Happy 7th Birthday to Taking on a World of Words!

Another year completed. I knew this one was coming up soon and I was really glad to see I’d hit seven years blogging. The past six months have been crazy and it’s nice to celebrate milestones for things that haven’t stopped. One of my rituals on my blogoversary is to think what my blog would be able to do if it were a child. This list is getting so comprehensive that I can picture little Blog going off to second grade. I hope she likes it.

• Becoming thoughtful and reflective
• Can tell time
• Develop self-criticism
• Can solve math problems by counting
• Develop empathy
• Write her own name

Yes, Blog is a girl. I’m not sure why, but that’s how I picture it. Yet again, here are some numbers to show my blog’s growth over the past year. Numbers are taken from 14-Sep, nine days after my blogoversary.

• Total views: 281,536 (19% increase)
• Total posts: 1,540 (15% increase)
• Total followers: 2,144 (15% increase)
• Top five countries for views in 2019
  • United States (unchanged)
  • United Kingdom (unchanged)
  • India (unchanged)
  • Canada (unchanged)
  • Australia
• Top five posts for 2019
  • Homepage (unchanged)
  • Book Review: The Tempest by William Shakespeare (3/5) (up one)
  • Book Club Reflection: Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
  • Book Club Reflection: Affinity by Sarah Waters
  • Book Club Reflection: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
• Top five Referrers for 2018
  • Search Engines (unchanged)
  • WordPress.com Reader (unchanged)
  • GirlXOXO (primarily the Master Last of 2019 Reading Challenges) (unchanged)
  • SamAnnElizabeth.Wordpress.com
  • BlogLovin
  • Twitter
• Top five Clicks
  • Rainy Days and Mondays
  • What Cathy Read Next blog (up one)
  • Goodreads.com (down one)
  • Tessa Talks Books
  • Secret Library Book Blog
• Top five Search Engine Terms
  • Still Life Discussion Question
  • The Tempest Book Report
  • The Virgin Blue Book Review
  • The Wednesday Sisters
  • I Am the Messanger Ending

It seems the Bird Box craze from last year has simmered down a bit. A lot of my traffic is still focused around WWW Wednesday which I love. I’m seeing more to do with my book club reflections which I’m glad to see. It makes me happy to know I come up in searches for people who also want to discuss books and who want to see what others thought. And, still, I’m pretty sure I’m being used to finish book reports on Shakespeare. Oh well. Thank you all so much for reading along with my reading adventures. I love sharing a love of books with you all. You make finishing a book even more exciting! Until next time, write on.

You can follow me on Goodreads, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram. I’m available via email at SamAStevensWriter@gmail.com. And as always, feel free to leave a comment!

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