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This is fun meme created by Fictionophile that I’ve seen on a few other blogs and have been keen to try myself. The objective is to spell out the name of your blog entirely from books waiting on your To Be Read shelves.  (No cheating – you cannot ADD to your TBR to complete this challenge – the books must already be on your Goodreads TBR.)

I had to cheat a bit – I mean, who creates a blog name with an X in it?  Click on the title to find the book description on Goodreads.  My selection is made up of both physical and ebooks.

Check out some great versions of this meme below.  If you try it yourself or come across others, feel free to leave a link in a comment.

Stuck in a Book
A Life in Books
Heavenali

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W      H    A    T               C    A    T    H   Y           R   E   A  D         N    E   X    T

W      H    A    T               C    A    T    H   Y           R   E   A  D         N    E   X    T

    

W – Where Roses Never Die by Gunnar Staalesen  (won this as a giveaway prize)

H – Her Hidden Life by V. S. Alexander (a review copy)

A – Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout (another giveaway prize)

T – Treason by James Jackson (a review copy)

 

C – Commonwealth by Ann Patchett (ebook)

A – An Unsuitable Match by Joanna Trollope (yet another giveaway prize)

T – The Boy at the Door by Alex Dahl (a review copy for upcoming blog tour)

H – Hold by Michael Donkor ( a NetGalley title that caught my eye)

Y – You Don’t Know Me by Imran Mahood (ebook)

 

R – Rivals of the Republic by Annelise Friesenbruch (a review copy)

E – Elmet by Fiona Mozley  (another NetGalley title)

A – A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel (a book I’ve meaning to read for YEARS)

D – Deposed by David Barbaree  (a review copy)

 

N – Never Say Die by Anthony Horowitz (a giveaway prize, signed as well)

E – Eureka by Anthony Quinn  (another NetGalley pick)

X – (E)Xit West by Mohsin Hamed  (OK, this is where the cheating came in)

T – The Magpie Tree by Katherine Stansfield (a review copy)

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Blogging is hard work. Like many things in life, it helps to have goals and to celebrate significant milestones along the way.  My own next personal milestone will be achieving 20,000 hits (nearly there) on What Cathy Read Next, something I never expected when I started blogging last November. 

So here are 10 thoughts about blogging milestones worth celebrating.

Firsts: your first post (yay!), your first follower (who’s not one of your family or your best friend), your first like or comment

Popularity: reaching a noteworthy number of followers, whether that be 10, 100, 500, 1000 or beyond.

Interaction: getting a milestone number of total comments on your blog or surpassing your previous record for comments on a particular post

 

Relevance: achieving a new record for the most views of an individual post (you are in touch with the zeitgeist!)

Output: reaching a milestone number of posts on your blog, whether it be 10, 100, 500 or more

Productivity: working your socks off to publish your highest ever number of posts in a month

Persistence: celebrating your blogiversary (we recommend cake)

Eloquence: having a quote from one of your reviews appear on a publisher’s or author’s website, inside a book or on a book’s cover

Reputation: having a post shared or re-blogged (even better if it’s by the author of the book you’re reviewing), being tagged or having your blog included in others’ blog rolls

Excellence: being nominated for a recognised Blogging Award or even – Ta Dah! – winning

Perhaps you’ve already achieved all these? In which case, congratulations, you’ve clearly put in a lot of hard work and have success to show for it. Maybe you’ve achieved only a few or just the one? Well, then you can look forward to celebrating some significant milestones in the future or just patting yourself on the back for a job well done. 

What other blogging milestones do you think are worthy of celebration?