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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…

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Twenty twenty what now?

Hello, it’s 2024 already? What the heck happened to 2023?

But also, HAPPY THIRD BIRTHDAY TO THE BUTTERFLIES & ALIENS LIBRARY!

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A year… five years, and thirty-three years, in the making

Back on December 19, 2021, we celebrated a pretty significant anniversary… five years since our Butterfly-in-Chief survived a stroke. Which got us thinking about how much had changed in those five years… and the last two… and this last year, the first year of the Butterflies & Aliens Library of Literary Eccentricities & Rarities…

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Happy New Year and Happy Birthday!

A year ago today, we launched the Butterflies & Aliens Library of Literary Eccentricities and Rarities… “to celebrate our shared delight and curiosity in books, about books, over books”… so not only are we celebrating a happy new year, but also the first birthday of our little pandemic project that could.

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From water does all life begin…

With the release of Denis Villeneuve’s new version of Frank Herbert’s Dune brought to the big screen, it seemed a terrible oversight to not have a post here at the Butterflies & Aliens Library about the original book itself, in many ways a key piece of our origin story…

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About our logo

Our logo was designed by one of our founders under the umbrella of one of his other projects, Black Riders. He talks a bit more about it over on their website…

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Origin Story

Why Butterflies and Aliens? Well, the short answer is because www.catchingbutterfliesandsharkattackvictims.com was too long…