Guys and gals, I can’t believe I’m writing this post… but Confessions of a Book Geek has turned 1!
Where has the year gone?!
When I first started blogging, I wasn’t quite sure what I was doing (sometimes I feel like I still don’t) but I went with it, and I’m so glad I did. I’ve renewed my love for reading, enjoyed some really great books I’d not have known about otherwise, got to interview some fantastic authors, host some amazing giveaways and best of all I got to join an amazing, friendly and supportive online community!
Before I get to the good part, which is lots of giveaway MADNESS, I want to share some stats from my 12 months of being a book blogger.
- I’ve published 238 posts since I started blogging (I didn’t know I had it in me!)
- There are currently 55 book reviews on Confessions of a Book Geek.
- Confessions of a Book Geek has 550 followers (<3 to you all!).
- My blog received 25, 360 views and 4,541 comments in one year! That’s insane.
- There’s 746 followers on Twitter and 353 likes on Facebook.
- I’ve interviewed 6 authors, launched 4 features and done Top Ten Tuesday 51 times!
Most importantly, I’ve “met” some seriously amazing people who’ve made the reading slumps, blog slumps, and slumpy frustrations worthwhile! There are FAR too many to list, but if you check out my Bloglovin’ profile, you will find these amazing people in the list of blogs I follow.
The Giveaways!
UK Only – Enter the Rafflecopter Giveaway!
Prizes:
1 x Hardback Copy of The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight 1 x Hardback Copy of Love Virtually 1 x Copy of Mad Men – The Illustrated World
INT – Enter the Rafflecopter Giveaway!
Prizes:
Two winners will each win a book of their choice from The Book Depository up to the value of $10
Rules:
All of the normal giveaway rules apply, but in this case following my blog is a mandatory entry for both giveaways as I am hosting these as a way to thank my followers! Of course, new followers are also welcome to enter!
Good Luck! 🙂
Congrats! ^^ now the journey to many more years of reading pleasures start^^
i’m not sure which book i will pick if i won perhaps the exile by CT Adams but i’m not sure yet
thank you for sharing with us!
LikeLike
Here’s hoping, Miki! R x
LikeLike
CONGRATS!!! 😀 You’re blog is one of my favorites and I always look forward to reading your bookish thoughts!
If I won the giveaway I would probably choose Vicious by V.E. Schwab- for some reason I can’t find it in any bookstores where I live, and I really want to read it!
LikeLike
Thanks, Holly!! 😀
Vicious is a popular pick! I really want to read Archived and… I can’t remember the name of the companion novel… Lol R x
LikeLike
I choose The Winner’s Crime by Marie Rutkoski ❤
LikeLike
Great pick, Isabel! R x
LikeLike
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY! I, for one, am so thankful you started blogging because I have made such a sweet and dear friend because of it. I adore you! 🙂 xx
LikeLike
Thanks, Brandie. Awww 😥 you kill me with kindness! ❤ you xx
LikeLiked by 1 person
Happy Anniversary!
LikeLike
Thanks, Karen! R x
LikeLike
Happy blogiversary!!! If I won the international contest, I would choose Attachments by Rainbow Rowell! 🙂
LikeLike
Thanks! I haven’t read anything by Rowell yet, I need to get on that! R x
LikeLiked by 1 person
Congratulations, Bookgeek! 🙂
Well, if I happen to win the INT giveaway, the book that I’ll choose would be… The Fill In Boyfriend or The Orphan Queen or maybe Liars, Inc.
LikeLike
Thanks, Angelica! R x
LikeLike
Happy blogiversary, Rachel! My one year post is going up later today! 🙂
LikeLike
Oh, also, I would choose Vicious still. Haha. Or…yeah, just Vicious. 🙂
LikeLike
Lol I need to read something by Schwab! R x
LikeLike
Thanks, Stef! Looking forward to seeing your post. Crazy that Brandie, you and I all started in the same month! “We’re the three best friends that anyone could have” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IueDj96fhqI) lol. R x
LikeLike
Haha. Yes! That’s us! My post is up!
LikeLike
Happy Blogiversary!
LikeLike
Thanks, Alicia! R x
LikeLiked by 1 person
Congrats!!! Glad you love blogging so much.
LikeLike
Thanks, Quinn! I do, but it can still be hard! The community makes it worth it! R x
LikeLike
RAW by Belle Aurora!
LikeLike
Congrats on your blogiversary! It’ll be four years for me this July, but you newbies are crazy productive! Good job!
LikeLike
Thanks! Four years is crazy!! Here’s hoping I can keep the productivity up! 😀 R x
LikeLiked by 1 person
First, congrats on your first blog-birthday 😀 hope the next year will be even better than the last.
and second, I would probably choose a book by Darynda Jones 😉
LikeLike
Thanks, Emalie! Looking forward to year 2! R x
LikeLike
Happy 1st birthday!!!
