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A B See
Next on the alphabet book shelf is the first of many board books, not surprising since the expected target audience for such books is often small readers. This one is a beautiful book of illustrations and text by Elizabeth Doyle called A B See…
Do What You Want: The Story of Bad Religion
Back in January, I was cruising through my Libby app, not sure what I was looking for or what kind of book I wanted to listen to. Since I’ve been going to a lot of live music, I decided to see what sort of music biographies the library has in audiobook format. I don’t read music biographies on the regular, but sometimes they do hit the spot. I felt like I scored big time when I noticed the Bad Religion book, and it was available to listen to right away…
Beginning with A Apple Pie
So with our Butterfly-in-Chief having launched her countdown of the Top 500 Heavy Metal Albums of All Time, we figured our Head Alien – that’s me! – needed a series to motivate some more regular contributions as well. So where she’s started something music and numerical, I’ve chosen something book and alphabetical: a tour of my collection of alphabet books, alphabetically by title…
And now, time for something completely different…
Since live music opened up again in 2022 after the COVID-19 lockdowns, I have been going to a lot of shows. I went to a lot of live music shows in the 80s and 90s, and I am so so so thrilled to be back out there experiencing music up close and personal on almost a weekly basis…

