It's over, y'all, and it was a resounding success. Results can be found here.
It's the First Annual Hot Chicks and Smart Men Dig Reading Summer Reading Program, brought you by Hot Chicks Dig Smart Men!
I love to read. Love, love, love. And I love my local library, who runs a summer reading program for all ages. Love, love, love.
So I'm combining these two loves and initiating the First Annual Hot Chicks and Smart Men Dig Reading Summer Reading Program* with all proceeds going to the Douglas County Library through the Douglas County Library Foundation.**
Here's da rules:
- The contest will run from June 21st (the summer solstice! Yay!) to September 6th (the first working day after Labor Day. Boo.).
- When you read a new book, post a comment here with the title and author of the book. One comment, one book.
- For each book that is read and registered in the comments, I will donate $1 to the Douglas County Library Foundation, up to $100.00
- For each book that I read during this time, I will donate $5 to the Douglas County Library Foundation, with no limit on the donation.
- When the contest ends, I will use a random number generator to find THE WINNERS. THE WINNERS will each get $25.00 gift certificates to Amazon, so that you might buy more books. Each unique comment (one comment, one book) will be an entry for the gift certificate, so the more you read, the better chance you have to win.
- If the number of comments exceeds 100 (the ceiling on the donation), the subsequent comments will still be considered for the gift certificate.
Update: New blogger filelalaine has decided to jump on the bandwagon, as well, so your books will not only benefit my awesome local library, but also the Studio City Library! Libraries FTW!
Update: I've deleted the comments on this post that aren't "one comment, one book," as it was making it hard for me to figure out the current donation amount. If you want to discuss the books, please do so in the blog post announcement for the contest, found here. Thanks for understanding!
Update: I don't care about the delivery mechanism for your reading. Audiobooks, eBooks, paper books - they're all BOOKS, and they all count.
Update: Children's books (such as Dr. Seuss) do not count, unless you read them aloud to a little person. Reading begins at home!
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*I totally gakked this idea from author Todd Wheeler, whose Virtual Summer Reading Program is in its fifth year. He graciously gave me permission to be a big copy cat and shamelessly steal his idea, thus relieving me of the burden of thinking up original content. Feel free to participate in both programs - it's all for a good cause.
**Disclaimer: The Douglas County Library and the Douglas County Library Foundation have no idea who I am and I'm not affiliated with either organization. Ask any employee over there if they've heard of me and my website, and I'm quite sure the answer would be "Who?" and "We don't allow those kinds of websites here," respectively.
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