It's a special day today. At least for me. Twelve years ago, I started this blog.
Twelve is a good number. We have twelve months in the year and two times twelve hours in a day. We also have twelve signs in the zodiac, in the Western as well as in the Chinese one. In mathematics, it's a so-called composite number, the smallest number with exactly six divisors, its divisors being 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 and 12. In the British imperial and monetary system, everything was either divisible by twelve or by twenty (e.g. 12 inches in a foot). We even have an extra word for twelve in most languages: a dozen. In most religions, it has a very symbolical value (see 12 apostles, 12 sons of Abraham, 12 days of Christmas).
Last year, I presented you with the number of entries I had in certain genres and here is an update:
Classics (369 as opposed to 329 last year), Nobel Prize Winners (128), Lists (192), Book Club (225). And I have found many other things to blog about over the years, Book Quotes (353 quotes), Top Ten Tuesday once a week (141 weeks by now) and new challenges all the time, the Classics Club, Spell the Month in Books, Six Degrees of Separation, Read the Year, Travel the World Through Books etc. I haven't started any other new reading challenges this year because I really need to "work on" my TBR pile. However, I started to add books to my German blog here.
See last year's blogiversary post.
Congratulations! Twelve is a GOOD number. Funnily it's my Blogiversary coming soon too. I wonder if it's something about the time of year that makes people want to create Blogs? [grin]
ReplyDeleteThanks, Kitten. There might be a certain reason for many. I was nudged by a former book club member who had moved away and wanted to stay in touch with the group. That could have been at any time of the year, I guess.
DeleteHappy Blogiversary! Twelve years is impressive. I think I'm coming up on ten years this December. Time flies when you're book blogging. ;D I'm very glad your blog is still around; I always love reading your posts. Here's to many happy years to come!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Lark. And I enjoy your posts. Ten years is just as great, many give up long before that. But I have always enjoyed it here, found many friendly people and am generally a lot more pleased with blogging than with any other "social" media site. It's almost as at the beginning when you could be in a chat and have only nice and friendly people around you, almost as if meeting with good old friends.
DeleteCongratulations! Well done. I am impressive by your statistics. Keep going. Might be another Nobel Prize winner to read later today. Or someone you have already read?
ReplyDeleteThanks, Anon. Nope, I have not read anything by Annie Ernaux, yet. I will try to get a French edition of one of her books on my next visit to Brussels, though.
DeleteI've only been visiting your blog for a few months but I'm liking it though the books you read aren't the type of books I read but I do like see people reading books that I would never thought to read.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on 12 years. It's quite a great accomplishment I think.
Have a lovely day.
Thank you, Lissa, that is lovely of you to say. I probably read different books because my mother tongue is not English?
DeleteAnyway, I also really, really like your blog, so beautiful.
Oh wow Marianne! Congratulations! How awesome is that. 12 years..... That's a lifetime. And you sure are still going strong.
ReplyDeleteHere's to the next 12 years. Cheers!
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Hahaha, for me, that's about 1/5-1/6 of a lifetime. But thanks anyway.
DeleteHappy blogiversary, Marianne! Twelve is an awesome number. I didn't even realize how awesome until reading this post :) I'm so glad I found your blog and have been able to get to know you through it and our emails. Here's to many more years of blogging and friendship!
ReplyDeleteI am also happy to have met so many friendly other readers and I know our friendship will last for many, many more years, no matter how much and how often we blog. I am also really, really happy we found each other.
DeleteCongratulations! Cheers
ReplyDeleteThanks, Carole. One of the perks of blogging for such a long time is getting to know other bloggers like you. Thanks for all your initiatives and ideas.
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