Welcome to the Butterflies & Aliens Library of Literary Eccentricities & Rarities!

Here resides a virtual cabinet of curiosities, a digital extension of the bibliographic collections and explorations of our founders, Stacey Kondla and Winston Pei.

We invite you to explore our latest additions here, search our Card Catalogue, or just head right into The Stacks to browse!

Happy Reading!

– Stacey and Winston


 

Latest Additions to The Stacks

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Another A Apple Pie
Winston Pei
Another A Apple Pie
Winston Pei

So our next alphabet book profile is going to take us back to the beginning, thanks to a recent acquisition. A recent side quest to a book sale at Find Edmonton, a local social enterprise operated by Homeward Trust Edmonton, resulted in this new addition…

Winston Pei
A B to Jay-Z
Winston Pei
A B to Jay-Z
Winston Pei

This next alphabet book is the first of the more niche alphabetica in our collection. This is the 100% Unofficial A B to Jay-Z written by Jessica Chiha and illustrated by Alex Lehours, published by Little Homie in 2017…

Winston Pei
A B See
Winston Pei
A B See
Winston Pei

Next on the alphabet book shelf is the first of many board books, not surprising since the expected target audience for such books is often small readers. This one is a beautiful book of illustrations and text by Elizabeth Doyle called A B See…

Winston Pei
Do What You Want: The Story of Bad Religion
Stacey Kondla
Do What You Want: The Story of Bad Religion
Stacey Kondla

Back in January, I was cruising through my Libby app, not sure what I was looking for or what kind of book I wanted to listen to. Since I’ve been going to a lot of live music, I decided to see what sort of music biographies the library has in audiobook format. I don’t read music biographies on the regular, but sometimes they do hit the spot. I felt like I scored big time when I noticed the Bad Religion book, and it was available to listen to right away…

Stacey Kondla
Beginning with A Apple Pie
Winston Pei
Beginning with A Apple Pie
Winston Pei

So with our Butterfly-in-Chief having launched her countdown of the Top 500 Heavy Metal Albums of All Time, we figured our Head Alien – that’s me! – needed a series to motivate some more regular contributions as well. So where she’s started something music and numerical, I’ve chosen something book and alphabetical: a tour of my collection of alphabet books, alphabetically by title…

Winston Pei
And now, time for something completely different…
Stacey Kondla
And now, time for something completely different…
Stacey Kondla

Since live music opened up again in 2022 after the COVID-19 lockdowns, I have been going to a lot of shows. I went to a lot of live music shows in the 80s and 90s, and I am so so so thrilled to be back out there experiencing music up close and personal on almost a weekly basis…

Stacey Kondla
New year, new me?
Stacey Kondla
New year, new me?
Stacey Kondla

Not really, but a me with renewed clarity…

Stacey Kondla
There Is No Antimemetics Division
Winston Pei
There Is No Antimemetics Division
Winston Pei

Popped in to share a review of one of my favourite new science fiction novels, There Is No Antimemetics Division by QNTM…

Winston Pei
The Demon Potatoes’ revenge?
Winston Pei
The Demon Potatoes’ revenge?
Winston Pei

I came by the library to write a story about how awesome it was for me and our Butterfly-in-Chief to be at the When Words Collide Festival again this year – which it was! – except I must first once again darken your visit and mine with a tale of the strange and very possibly evil-cursed creativity of L. A. Cunningham…

Winston Pei
 

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