LikeLike
Thanks, Kathy! R x
LikeLike
Happy Blogoversary! Here’s to many more!
I’m not sure what book I would want. Depends on my mood on any given day 🙂
LikeLike
Aw, thank you, Stephanie! R x
LikeLiked by 1 person
Happy Blogoversary Rachel! Those are some pretty astounding stats! Hope your blog reaches new heights this year. 🙂
LikeLike
Thanks, Miguel! R x
LikeLike
Happy anniversary! Your blog is really good. If I won, I would get Dark Skye by Kresley Cole; it is an awesome book!
LikeLike
Thanks, Heather! R x
LikeLike
Congratulations on the accomplishment!
I think I’d choose something by Sherrilyn Kenyon, or The Giver by Lois Lowry
LikeLike
Thanks, Elizabeth! The Giver is a book I really want to read too! R x
LikeLike
[…] Of Pre-Ordering?!, and shared my “celeb” personality counterparts. There’s also giveaways happening because my blog is officially 1 year old! My aim for April is to post more personal and […]
LikeLike
CONGRATULATIONS! 😀 That’s amazing!
LikeLike
Thank you! R x
LikeLiked by 1 person
Happy blog birthday to you, happy blog birthday to you…. and… well… you get the idea, right?
Congratulations on your first year of blogging, it’s so exciting reaching that milestone, so well done, and what a productive year of blogging as well. Hopefully your second year will be just as good, maybe even better 🙂
LikeLike
Haha! Thanks, Becky.
I can’t believe it has been a whole year! And part of me can’t believe I stuck around! I think when you first start blogging you’ve no idea if it will stick or not, but I think a year on it’s safe to say I’ll be here for a while yet! R x
LikeLike
Congrats on the first of many years blogging and thanks for entertaining me with great discussions and thoughtful reviews over the past 12 months!
LikeLike
Aw, thank you Trish! That means a lot ❤ R xx
LikeLike
Yaaay congratulations! Those are some amazing stats for the first year! My first year was pretty poor and I only started gathering readers and so on in my second year.
All the best for the future! 🙂
LikeLike
Thanks, Ula!! 😀 Do stay in touch on Twitter or Facebook! ❤ And don't forget to enter the giveaway too R x
LikeLike
[…] Rachel celebrates Confessions of a Book Geek turning 1 with a giveaway […]
LikeLike
Congratulations on your first year, I’m celebrating my first blogervesary this month and am also running a celebratory giveaway. Its amazing you have over 200 posts!! Wow, that’s way more than I have done in a year, and all your posts are fab. I love your Tuesday posts especially. If I won, I don’t know which book I would choose, but I would have fun browsing until I chose.
Congrats,
Amanda.
LikeLike
Hi Amanda, thanks for commenting! I’m just glad I’m still around because at the start you just don’t know if the blogging bug will stick! Congratulations on your first year too! R x
LikeLiked by 1 person
Congrats 🙂 if i won, i would probably want to get Saga volume 1
LikeLike
Congratulations! I’d pick The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight, it sounds intriguing!
LikeLike
I’d probably choose Vicious xx
LikeLike
Congratulations on your blogaversary Rachel! There are so many fantastic books out there, it would be hard to choose – but The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer has been on my TBR for ages so I’d love the opportunity to win it 🙂
LikeLike
Excellent pick! I have it on my TBR too, those covers are gorgeous! R x
LikeLike
http://www.bookdepository.com/Husbands-Secret-Liane-Moriarty/9781405911665
LikeLike
I’d pick Mad Men!
LikeLike
Hardback Copy of The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
LikeLike
HAPPY BLOGVERSARY!! I’d pick The Raven Boys! ^-^
LikeLike
Thanks 😀 Great pick, Cait! These are on my TBR too. R x
LikeLike
[…] most popular posts in April (except for TTT posts) were my blogoversary giveaway post and my response to Ariel […]
LikeLike
I received my prize today, thank you so much. The books look really good. I showed my Hubby ‘The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight’, and joked to him that he should get this book. 😉
I’m looking forward to reading them, I will link you in when I review them.
Thanks again, great prizes.
Amanda. x
LikeLike
Hi Amanda, thanks for commenting to let me know they got to you safely. I’m looking forward to you reading Love Virtually, because I don’t know ANYONE who has read it, and I really liked it! Would be great to hear what you think. Enjoy your books!! R xx
LikeLiked by 1 person
I will read that one first then, and let you know my thoughts. xx
LikeLike
[…] year, for my first blogoversary, I made a list of what I considered to be my blogging “achievements” – how many […]
LikeLike