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About this site @ Jan. 2017:

Most views in 2016:	December 2016 – 606 views, 566 visitors Probably mostly search engines Hardly likely to be 600 individual book fans
Most visitors from:	U.S. (1,439 views) Canada (1,179 views) South Africa (407 views)
Current status:	105 posts (Jan. 2017) since 2013 151 pages since 2013 163 book reviews 175 authors Most mentioned author: China Miéville (Science Fiction)
Nationalities of authors whose books have been reviewed:	American – 34% British – 30% Canadian – 8% Chinese – 4% South African – 4% Nationalities of authors whose books have been reviewed.
Most read posts and pages:	Review of And the Mountains Echoed, by Khaled Hosseini (159 views) Review of The Princess of Nowhere, by Lorenzo Borghese (159 views) Discussion of Elements of poetry (138 views) Review of The Piano Maker, by Kurt Palka (133 views)

• Short reviews of historical fiction
• Short reviews of modern fiction
• In-depth reviews
• Written from 2006 onwards
• Categorized by genre
• Author index
• Subject index
• All original – no-one else’s opinion but my own

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