And the Winner Is...

After a very scientific selection process (that involved writing everyone's names on a post-it, folding them in half, depositing them in a small basket, and having Scott randomly draw a name), the monthly challenge winner is...

LISA MCGEE

Congratulations Lisa! We wish you the best of luck in beginning your own personal library--hopefully your gift card can help you get started.

For those of you who weren't as lucky, we'll be having a new challenge for this month. Read below to find out more...

All of us read. It might be a book, a magazine, or even an article in a newspaper. Whatever it is you read, we would love to hear about it. Essentially, this month's challenge is to share a book review with the literacy blog community. You can write a brief (or not-so-brief) review of something you've read lately and it will be posted on the blog for others to read and learn about.

Hopefully, most of you will be willing to share a review out of the goodness of your hearts, but for others it might take a bit more enticement. In order to entice those of you who might not be so good-hearted (just kidding, you can be good-hearted and still want a free book), for every review you submit this month, you'll be entered into another random drawing to win a copy of Long After Dark.

As the back of this fiction book states, "A man struggles--literally--with his dead father. A housewife suffers from post-calling depression. The son of a plygamist comes to terms with his upbringing. An unwed teen mother faces her father. In these award-winning stories and a new novella, Todd Robert Petersen takes the reader on expeditions to Utah, Arizona, Brazil, Rwanda, and into the souls of twenty-first-century Mormons caught between their humanity, faith, and church."

While I have not read the book, I have heard very good things about it, and I hope this month's winner will enjoy it!

So, in order to participate, all you need to do is write up a short review and e-mail it to Lonica2.blogforliteracy@blogger.com. I will post your review to share with others and you will automatically be entered to win this month's prize. What more could you want? Get started writing your review today! You only have until the 28th of February to participate.