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A bit of serendipity

Or at least perhaps the conditions for serendipity to occur?

Our latest project, this time in partial fulfillment of the requirements of GSJ 525 / DH 530 Data, Power, Feminism, introducing the Serendipity Project!

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The Art of the [_]: A Life in [_]

I just finished reading a great book, but I don’t want to tell you what it is.

Or rather, I don’t want to share the full title or the name of the author of it, just yet. I think the full title distracts from what the book is really about, which is the part of the title I am sharing as the title of this post: The Art of the [_____]: A Life in [_____].

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Book Lovers Day 2021

Now, really, every day is Book Lovers Day at the Butterflies & Aliens Library of Literary Eccentricities & Rareties, but since the all-knowing interwebs say this is a with-capital-letters Day day… albeit with an origin story lost to the mists of time… we did feel we had to post a little something.

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I have a problem…

A couple of days ago, one of my favourite (and Edmonton’s oldest) indie bookstores – Audreys Books – finally reopened for in-person browsing, after over a year of online shopping and curbside pickup. I wasn’t able to make it in on that first day, but I absolutely made sure to get in by the second. The act of walking up, pulling open the door, and simply walking in was breathtaking.

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Is Big Brother watching?

Content Warning: The following post describes and shows a book being physically altered.

In one of my earlier contributions to the Butterflies & Aliens Library, I shared the process of creating my first altered book project, Spark Unnecessary, using Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 as the source work. Since completing that project back in 2017, I’d been pondering other altered books projects based around themes of dystopia and censorship, slowly gathering up materials and ideas.

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My Canadian Family

In honour of Family Day, celebrated on the third Monday of February here in our corner of the “real” world, we thought it fitting to introduce you to one of those book friends, Raina Schnider, and give a shout out to her book My Canadian Family.

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Books and Bricks

On this day back in 1958, Danish carpenter Godtfred Kirk Christiansen submitted his first patent for the original Lego brick, and children of all ages have rejoiced ever since.

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The Monster at the End of this Post

People of a certain age will likely remember a favourite Little Golden Book from amongst their first readers. Mine is, hands down, The Monster at the End of this Book, starring lovable, furry old Grover…