October 5-11, 2025 is Banned Books Week. During that week, a generous donor will match the value of book donations made via any of our 4 independent bookstore wishlists. Here are links to the wish lists:

Politics and Prose: https://politics-prose.com/wishlist/rocliswawresp

Mahogany Books: https://www.mahoganybooks.com/wishlist.php?publicwishlist=e754d358-5fe3-4edb-b808-e5247e500bb1

Solid State Books: https://bookshop.org/wishlists/1f8be267c141a55e8d1196724c2e7ef145bdaa9f

People's Book: https://bookshop.org/wishlists/fcb53997a15127c7c1d79194b14defaea888057b

#BannedBooksWeek #BooksNotBans #bookstodon #BookDrive

Hall Cross Book Drive: Do you have any books or revision resources at home that you no longer read? Consider dropping them off at school! Your donations can help our GCSE and A Level students in the run up to their exams, or simply give students more opportunities to explore new worlds and expand their horizons through reading!#enjoyingexcellence #bookswap #bookdrive #letsgetreading
Hall Cross Book Drive: Do you have any books or revision resources at home that you no longer read? Consider dropping them off at school! Your donations can help our GCSE and A Level students in the run up to their exams, or simply give students more opportunities to explore new worlds and expand their horizons through reading!#enjoyingexcellence #bookswap #bookdrive #letsgetreading
Do you have any spare books or revision resources at home? Consider dropping them off at school! Your donations can help stock our KS4 book swap, help our GCSE and A Level students, or simply give students more opportunities to explore new worlds and expand their horizons through reading. #enjoyingexcellence #bookswap #bookdrive #letsgetreading
Do you have any spare books or revision resources at home? Consider dropping them off at school! Your donations can help stock our KS4 book swap, help our GCSE and A Level students, or simply give students more opportunities to explore new worlds and expand their horizons through reading. #enjoyingexcellence #bookswap #bookdrive #letsgetreading

Today has been an okay work day for a last day before a vacation kind of day. I still have one hour and 42 minutes to go before said vacation, but I will get there.

I’m starting to sort of chomp at the bit though.

Today has been busy without being stressful. I have had a lot of things to do but none of them have been high pressure or high profile or anything like that. Just a bunch of administrative type things. The customers have been quiet so I have been able to focus on things that need to get done. I am thankful for that.

The Great Pink Floyd Reverse Order Playlist is now back to Animals from 1977. Great record with some absolutely outstanding guitar playing from David Gilmour.

Endless River – Complete
Division Bell – Complete
A Momentary Lapse of Reason – Complete
The Final Cut – Complete
The Wall – Complete
Animals – Currently playing track two, “Dogs”
Wish You Were Here – Up next
Dark Side of the Moon – On double deck but I probably won’t get to it today.

What else should I mention for the benefit of some future version of me looking back at Friday the 13th of September 2024 out of some sense of boredom or a this-day-in-history kinda thing?

The weather at the ocean for the next week looks excellent, according to the long range forecast I just checked. I think a sunrise photo session is a given. I hope to finish off a couple of rolls of film while I’m at it. I still have three rolls from Disney back in May that I have to get developed. I’d really like to spend a day in Boston if I can, but who knows if that will work out.

I am also going to my Dad’s place tomorrow morning to fill up a few boxes with books to donate to the public library in Tewksbury. They are having a donation drive tomorrow and they can have whatever they want from Dad’s book stash. If there is anything they won’t take (why?) I will bring them to Goodwill or something.

Those things, plus some music, plus spending a ton of time hanging out with the love of my life, plus helping the kids out with something next weekend… I think I have my staycation pretty much planned. 86 minutes to go until it starts.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/09/13/so-close-yet-so-far-4/

#bookDrive #dad #dadSApartment #davidGilmour #donations #Family #film #Music #photos #PinkFloyd #plans #Staycation #Sunrise #tewksburyPublicLibrary #thisDayInHistory #toDoList #Vacation #Weather #work #workDay

So Close, Yet So Far

Today has been an okay work day for a last day before a vacation kind of day. I still have one hour and 42 minutes to go before said vacation, but I will get there. I’m starting to sort of ch…

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📚 African tech book drive at PyCon US.

If any author friends want to talk logistics, feel free to get in touch.

Also, shares appreciated.

https://micro.webology.dev/2024/05/09/african-tech-book.html

#PyConUS #BookDrive

📚 African tech book drive at PyCon US

My friend Abigail, is organizing a tech book drive for developers in Africa and is collecting them at PyCon US next week. These books will be given to high schoolers, university students, and early career folks. If you want to donate any used or new tech books, please bring them to PyCon US, and let’s make plans to get them to Abigail. For more details, please check out Abigail’s tweet, or feel free to reach out to me, and I can connect you via email.

We're so thankful for our amazing supporters at the #NationalCharityLeague Golden Gate chapter who delivered over 1600 children's books collected in their recent #ChildrensBookDrive. These books are now making their way into the hands of the kids who need more books of their own — fo keeps!

Thank you so much to everyone who participated in this #BookDrive so we can keep giving away more than 12,000 books a month. You're inspiring even more people to help us raise readers!

Learn more about our mission at #ChildrensBookProject. Check out the link in bio to Give Books, Get Books, Volunteer, and Donate!

#ChildrensBookProjectSF #NorCalNonProfit #GiveBooks #KidsBooks #BooksForKeeps #BookTok #Literacy #GreatNonProfit #Donate #BookReview #LovetoRead #WeNeedDiverseBooks #BooksSaveLives #DiverseBks4All #NationalBookAccess

There is a life-giving power in literature, and we are here to make sure that the children who need them most have access to beautiful quality books to inspire their lives and love for reading.

Learn more about our mission at #ChildrensBookProject. Check out the link in bio to Give Books, Get Books, Donate, and Volunteer!

#NorCalNonProfit #ChildrensBookProjectSF #Literacy #GiveBooks #KidsBooks #BookBank #BooksForKeeps #BookTok #Literacy #Quote #WomensHistoryMonth #BookDrive #GreatNonProfit #Donate