2011 by the numbers
Saturday, December 31, 2011
This may be a tiny bit self-indulgent, but we wish we had kept track of this sort of thing in the past.
Reviews
- 69 newly released books
- 120 old books (from six months to 118 years)
- 22 film and television
- 17 games (video or tabletop)
- 10 comics or graphic novels (and to think, in 2009, we reviewed more comics than books)
- 238 total
Most popular reviews (by views)
#1: The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
#2: The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
#3: Monsters & Mullets: "Fire and Ice" (from in December 2010)
#4: Wizard’s First Rule by Terry Goodkind (from July 2010)
#5: Zoo City by Lauren Beukes
Authors reviewed with the greatest frequency (excludes anthologies)
#1: Robert Chambers (10)
#2: KJ Parker (6)
#3: Donald Westlake (4)
#4: Jon Courtenay Grimwood (3), Sophia McDougall (3)
#5: Lots (2)
Stuff
- 7 competitions
- 11 interviews
- 1 drinking game
- 1 non-drinking game
- 24 Friday Fives
- 417 total posts
#1: Monsters & Mullets: "Caligula"
#2: Romans vs Victorians: Ultimate Deathmatch Smackdown
#3: Friday Five: "Vegetables"
#4: "Why I Like Broken Things"
#5: The Green Mouse by Robert W. Chambers & "Pat Mills' EPIC FAIL"