This is a library-loving blog challenge thought up by the fabulous Jennifer Hubbard whose book The Secret Year has gotten lots of great buzz!
For every commenter on this post between now and midnight on March 26th, I will donate $1 to the San Leandro Public Library, up to an amount of $200. You don't even have to say anything profound in the comments - 'librarians rock' will do.
Note that my pledge is “per commenter”—so if a single person leaves 50 comments, that still only counts once! But you can do more by spreading the word ... please link to this post, tweet about it, and send your friends here so they can comment and raise more money.
If you’re moved to make a flat-fee donation to your library, or to start your own challenge, you are quite welcome, and please leave that information in the comments.
For a complete list of participating bloggers (and to visit other sites where you can help libraries just by leaving a comment!) visit the writerjenn blog at http://writerjenn.livejournal.com/
Wow what an awesome concept! Great idea. Librarians do rock!
ReplyDeleteThat's a great thing to do! Librarians are fantastic! =D
ReplyDeleteI love your library picture! Good luck with your challenge!
ReplyDeleteLibrarians are amazing. I absolutely love theYA librarian at my library. She's very nice.
ReplyDeleteThis is also a really great concept. I'm glad to be helping out! I'll be sure to link back here for others.
Hooray for libraries!
ReplyDeleteThis is such a great thing your doing!
ReplyDeleteParty like a librarian!
ReplyDeleteLibraries!
ReplyDeleteLibrarians do, in fact, totally rock.
ReplyDeleteWhat an awesome thing to do! Kudos.
ReplyDeleteLibraries are an awesome resource for our global society. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteThanks for participating!
ReplyDeleteJenn Hubbard
This is great! Most libraries are in dire straights right now! And can use all the help they can get.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful site, Omolo. Good luck with your challenge. Wish me luck too. I just posted mine.
ReplyDeletethanks for helping out libraries
ReplyDeleteYay for libraries! Librarians are amazing. My grandma always thought that was the coolest career in the world.
ReplyDeleteHooray for libraries!!
ReplyDeleteMy post is up here:
http://lisa-schroeder.blogspot.com/2010/03/library-loving-blog-challenge.html
Thanks for participating in the challenge, Cynthia!
ReplyDeleteMy library-supporting blog entry can be found here: http://bit.ly/ilovelibraries
Hooray for libraries!
ReplyDeleteThanks for participating!
ReplyDeleteYay for libraries!
ReplyDeleteThank you, fellow lover of libraries
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Love libraries! Thanks, Cynthia!
ReplyDelete“When people who can read and write start fighting on behalf of people who can’t, you just end up with another kind of stupidity. If you want to help them, build a big library or something somewhere, and leave the doors open.”~Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times.
ReplyDeleteYay libraries! I just joined the challenge at my blog, too.
ReplyDeleteMichelle :)
Just awesome! Can't wait to see how much good you do for your library! Wonderful challenge.
ReplyDeleteHi library-loving blogger!I wish my library was bigger so it could hold more books!
ReplyDeleteHere is my challenge:
http://taffyscandy.blogspot.com/2010/03/library-loving-blog-challenge.html
Alright Ms. Moneybags - dole it out. :)
ReplyDeleteThis is pretty cool; libraries rock!
ReplyDeleteOooh, I'm library-lovin' that scrumptious library pic. I'm doing the challenge at my blog, too, Holly Cupala, Tell Me a Secret!
ReplyDeleteI heart librarians!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks for helping your library! We need more people like you :-)
ReplyDeleteWhat an awesome idea! Libraries rock!
ReplyDeleteHow Cool! Thanks so much for doing this for SLPL! BTW, I just put a hold on "Dirty Little Secrets" at work! :D
ReplyDeleteHurray for rockin' libraries and librarians!
ReplyDeleteThanks Cynthia! "Dirty Little Secrets" already has two holds on it here at SLPL.
ReplyDeleteLibrarians appreciate the love and need the $$$! (Books aren't cheap.) Thanks so much for giving both. Congratulations on your new book!
ReplyDeleteHave been introduced to your books through D Ruuska. Very enjoyable. Thanks for contributing locally. Mary Beth Barloga
ReplyDeleteThis is a very philanthropic gesture. Thank you so much!!
ReplyDeleteThank you for promoting the San Leandro Library and its librarians, Cynthia!
ReplyDelete"We cannot have good libraries until we first have good librarians -- properly educated, professionally recognized, and fairly rewarded."
-Herbert S. White
Library Journal,15 November 1999, pp. 44-45)
Thanks so much. This is awesome! Librarians are great to work with.
ReplyDeleteSomeone should set this up for my library... since htey take AGE to get new books =( But! Now you get to pay 43! Woot!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations to the San Leandro Public Library!
ReplyDeleteI loved The Secret Year. I also loved Dirty Little Secrets. Maybe I'll put "secret" in my next book title.
ReplyDeleteLovin' your library love!
Wow, this is amazing! You're so generous to donate...librarians surely do rock!
ReplyDeleteYay! :)
ReplyDeleteThis is such a fantastic idea! YOU rock :-).
ReplyDeleteGreat idea! Good luck :)
ReplyDeleteAwesome idea! Hope your library can order some great new books <3
ReplyDeleteHooray for libraries!
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Love me some libraries!
ReplyDeleteYay for libraries!
