So here’s what you do: Find a post or two – or however many – and mentally buff them up. Then? Put them up on a pedestal. This mini-challenge is all about showing off.
What constitutes “best”? That’s up to you. Maybe you like the way you wrote a certain review, or perhaps you have a feature that prompts a ton of discussion; judge it however you see fit. You can tell why you think a given post is the good stuff, or let it stand on its own. Provide the links in a post or your sidebar, just make sure they’re visible so that folks stopping by your blog will be sure to take a look.
I decided to use the last six months or so of posts, and came up with:
- My review of Juliet Marillier’s Heart’s Blood, here.
1. I love Juliet Marillier. 2. It’s not all about character! (This is surprising, trust me.) 3. It was carefully written (for the time, which was when I tended to type first, think later.) - My post regarding the Merry Sister’s of Fate contest for an arc of Maggie Stievfater’s Shiver, here.
What did you have to do to be in contention? Write a short story based on a particular image. So this post contains my short story. I’m including it because it offers up a big chunk of me – my writing is something I hold close, something that isn’t always easy for me to share, so it was a pretty big deal to me, putting it out there.
And coming up with those two? Definitely a challenge! (When it comes to me and “best,” I’m at a loss. Own worst critic and all that.)
Make sure to leave a comment on this post if you’re taking part in this mini-challenge. I can’t wait to see what you all come up with!
Thanks for hosting this mini-challenge!
Here are two of my favorite posts:
Class in YA Lit – I’ve been thinking a lot about class issues in general lately, and since I blog YA books it’s natural those thoughts would intersect with my reading. This is my second commentary post on class in YA lit, inspired by a topic in the What a Girl Wants blog series.
What About Team Bella? Another post inspired by a post on another blog, this time from Broadsheet. This one sprang from Twilight’s marketing push of Team Edward vs. Team Jacob means that we lose sight of the fact that, ostensibly, the series is supposed to be *Bella’s* story. I’ve seen this format spill over into other YA books where a female protagonist is accompanied by two attractive young men, and the Broadsheet post finally inspired me to get out my thoughts on just why exactly this drives me up a wall.
I’m also hard on myself, and I don’t feel that any of my posts are particularly exciting. But I chose these two posts because they are about stories that I really enjoyed.
http://readingwithmomma.blogspot.com/2009/11/where-mountain-meets-moon.html
http://readingwithmomma.blogspot.com/2009/10/beyond-bayou-by-kate-chopin.html
Here’s my post: http://smsbookreviews.blogspot.com/2010/01/bloggiesta-mini-challenge-put-your-best.html and they are in my sidebar too.
I put `Worthy Posts` in my sidebar
I’ve been meaning to do this for a while – thank you for pushing me into getting around to it.
I wrote a post containg my most popular posts: http://www.farmlanebooks.co.uk/?p=3969 and linked to some of them in my sidebar.
What a great idea! I took a couple of the popular discussions and put them on my right side bar. This is so great because you hate to bury those wonderful ones with new material!
http://bookjourney.wordpress.com/
There are a few posts that I put a lot into and thus want to include (even though it appeared no one particularly enjoyed them) and also a post or two that I know a lot of people commented on and I think are maybe helpful too.
A Retelling of My Own is a story I wrote about retelling Little Red Riding Hood – a sample of my writing that may only be interesting to me, but really took a lot of time.
Why We Love Fairy Tales was a post including some research I did about fairy tales and their enduring nature. Also took a lot of time and I thought was interesting.
On Twitterings and Followers was my initial foray into understanding why people liked Twitter and Google Followers so much (at the time I did neither of them) – interesting questions and the comments were amazing! I did a follow-up post highlighting the answers and comments I got. Really great reader input.
I think maybe I’ll put up these posts somewhere people can access them more easily. Thanks for helping me get the courage to do this!
I have linked to a couple of my recent good posts here
I haven’t been blogging all that long so this was easier for me in that I don’t have so many posts to look through. But, here’s two of my better posts:
GLBT Mini-Challenge (http://helensbookblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/glbt-mini-challenge.html)–These questions were interesting to answer and I got some great comments in response. I realize I really enjoy my posts that are challenge-related.
2009 Becomes 2010 (http://helensbookblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/2009-becomes-2010.html)–This was good for me to look back over what I had done since I started blogging and see where I want to go. Reflection is good and I enjoyed the process, much like I am REALLY enjoying Bloggiesta since it is helping me to focus and go through a to-do list (which I love).
