What are your thoughts on a possible Charitable Auction?

This morning while I was trying to figure out what to do with the excess books I have on my bookcases and through out my house I had a small "brain child."  I just realized that we are heading into the season of giving and then I started thinking about how I could give.  Then that thought turned into wouldn't it be cool if I (if anyone else likes the idea and wants to team up I'm game) could come up with an event that Book Bloggers could participate in? The it came down to what hasn't been done (at least as far as I know anyway) in the book blogging community?  There are TONS of Giveaway Hops and Giveaways so those kind of got pushed to the side.  Then the more I started thinking about it the more I thought that it could still be a Giveaway but in addition to a cool prize you get to help someone else out too. Like a charitable auction maybe?  An unconventional giveaway :)  Bid on a prize and the winner's winning bid goes to their choice of charity or library?!

Then that turned into IF I were to do something like this how exactly would it work?  Would it be strictly bookish related things or could the items be anything?  How would I "advertise" the event (since I'm starting over and I'm a small fish in a great big pond)?  Would anyone out there even want to donate items?  Is it even a good idea to being with?  And that's just the tip of the iceberg.  I'll spare you the full length novel diatribe of questions I came up with.

So what are your thoughts bloggers?  Is this something that you would participate in?  Is this something you would consider donating too?  Let me hear it peeps! :)

Have a great day!

Feature Idea's

So after viewing several WOW's this week that hosted sequels to books that I have sitting on my TBR bookcase. I've been kicking around the idea of hosting a feature where you the readers/followers of the blog will get to choose my next read and help me unclutter my shelves. I haven't thought of a catchy name for it yet and I haven't decided when I'm going to start it yet but it is most definately in the works. I'm even throwing around the idea of giving away some of the chosen books after I read them.

Another feature I've been kicking around is "Laci Recommends." For this feature I'm getting a little bit personal and letting my furbaby take over the blog for a day. I used to do a similar feature on my old blog and I really enjoyed doing it so I'll be bringing it back. I think until I get some more content up on the blog it will be a once every 2 weeks feature but after that it will be a weekly feature. 

I'm also kicking around an idea for a once a week (maybe) personal feature. Where y'all can learn a little bit more about me and my other hobbies outside of reading. I guess the idea for this feature came to me while reading a Bloggiesta mini-challenge, where someone commented about losing the "personal side" to her blog. I don't want my blog to turn into book blog "robot" and I definately don't want it to feel impersonal either.

I'm looking forward to feedback/discussion on these idea's. Please feel free to share your thoughts on these idea's in the comment section below.