Read-a-Thon for Japan, Pakistan, and other disaster-stricken places
What it is: I will read and write reviews as I go, all day, for a period of up to two days. (Probably non-consecutive.) I can usually read 4-7 books per day, depending on length and complexity.
I apologize for being a flake: As some of you may recall, I attempted to hold a read-a-thon a while back for the floods in Pakistan, but was foiled by getting slammed by so much work that I literally did not have a single day entirely free for the next several months. My schedule is much easier now, but since circumstances may have changed for those who offered, I'd like to just start from scratch and have people re-offer.
How to donate: If you want to participate, please make your non-earmarked donations to Medicins san Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders. They are in Japan, they are in Pakistan, they are in Libya, they are everywhere that help is needed.
ETA: Or, to the Japanese Red Cross, which has a much larger presence in Japan. http://www.google.com/crisisresponse/japanquake2011.html. Note that donations must be made in yen, so check your exchange rates! (Also note that the national Red Crosses are all independent of and unrelated to each other. It's only the American one I have a problem with. (I used to work for them. They suck.))
How it works: You offer an amount of money per book read and blogged. You may put a cap on the amount. (ie, "I offer $15/book, with a cap of $150.) If you sponsor me, you may propose a book for me to read. Please give me several options, in case what you suggest is hard to obtain, already blogged, etc.
Click on the "read-a-thon" tag to see the sort of reviews you're likely to get. Please check my author, comic, and manga tags (yes, I'll accept comic and manga requests) to see if I've already reviewed something. Please don't nominate anything extremely long, hard to obtain in the US, or extremely complex and difficult. No restrictions on content or quality.
Dates: It will be on 1-2 of the following days, depending on my availability and the number of my sponsors: March 17, 19, 20, 22, 24, 26, 27, 29, or 31.
I apologize for being a flake, Part II.
telophase, I have not forgotten Enemy Glory. It has so far defeated my efforts to get past the first two chapters, but I will prevail! Eventually! Before the end of April! But separately from this.
ETA: If you want to promote this, please feel free!
Note that despite the prevalence of the "nice people don't write negative reviews" meme, I am either not nice or not swayed, and will say exactly what I think. So what I'm offering will not only be entertaining, but may be hard to obtain elsewhere, depending on my honest feelings. Last go round, I did enjoy most of the books I read. And then there was Walpurgis III. Click on my "hilarious satanism" tag for my honest feelings about that.
Crossposted to http://rachelmanija.dreamwidth.org/896766.html. Comment here or there.
I apologize for being a flake: As some of you may recall, I attempted to hold a read-a-thon a while back for the floods in Pakistan, but was foiled by getting slammed by so much work that I literally did not have a single day entirely free for the next several months. My schedule is much easier now, but since circumstances may have changed for those who offered, I'd like to just start from scratch and have people re-offer.
How to donate: If you want to participate, please make your non-earmarked donations to Medicins san Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders. They are in Japan, they are in Pakistan, they are in Libya, they are everywhere that help is needed.
ETA: Or, to the Japanese Red Cross, which has a much larger presence in Japan. http://www.google.com/crisisresponse/japanquake2011.html. Note that donations must be made in yen, so check your exchange rates! (Also note that the national Red Crosses are all independent of and unrelated to each other. It's only the American one I have a problem with. (I used to work for them. They suck.))
How it works: You offer an amount of money per book read and blogged. You may put a cap on the amount. (ie, "I offer $15/book, with a cap of $150.) If you sponsor me, you may propose a book for me to read. Please give me several options, in case what you suggest is hard to obtain, already blogged, etc.
Click on the "read-a-thon" tag to see the sort of reviews you're likely to get. Please check my author, comic, and manga tags (yes, I'll accept comic and manga requests) to see if I've already reviewed something. Please don't nominate anything extremely long, hard to obtain in the US, or extremely complex and difficult. No restrictions on content or quality.
Dates: It will be on 1-2 of the following days, depending on my availability and the number of my sponsors: March 17, 19, 20, 22, 24, 26, 27, 29, or 31.
I apologize for being a flake, Part II.
telophase, I have not forgotten Enemy Glory. It has so far defeated my efforts to get past the first two chapters, but I will prevail! Eventually! Before the end of April! But separately from this.
ETA: If you want to promote this, please feel free!
Note that despite the prevalence of the "nice people don't write negative reviews" meme, I am either not nice or not swayed, and will say exactly what I think. So what I'm offering will not only be entertaining, but may be hard to obtain elsewhere, depending on my honest feelings. Last go round, I did enjoy most of the books I read. And then there was Walpurgis III. Click on my "hilarious satanism" tag for my honest feelings about that.
Crossposted to http://rachelmanija.dreamwidth.org/896766.html. Comment here or there.