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Meet Joan Marie Galat!
We hope you all are staying warm and welcome to a new instalment of BALLER Profiles!
Every Wednesday you can look forward to reading interviews with authors, publishing professionals, library people, readers, and more. This week we meet multi-talented and prolific author Joan Marie Galat…
Book of the Week: Pockets by Hannah Carlson
For our second (and my first!) Book of the Week, I’ve got a selection unusual for me not only for the genre and topic, but also the format. Introducing Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close written by Hannah Carlson and narrated by Stephanie Cannon… yeah, I read this as an audiobook…
Meet Dana Church!
Welcome to the first instalment of BALLER Profiles! Every Wednesday, the Butterflies and Aliens Library of Literary Eccentricities and Rarities will bring you interviews with interesting people in the bookish world.
To kick things off, we are thrilled to interview author Dana L. Church!
Book of the Week: Where Do You Poop? by Agnese Baruzzi
Welcome to our inaugural Book of the Week post! The Head Alien and I agreed that it would be fun to do a regular feature to showcase books we think you all should know about and give some extra love to books where needed…
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!
There is just the way you choose…
On this day that has so much meaning to so many, but which I am choosing to spend in a much simpler way, I thought I’d share the latest acquisition to the Butterflies & Aliens Library… call it a Christmas gift to myself, if you so choose…
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!
Ready or not, here I come…
Ray Bradbury once said “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” As a book nerd, student librarian, and global citizen, I think about that quote almost daily.
And as a student librarian, I’m learning that there is yet another tactic – make the books unfindable…
Bread and representation
Back on October 15, we had a book launch up at the local indie bookstore where our Head Alien hangs one of his many hats on the regular. He arrived to have a fellow bookseller exclaim “Hey! Did you know you’re in the book?”
No, no he did not…
A Book of Centuries
Hey there, Head Alien here, just casually walking around with an almost-600-year-old book for Fridays at the Peel…
Journal of a Voyage
This week for Fridays at the Peel we take a peek at the Journal of a Voyage to North America, written by Pierre de Charlevoix and published in 1761. But if you’ve been a patron of the Butterflies & Aliens Library for any amount of time, you know I’m much more interested in the voyage taken by the book itself than the voyage it recounts within its pages…
Arranging Furniture
Okay, yes I’m posting this on a Saturday, but the important point here is that Fridays at the Peel are back!
To share today, a book called Arranging Furniture, created by Jason Dewinetz at his fine press “small publishing concern” based in the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, Canada, Greenboathouse Press…
