Well, the blog itself told me a couple of days ago that it has been going on for 15 years. Amazing. This started just as I found other bloggers on Twitter, and my reading had grown over the few years before that. I started with a challenge of reading 52 over the first year of the blog well, which has now grown to 130 countries. I now tend to trickle through new countries a few a year I will get to every country in the world at some point I hope but for me it is about the breadth of books read so I want to read everything basically. Sadly, many blogs I love have gone over the years. I have carried on. I have reviewed, on average 92 books a year over the last 15 years not bad stats. Of them, 1200 are books in translation . I have written 2330 posts over the last 15 years. I have started the shadow jury, which I love doing. The hashtag #Translationthurs I started. With Richard, Spanish Lit Month has since become Spanish and Portuguese Lit Month. I wish I could make a little money from this blog as I feel the time and effort I have spent in the last fifteen years be nice to see a little reward for that. I love interacting with other bloggers. I’m always open to ideas I feel I do struggle to comment but I always try to catch up from time to time. I have loved the experiences and people I have met over the years of the blog. Her is to the next 15 years !! As you follow me as I read books from around the world.
15 years! Well done Stu – our translation champion.
Congratulations! An amazing achievement.
Congratulations! My blog is nearly the same age – 15 in October.
Congratulations, Stu!
Your blog has enriched my reading so much over the years, I am truly grateful.
Your passion for reading outside of the mainstream is infectious, Stu. You should be rightly proud of expanding all our reading horizons by what you review here. Congratulations on 15 years!
Congrats Stu, that’s a real achievement. And thank you for introducing me to so many books and authors I’d not heard of before!
i have smiled so many times over the years asb I’ve seen ‘winstonsdad’ in my inbox. You’ve introduced me to so many fine books. Thank you for the time you devote to sharing your enthusiasm and insights.
Happy birthday! Like you, i don’t always keep up with commenting, but I always enjoy reading your blog. Here’s to many more years of good books and good discussions about them!
Congratulations! 15 years, that’s amazing!
Congratulations, Stu. That’s an amazing achievement. You are a powerhouse of international lit, and long may your blog continue. Many happy returns!
Many congratulations!
Congratulations, that’s a lot of years! I’m glad that quite a few of the blogs are still holding on. I have to pay to host mine now, but I do get quite a few free books which I tell myself I’d have bought anyway …