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A little happy dance!!  I made the finals for the Book Blogger Appreciation Awards in two categories!

You can see all of the winners on Amy’s post here (I swear she must be exhausted by now!) and voting has commenced on this post here.  Anybody can vote, so I encourage you to hop on over and vote for your favorite blogs.  Voting is open until September 12th with a huge party on September 18th!

I was so excited to see many bloggers whom I nominated make the finals for their categories and would like to say THANK YOU for those who did the same for me!  I’m nominated for the  Most Altruistic Blog and the Most Extravagant Giveaways!  I’m in good company.

Since it’s election season, I thought I’d give my little speech for those who are visiting for the first time (because, wow, there were a lot of blogs, I’ve never visited) and tell you why you should consider voting for the Maw Books Blog.

Let’s start with Most Extravagant Giveaways.  I was really excited about this one because I really try to come up with something creative when I do my giveaways.  I have a lot of fun doing them.  And it hasn’t gone past my notice that a lot of bloggers have adopted some of my “how to enter” rules.  Since I started this blog ten months ago, I have given away approximately 40 books.   Is that a lot or a little?  I actually don’t know but I know people have fun entering them!

In addition to random giveaways here and there, I had a lot of fun with my 100th post giveaway and TONS of fun with my Stephenie Meyer giveaway with more than 800 people entering.  And let’s not forget when I had ten winners in my giveaway celebrating the opening for the Book Bloggers Book Reviews database (and yes, I’m very aware that I haven’t updated it in a while).

What’s going on now?  I’m currently giving away a boatload of prizes (although they really haven’t been revealed yet) for my Reading & Blogging for Darfur campaign, and you can also make a guess on when I pass the 100,000 hits mark to win a gift certificate to the online bookstore of your choice.

Perhaps my biggest weakness is actually making it to the post office in a timely manner, but with an almost three year old and a 16 month old, I refuse to take them, so try to wait until I can go by myself.

I’m really touched with the Most Altruistic Blog nomination because this one really isn’t about me, it’s about others who need our attention.  It hit me a while back, that if I’m going to take the time and effort to blog, I should at least try to make a difference while I was doing it.  So thank you for thinking of me, it means that you are paying attention.

This is also a good reminder that I need to sit down and make my donation to the Clinique Monique in Mali.  I was really hoping for 50 comments on that post (I’m donating a dollar a comment) but have received 33.  I know we can do better than that!  Jen from Devourer of Books has even offered to double the donation!  So I’ll put this post up and give it a couple more days.

And if you are not involved in Reading & Blogging for Darfur, then get involved!!  It’s really easy to help spread the awareness about the genocide in Darfur by doing a few simple things.  Thank you for everybody who have and to those who haven’t yet, what are you waiting for?  Seriously?

So there you go.  There’s my election speech.  THANK YOU!  It’s a thrill!  And I hope you get out and vote for your favorite blogs.  I swear Amy is the coolest, Book Blogger Appreciation Week is something I wish I had come up with.  It’s that cool.

So take out your dancing shoes and let’s get ready to party! 

VOTE!

P.S.  This is what your child looks like after you’re done blogging.  There is rice pudding in his hair everywhere!  Off to the bathtub for us.

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