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Book of the Week: Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree

This week’s Book of the Week has already gotten a bit of coverage, but I decided I wanted to make it my pick anyways. In the spirit of romance and friendship for V/Palentine’s Week – and because it features a bookstore!…

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A different kind of immortality…

Today we learned the sad news that Anne Rice died yesterday, Saturday, December 11, 2021, at the age of 80.

Although she wrote over 30 novels, for us here at the Butterflies & Aliens Library, as we’re sure it is for many fans, Anne Rice meant The Vampire Chronicles trilogy – Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, and The Queen of the Damned.

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Happy Towel Day!

One of the earliest books we bonded over here at the Butterflies & Aliens Library was Douglas Adams’ profoundly comic and comically profound trilogy in (at least) four parts, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and we have definitely known where our towels are ever since.

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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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Ten Little Zombies: A Love Story

There lurk some stranger, darker corners here within the Butterflies & Aliens Library of Literary Eccentricities & Rarities. It is against that backdrop, in honour of the annual day of celebration of love and flower shops that we call Valentine’s Day, that I share one of my favourite books of the love poetry genre, Ten Little Zombies: A Love Story.