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TWENTY YEARS?

Posted on by Greig

This blog is now TWENTY YEARS OLD.
What?

In the past twenty years:
I have written 809 reviews
I have read 695 separate titles (I like to re-read)
My most read author is Terry Pratchett with 46 reads
I have read 420 titles by male authors and 387 by female authors (and two co-writes by one male and one female author)
My top genres are: Fantasy (250 reads), Romance (226) and Science Fiction (139)
The year I read the most was 2014 with 171 books
The year I read the least was 2002 with 11 books

Using simple arithmetic I have read on average just shy of 40.5 books per year since I began the blog

warning!

Posted on by Greig

A warning and an update
I got kind of behind on posting reviews of books this summer.
I read a lot of books and the thought of writing reviews for all of them got overwhelming.
It’s got to the stage where it would be a ridiculous time sink to properly review everything so I’m going to stick up bare-bones posts in rapid succession each with just basic info, a cover image, and a rating. Unless of course the book really does merit a review.

The warning comes in because there are sixty odd posts coming over the next couple of days.

Decade?

Posted on by Greig

This is just to note that today was the tenth anniversary of my first post on transmission:
It was a fairly typical first post.

I shouldn’t be surprised but somehow it still seems like it can’t possibly be that long ago.

ok?

Posted on by Greig

Now that I’ve gotten over the initial shock and anger I’m a bit more clear headed.

So, I’ll start to restore some of the content that went missing as a result of this unfortunate incident.

Restored content is likely to be less than 100% coverage as I’ve had to rely on the Google cache to recover things.

Expect things to reappear over the next little while.

I’m definitely doing db backups from now on, though

Oh well, you live and learn.

wtf?

Posted on by Greig

Some spectacular idiot has managed to delete the database tables belonging to several users of my web host.

The result is: I’ve lost over four year’s worth of blog entries.

Now I know all the platitudes about backups, but it doesn’t make me any less angry about this incredibly selfish act and the loss of countless hours worth of work from over the years.

Oh, well starting from scratch it is then.