To kick off Cannonball Read 9, our newsletter maven, Bothari43, interviewed me as the first Q&A of the year. How did you become Coordinator of Cannonball Read? Did you start out as a participant? Cannonball Read 2 was my first time as a participant – here’s my first review! At the end of CBR3, Tamatha asked me to take over running CBR4. That Read and CBR5 were standalone blogs over at wordpress.com, and our reviews would go up daily over at Pajiba. For CBR6 though, […]
Year end stat round-up extravaganza!
First: December goodies. 368 reviews (+241% from last month) Average rating: 3.72 stars (+2.4%) Most popular book: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, and Kulti by Mariana Zapata (4 reviews; 4.00 and 5.00 avg, respectively) Most popular author: Madeleine L’Engle and Tana French (5 reviews; 4.20 and 4.60 avg, respectively) Most reviews: NTE (congratulations!; 42 reviews) Fiction: 120 reviews (+253%) Nonfiction: 65 reviews (+51%) Uncategorized: 2 reviews (same as last month) Most popular genre: Fantasy (80 reviews) Male authors: 127 (219%) Female authors: 225 (+346%) […]
Cannonball Read NINE Has Begun!
Cannonball Read 9 has officially started. Note: there is one new field that you’ll need to fill in when you are writing your post: Book Quantity. Use this field to say how many books are being reviewed in that post. The data in that field will eventually replace the manual update of the leaderboard, but not yet.
Seventh CBR Donation to American Cancer Society
Huzzah! We snuck one last donation in under the wire – in the amount of $100 – to the American Cancer Society! Due to the matching grant, our donation counts as $200, bringing our yearly total to $1275! Woohoo!