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The Möbius Book, Stripped — The Butterflies and Aliens Library of Literary Eccentricities and Rarities

Winston Pei (he/they/il/iel) @blackriders.com · Sep 7

Been a while since I shared a #BottomShelfie from @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social but I’m at the store today until close at 5 if you’d like to come take a closer look at these lovelies! #YEG #Bookstores #Books #SciFi #ShopLocal #ShopIndie

Photo of a bookseller with glasses peeking in from the top of the frame while crouched in front of the bottom shelf at the end of the science fiction section at Audreys Books. Visible covers include Andy Weir’s Hail Mary, Martha Wells’ Murderbot books in paperback, hardcover, and omnibus editions, and John Wyndham’s The Chrysalids.

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Winston Pei (he/they/il/iel) @blackriders.com · Aug 19

Back at @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social today (Tues Aug 19!) and here until 9 for the launch of “The End of the World As We Know It” featuring a story by @premeemohamed.com !

Also! My latest special order is in! “AB@C” by Rob Meyerson and illustrated by Dan Misdea!

Book launch at 7!

#YEG #Bookstore

Picture of the cover of “The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King’s The Stand” edited by Christopher Golden and Brian Keene, introduction by Stephen King, and a story by Edmonton’s own Premee Mohamed. The cover is black with red all-caps lettering for the main title, tan for the subtitle, and also features the head of a crow looking up from the bottom right corner. A stack of additional copies is visible below.

Pictured is a bookseller standing in front of a dark wood shelf full of books, holding up in front of his face a copy of “AB@C and other gramograms” written by Rob Meyerson and illustrated by Dan Misdea. The book is a hardcover about 7” square with the title in black lettering against an illustration of a blue sky above water on which there’s a bee rowing a boat. The picture is the key to the gramogram… AB@C is “a bee at sea”…

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Winston Pei (he/they/il/iel) @blackriders.com · Jul 31

And here's the write up! As things continue to go sideways, around the world & also so very close to home, making art & being fully human feel extra significant, so go do the things and hold your people close... www.butterfliesandaliens.com/stacks/the-m...

#YEG #Art #AlteredBooks #Books #Bookstores

My latest altered book project came together rather suddenly – inspiration sometimes does strike like lighting, especially when helped along by encouragement from the people around you. But funni...

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Winston Pei (he/they/il/iel) @blackriders.com · Jul 29

More photos to come plus a longer write up, but my latest #alteredbook project is now on display at @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social ! Titled “The Möbius Book, Stripped” the project is based on “The Möbius Book” by @catherinelacey.bsky.social

#books #art #YEG #local #indie

Pictured is the open central stairwell at Audreys Books in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, framed in dark mahogany wood, with bookshelves full of books visible in the background upstairs, on the landing, and on the lower level visible past the landing. Flowing from the corner of the opening on the main level is a scroll of paper that goes up to the ceiling then loops down several times before flowing back up over the ledge of the opening.

Pictured is the opposite side of the stairwell opening in the first photo, showing a reddish orange vintage typewriter on a stand out of which is flowing a scroll of paper. A later section of the scroll can be seen flowing back over the edge of the opening beside the typewriter. There is also a smaller Möbius strip, made up of the front and back matter of the book, sitting on a shelf below the typewriter.

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Winston Pei (he/they/il/iel) @blackriders.com · Jul 29

And okay, yeah, THIS happened!!!

Catherine Lacey @catherinelacey.bsky.social · Jul 29

Did someone turn The Möbius Book into a Möbius strip....????!!!!

Audreys Books 📚 Edmonton @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social · Jul 28

#yeg #booksky come on by and see the amazing installation of 'The Mobius Book, Stripped' by our resident #bookartist Winston @blackriders.com .
@catherinelacey.bsky.social we hope you like this take on your great book! Thanks to Raincoast for supplying books for this project. #bookart #mobiusbook

Òran - Paper Boats by Jake Runestad

Winston Pei (he/they/il/iel) @blackriders.com · Jul 29

So this is a thing that happened…

Audreys Books 📚 Edmonton @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social · Jul 28

#yeg #booksky come on by and see the amazing installation of 'The Mobius Book, Stripped' by our resident #bookartist Winston @blackriders.com .
@catherinelacey.bsky.social we hope you like this take on your great book! Thanks to Raincoast for supplying books for this project. #bookart #mobiusbook

A typrwriter, a very long mobius strip made from the pages of 'The Mobius Book' by Catherine Lacey, accompanied by book covers.

