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Book of the Month: Notes on a Case of Melancholia, or: A Little Death
Okay, so April may have gotten a bit chaotic for us here at the Butterflies & Aliens Library. We meant to do a bit of an update earlier. We did not.
So we’re going to sneak in this one post as a Book of the Week for the whole month so we don’t completely miss out on posting in April…
Social climbing
Once upon a time I had a shoebox full of favourite comic strips that I had diligently cut out of the newspaper… Calvin & Hobbes, The Far Side, Bloom County, to name but a few. Somewhere over time and over moves, I lost that box, much to my sadness.
But if the strip got popular enough, some publisher would come along and reprint them into a little book…
You sold a book…
99 Dead Snowmen
It’s been almost a year since we shared a post about our Memento Mori collection here at the Butterflies & Aliens Library – also known as our “funny books about death” collection. To recognize the occasion, we thought we’d share our latest addition to that collection, Tony De Saulles’ 99 Dead Snowmen, published in 2012 by Headline Publishing out of the UK.
Happy Towel Day 2022!
Last year, for our inaugural Towel Day here at the Butterflies & Aliens Library, it made sense to share the book series from whence came the Towel Day name.
But as much as I love The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, to honour Adams this year I thought I’d shout out his lesser known Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and its sequel The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul.
Happy World Toilet Day!
There’s a reason why toilet humour is called toilet humour, but humour can often be a way to convey important messages. So in honour of World Toilet Day, we wanted to share a book that seeks to deliver some important health information, with humour, on a very closely related topic…
Happy Underwear Day 2021!
We here at the Butterflies & Aliens Library have been a bit remiss in keeping up with our Bookish Calendar posts, but this seemed like a critical day to commemorate.
As such, we took a look under there on our shelves and pulled up Jared Chapman’s Vegetables in Underwear to share.
Thing Explainer
We here at the Small-Flying-Creatures-with-Pretty-Wings-and-Creatures-from-Other-Places-in-Space Place for Books and Information love playing with words. And we love it when other people play with words. One person whose playing-with-words we love is... named using words we can't use right now.
Let me explain.
A Bookish Memento Mori
So I've started referring to one particular shelf here at Butterflies & Aliens North as my memento mori in books. Sounds better than "I have this growing collection of funny books about death that started with this one book of cartoons about unpleasant ways to die that still makes me laugh out loud every time I read it"...
But, really, there is much truth in both those statements.
Happy Towel Day!
One of the earliest books we bonded over here at the Butterflies & Aliens Library was Douglas Adams’ profoundly comic and comically profound trilogy in (at least) four parts, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and we have definitely known where our towels are ever since.
Some literary collective nouns
We here at the Butterflies & Aliens Library are delighted to be ‘installing’ something every library needs… a bulletin board! (and yes, we’re installing it right next to our card catalogue… because #OldSchool…) And this cartoon by Tom Gauld, author of The Snooty Bookshop, is what got us to finally put up our board…
Ten Little Zombies: A Love Story
There lurk some stranger, darker corners here within the Butterflies & Aliens Library of Literary Eccentricities & Rarities. It is against that backdrop, in honour of the annual day of celebration of love and flower shops that we call Valentine’s Day, that I share one of my favourite books of the love poetry genre, Ten Little Zombies: A Love Story.
