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Finally, time for some summer reading…

Yeah, it’s been a hot minute, but between work and school and life we here at the Butterflies & Aliens Library may have gotten a bit sidetracked from our (ir)regularly scheduled additions to our digital stacks.

But we have not forgotten you, beloved patrons!

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Know Your Weird: The Organization of Information

As you may have noticed from our past posts, we here at the Butterflies & Aliens Library of Literary Eccentricities & Rarities aren’t just about reading books, but a much broader curiosity about all things bookish and even book adjacent…

In the spirit of that curiosity, I thought I’d share a quick photo or two of one of my current active reads, The Organization of Information…

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Canada includes other realms too…

For our third instalment in celebration of Canadian Children’s Book Week 2021, I’ve pulled four children’s and YA novels by three different authors off my To Be Read pile. And I must confess, they’ve been on my TBR pile a fair while. But they continue to call to me because they all promise to transport me to other realms, passports to mental travels yet to come. Canada also includes fantasy worlds and alternate realities!

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Canadian Independent Bookstore Day 2021

We interrupt our regularly scheduled Small Press Saturday series this weekend to gush about Canadian Independent Bookstore Day! Initiated by the Canadian Independent Booksellers Association, Canadian Independent Bookstore Day is an annual celebration to promote independent bookstores.

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World Book Day 2021

We almost missed this entry on the Bookish Calendar, but in our defence, we kind of thought every day was world book day…

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Happy I Read Canadian Day 2021!

Today is a day of celebration across our country, a celebration of Canadian books for young people. People across the nation are being challenged to Read Canadian for 15 minutes and to share their experience. We are celebrating by sharing a small photo gallery of some our personal copies of Canadian books for young readers, and a video from Marty Chan!

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Happy Library Shelfie Day 2021!

First declared by the New York Public Library in 2014, Library Shelfie Day gives us another opportunity to celebrate our love of books.

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What book to read next?

How do you decide what book you are going to read next?…