In an effort to deliver more to our faithful readers, today I introduce you to two new features of the Literary Life: Monday Mayhem and All Roads Lead to BookSwim.

Monday Mayhem is going to be a weekly post every Monday which will highlight things that we find outrageous and enjoyable.  All Roads Lead to BookSwim is a short series in which we will outline all of the crazy search terms that lead people to us.

Web search is part of our lives…  so much so that the search giant Google has made its way into our lexicon as a verb meaning “look up.”  You may not use it in your life, but chances are you’ve heard someone say: “I’ll google it,” or “Did you google your new boyfriend?”  While many of us do very simple searches and search for common things such as “chocolate chip cookie recipe” and “book rental website” others search with a very different style.  To those people, we now say thank you for providing us with some hilarious content.  And now, without further ado, I bring you the first installment of “All Roads Lead to BookSwim.”

(all of the below were gathered from Google Analytics and are all search terms that resulted in a click to the BookSwim.com website)

rakhi - Rakhi is an Indian festival of brothers and sisters.  What’s most interesting is that quite a few people came in with this search.
big ass girl - I was afraid to repeat this search in google to see where BookSwim actually resulted.  To my surprise, we’re on the 2nd page of results, with few adult sites ahead of us.
enough to impress a king – You’re dang right we are!
big ass black girls – I’m starting to see a trend…
police field operations 7th edition – I swear, I didn’t do anything illegal!
rent capitalism – At first, I thought: “Duh.”  Then I thought, “Irony?” Then I was like: “Ohhh…”
unknown naked girls - BookSwim is not an adult website.  Google may be confused?
antics meaning – Despite the many dictionaries ahead of us in the search results, someone decided to try to search for the definition amongst one of our book descriptions.
are you a kid looking for special opportunities? - Oooo. Pick me!  Pick me!
ass instead of rent – This sentence is amazing.  Ass could refer to a donkey or the rear end of a human.  Rent could refer to that annoying monthly bill for the dwelling in which you live or for the act of renting – such as what Netflix and BookSwim do for DVDs and books (respectively).  Donkey instead of your apartment bill?  Human backside instead of Transumerism?

Have you found us through some crazy method?  What was the craziest search term that someone used to find your blog/website?  Let us know!

-Nick