I spent this weekend tinkering with the blog, inspired by Bloggiesta. The tasks were mostly blog maintenance & upgrades, so hopefully nothing is broken ... other than 2 days worth of comments being permanently deleted by accident as I was trying to remove the 50,000+ spam comments, and worked on stopping the script was generating them.

The Sunday Best {34}

"5 Young Adult Characters I Have A Love-Hate Relationship With"

Favorites from Elsewhere on the Net

Bookish
• 2013 Youth Media Award Winners Announced! via The Hub ... The Alex Awards are my fave.
• Am I the only reader who doesn't read the book jacket before reading the book? @ The Well-Read Redhead ... I HAVE TO look, or else I'm lost while reading.
• Nine Genre Movies NOT to Look Forward to in 2013 @ Topless Robot ... The Host and Beautiful Creatures, both adapted from books are 2 I'm actually looking forward to.
• The Casting Couch #1 @ My Little Pocketbooks ... dream casting movies for the books - Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor, The Hairdresser of Harare by Tendai Huchu and Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler.
• Films Based on Books: The 2013 Edition @ Library Journal
Blogging
• Mini-Bloggiesta, Mini-Challenge; Marketing Your Blog ... do you schedule your tweets?
• Why Bloggers Fail @ Social Triggers ... "Time-Waster #1: Creating Too Much Content; Time-Waster #2: Promoting Content The Wrong Way; Time-Waster #3: Creating a "Me Too" Blog ..."
• 7 Old Post Revival Techniques You Won't Believe You're Overlooking @ Problogger
• How To Organize Your Online Life @ Design for Mankind ... My #1 organizing rule? Be ruthless about what's coming in. Whether that's a simple step like pinning one less image per day, or a giant leap like giving up email altogether ... By managing your input, you can maintain your output."

- Linked to The Sunday Post @ The Caffeinated Book Reviewer