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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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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.

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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.

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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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Making the best of…

Life rarely goes to plan. But that’s not always a bad thing.

Case in point: one of the newest acquisitions at Butterflies & Aliens North, a book about making the best out of what life throws your way, that has its own real life story of the same.

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It had a blue cover…

A quick post about a recent acquisition that will in particular tickle the funny bone of librarians and booksellers… A Library of Misremembered Books by artist Marina Luz…

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Immersed in book culture…

The present moment has brought an interesting alignment between my personal, professional, and student lives… everything focussed on book culture, print culture, reading culture…

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Loved to pieces

In the digital world, lack of attention is what often gets a website “deaccessioned” or “weeded” from the world wide web. But ironically, in our equally beloved world of physical books, a lack of attention, of a certain kind, is actually better for a book’s longevity…

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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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#SSAC2021 Day 25!

Short Story Advent Calendars, Day 25!

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#SSAC2021 Day 24

Short Story Advent Calendars, Day 24!