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Books for the Heart Wrap-up Links

Thanks SO MUCH to all those who participated in Books for the Heart! If you blog, please use Mr. Linky below to link to your wrap-up post. If you don’t blog or don’t want to post about it but you did participate, please do post in the comments.  It’s not a requirement, but I’d love to hear how much you donated, and to what organization.

Thanks again!

Personal results for ‘Books for the Heart’

Have you posted your results yet?  If not, GO HERE.

I’ll be donating $100 to the American Heart Association.  My sisters also read for the event, and my mom will also be donating so we can pool our money together in memory of my dad.  I read eight books:

  1. Life As We Knew It stars4.gif by Susan Beth Pfeffer (2006, 352 pp.)
  2. Kitchen stars4.gif by Banana Yoshimoto (1988, 1993 for the English translation; 105 pp.)
  3. The Reader stars4.gif by Bernard Schlink (1995, 1997 for the English translation; 224 pages)
  4. Morality for Beautiful Girls stars4h.gif by Alexander McCall Smith (2001, 227 pp.)
  5. So Long a Letter stars5.gif by Mariama Ba (1980-81, 90 pp.)
  6. The Kalahari Typing School for Men by Alexander McCall Smith (2002, 191 pp.)
  7. Solaris by Stanislaw Lem (1961, 204 pp.)
  8. A Tale of Two Gardens by Octavio Paz (various copyrights, 111 pp.)


Reminder! Books for the Heart (TSS)

Click for more infoJust a little reminder that I’m hosting a fundraiser for the American Heart Association (or your own country’s heart association) during the first two weeks of February. You can sign up and/or find out more info by clicking on the icon to the right.

You decide how much to give and you give the money yourself. I’d love for us to raise a lot of money for this great cause, so please consider participating!

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