February flew by in the blink of an eye for me.  I don’t know why because I wasn’t particularly busy or anything but it just did.  I suppose that’s a good thing because I’m super-excited about my upcoming trip to New York at the end of May for BEA 2015.  And because I’m also super-excited for season 5 of Game of Thrones on April 12.  So yeah, February was pretty uneventful and yet it flew past.  I can’t really complain about my month this time around.

This month I received 5,169 views in total with 3,407 of those being unique views.  That’s down from January when I received 6,644 views but considering that February only has 28 days this year, that’s not so bad.  I had some pretty bad days stats-wise this February but I also had some good days where I hit the 300 mark compared to my usual 150-200.  Really, like the personal side of my life in February, I can’t complain about the statistics side of things.

So what were the best posts this month?

1.  Why Girls Hate Game of Thrones—A Rebuttal

2.  How to Read 100 Pages in an Hour

3.  The Hunger Games and Ancient Rome

4.  Discussion: One Star Reviews

5.  Why no Writer Wants to Tackle Chronic Pain

We actually have some different articles on the list this month!  My discussion of one star reviews and negative reviews in general was hugely successful both stats-wise and comments-wise.  It was very interesting to see peoples’ takes on the issue, both authors and reviewers.  As for the chronic pain article, that really surprised me because it was never popular, even when it was new.  Since I got more referrals from Facebook than I normally would I’m guessing that someone shared my post on Facebook in either an author’s group or some sort of chronic pain support group.  Whoever it was, thank you and I hope it caused you to think.

Okay, then what were the worst posts in February?

1.  Rotten Romans by Terry Deary

2.  Bullying Under Attack by Various Authors

3.  Have you Finished The Mad Reviewer Reading Challenge? Tell me Here!

4.  Discussion: The Most Underrated Book (For You)

5.  Feyguard: Spark by Anthea Sharp

As far as I remember, these are all new ones here on the worst list.  As with most months, they’re either posts that are extremely dated (#3 being from 2013) or they’re books that are old or really aren’t that popular.  For the first two the latter doesn’t bother me but I was surprised to see Anthea Sharp’s Feyguard: Spark on that list as well because it was an extremely good book.  But oh well.  I can pretty much guarantee that these 5 posts won’t be on next month’s worst list because the ‘worst’ posts always seem to rotate.

Well folks, that was my February.  How was yours?  Did it go by as quickly as mine?  How’s the weather where you are?  Are you as sick of winter as I am of hearing about that stupid #TheDress incident?