Thanks to everyone who’s already commented on my Library Loving Challenge post!! I appreciate your support and all your gushin’ love for libraries.

But alas and alack, my deadline, midnight tonight, is fast approaching and I still need about 10 more comments to reach my goal cap of 100. Yes, just 10 more good-looking, smart, generous, cheerleading folks who want to see me spend more money for a good cause. Oh, I’m so close I can taste it!

Do you know anyone else who would like to leave a comment to help a library? 

All of us, listed below, would love it if you would go outside, drag somebody off the street, give them a cup of coffee, and ask them nicely to comment on these blogs (tickle them if you have to):

SusanWrites (Susan Taylor Brown) for Friends of the Cambria Library, San Jose, CA (thru March 29, noon)
Jama Rattigan for Friends of the Chantilly Regional Library, Fairfax County, VA (thru March 28, midnight)
Sara Lewis Holmes for Flying Horse Farms library (thru March 28, midnight)
Angela DeGroot for Burlington County (NJ) Bookmobile (thru March 31)
Jumping the Candlestick (Debbie Diesen) for Delta Township Library
Kurtis Scaletta for Books for Africa (runs for 2 weeks or until 150 comments)
Armchair News for Jackson Heights Library (Queens, NY)
Tabwriter’s Writer Musings (Tabitha Olson) for her local library
Kelly Fineman of Writing & Ruminating for her local library and Books for Africa (thru March 28, midnight)
Cynthea Liu for an Oklahoma library (and she’s giving stuff to commenters too! thru April 1); see also her library-loving game thru which you can win cool stuff!
Josh Berk for Friends of the Philadelphia Libraries (thru April 1)
SeaHeidi (Heidi R. Kling) for her local library (thru March 29)
4IQRead for her local friends of the library
LizanneWrites for BooksFirst!
kwerg for the Sunnyvale Library
EclecticMum for Placer County libraries (CA)
DampScribbler (Kristi) for Multnomah and Washington County Libraries, plus matching contributions linked to Kelly Fineman’s entry (linked above).
Fuse 8 at School Library Journal for Project Cicero in NYC.
Jennifer R. Hubbard for the Free Library of Philadelphia and the Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, Township Library System.

Just yesterday, I visited my recipient library and took these snaps just for you.

"Time Out Boy," by Gary Price (donated in memory of a deceased child).

In a little room through this door, I met a 57-year-old woman twice a week for five years and taught her how to read.

That’s only part of the power and magic of libraries.

So please comment if you haven’t yet done so, help spread the word by linking to this post, and help us give back!

Here’s the link to my Library Loving Challenge post. Your comment is worth $1 for my local library, plus you score a chocolate cupcake!

Edited to add: The challenge is now closed, and I’ve reached my goal!