Eric, the post I published earlier today, was my 400th post as the Reading Bug. This is as good an excuse as any to be a bit self-indulgent and look back over the three years since I moved across from Blogger (best move ever).

Most popular post? By far the post that gets the most views is the one I wrote on Clothing in Jane Eyre. Why? I have no idea. It must tick some mysterious search engine optimisation boxes. I get very few comments on the post despite all the traffic, so I may never know why it attracts so many visits. Second but some way back is this post on whether the marriage of Dorothea and Casaubon, the mismatched couple in Middlemarch, was ever consumated. This was supposed to be a light hearted piece of speculation about the imaginary sex-lives of a fictional couple, but it got away from me a bit.

Most reviewed author? Terry Pratchett of course, with 14 separate novels reviewed, albeit some co-authored, and with many more to follow. Runner up? Ian McEwan, with seven novels reviewed.

Favourite review? Tricky one that. I think it’s a draw between this review of Frankenstein, which speculates that the monster was a figment of Victor’s disturbed mental health, and this review of J K Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy, which spotted a link between this novel and A Christmas Carol which at the time I thought was that rare thing, a genuinely original insight. Least favourite novel reviewed – it has to be Lionel Asbo I am afraid, which at the time I described as “Only Fools and Horses rewritten as torture porn”. Ouch. I actually think Amis can be a wonderful writer, but he got it spectacularly wrong that time.

It’s been fun, and if you have been, thanks for reading.