Library lovin' challenge

[dampscribbler]

Hey, friends! 

Please do me, and public libraries, and children in Africa a favor, please, and go comment over at kellyrfineman  's  Library Lovin' Post.  Kelly will donate 25 cents for each commenter to her local library system *and* 25 cents to Books for Africa, up to $100 each.

For every commenter Kelly gets, I'll donate 10 cents to Multnomah County Libraries, 10 cents to Washington County Libraries, and 10 cents to Books for Africa.  So please, go post a comment over there, and consider making a match of your own if it's within your means.  Leave a comment here and I'll add another 25 cents to Books for Africa! 

Want to help more without spending a penny of your own money?  Check out the list of pledging bloggers here.  

PS - I promise not to make a habit of posting with oversized fonts, because, yeah, a little annoying.  But at least it's not blinking.

Comments

[kellyrfineman.livejournal.com]

Up to $200 total, or $100 each! (ACK!)

How completely and totally sweet of you to do a matching bid! Smooch!!

[dampscribbler.livejournal.com]

Ooops, fixed! :)

Libraries mean so much to me, and I've never forgotten Doris Lessing's Nobel essay about the preciousness of a book in Africa, so Books for Africa called out to me as soon as you mentioned it. I'm tickled to make the matches.

[kellyrfineman.livejournal.com]

One of the other participants is sending money to Books for Africa as well. I'm pretty stoked about that - it takes them only 50 cents to send a book. Not sure how, but I'm willing to accept that at face value.

[katsie.livejournal.com]

Here is a comment for you and for Books for Africa! Isn't this a grand idea?

Come comment on mine as well. :)

[tamarak.livejournal.com]

Hooray for libraries and Kelly and YOU! :)

[cloudscome.livejournal.com]

I just found out about this challenge and I am busy commenting my fingers off. Great idea! Send those books!

[saralholmes.livejournal.com]

I love the matching bid idea. Yay for all the things that books and friendship can do!

[ex-lgburns.livejournal.com]

Great idea! Nice work! Hooray for libraries!

Loree Burns
www.loreeburns.com

[writerjenn.livejournal.com]

Thanks for joining in! I just added you to the list!

[jelazakazone.livejournal.com]

Commenting for books for Africa. I love libraries!

[kaethed.livejournal.com]

I'll say "howdy" if it'll mean more books for Africa.

[mreader.livejournal.com]

Came over from Kelly's place to send another comment of love out to both libraries and Books for Africa. I work in one and have collected books for the other, so, uh - good show!

[thehappynappybookseller.blogspot.com (from livejournal.com)]

Every child should know a library.

[citycatinwindow.livejournal.com]

This stopped me in my tracks - I'm from Multnomah County. (Now an East Coaster) The downtown main branch is the first place I visit when I go home, and it got me through my teen years and my string of odd jobs out of college. So many memories of a wonderful place. Thank you ~

[yoneit.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much, all of you for your support of libraries!

A grateful librarian in Chicago,
Jenny Schwartzberg

[pearlofcarol.blogspot.com (from livejournal.com)]

Celebrating cross-cultural books! Cheers,

[susanwrites.livejournal.com]

Thanks for being a part of this wonderful library lovin' challenge. I'm in on it too! http://susanwrites.livejournal.com/212144.html

Books saved me until I was strong enough to save myself.

What a wonderful challenge and match!

[jumpingthecandlestick.blogspot.com (from livejournal.com)]

Thank you for doing this. Yay, libraries!!

Debbie Diesen
www.deborahdiesen.com

[(Anonymous)]

Hooray for Multnomah and Washington County libraries--two of the best library systems in the world. So happy to be a member. Books for Africa is a great organization, too!

Ali (Worducopia (http://worducopia.blogspot.com))

[jillbertini.livejournal.com]

I'm leaving a comment here for your matching bid :D.

library challenge

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks for doing this. Great cause!
Linda Covella

I love libraries!

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks so much for doing this! I put a link to the challenge on my Facebook page.
Janet Halfmann, Author
Little Skink's Tail
Seven Miles to Freedom: The Robert Smalls Story

Great idea! matching blog challenge!

[lizannewrites.livejournal.com]

Books Books! & more books! =)

[slayground.livejournal.com]

Donate, support, spread the word, repeat.

[(Anonymous)]

As a librarian in one of these libraries, I am SO THRILLED to see this! :) Thank you so much.

[mela-lyn.livejournal.com]

I love libraries! Great fund raising idea!! Good luck!!

[kporterbooks.livejournal.com]

Way to go! Wonderful idea. Go libraries!