So, it's Cyber Monday and like a zillion other companies online Powells Books has got a deal for you. In their case it is free shipping (type in FREEMONDAY during checkout) on any order of any size which is pretty nice if, for example, you wanted to buy a book for $6.98 or $7.98 or even $9.99 and send it to the very fine students at Ballou High School in Washington DC who are desperate for a library that will suit their needs and fire up their souls and make their world a better place. Not that you can't use that free shipping for yourself too but if you wanted to help out the Guys Lit Wire Holiday Book Fair for Ballou then Melissa Jackson, the school's librarian, would certainly appreciate it.

And I would to. :-)

(There are so many great books on the list and we are so thrilled to pieces with the titles that have already been bought and it is all going so well that I can't help but hope for a sellout. Of course I always hope for a sellout when we roll into the second week but this time I especially do. It's an early Christmas thing.)

I'm trying not to tug on heartstrings, because that is so Lifetime movie of the week (as opposed to After School Special of the week which is so yesterday). It's just so hard to change the world or even think the world will ever change in anything but the most depressing way possible, that people buying books for a high school library makes me happy. Ballou started the year with less than one book per student and now have four. FOUR! They need thousands and thousands of more books (to get to the ALA standard of eleven per student) but they are on their way and isn't that amazing? It's the closest thing I will get to magic, seeing those books fly off the wish list and I have to tell you it is an addictive thing.

More book news and reading news to report soonest but today I'm just thinking Book Fair. Be sure to let us know at GLW if you buy something - we love to see where folks live and what books they wanted to send.

CHEERS!!!!