Today my blog is fourteen-years-old! I wasn’t going to make a big thing of it, but there are some nice round numbers in the stats. From 17th September 2008 to today:
- I’ve posted just over 2000 times. There are a whole lot of lost posts that didn’t migrate properly when changing platforms and web hosting, so it’s probably a couple of hundred more.
- I’ve read over 1700 books – 1708 according to the trusted spreadsheet, and I’ve reviewed all but a handful of them!
- Had three blog name changes: From Gaskella on Blogspot originally, moving to WordPress to Annabel’s House of Books which evolved to AnnaBookBel which is where it will stay.
- Have acquired a four-figure TBR library!
And I have no intention of stopping now!
A huge thank you to anyone who has stumbled across my blog over the years. An even bigger thank you to regular readers and commenters – you know who you are, and I love you all.
Congratulations! I don’t comment much, but I love your blog 🙂
Congratulations! May there be many more wonderful years of reading and blogging ahead of you!
Many congratulations, Annabel, from a stormy Netherlands where the parakeets are being tossed about in the wind! Here’s to many more blogging anniversaries.
I think survival is a good thing to celebrate in parlous times, but accomplishment even more so! Well done on the quantity but we’re also all here for the quality, of which there is a plenitude, for which I for one am grateful. 🙂
Wow, well done, Annabel, for never losing your enthusiasm and for reviewing so much of what you read. Looking forward to many more happy years with you!
Happy Blogversary Annabel – one of the first blogs I followed nine years ago and still one of my favourites. Here’s to many more years of book-filled chat x
Congratulations I pass 14 next year and let’s hope for
Many more to come
Many congrats and please keep going!
Congratulations Annabel – that’s a real achievement! Here’s to the next 14!!
Tremendous achievement. Are you still as enthusiastic about blogging as you were when you started?
Congratulations! Fourteen years is a huge achievement. It will be thirteen for me in October – I hope we both have many more blogging anniversaries to come!
Congratulations! I know it can be hard going at times – keep it up. Looking forward to more Susan Cooper!
Congratulations! Not only because of the longevity, but the percentage of books read, then written about, AND all your work on Shiny New Books. Impressive! Here’s to many more!🍾
Congratulations! And wishing you many many more fruitful blogging years!
Yours is about the longest-lived blog I know of. Congratulations on 14 years, and I’m sure there will be many more!
Thank you! I think Kim was there a bit before me though.
Wonderful and well done! I’m three years older than you but those early years were on LiveJournal. May you go on for many years yet!
Happy blogoversary 🎈and congrats on all your reading achievements!
Congratulations! Well done. I am glad you are not stopping. I really enjoy reading your posts.