Need YOUR help to read 100,000 books!! and make a matching donation to National Center for Family Literacy

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Harlequin’s online community is reading 100,000 books to help the National Center for Family Literacy solve the literacy crisis.
Read and help make the 100,000 book donation come true.
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Help spread literacy by joining the 100,000 Book Challenge. For every novel read and reviewed Harlequin will donate a book to the National Center for Family Literacy. The donation has a retail value of $700,000.

Learn more at http://community.eharlequin.com/book-challenge

So far 300+ bloggers have accepted the challenge, and in the first three months, they have crossed the 8,000-book mark, but there is a long way to go before meeting the goal. Help us help spread the joy of reading!

Romance Readers are Avid Readers
“Our readers are very passionate,” says Jayne Hoogenberk, community manager for eHarlequin.com. “They read, talk, think and dream about books 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 52 weeks a year. The median number of paperbacks read in one year by Americans is 12. The median for Harlequin readers is 30. Since we’re always looking for ways to inspire and challenge our community members, we wondered if, as a group, they would be able to read 100,000 books in a single calendar year and through our donation of 100,000 books, share that love of reading with others who don’t have such easy access to entertaining and engaging literature for women.”

The NCFL Helps Adult Literacy
“Recent studies show that people are reading literature less and less,” said Sharon Darling, president & founder of NCFL. “This reading challenge not only will provide an important incentive for everyone to read more, it also will greatly benefit the millions of adults who have low literacy – 34 million in the United States alone and 771 million globally.”

The 100,000 Book Donation
Each book reviewed on the site counts towards our goal of 100,000 books read and ups the automated book challenge counter. Because our ultimate goal this year is to provide books to the National Center for Family Literacy, we want to ensure that every book read counts towards our goal and we need YOU to help us reach it!

We Need You!
Join, read, share.

It’s simple and if you’re a romance fan you’ll be doing something you already do – read. The only addition is writing a quick review – and watching the book count grow as we head toward the 100,000 book goal.

For more information and to register for the challenge visit:
http://community.eharlequin.com/book-challenge

If you would like more information and/or would like to include the challenge on your blog or website please contact jayne_hoogenberk@harlequin.ca

www.community.eharlequin.com www.famlit.org