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Dear Reader,
In honor of National Library Week, would you do me a favor? If you're reading at one of our library book clubs, it would be wonderful if you would send an email to your library to let the staff know how much you enjoy and appreciate the library's Online Book Club. They'd love to hear from you. If you are not reading at a library book club, send your library an email anyway, thank them for being in the community and then tell them about this book club. This is their week, so let's give them some good feedback.
From my library email bag:
"Suzanne, I live in Jackson County, Oregon and all 15 of our county libraries closed their doors at the end of last week. I can't tell you how sad this makes me feel. Our libraries (and other services) are supported by federal timber money, and we lost ours. We've been working to find a solution to the problem and hope the closure won't last long. We consider the library to be a necessity and have lost our greatest resource. I learned to read before I started Kindergarten and have had a library card for 55 years. I feel such a terrible sense of loss. Thanks for all you do."--Becky Longie
"Dear Suzanne, how horrible to read about libraries closing! As a high school librarian, I hear about the possibilities of closures due to cut-backs in funding, etc. at the educational level, but to have a whole city close theirs is a crime in my book! (Where's the library police?!) I think they should hold public funerals for their libraries--after all, it's the death of reading freely in that area. Thank you so much for sending out your emails--I didn't realize how much I looked forward to reading your emails until I opened my email this weekend and there wasn't one from you there. Thank you also for recognizing that it is National Library Week!"--Heather Thomas
"Suzanne, thanks so much for mentioning National Library Week! I am a librarian for a company in Illinois and am planning some festivities for the whole week. I do hope all my engineers and scientists appreciate it! I'm sure there are many librarians who read along with you each morning and we all are delighted to have you honor us by mentioning National Library Week!"--Mary Crompton
Thanks for sending your library an email this week. I sure do appreciate it. The library's email address is probably above my DearReader column, or if you can't find it, send the email to me and I will forward it to them.
Thanks for reading with me. It's so good to read with friends.
Gratefully,
Suzanne Beecher
Suzanne@DearReader.com
http://www.DearReader.com
P.S. I FELL IN LOVE with two poems last week. I found them in the book, The Spoken Word Revolution, Redux. Read a poem, or listen to the poet read to you, get a great recipe and enter the drawing for a free copy of the book. Let me know if you liked the poems, too. Go to: http://tinyurl.com/ypof6d
AUTHORBUZZ: Great books, great authors. Win signed copies of this week's special books! Julia London, The Perils of Pursuing a Prince; Minton Sparks, Desperate Ransom; Karen Chance, Claimed by Shadow; ReShonda Tate Billingsley, With Friends Like These; and Alison Kent, The Perfect Stranger. Go to: http://authorbuzz.com/dearreader
READ THE CLASSICS: Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons and enter the free Penguin Classic's Drawing. Go to: http://tinyurl.com/35ylrr
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