This is a few days late, but on Easter Sunday we celebrated the 10 year anniversary of the first post on Flying Houses. It's become my life's work (at times begrudgingly) and yet I always question the value of what I am doing at all. It's gotten tedious to review books.
I wanted to release the first 7 episodes of the Flying Houses podcast today. But I have only just recorded 1 (two if you count the intro), about Our Band Could Be Your Life. Who knows if it will come off at all. Things are taking much longer than I thought they would.
Flying Houses has not experienced any kind of boost in popularity this year, nor do I think it will ever. I do think it might with a revamping, however, and at least a couple have suggested that I build a more unique website with squarespace or something. Perhaps, but towards what end? Promoting myself as a book critic without a publisher? I digress.
Top 5 most popular posts of 2017:
(1) Top 10 Albums of 2017 (181)
(2) Chicago Marathon 2017 (147)
(3) The Rise, The Fall and the Rise (144)
(4) Slaughterhouse-Five (139)
(5) The Sellout (111)
We need not pat ourselves on the back to cite those posts we think most worth reading. However, if pressed, I would cite Letters to Felice as the best post of the year. Other highlights include the Vonnegut Project, the 2nd Salinger book to be reviewed, and the above popular posts.
I don't think I need to say much more than that. I always report my earnings to date though to show just how little I have advanced in 10 years ($35.72--It was $30.90 in 2 years ago). I get more interest from my checking/savings accounts, and those are like 0.0005% and 0.00025%.
In short this is a total vanity project that amounts to a net loss of income in the form of hours of human capacity consumed. It has been rewarding at times, and yet at other times I have felt like a voice that does not need to exist. We are all superfluous and trying to find what we are meant to do, or good at, and I am not sure it is either. Regardless, I am very proud of the work that I've done here, even if it imparts of a whiff of insanity due to lack of commercial success or other media-related consequences. 2018 should be the most interesting year yet for Flying Houses, and we hope it will not be the last.
(1) Top 10 Albums of 2017 (181)
(2) Chicago Marathon 2017 (147)
(3) The Rise, The Fall and the Rise (144)
(4) Slaughterhouse-Five (139)
(5) The Sellout (111)
We need not pat ourselves on the back to cite those posts we think most worth reading. However, if pressed, I would cite Letters to Felice as the best post of the year. Other highlights include the Vonnegut Project, the 2nd Salinger book to be reviewed, and the above popular posts.
I don't think I need to say much more than that. I always report my earnings to date though to show just how little I have advanced in 10 years ($35.72--It was $30.90 in 2 years ago). I get more interest from my checking/savings accounts, and those are like 0.0005% and 0.00025%.
In short this is a total vanity project that amounts to a net loss of income in the form of hours of human capacity consumed. It has been rewarding at times, and yet at other times I have felt like a voice that does not need to exist. We are all superfluous and trying to find what we are meant to do, or good at, and I am not sure it is either. Regardless, I am very proud of the work that I've done here, even if it imparts of a whiff of insanity due to lack of commercial success or other media-related consequences. 2018 should be the most interesting year yet for Flying Houses, and we hope it will not be the last.
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