ReplyDeleteLibrarians so ROCK! Remember that libraries are run by municipalities - so make sure that when you hear about cutting government spending, you remember that can mean cutting your libraries.
ReplyDeleteAnd to CynJay - big discussion at a YA librarians meeting today about DLS! I'm sure new readers for the book were grabbed today :-)
I was thinking of you only this morning! This is a wonderful post!
ReplyDelete$55 so far! Yay you guys. I still have money in my pocket though....
ReplyDeleteThanks Linda - that warms my heart!
And thanks to everyone for their lovely comments! Let's keep going.
Libraries rock!
ReplyDeleteYay, libraries!
ReplyDeleteWhat a sad world it would be without libraries. Thank you to all who support them.
ReplyDeleteI love libraries! I start taking my kids from the time they are babies and we go almost every weekend!
ReplyDeleteHoorah for libraries!
ReplyDeleteThis is so much fun. Thanks for being part of the challenge! Yay for libraries!
ReplyDeleteYay for libraries!!
ReplyDelete(Now pls comment on mine!)
Your website is beautiful, and your books look really fascinating. I am going to check out both of them. Thanks for doing the library challenge. I am impressed with how many people are participating. Libraries need our help now more than ever, with this tough economic climate, and all of the budget cuts.
ReplyDeleteThis makes me so happy! Yay for libraries! and Yay for what you are doing :)
ReplyDeleteThis is amazing!!! So great of you to support the local libraries! I think more people should do this. If I had the money I would too, but as small as a dollar is, its precious to me right now. LOL Get ready for more comments because I am going to tell my friends, and they know how book crazy I am and they support my addiction! HAHAHA
ReplyDeleteGreat cause!
ReplyDeleteThanks to Terra (the biggest book fan I know!) I'm here to post a comment in support of local libraries!!!
ReplyDeleteHope you exceed your goal. And, librarians do rock!
I LOVE libraries!!!
ReplyDeletexo
Laura
I spent my summers as a kid sitting in my favorite tree reading from the stack of books I had gotten from our beautiful old Carnegie Library in Newton, Iowa. I enjoyed reading so much, I figured it must not be something adults must think I was "wasting my time" with! A life-long reader who, to this day, gets a huge sense of joy walking into my local library. Libraries rock, librarians rock, and Cynthia rocks!
ReplyDeleteJust found out that New Jersey libraries are going under the ax, too. Librarians rock!
ReplyDeleteYay for libraries and books in general. And thanks to Terra for forwarding :-)
ReplyDeleteYay for supporting libraries!
ReplyDeleteAlso wanted to let you know that the copies of Dirty Little Secrets from your giveaway arrived, and I took a copy down to donate to my library today. Thank you again (and thank you from the library)!
And both I and my husband have already read and absolutely loved it. :)
Another lover of libraries here! Brava, Cyn. :-)
ReplyDeleteYeah! I'm taking it up a notch! Added this to my blog and mentioned you. I'm counting tweets so I can catch up!
ReplyDeleteThanks for supporting libraries!
ReplyDeleteI love the library! It's a great place to hang out and to get to know the librarians. Everyone's so nice!
ReplyDeleteThanks for showing your support to libraries! This is such a great challenge, it's inspiring to see so many people take part :)
ReplyDeleteEvery town, no matter how small, should have a library.
ReplyDeleteGood luck!
My library-loving post is at www.ishtamercurio.blogspot.com
We love our libraries!
ReplyDeleteLibraries. *confetti* \o\ /o/ \o/
ReplyDeleteYay for libraries! I'm hosting a comment challenge on my blog, too!
ReplyDeleteYay for libraries!
ReplyDeleteThese days, libraries need all the help they can get!--Hilari
ReplyDeleteHooray for libraries!
ReplyDeleteWhat a mitzvah!
ReplyDeleteMore $ for the library!!!!!
ReplyDeleteJust wanted to let you know that I've already passed on the second copy once to a friend from church. She's an avid reader and wanted to know more about how I grew up. I thought "Dirty Little Secrets" was a great way for her to really understand it. She really enjoyed it.
ReplyDeleteAlso, this last weekend when the kids and I were at the library, I put in a requisition request for them to get the book. The librarian did seem a little confused when I told him he didn't need to put it on hold for me...LOL. I simply explained that I knew there was at least one teenager in town who NEEDED to read that book, and probably lots of others who are her/his friend.
Best wishes, CJ!
I love libraries!
ReplyDeleteNice!
ReplyDeleteWhoo hooo guys! Here we go...
ReplyDeleteThanks Ceci - that is awesome!
I heart the library! (And I secretly wish I was a librarian).
ReplyDeleteWoot! Libraries are the greatest institutions ever created. They're awesome!
ReplyDeletelove this challenge!
ReplyDeletewe visit our library weekly! We're also participating: http://www.brimfulcuriosities.com/2010/03/2010-library-loving-blog-challenge-you.html
ReplyDeleteCommenter #99, checking in ; )
ReplyDeleteI love libraries! So do my kids. And we love helpful librarians.
ReplyDeleteThanks for supporting a library.
ReplyDeleteHey there - so happy to meet you here in this library-loving place.
ReplyDeleteHugs - Janet
Glad you're supporting libraries!
ReplyDeleteOur local library has been one of the great constants in our kid's lives thanks to you is paying off tremendously. Keep up the support.
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