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15May 2022 by Luke Harkness No Comments

How Has My First Year of Blogging Gone?

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Today (15 May) marks a year since I wrote and uploaded my first blog article on How To Read Over 50 Books In A Year. Since then I have written nearly 150 articles, gained over 5,000 social media followers on dedicated accounts, enjoyed interacting with people online, thoroughly enjoyed blogging and so much more. But how has it really gone? What does this mean when it comes down to the nitty-gritty of the numbers? Well, I thought I'd be honest and open up about all the stats I can give you on my blog from the past year. I've gone over to Google Analytics to get these numbers, so let's hope they're correct. The big numbers I've had over 24,000 views on my pages on my blog since I started…

02May 2022 by Luke Harkness

My 5 Most Read Articles from April 2022

Features, Monthly Round Ups

At the start of each month, I highlight the best performing posts from the previous month. I only include articles I actually posted throughout that month and they're written in order. I don't do this to brag, it is to highlight what posts work well and which possibly don't for those prospective bloggers. Here are the most successful blog posts from the month of April 2022. Please note that this article contains affiliate links. This means that if you choose to purchase a product via the links, I'll receive a small commission at no extra cost to you to support the blog. These affiliate links do not affect my final opinion of the products. April was an exciting month for my blog when it comes to viewership stats. The majority…

01May 2022 by Luke Harkness No Comments

The 3 Books I Read In April 2022

Features, Monthly Round Ups

This month wasn't one of my most productive months when it comes to reading. I was away on holiday for a week (which you'd think would result in more reading but it didn't) and I was off work for two weeks which resulted in me doing a lot of gaming, lazing around and socialising with friends so I didn't get any opportunities to read books. Therefore, I've only read three. Please note that this article contains affiliate links. This means if you choose to purchase any products via the links below, I will receive a small commission at no extra cost to you to support the blog. These affiliate links do not affect my final opinion of the product. Part of the reason I didn't read quite as many books…

28Apr 2022 by Luke Harkness No Comments

Why I use eBooks, Audiobooks AND Physical Books

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Yes, I use all of those platforms. I don't have a preference and if you asked me to give one up, I'd really struggle to choose which one. I enjoy reading a physical book, I see the benefits of having everything on my Kindle and I don't know how I'd live without audiobooks. Please note that this article contains affiliate links. This means if you choose to purchase any of the products via these links, I will receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. These affiliate links do not affect my opinion of any of the products. When people ask me what I use to read books, I tell them all of these and they often ask me why I don't try and stick to one or…

22Apr 2022 by Luke Harkness

Luke’s Book Quiz Round 6 – 12 book questions to test your knowledge

Features, Quizzes

Here we are with a sixth book quiz! That means if you've taken part in the previous four book quizzes already, by the end of this one, you'll have answered 72 questions on books. I wonder how many out of those 72 you get right. Do let me know! This book quiz is written under the same pretence as the previous four: I've written questions and answers to either books I've read, questions I'd know the answers to or questions on books I think many people would know the answer to. I don't want these quizzes to make you feel dumb, they're simply here to test your knowledge and maybe even find yourself a new read via the links to my reviews for many of them. Right, let's get underway.…

19Apr 2022 by Luke Harkness

These are the best Fantasy books according to Twitter

Features, Recommendations

He's back once again using the content from others' tweets as content for his blog posts! Well, you seemed to like the other posts where my Twitter followers recommended content so why not keep posting them? Often on Twitter, I will tweet out a question to the Twitter masses in hopes that I'll get some book recommendations and then now and then these questions will end up getting a heck of a lot of responses. I'm on a bit of a fantasy hype at the moment so I decided to put out the following question: https://twitter.com/Lukesblog1/status/1514883265999613953 Using Twitter's improved embedding feature, you can actually see the number of responses live now. As it stands as of writing this, there are just over 100 responses to this of what people consider…

13Apr 2022 by Luke Harkness No Comments

I’ve read 7 of the top 10 Most-Read Books from 2021 – Here’s what I thought

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Whilst doing my usual nerdy googling of best books to read at the moment, I came across an article Goodreads posted at the end of last year on their most-read books of the year. I had a look through the list of 23 books and realised that I've seven of the top ten books. You'd also be surprised by the fact that not all of these books are modern books either - there are some classics on there. Part of my mission last year was to do a bit of catching up. After finding the likes of Bookstagram and Book Twitter, I found a lot more books that people considered "must-reads" that I picked up that I wouldn't have possibly read if I hadn't started blogging and joined these social…

03Apr 2022 by Luke Harkness

My 5 Most Read Blog Posts from March 2022

Features, Monthly Round Ups

At the start of each month, I highlight the best performing posts from the previous month. I only include articles I actually posted throughout that month and they're written in order. I don't do this to brag, it is to highlight what posts work well and which possibly don't for those prospective bloggers. Here are the most successful blog posts from the month of March 2022. March was a great month for my blog as I wrote some fairly different and interesting articles, highlighting some new content for people to read. As I come to the realisation that the content people come to my blog for is mostly about books. So I've started a new series of content where I highlight some of the best books I've asked people to…

01Apr 2022 by Luke Harkness

My March 2022 Reading Round-up

Features, Monthly Round Ups

March was a great month for books - I read a diverse selection which saw me pick up only my second five-star read of the year which was good as I feel like this year has been slightly weak for great reads for me so far. Please note that this article contains affiliate links. This means that if you choose to purchase any products via the links below to support the blog, I will receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. These affiliate links do not affect my opinion of the products themselves. March saw me pick up my first Colleen Hoover, an author I've heard a lot of great things about. She appears to write brilliant stories that cover real-life problems in a way that show…

30Mar 2022 by Luke Harkness

The Six Books I’m Most Excited for from Goodreads’ Most Anticipated New Spring Books List

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Back halfway through March, Goodreads released a list of the most anticipated based on what their users had given early reviews of and which books had been put down as "Want To Read". It's a list that comprises 35 books which I'm sure will appeal to all of you. Please note that this article contains affiliate links. This means if you choose to purchase any of the products via the links provided, I will receive a small commission at no extra cost to you which goes towards supporting the blog. These affiliate links do not affect my final opinion of any of the products. However, I've decided to go through the said list and, based purely on the synopsis alone, pick out the books that sound most interesting to me.…

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