Here is my entry for this particular mini-challenge! It was difficult going through my past posts to see just how awful some of them were, especially in the beginning.
http://www.michellesmastermusings.com/2010/01/bloggiesta-update-4-and-mini-challenge.html
I’m not really proud of any of my posts (I know, I sound all tenn angsty), but my WWW posts get a decient amount of feedback, and I enjoy them, so I put them in my side bar.
WWW (3)
WWW (5)
Since I have so few, I’m just going to list my two favorites: <a target="_new" rel="nofollow href="http://moonbeamamusings.blogspot.com/2010/01/checking-it-off.html"Checking It Off
<a target="_new" rel="nofollow href="http://moonbeamamusings.blogspot.com/2010/01/today-was-one-of-those-days-that.html"A Marvelous Day
Daggon it! I still don’t have the html thing going on! Guess I’ll add that to the list for things to work on tomorrow.
A Marvelous Day
Checking It Off
Much better! Thanks Bloggiesta! Ole!
Ok, I did mine!
Here’s a favorite list of mine from last year:
http://www.readnowsleeplater.com/2010/01/well-its-not-as-bad-as-all-that-best-of.html
And one of my favorite book events from last year
http://www.readnowsleeplater.com/2010/01/goodreadsvromans-book-swap.html
I hope I can do some better writing/reviewing this year. These are just posts that I thought gave good info and conveyed my excitement about books and reading. Now I have a sidebar for “The Best of RNSL” so when I do someday post my best writing, you’ll know!
Posted up three of my favorite links in my sidebar. Thanks for the challenge!
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I chose these because they are not the usual reviews but something a little different-still about books and reading though. Thank you for this opportunity.
http://freshinkbooks.blogspot.com/2009/04/25-books-that-caused-commotion.html
http://freshinkbooks.blogspot.com/2009/04/weekly-geeks-2009-13.html
I changed my Book of the Week in my side bar to link to my favorite review of the week.
Thanks for the Mini-Challenge!
Here’s two of my favorites
http://theadvantagepoint.wordpress.com/2009/07/12/the-dance-of-help-and-independence/
and
http://theadvantagepoint.wordpress.com/2008/11/25/sniffing-out-angels/
Thanks for the challenge
I think my two favorites are
http://ysprincess.blogspot.com/2009/11/day-in-life-of-youth-services-library.html
and
http://ysprincess.blogspot.com/2010/01/reviews-books-if-you.html
but like you said, own worst critic.
This was fun to do. Thanks!
http://melydia.zoiks.org/2010/01/bloggiesta-et-al/
Review and Interview with Sarah MacLean, author of The Season
it was my first author interview and I had so much fun doing it! It taught me a lot about reading a book and then seeing it from a different angle–not just as a fan, but also as someone who is interested in the process itself. Sarah was so NICE and patient with me.
Review of Mistborn Book 1: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson still one of my favorite books EVER. Though even as I read it I acknowledged the negatives in it. It was the first time I was able to separate my fannish self from my reviewing self honestly.
In both cases it was a new experience for me and I had trouble finding the right ‘voice’, but I”m ultimately still proud of the work I did.
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Thanks for hosting! here is my best of post:
http://booksnyc.blogspot.com/2010/01/bloggiesta-mini-challenge-best-of-best.html
I am new to book blogging so it didnt take took much trawling to find these
I posted up my links at the top of my blog.
* Libraries and Why They ROCK! – http://www.bookworminginthe21stcentury.com/2009/06/libraries-and-why-they-rock_23.html
* Top 20 Books Read in 2009 – http://www.bookworminginthe21stcentury.com/2009/12/top-20-books-read-in-2009.html
I put my post about it in with my final bloggiesta post: http://heidenkind.blogspot.com/2010/01/uno-dos-tres-hecho.html
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In my sidebar, I have added images to some of my favorite posts:
My blogging Journey is here:
http://rainysnowyobsessions.blogspot.com/2010/01/bloggingmy-best-journey-so-far.html
And an image linking to an article about Oktoberfest, with photos by a Berlin photographer (my son!):
http://damesofdialogue.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/oktoberfest-a-lively-beer-festival-and-more/
Then I link to author interviews, like this one:
http://damesofdialogue.wordpress.com/2010/05/26/writing-for-women-stories-of-strength-love-humor-hope/
I can’t say that any of my post to date are the best. I am still working on finding my blogging voice, but I did complete the challenge here
I just posted my BBAW registration post where we basically had to do this, but with five posts. I think that should count for this challenge, right? Here it is:
http://sueysbooks.blogspot.com/2010/06/bbaw-registration-links.html
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