This coming weekend is the Fourth Annual 48 Hour Book Challenge, in which bloggers read – and blog about – as many YA books as possible within a 48-hour period. For charity! Since we Active Voicers are strongly in favor of reading as much as possible and then yammering about it, and actually benefiting the world for once by doing so, we have decided to participate.
What does that mean? Basically, from Friday through Sunday we’ll be reading all the YA we can get our hands on, sci-fi/fantasy or otherwise, and liveblogging about it here.
Where does the charity angle come in? Well, if you so choose, you can sponsor one or both of us for a certain amount per books read. Comment on this post telling us whether you’d like to sponsor Jess, Becky, or the entire Active Voice team, and how much you’d like to sponsor per book. At the end of the weekend, we’ll multiply the amount you offered by books read by whoever you chose to sponsor, and you’ll send us that amount. So if you decide to, say, sponsor Becky for $1 per book and she reads 15 books, you’ll send us $15 through PayPal. (Contact details for that will come in a later post.)
We in turn will send all donations to Room to Read, a very excellent non-profit organization that operates in rural communities in Asia and Africa, building schools and libraries, publishing local language literature, and providing scholarships for girls’ education. These are all things that the Active Voice team feels pretty seriously down with!
We’ll be posting more in this coming week with lists of books we plan to tackle over the weekend. Please feel free to recommend anything you think we should read and haven’t seen reviewed here. We can’t promise that we’ll be able to find/buy/read it, but we’ll do our best!
Spread the word! And if you have any questions, or are participating in the 48 Hour Book Challenge yourself, let us know!
Yay! I would like to sponsor Jess for a dollar a book!
Hello! I don’t have PayPal, but I was wondering if I could sponsor both Jess and Becky for $2 per book and then just send the check directly to Room to Read.
Thank you so much!
I want to sponsor Becky for $0.50 a book. I only wish I could afford more!
I’d like to sponsor Becky for $1 a book. 🙂
I would like to sponsor Jess for $0.50 a book.
(Sorry I can’t do more!)
*squishes you all so hard* Thank you so much! 😀 😀
gg_83, that would be fine. 🙂
we would love to sponsor jessica for 5 dollars per book.
love nancy and steve
Hey, I want to sponsor Becky for $1/book…the same for Jess 🙂
I will sponser Jessica for $5 dollars a book. Happy reading!
I’ll sponsor you each for $1/book. Good luck and have fun!
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