So, it’s been a long year. Lots of things have happened to
everyone everywhere. I could go on and on about things that have happened in
the year politically/personally or some other way, but seeing as this is my
book blog, then I’m going to focus on what’s happened this year with Death
Books and Tea.
Katy and I began this blog on 23 February 2011. We’d been
thinking of starting one like Stephanie (whose blog is here), but couldn’t
think of what we were going to call it. Somewhere along the line we though
Death Books and Tea would sum us up quite well. Then we had doubts as to who
would remember it, but then we left them and got set up.
We then decided we wanted a rating system that was a little
different, and we went with tea. But we couldn’t decide exactly what to do, as
we were thinking about having “English breakfast” being excellent and
“chamomile” meaning terrible. Then we realised that 1. We’d easily forget this
and 2. Some of you might love chamomile and hate English Breakfast. And some of
you might not like tea at all. so I thought of having a numerical system, neither
of us could think up a better one, and
now you have the tea rating system.
We got set up quite quickly, and as the follower count was
around 1-20 I was still getting my bearings around the designy thing. I had my
heart set on a grim reaper with tea reading, and I drew something, the attempt
of which turned out very badly. Then Katy drew something, which turned out
quite well. Then Miley/Emily (their blog is here and their deviantART account
is here) offered to draw something, which turned out amazing and is now the
grim reaper we put in various places. I knew I wanted a pink-light-hearted
colour scheme to go against the darkness of the title. By mid-April I’d sorted
out the design to what you have today.
And so we carried on with this, with me running it mainly
and Katy adding when her computer wasn’t locking her out of Death Books and Tea
because we put “Death” in the title/refusing to do things/broken. And there you
have Death Books and Tea.
And now for some statistics that I’m quite proud of. This is
what we’ve done this year!
- 256 posts
- 127 book reviews
- 20 books read for Parajunkee! I finished!
- 20,400 pageviews
- 3,790 Unique Visitors from months of April-December, excluding August because Google Analyctics went wrong
- 791 comments
- 304 Google friend connect followers
- 9 Feedburner readers
- 221 books read (according to Goodreads)
- 61894 pages (according to Goodreads)
- 1530 books on my Goodreads wishlist
A big thanks to EVERYONE who visits and reads these mad
ramblings, and we hope that you’ll
continue to read books and settle down with us into the new year!
Happy New Year Everybody!!
