rachelmanija | Read-a-thon for Mindfulness

The Cause: I am holding a two-day read-a-thon to raise $2700 to attend "Japanese Approaches to Mindfulness," a 10-day study abroad in March staying at Shunkoin, a Zen temple in Kyoto, to study Zen, mindfulness, and Japanese concepts of psychology and mental illness. The abbott is active in the local LGBTQ community, and we will be meeting with LGBTQ activists as well as with practicing psychologists. I think this will benefit me professionally, and will also be helpful to my future clients. (I am studying to become a psychotherapist with a focus on survivors of trauma.) I will blog and take photos, for your enjoyment.

How to Participate: Please comment with an offer of an amount of money per book read and reviewed. You may put a cap on the amount. ("I offer $15/book, with a cap of $150.") In two days, I can read 6-10 books. If you sponsor me, you may propose a book for me to read and review. I will do re-reads, but not of books already blogged. (Check tags by author.) You may also make a general proposal, like, "Something by Robert Heinlein/an Old West memoir/one of your childhood favorites."

If a book is too hard to obtain, I will ask for an alternate. Please don't propose anything extremely long or dense.

FYI: I happen to have obtained a copy of the sequel to Sexteen, which I have been saving for a special occasion.

Please consider linking this post, to pull in more participants. If I have more sponsors than books I can read, I will give special consideration to larger donors and/or and/or prior participants whose books didn't get read and/or especially interesting nominations and/or hold a poll.

For possible inspiration, here are photos of my to-read shelves.

ETA: Day One of the read-a-thon will be held on SUNDAY, January 8. Day Two is TBA until I find out more of my schedule, but will be on Wed, Thur, Fri, or Sat of that week.

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Date: 2012-01-05 07:58 pm (UTC)

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oyceter

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Could I do something like sponsoring books by poc or lgbtq authors?

Date: 2012-01-05 07:59 pm (UTC)

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rachelmanija

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Absolutely! Is there a specific one you'd like to nominate, or any of my choice?

Date: 2012-01-05 08:27 pm (UTC)

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rachelmanija

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ETA: Not sure about LGBTQ authors, since I often don't know their orientation (as opposed to their characters' orientation.)

But if this is helpful, here's a few books by authors of color I happen to already have on hand: The Eddie book by Marjorie Liu, and from the bookcase photos, the three Haikasoru books, Meji, Manifest, Crystal Rain, City of Fire, My Family and Other Saints, and (already nominated) Shadow Speaker.

Date: 2012-01-05 08:53 pm (UTC)

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oyceter

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Ooh, good point re: LGBTQ authors.

Hrm. How about the following categories?
- POC main character
- QUILTBAG main character
- female character past menopause who actually looks it (i.e. Morgaine or Ari Emory don't count, I am kind of looking for stuff that thinks about aging)
- POC author
- QUILTBAG author
- author who identifies as disabled
- main character who identifies as disabled

And $5 per category. So Malinda Lo's Huntress would be $20 iirc, Tamora Pierce's Will of Empress would be $10, etc.

Uh, also, if this is too confusing, feel free to not go with it!! I don't really have any suggestions because most of this is me being selfish and wanting to find book recs via you.

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