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rachelmanija) wrote2012-01-05 10:44 am
rachelmanija) wrote2012-01-05 10:44 am
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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.
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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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.
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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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The one that's complicated is "identifies as disabled." In fantasy and a lot of historical fiction, characters don't explicitly identify as disabled because it's not part of the terminology/mindset in the setting, even if they clearly are to our eyes. Also, are you thinking only of physical disabilities, or also of mental illnesses and non-neurotypicality?
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Ahahaha. Sorry! This is totally "stuff I want to find and read for myself."
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I'll use my judgment on this one.
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AHAHAHA
-- sorry, that was my actual reaction when I saw that. I can't believe I forgot about him!
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Please make your donations to Rphoenix2@hotmail.com at Paypal. Thank you very much for your support!
Feel free to comment on reviews you missed - some of them went up at odd times.
Let's see how your mini-challenge shakes out:
Voices, by Ursula LeGuin. POC main character. $5.
Anne of Green Gables, by L. M. Montgomery. Marilla is probably the most important character after Anne, and her age is both realistic and an important part of the story. $5.
Frontier Wolf, by Rosemary Sutcliff. Author was disabled. $5.
Within the Flames, by Marjorie Liu. Author of color. $5. (Eddie's ethnicity is never stated, though I did spot some possible evidence that he's at least part Chinese.)
Moyasimon, by Ishikawa Masayuki. Author and all characters are POC. $10.
The Shadow Speaker, by Nnedi Okorafor. Author and almost all characters are POC. $10.
The Gilda Stories, by Jewelle Gomez. Author and protagonist are lesbians of color. $20.
Total: $60.
Incidentally, I didn't count her because nobody knows for sure, but L. M. Montgomery was probably bisexual. I happened to know the sexual orientation of Jewelle Gomez and Ursula Le Guin, but for seven of ten authors, I have no idea whatsoever.
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