Caroline from Beauty is a Sleeping Cat selected this blog for a 7×7 blog award. Basically, once tagged those selected may decide to respond to a series of questions:
1) tell everyone something about yourself that nobody else knows
pass
2) link to a post that fits the following categories
Most beautiful Piece
Most helpful piece
Most popular piece
Most underrated piece
Most pride-worthy piece
Most surprisingly successful piece
Most controversial piece
3) Pick on select 7 other bloggers to tag.
This is much more difficult than I first thought. For one thing, I don’t consider any of my posts ‘beautiful’.
Ok, what about helpful? For that I’ll pick the first in a series of posts I wrote about A Hero of our Time. I can’t say whether or not it’s helpful but it gets a lot of hits.
Doing a stat run on the most popular post isn’t exactly accurate as some posts have been up for years–others for a few weeks. But even with that disclaimer, I’ll have to say that Lolita 2010 appears to win–although given the search terms that pop up, I suspect most of those who arrive here are looking for something on the wild side.
The most underrated piece would be all the posts no one ever looks for. Too many to connect to.
My most pride-worthy piece would have to be the series on posts on the Rougon-Macquart books by Zola. There’s a whole page devoted to those.
The most surprisingly successful piece has to be The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone. Given the age of this book, I am surprised by the number of hits this post gets.
The most controversial piece: easy Peter Kocan’s The Treatment and the Cure. Kocan was locked up for attempting to assassinate a politician, and the book is a fictionalized account of his life in an Australian asylum. I get obscene comments about this book and the author. Curious really as even Kocan’s victim forgave him.
Now for my seven victims… apologies in advance.
This is tough:
Thanks for joining and the selections. Posts and other blogs. I don’t even know all of them.
I thought it was difficult to choose the posts as beautiful and useful could mean a lot of things. Looking at stats was much easier but in any case I cheated big time by including my movie blog.
I’m not surprised you mention The Roman Spring. I see that constnatly in your side bar under Top posts and I’m surprised.
I don’t seem to remember the Kocan piece. Maybe too long ago for me.
I really don’t understand why the Roman Spring of Mrs Stone gets so many hits as you’d think there would be a zillion reviews out there. Perhaps people are looking for the film review?
Even that doesn’t seem like a good reason. It’s not such a well known movie. Maybe people come to your blog and automatically click on it as it’s a top post? I don’t think there are a lot of reviews of it out there.
Thanks for thinking of me, but I’ll decline to participate — chains were never really my thing.
Didn’t think you would but I wanted to give a nod to your blog.
The nod is much appreciated.
Nice choice.
I agree with you pride-worthy choice: it is more than commendable. It may be overshadowed by La Comedie Humaine when you finish reading it.
I hoped you’d add The Argumentative Old Git and After The Diner Party, I’m glad you did it.
For the Magnificent 7, there’s quite a mix–something I realised when I added the links.
Honored by the recognition, Guy. I’ll have to think on the categories. Unfortunately, it will be a real struggle for me to choose seven ‘victims.’ Obviously, you cannot be one of them! I take it I am not excluded from duplicating some of your choices?
The sky’s the limit!
Thanks very much for the nomination! (I’ll go easy on the humility and expressions of heartfelt gratitude, as I’ll only end up sounding like some Oscar recipient!
) I’ll have to think about this a bit. In the meantime, I have a few of your older posts to revisit. Cheers!
Himadri: I admire your focus–just as I admire Lichanos’s (Journey to Perplexity) eclecticism
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