My Top Ten Posts (So Far)

Hey all, Sam here.

I started this blog back in January 2016, which means that this year is my 10th year of doing this, which feels incredibly wild to me. Without a doubt I can say that 2019 and 2020 were the best years of the blog, and the most prolific. I miss being able to have a post go live every day. But with so many life changes and the state of the world, right now all I can promise is random posts.

Although I’m hoping to have a few more posts go up soon enough. I have a lot of NetGalley reads I’ve finished in 2025 so far and I’d like to get the reviews finished.

In the meantime, I thought it might be fun to look back over ten years worth of posts and see which ones have attracted the most attention. So, I’m going to list off my Top Ten Posts in terms of view numbers. I will also include the links to the posts in case anyone would want to check them out.

Let’s get started.

10. Weekend Writer: Worldbuilding, or Chapter Six of Wonderbook by Jeff Vandermeer – 309 views – posted September 22, 2019

This was when I was doing chapter by chapter breakdowns for my Weekend Writer writing craft book deep dives. I’m actually glad to see a couple Weekend Writer posts on this list, because I am most proud of them. I spent a lot of time reading and rereading these books and their chapters to pull out the quotes and points that stood out to me. I actually probably should do another reread of Wonderbook because it has been a few years.

9. Tips and Tricks for Surviving a Readathon – 368 views – posted October 18, 2018

This is another post I enjoyed writing up. I have participated in a number of 24 hour Readathons, and I’m usually pretty productive during them, so it was nice to take some of the tricks I’ve picked up from experience and share them with others looking to maximize their reading challenge time.

8. Review: The Emerald Sea by Richelle Mead – 391 views – posted July 13, 2018

Obviously this is a book review post, and while it is for the third book in the trilogy, I should also state that these three books are written in a way where you can read them in any order. They take place over the same time period, but each follows a different FMC and her particular story, which weaves into the stories of the other two. I’ve missed reading Richelle Mead books; they took up a lot of my young adult/new adult years.

7. Manga Monday: The Savior’s Book Cafe Story in Another World Vol 1 by Kyouka Izumi, Oumiya, and Reiko Sakurada – 417 views – posted April 17, 2023

This review started me off on a 5 volume journey, and I’m sad that it was such a short series because I was enjoying it a lot. The art style is cute, and the story is a more cozy Isekai fantasy tale. So if you need a little cozy fantasy pick me up about a girl who gets a new life in another world and doesn’t necessarily want to be the savior and instead wants to have a book cafe, then this might be the read for you.

6. Tabletop Tuesday: The Griffin’s Saddlebag Book One and Book Two – 558 views – posted July 18, 2023

I’ve actually missed writing these Tabletop Tuesday posts. It’s nice to talk about board games, card games, dice games, TTRPGs, and all manner of tabletop accessories. This particular review was for a pair of books that are simply filled with magic items to add to your D&D game. It’s always fun to have cool magic items to give to players during their adventures.

5. Weekend Writer: Trying out The 5 Sentence Method by Rebecca Thorne – 562 views – posted March 15, 2024

This was a new style for my Weekend Writer series, where instead of chapter by chapter deep dives, I instead did one post that was a review of the book, and then another post that explored or tested the advice in the book. So for The 5 Sentence Method, I tried plotting my D&D romance novel using the same method author Rebecca Thorne uses, and honestly I was pretty impressed with this plotting style, as I am more of a pantser than a plotter.

4. Review: Story Thieves: The Stolen Chapters by James Riley – 602 views – posted March 21, 2019

I posted this the first year I decided to hold Middle Grade March and focus on books from the Middle Grade age range, because they are such fun books with a nice focus on friendship. This is the second book in a series where the characters can actually go into books. One character is a half-fictional looking for her father, and another just wants to visit his favorite story world. It was cute and fun and I had a good time reading the series.

3. Book Review: Lady of Darkness by Melissa K Roehrich – 821 views – posted April 7, 2024

Seeing this post being so popular reminds me that I need to finish reviewing the rest of the series, so I will try to do that soon enough. But I have loved reading this whole series. It is an adult fantasy series and has a bunch of trigger warnings, but it has been a long time since I’ve been so absorbed into a series.

2. Tabletop Tuesday: Date Night Dungeons – Wight Wedding by Urban Realms – 1030 views – posted February 7, 2023

Honestly I’m happily surprised that this post has gotten so much attention. My husband and I have loved playing games together, and we’ve had a very nice time with these Date Night Dungeons (although we wish they would come out more frequently instead of being a few years between releases). This is a TTRPG adventure meant for two people, and it can be as romantic or as platonic as the two of you wish it to be. I definitely enjoy this as a romantic weekend activity if you’re a fan of gaming together.

1. Book Unhaul Challenge – 1898 views – posted on May 15, 2018

Finally we have a post that is inspired by some book tag videos I saw on BookTube, and I did the same thing but in blog post form. It was a way for me to weed out my bookshelves to make space for more books. I’m actually shocked that a blog post about a book unhaul has received the most views.

Well, there it is…my Top Ten Posts based on views. That was a nice little trip down memory lane, but I do believe that is all from me for today. Thank you so much for stopping by, and I’ll hopefully be back soon with more geeky content.