It’s September 7 today so my Best and Worst Of… post is a little late this time but better late than never.  Particularly when some exciting things happened in August stats-wise if not exactly posting-wise due to my little unplanned hiatus before and after I moved to the city.

In August I received a total of 6,432 views with 2,970 of those being unique views.  That’s the best The Mad Reviewer has done in months and it’s largely thanks to one person I’d never even heard of until a few days ago: Jerry Pournelle.  He stumbled across my infamous author post and then checked out my reviews, which led to him recommending them to his readers during one of his posts.  This in turn caused me to receive 1,076 views in one day, shattering my record of 893 from when Anne Rice posted on Facebook about a review of mine she found.  I thought this would be the end of it, but no!  The next day (August 30) my record was shattered again with the daily total becoming 1,295 views.  That’s simply amazing and I am very grateful to Jerry for recommending my blog to his readers.

So what were the best posts this month?

1. How to Read 100 Pages in an Hour
2. Why Girls Hate Game of Thrones—A Rebuttal
3. The Day an Author Suggested I Kill Myself
4. The Hunger Games and Ancient Rome
5. Caesar’s Daughter: Julia’s Song by Alex Johnston

My review of Caesar’s Daughter by Alex Johnston has in the past received very little attention but Jerry happened to stumble upon it and it was one of the reviews he recommended in his post.  So that’s why a new post finally cracked the top 5 list!  The others are pretty predictable but I was surprised that my speed-reading article surpassed my Game of Thrones article for the first time in a really long time.  I suppose with university and school starting, students and teachers alike are wanting to learn how to read faster to study material more efficiently.  Well, I certainly hope my article helps but there really are no shortcuts to learning how to speed read.

With such a surprising selection of the best posts, what were my worst posts this month?

1. Edwin: High King of Britain by Edoardo Albert
2. The Mine by John Heldt
3. The Silver Pear by Michelle Diener
4. September Sky by John Heldt
5. The Savage Damsel and the Dwarf by Gerald Morris

I absolutely loved all of these books in the ‘worst’ category so it’s a bit disappointing to see John Heldt’s books back on here.  They are self-published but he has done reasonably well for himself in sales so seeing The Mine and September Sky back on here is slightly surprising/disappointing.  Oh well, the posts on the bottom rotate from month to month so it’s not really that big of a deal.

So that was my August.  It was busy and inconsistent but September is going to be much better.  How was your August?