Help Me Get Back in the Loop!

For the past several months I've been bogged down with studying and exams and everything else that goes along with grad school, so I have had no time for blogging OR reading for pleasure. But now I have a few weeks off for the holidays and so I am hoping to catch up on book-related goings-on!

And for that I need your help, blogger friends. So I'm asking you to recommend me:

- book blogs to follow! I went through a lot of the blogs on my Feedly and a shocking number of them haven't posted in years or have just plain poofed out of existence (reminding me of the Tribute to Vanished Bloggers I wrote last year). So I need some new ones to follow! Who do you love? Who writes wonderfully analytical/witty/creative book reviews or has awesome discussion posts or hosts a super cool book blog event?

- author blogs to follow! Especially laugh-out-loud funny ones. I need some more of these in my Feedly!

- books published in 2013 that you read, loved, and are pushing on everyone! Like I said above, I did not get much reading done in the last half of this year, so I'm feeling a bit out of the loop. (Alternatively, what books did not live up to the hype and/or I should stay far away from?)

Thanks in advance!