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Well, it’s been two and a half weeks!  THANK YOU to everybody who has gotten involved in some way or another!  I feel like my reading has slowed down this past week, especially the past two days in which I haven’t finished anything.  I keep falling asleep.  Can you imagine that?  Even if it is two in the morning?  I think I’m up to 21 books.  Not to shabby. 

So what have I finished since my last update?  Books I’ve reviewed are linked over.  Others are coming.

• Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry:  215 pages
• Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer:  192 pages
• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie:  208 pages
• A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck: 130 pages
• The First Hurt by Rachel Sherman: 160 pages
• The 13th Reality by James Dashner:  417 pages
• Saturday by Ian McEwan:  289 pages
• Yankee Girl by Mary Ann Rodman:  216 pages

Guest posts from this past week:

• Guest Post:  Christina Meldrum, Author of Madapple

Other posts published since last update:

• Wow!  I’ve Won BBAW/Most Extravagant Giveaways
• Stephenie Meyer on Ellen Show Tomorrow
• Let’s Party!  It’s Book Blog Appreciation Week
• NY Times Bestsellers – September 14th
• Did You Know My Husband Published a Book?
• Day 8:  Reading & Blogging for Darfur

Stats so far:

• Pages read since September 1st:  3,821 at a penny a page equals  $38.21
• Posts published since September 1st:  32 at .50 cents a post equals $16.00
• Number of comments received since September 1st:  (including trackbacks, etc. because I’m not about to try to subtract those out):  598 at .10 cents a comment equals  $59.80.
• Number of bloggers who posted about the campaign:  56 at .50 cents each equals $28.00 (I upped this from .25 cents, I may go up to a dollar if more people blog about it)
• Number of bloggers who posted button in their sidebar:  32 at .50 cents each equals $16.00
• Number of Darfur books read or documentaries watched: 9 at .50 cents each equals $4.50
• Number of books or videos reviewed by bloggers: 7 at $1 each equals $.700
  (Think of those books and videos as a mini-challenge. Two weeks left!)

Visit these great reviews!

• Madeleine from Madeleine’s Book Blog reviews The Devil Came on Horseback documentary
• Nicole from Books, Books, and More Great Books writes up an amazing review of The Devil Came on Horseback, Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur by Brian Steadle.
• Jen from Devourer of Books reviews Tears of the Desert:  A Memoir of Survival in Darfur by Halima Bashir.
• Amy from Amy’s Haiku Haven reviews The Translator:  A Tribesman’s Memoir of Darfur by Daoud Hari.
• Mrs. B. Roth from It is I, Mrs. B. Roth watched the documentary The Devil Came on Horseback and wrote up a great review.
• Marcia at The Printed Page also read Tears of the Desert:  A Memoir of Survival in Darfur and gave a great review.
• Becky from Becky’s Book Reviews read Not On Our Watch:  The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond by Don Cheadle and Jon Prendergast and I hope she writes up a review.
• Tracy from Bookroom Reviews watched one of the documentaries (not sure which) and I’m looking forward to her review.
• Megan from Leafing Through Life read Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur by Halima Bashir and I’m eagerly awaiting her review.

Let me know if I missed you and I’ll make sure to link over next week.  I know a lot of you mentioned that you’d be reading and watching videos.  Just a reminder that there is just a couple of weeks left.

Giveaways!  These are just the prizes that have been announced so far.  I know I mentioned that I would list all the prizes in this post but I’m afraid that it will get lost with all of the BBAW stuff going on.  So I’ll be putting up a separate post on Sunday.  There are so many they deserve their own post anyways.  There are TONS MORE than what it listed!!  Read here for details on what to do to become eligible.

• Individual Prizes:
  • Signed copy of The Debs by Susan McBride sponsored by Susan McBride
  • Signed copy of  Rules by Cynthia Lord sponsored by Cynthia Lord
  • Ex-library copy of When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka sponsored by Maw Books
  • This is What I Did by Ann Dee Ellis sponsored by Hatchette Book Group
  • The First Hurt, Stories by Rachel Sherman sponsored by Literary Ventures Fund
  • Signed copy of Madapple sponsored by Christina Meldrum
  • The Leper Compound by Paula Nangle sponsored by Literary Ventures Fund
  • Darfur Diaries, Stories of Survival sponsored by Nation  Books

• Grand Prize, one person will win all of these (must be sponsoring me to be eligible for this one):
  • Signed copy of The Debs by Susan McBride sponsored by Susan McBride
  • Signed copy of  Rules by Cynthia Lord sponsored by Cynthia Lord
  • Ex-library copy of When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka sponsored by Maw Books
  • This is What I Did by Ann Dee Ellis sponsored by Hatchette Book Group
  • The First Hurt, Stories by Rachel Sherman sponsored by Literary Ventures Fund
  • Signed copy of Madapple sponsored by Christina Meldrum
  • The Leper Compound by Paula Nangle sponsored by Literary Ventures Fund
  • Darfur Diaries, Stories of Survival sponsored by Nation  Books

It’s not to late to get involved.  Open to everybody, everywhere!  Click here for all of the details and click here for a great Darfur primer.

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