February just flew by in a cold haze for me.  Temperatures here in Saskatchewan have been even colder than usual, which hasn’t made walking to work any more pleasant.  Hopefully spring will come soon.

On the plus side, however, my stats were quite respectable in this shortened month.  I received a total of 5,688 views, which includes 3,593 unique views.  In addition to that, I’ve also welcomed 33 new followers.  It’s just a little more than half of the followers I welcomed in January but I’m still quite happy with my statistics, especially because of the severe lack of book reviews I’ve published this month.

So which posts were the most popular?

1.  Why Girls Hate Game of Thrones—A Rebuttal

2.  The Hunger Games and Ancient Rome

3.  How to Read 100 Pages in an Hour

4.  An Apology to Self-Published Writers

5.  WordPress, Stop the Arbitrary Suspensions

These are all articles this time around but as usual, none of them are surprising.  The only new one on my best 5 list is my rant to WordPress about their arbitrary suspension policy.  I was honestly touched by the concern many of my readers showed at my suspension and I’m glad there was no loss of followers and no significant decrease in statistics in the long-term.  Still, it was a pretty disturbing experience considering how much faith I’ve always put into this blogging platform.

Enough of my whining.  What were the five worst posts?

1.  The Mad Reviewer Reading Challenge Has Begun

2.  My Interview with Katie Hamstead

3.  The Best and Worst of September

4.  The Reckoning by Kelley Armstrong

5.  My Interview with Michelle A. Hansen

Oddly enough, this time around 2 of my worst posts were interviews.  My interviews have never been popular for whatever reason but I don’t recall them being on my worst list before.  Other than that, I’m really not all that surprised.  Two of the articles were at least a year old and the book review is definitely one of my older, not as well-written ones.  Looking back at some of the reviews I wrote in my first year I have to cringe.  They were pretty rough.

So how was your February?  Read anything interesting?