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Meet Alex Melton!
It’s Wednesday, which means BALLER Profile day, where we get to introduce you to some of the authors, publishing professionals, library people, readers, and more in our neighbourhood.
This week we are making our first visit to Library School to meet Alex Melton…
Book of the Week: Child of the Morning
We are taking a trip in the way-back machine this week for our Butterflies & Aliens Library Book of the Week!
Child of the Morning by Pauline Gedge was published in 1977 and I read it for the first time in 1988. It was a pivotal read for me as an eighteen year old…
Meet Steve Stred!
Happy Hump Day, Everyone! Every Wednesday you can look forward to reading interviews with authors, publishing professionals, library people, readers, and more.
This week we are shaking up our BALLER profiles with horror author, Steve Stred…
Book of the Week: I Do Not Eat Children
For this week’s Book of the Week, yes, it’s a picture book again… #SorryNotSorry
Meet Janice Blaine!
We are loving that it is time for another BALLER Profile! Every Wednesday you can look forward to reading interviews with authors, publishing professionals, library people, readers, and more.
This week it is my pleasure to introduce you to Janice Blaine!
Book of the Week: Charles Darwin's Barnacle and David Bowie's Spider
It’s Monday and welcome to a new Butterflies & Aliens Book of the Week!
I love to read a variety of books across genres, fiction and nonfiction, and my non-work reading is typically entwined with my mood and personal interests. Those who know me know that I love biological sciences and music, so when I came across Charles Darwin’s Barnacle and David Bowie’s Spider by Stephen B. Heard I felt like I hit the reading jackpot…
Time Travelling with Rare Print Materials
So back in January my fellow student staffer at Bruce Peel Special Collections, Michaela Morrow, and I had the privilege and delight to lead a Peel Workshop of our own design, titled Time Travelling with Rare Print Materials. Basically it was a chance for us to pull an absolute treasure trove of materials from the collection, share them with friends and patrons, and – perhaps the biggest bonus to me – spend some extra time studying them ourselves.
And what a trove it was…
Meet Annette Whipple!
Groundhog Day has come and gone and here we are on Valentine’s Day sharing some book love in our latest BALLER Profile! Every Wednesday you can look forward to reading interviews with authors, publishing professionals, library people, readers, and more.
This week it is my pleasure to introduce you to Annette Whipple!
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!…
An ever widening path of destruction…
…but also a path of creation?
Today I want to share about an altered book that I did not personally alter but for which I am nonetheless somewhat to blame… a book being altered because I gave someone the idea to.…
Book of the Week: The Melting Queen by Bruce Cinnamon
This week’s Book of the Week is not quite as recent but it’s a good one well worth sharing…
Meet Mika Burns!
Welcome to our latest BALLER Profile! Every Wednesday you can look forward to reading interviews with authors, publishing professionals, library people, readers, and more. This week it is my pleasure to introduce you to Mika Burns!
