Is there anyone out there in the big wide world who can explain to me why my review of Orlando Figes’ The Whisperers (which I wrote in April of last year) has been getting so many views since July 19? Over half of all the traffic to this blog in the last couple of days has been going there and there is no way I can explain it by looking at search terms or incoming links. I’m just very curious, that’s all. Anyone?
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Maybe you are getting so many visits due to the fact that the book is on some “school list” of books to be read and written about…a high school list or university list. In many places, school begins in August.
I think a friend on Facebook may have actually answered the question for me. He said that the post may have gotten so many views because I mention Russian human rights organization Memorial in it. The Chechen human rights activist Natalya Estemirova, who was murdered last month, used to work for Memorial’s office in Grozny. My friend may have been right, because the post started getting more hits right when news of her murder broke.
For more on Estemirova (and she was a remarkable woman), there’s a good In Memoriam here: http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14082316
That could be the answer! Thanks for the link to Estemirova.