My Semi-regular request for magazines

[browngirl]

So, I work in a hospital, which has a lot of waiting rooms, and I try to help keep those waiting rooms stocked with interesting and varied magazines beyond the latest issues of Huswyf's Heteronormative Fortnightly. So if you have any magazines which are lying around waiting to be donated or recycled, please toss them in an envelope and media-mail them to me (address on request) and I'll bring them in to work.

I'm especially looking for three kinds of magazines (though I'll take anything non-pornographic (well, you can send me porn, too, I just won't bring it to work): 1) literary magazines, especially science fiction, fantasy, and other speculative fiction; children's magazines ; magazines in Cantonese, Mandarin, Vietnamese, or Korean (we have a large
proportion of Asian clients, and I rarely see anything in their languages in the wiaitng rooms_. Whatever you send me, thank you a LOT, and I will do my best to send something nifty in return!

Comments

[chienne-folle.livejournal.com]

Love your magazine name! Those were the magazines my mother subscribed to when I was a kid; they had real names like Ladies' Home Journal, which is not actually all that far from Huswyf's Heteronormative Fortnightly. :-)

We used to subscribe to several magazines, but we've dropped almost all of them; I think the only one we're still getting at this point is PC Gamer, which is a bit narrow for something as general as a hospital waiting room, and we tend to keep the back issues, anyway.

[redbird]

I am fairly sure there would be more readers in a hospital/doctor's waiting room for that than for some of the stuff I've seen, along the lines of Specialist Medical Monthly (though I have tried browsing the New England Journal of Medicine while waiting for a doctor's appointment).

Which has me wondering whether the Yale Alumni Magazine (which I have been getting since graduation, despite never sending them a nickel or a change of address notice) would be useful.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

From what I recall of Harvard's (they lost track of me two moves ago) there are general interest articles in the magazines, as well as entertaining school-spcific items like the occasional spoof obituary. I would certainly be able to use them if you sent them to me! *beams gratefully*

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

I love the name, too. :) How well I remember my mother's subscribing to The Lady's Home Journal's cut-rate sisters, Women's Day and Family Circle.

browngirl, would you like Christian Century and/or the magazines of a variety of social justice organizations?

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

I would, so so much! \o/

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Actually, you might be surprised. I'm also going to give some magazines to the Volunteer Office, who handle requests from inpatients, which are often for specific genres, and who stock computer games among their wares. I'm sure they could use issues of gaming magazines as well (especially since they often can't retrieve the magazines)

That said, if you want to keep your back issues they're *your* back issues. But if you don't I would love them for this.