I'm one third of the way through the project today!

It's only a couple of weeks since I posted my thoughts on completing my first year, so I don't feel the need to do much navel-gazing.

But I've recently added the number of retweets for each summary to my database, so here's the most popular chapter from each of the books I've completed:

• Genesis 1 (100+ retweets)
• Exodus 3 (47 retweets)
• Leviticus 18 (45 retweets)
• Numbers 30 (22 retweets)
• Deuteronomy 8 (33 retweets)
• Joshua 24 (25 retweets)
• Judges 19 (12 retweets)
• Ruth 2 (9 retweets)
• 1 Samuel 17 (22 retweets)
• 2 Samuel 22 (25 retweets)
• 1 Kings 18 (15 retweets)
• 2 Kings 2 (13 retweets)
• 1 Chronicles 17 (22 retweets)

A couple of observations...

If I posted the top 20 chapters overall it would be pretty much all Genesis, which undoubtedly reflects the amount of coverage the project had at that time as much as it does the popularity of Genesis.

I guess the book of Ruth is lowest because it's so short. But that does still seem a bit surprising.

People like:

• Stories that they already know (see Exodus, 1 Samuel)
• Chapters with naughty words or macabre themes (see Leviticus, Judges)
• Chapters addressed to 'you' (see Deuteronomy, Joshua)
• Psalms to the LORD (see 2 Samuel)

You can now see the number of retweets for any summary by going to the page for that chapter. The retweet count is underneath the summary.

I've finally linked Bible Summary to Facebook! From now on you'll be able to get the summaries each day by 'liking' www.facebook.com/biblesummary.

My stats tell me that chapters full of unfamiliar kings are the least popular. I lost more Twitter followers than I gained each day between the middle of 2 Kings and the middle of 1 Chronicles. But here we go again...

For your encouragement: 2 Chronicles is a little easier going than 2 Kings. 2 Chronicles focusses on the kings of Judah, who are a better bunch than the kings of Israel on the whole. And there's generally more about each king in 2 Chronicles so the summaries won't be quite so abbreviated.

Only three more weeks...