Ahoy there me mateys! Guess what day it is? Me log is one year old! Arrrrrr!
Highlights of 2016:
Number of Posts: 174
Books Reviewed: 134
Books that Walked the Plank: 3
Books that Forced an Abandoned Ship: 6
Books Off the Charts: 4
Number of 3 Bells Trilogy Showcases: 5
Authors Profiled in Broadsides: 9
Parley with an Author: 1
Most Books Read by a Single Author: 5 (Kelley Armstrong)
First Book Review: seraphina (Rachel Hartman)
Last Book Review: the wave speaker (J.S. Bangs)
Books on me Ports for Plunder List i.e. TBR to ye Landlubbers: 925 and counting
Blog Awards Awarded: 9 – see them here
Current Crew Members i.e. Followers to ye Landlubbers: 336 and counting
Overall Number of Visitors: 1,661 and counting
Likes: 2,032 and counting
Comments: 446 and counting
Most Commented Post: 14 – the waking fire (Anthony Ryan)
Top 3 Commenters: Danielle @ Books, Vertigo, and Tea, the Orang-utan Librarian, and Anne @ inked brownies
Top Five Books Read in 2016 (in no particular order):
the perks of being a wallflower (Stephen Chbosky)
the girl from everywhere (Heidi Heilig)
the serpent king (Jeff Zentner)
saturn run (John Sandford and Ctein)
If ye want to see all the books I read by category visit: this map legend
If ye want to see all the books I read by author visit: this map legend
So welcome to me crew ye scalawags, seadogs, and fellow explorers! Let’s drink some grog to another year of sailing, plunderin’, and adventurin’ on the high seas!
Always remember:
Q: Why is pirating so popular?
A: Once you lose your first arm, you’re hooked for life!
Hardy har har!
x The Captain
Captain's Quarters 
Happy blogiversary Captain!
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Lol! Har har har! Pirate jokes, lol!
And Happy Anniversary!! Sorry I’m so late to the celebration, but I brought rum. Let’s drink as we sail the high seas.
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Better late then never ye silly scalwag! And more rum is always good!
x The Captain
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Congratulations and Happy Blogiversary!! 😀 That’s such an amazing achievement!!
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Congrats on the anniversary 🎉🎉 Here’s to many more years!!
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hahaha good joke!! And happy bloggiversary!!!! And I loved Serpent King by the way! And I want to read Perks of being a wallflower at some point this year!
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What a great year! I hope I can survive til my year hits in June (I think haha). A big congrats to you 🙂 I am sorry you have to deal with my comments so often though.. that sounds more like punishment than reward for the hard work you have put in 😉
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Sweet! Looks like its been a successful year! I hope to have as much to report one year from now myself!
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Hooray, congrats on a successful first year 🙂
Loved the little piraty Q&A at the end as well 😀 LOL
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WHOOOOOO! Congratulations!! And I’m delighted to see I’m still in the top 3 commenters despite my prolonged absence. Huzzah!!
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Congratulations on your blogs one year anniversary, it’s a great achievement.😀
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and a second, more reality based comment:
Where do you get these stats? I get lost when I start looking around my wordpress “my site” place…
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The only stats I get from WordPress are the number of yearly posts and comments. That is on the main stats page in the app. The rest was from old fashioned counting. I do wish that all the stats were in one place and easier to use. So I would like to give ye better advice matey but like in most things I make it up as I go along. Perhaps some of me crew has better methods. Thanks for bein’ one of me top commenters. Ye make me happy.
x The Captain
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Well, there goes my dream of easy stats.
And you might end up rueing the day I started commenting 😉
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Congrats!
and for the record, I’d stick around just to read your atrocious pirate jokes. They make me laugh 😀
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