The Epilepsy Foundation is hosting a 26-Minute Reading Challenge in June as a way to raise money.  Twenty-six represents the 1 in 26 people who will develop epilepsy in their lifetime.  You can support me and other challengers by donating to the cause as we rack up the minutes.  

I’ve been a legal adult for just over twenty-six years (I needed a calculator for this, but the coincidental result is worth it) and you know what?  It’s not all that and a bag of chips as advertised.  The adults of my youth WAY oversold this nonsense.  The bills, the obligations, the various health nuisances, the slow decline into the great endless void (not to mention the many reasons to scream into it): what a crock, am I right?

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Ahhhh for the days of childhood freedoms.  Those three sweet months in which we actively deleted everything we learned in the previous nine.  

To keep our brains from turning into melted ice cream, grown-ups (librarians specifically, bless ’em) tricked us into learning by instituting the Summer Reading Challenge.  But we book nerds looked forward to it almost as much as the last day of school.

The 26-Minute Challenge brings that favorite back, with the added bonus of helping a nifty charity.  So please consider donating, or joining me, or sharing...or better yet, all three of these things.  I’ll be posting my progress every day on Twitter and Facebook, and you can follow me on Goodreads to see what’s on my current TBR list.