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The Demon Potatoes’ revenge?
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…
Our latest dictionary acquisitions!
So it’s been a hot minute since I’ve had time to hang out in the Butterflies & Aliens Library – because [gestures at everything] – but I thought I jump in and share the latest two acquisitions in my dictionary collection…
The Möbius Book, Stripped
My latest altered book project came together rather suddenly – inspiration sometimes does strike like lighting, especially when helped along by encouragement from the people around you. But funnily enough, it started from seeing an audiobook…
Surrounded in bookishness
I wanted to share my latest altered book project, with the usual content warning that this kind of art does involve the disassembly of books! But I finally got around to “finishing” some of the bookshelves at the Butterflies & Aliens Library North…
Water Moon by Samantha Sotto Yambao
We’re back today after our unplanned hiatus to share an acquisition from back in January that finally made it off our TBR list… Water Moon by Samantha Sotto Yambao…
I gave this book away…
We’ve talked a few times in passing before about the “Books Aware of Their Own Bookishness” collection here at Butterflies & Aliens North, that includes such classics as The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales and The Monster at the End of This Book. Well Give This Book Away, written by Darren Farrell and illustrated by Maya Tatsukawa, could have been considered the latest addition to this collection, except for that fact that it’s no longer in our collection. Never really even made it in, in fact…
Digital AND Physical: Contemporary Issues in Collections Management
Today I had the joy of having several of my worlds and nerddoms collide – bookbinding, the book as object, libraries, library friends, possibly some future book arts. It was also the unexpected culmination of a project that began back in the fall of 2022 as a class assignment. Introducing the latest iteration of Contemporary Issues in Collections Management…
Happy Fourth Birthday!
And here we are, January 1, 2025, and celebrating the fourth birthday of the Butterflies & Aliens Library of Literary Eccentricities & Rarities!
So… crazy year has followed crazy year — even less posting in 2024 than in 2023! — but we are still here, and what began as our little digital refuge back in 2021 will continue to be just that, a place we can escape to once in a while to be unabashedly nerdy and bookish, and we hope you can too…
The Travis Baldree Deluxe Editions!
I mentioned one of these books in a post back when we were still doing a Book of the Week but now have to give another shout out because the deluxe editions are out! Introducing the beautiful new editions of Legends & Lattes and Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree…
Arrrrrrrgh!
Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day!
Something awoke in the garden…
Now with this direct link to the galleries!
In honour of this fine Friday the 13th, thought I’d take the opportunity to make a proper post about a highlight discovery of this past summer, Demon Potatoes by L. A. Cunningham… a mini-comic, and possible curse, acquired during the 2024 When Words Collide festival…
Introducing the Capping Project…
“The required capping exercise for the MLIS degree at the University of Alberta School of Library & Information Studies (SLIS) is an ePortfolio representing examples of the student’s course work, leadership and innovation potential, communication skills, and involvement in professional life”…
Here’s our Head Alien’s…
