. Poland - 3
  8. India - 2


Top Nine Home Countries of Visitors


  1. USA
  2. Sweden
  3. India
  4. The Philppines
  5. Russia
  6. Germany
  7. Canada
  8. UK
  9. Indonesia


The most viewed post of 2021 was


The Flowers of May" by Francisco Arcellana - 1951 A very moving short story by a National Artist of the Philippines


Followed closely by


Eva is Inside Her Cat"  by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (8 pages, 1970).


Part Two Will cover our plans for 2022 and more.


Mel Ulm, Founder

Ambrosia Bousweau, Editor

Oleander Bousweau, Representative of The Bousweau  Foundation 



 

1 comment:

  1. What a great year. Thanks to all of you for the work you do to keep the bookchat coming! So many good books. I love how you call the familiar authors "old friends."

    ReplyDelete

your comments help keep us going and do a lot to make the blog more interesting.thanks