19. Come with us to the Jaipur Literature Festival 2024! + NEW zines!
Exclusive offer for Readers inside :)
Dear Reader,
Here’s hoping your year went off to a great start :)
Last year, we at Bibliotherapy HQ decided to have a ‘Word for the Year’ - a word that we’d like to use to guide us through the year.
This year’s word is ‘Focus’.
The past two years were about bringing awareness and establishing Project Bibliotherapy - as a brand focused on enabling people to enhance their lives by building a reading habit, done in 3 ways: curation, consistency and experiences.
This year, we’re moving focus back to the community we’ve built.
We want to focus on building newer and better ways to get our zines, and the love for reading to more and more people all over the world. To focus on the core of what we’re building - which is, to reignite joy and curiosity in people over-fatigued in a world full of distractions and digital stimulations.
As a start to this, we launched our first Readathon of 2024 that just concluded on the 14th of January.
Each day at exactly 6:42 am, we shared one read from our ‘42 Good Reads of the Internet’ zine, starting with Volume 1.
A special thanks to one of our Readers of 42, who sent us this lovely message.
You made our day :)
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The Jaipur Literature Festival 2024
The Jaipur Literature Festival, now in its 17th edition, is the biggest literary celebration on earth, and incidentally, is also a huge part of our story as Project Bibliotherapy.
It’s where we launched our 42 Good Reads of the Internet zine for the very first time, and spent some very surreal and insanely fun moments meeting our favourite authors, discovering new ones and having a ball all the while. Since 2021, we’ve made it a point to be there every year. More on the special connect the festival has for us soon :)
If you love books or want an introduction to the world of reading and books, there’s no better place to be than Clarks Amer, Jaipur, from the 1st to the 5th of February 2024! The festival is a delightful kaleidoscope of literature, art, music and colours that has readers flocking to it from all over the world, every year.
This year’s lineup looks stellar, as always, with a diverse speaker list of authors and poets including Nilanjana Roy, the 2023 JCB Prize for Literature winner Perumal Murugan, Sarnath Banerjee, Gulzar, Anish Gawande, Katherine Rundell, Daisy Rockwell, and many others. Find the complete programme here and the speaker list here.
We’re looking forward to some brilliant sessions and discussions this year at the Jaipur Literature Festival, and this is an exclusive invitation to come with us!
We guarantee that it’ll be an experience like never before when you sign up as a Friend of the Festival. Here’s a look at what it includes:
An all-Access pass to the absolutely fantastic JLF Music Stage featuring concerts by some of the best musicians in the country at the end of each Festival Day
Exclusive access to a majestic evening at Amber Fort with dinner and cultural performances
The opportunity to attend the Writers’ Ball - where authors, bibliophiles, thought leaders and others come together for a magical night of conversations under the starry skies with some of the greatest minds of our time.
Use this link to book your package now! Use our code BIBLIO_15 during checkout for an exclusive 15% off on your Friends of the Festival package.
New year, brand NEW Bibliotherapy zines!
So, if you’re already a Reader of 42 with us, this is the moment you’ve been waiting for!
*drumroll*
Volumes 3 and 4 of the 42 Good Reads of the Internet zine are almost HERE!
We couldn’t be more excited because this means that we *finally* get to send you the remaining 2 of the 4 zines that are part of your annual membership :)
Based on the feedback we got, here’s what’s new in these volumes (apart from 42 + 42 brand new reads + extras)
Rabbit-hole friendly: Each handpicked read, as always, has alongside it, 3 meticulously chosen media finds which include podcasts, videos or bonus reads designed to supplement your reading and get into ‘rabbit-holes’ of curiosity, taking you deeper into each author’s writings and topic.
More diversity: We felt that our selection of authors should better reflect the gorgeously diverse world we live in, and we’ve curated these 42+42 authors accordingly.
Relatable + contemporary topics: From conscious digital consumption, finger-licking food, and the craze for ‘content’ to startup challenges, writing, and 90s nostalgia - you’ll find it all :)
For Readers - expect a mail very soon on the next two Volumes, which brings us to its launch.
Psst: want your own copy? Well, if you sign up to be a Reader of 42, you’ll receive all 4 zines plus freebies in your mail :)
Sign-up process
Click on the button below.
Check out all the benefits you get as a Reader of 42 on the page that opens.
Click on the yellow Support button and pay Rs. 2000/$25 towards the annual membership. Payments are secure and support credit/debit cards, netbanking and UPI.
Fill in this form.
You’ll receive a welcome mail with further instructions :)
The 2nd Kunzum-Biblio Bash at Kunzum Books, Vasant Vihar, Delhi
In November last year, we co-created the first ever Kunzum-Biblio Bash with the kind folks at Kunzum Books, a chain of bookstores here in Delhi-NCR.
Think of it as a party created for bibliophiles or even folks who are curious about what the hype about books is.
We were overwhelmed by the response, and it was wonderful having so many people come together on a Saturday evening to talk all things books, enjoy exclusive readings by us, take part in quizzes and win prizes, browse and buy our specially curated section of books by authors from our zines, and make lots of friends!
We are launching Volume 3 and 4 at the Kunzum-Biblio Bash and are beyond excited :) the event is open both to Readers of 42 and non-members.
Plus, those who sign up for our annual membership get a surprise book free, a bookmark and their zines personalized on the spot!
So what are you waiting for? Join in this edition, happening at Kunzum Vasant Vihar! Registrations and details are all available here. Spots are filling out so sign up now :) bring a friend.
That’s all we have for now :) for fun behind-the-scenes updates, trivia, updates (and book recommendations), follow us on Instagram.
So long and thanks for all the fish,
N&N
Looking forward to seeing you @JLF