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Winston Pei (he/they/il/iel) @blackriders.com · Jul 24

As we approach the one year anniversary of our being "blessed" with our resident #DemonPotatoes by @laurcunn.bsky.social at the 2024 #WhenWordsCollide Festival, it seemed the right time for this...

( you can find the full story at www.butterfliesandaliens.com/stacks/somet... ... )

Photo is a #DemonPotatoes version of the "How it started... How it's going" meme, with an inset photo on the left half of the image under the heading "How it started" showing two fresh new baby potatoes, one round and one pear-shaped, with faces drawn on them with marker consisting of two dots for eyes and a squiggly line for a mouth, and an inset photo on the right hand side under the heading "How it's going" showing the same two potatoes looking much more wrinkled and shriveled, with the skin on the pear-shaped baby potatoe also having turned much darker. Along the bottom, text reads:
#DemonPotatoes
https://www.butterfliesandaliens.com/stacks/something-awoke-in-the-garden

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Winston Pei (he/they/il/iel) @blackriders.com · Jul 15

The latest video from my choir, Òran, just got posted and I wanted to share, with a huge shout out to composer Jake Runestad for this amazing setting of "Paper Boats" —

youtu.be/8dqgachuHwU?...

#Choir #Arts #YEG #KororaChoirs

YouTube video by Korora Choirs

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Winston Pei (he/they/il/iel) @blackriders.com · Jul 13

Okay, also can’t not share a selfie with my furry buddy whenever we’re both hanging out at @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social lol

#MoreThanJustBooks #YEG #ShopLocal #ShopIndie #Toys but also #Books

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Picture of a human bookseller (bottom) peeking up from below the frame of the photos while a Yeti with white fur (actually a Yeti puppet but don’t tell them!) hugs the bookseller’s bespectacled head from behind.

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Winston Pei (he/they/il/iel) @blackriders.com · Jul 13

Extra excited to be at @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social for my shift today, for an extra special reason that I can’t fully share yet but there’s a hint in the picture!

If you happen to be in #YEG today, I’m in store until close at 5 and I can maybe share a bit more of the tea…

#ShopIndie #Bookstores

Picture of a bookseller in glasses and a burgundy top peeking up from behind two copies of “The Möbius Book” by Catherine Lacey he is holding in front of his face, while standing in front of a dark wood bookshelf with additional copies of the book behind him. The book features a blue cover with white printing of the title, author name, and a line drawing of a möbius strip, as well as a barcode at the bottom left corner of the cover.

Winston Pei (he/they/il/iel) @blackriders.com · Jul 8

Got issues? Yeah, so do we…

I’m hanging around @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social until close at 6 today, so come by & say hi, maybe check out our section formerly-known-as-current-events for some perspective on… stuff…

That and/or go grab some awesome picture books!

#YEG #Books #ShopLocal #ShopIndie

Picture shows a wide shot of the main floor of Audreys Books in Edmonton, with several rows of dark wood shelves filled with books, with a dark-haired bookseller wearing glasses peeking up from below the frame of the picture. The closest shelf behind the bookseller has two signs mounted above it, both of which that read “ISSUES” while the shelves below contain a variety of current event titles such as “The Internet Con” by Cory Doctorow, “Youth Care Chronicles: Reflections on Growing Up in the Child Welfare System”, and “War” by Bob Woodward.

Surrounded in bookishness — The Butterflies and Aliens Library of Literary Eccentricities and Rarities

Winston Pei (he/they/il/iel) @blackriders.com · Jul 6

Also, we have a display of books about DRAGONS!

#dragons #books #bookstore #YEG #Shopindie #ShopLocal

Picture of a bookseller in glasses peeking in from the left edge of the photo while standing in front of a wall of tan-coloured wood shelving, four shelves high and two unit wide, featuring about forty dragon-themed books along with a pair of dragon stuffies

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Winston Pei (he/they/il/iel) @blackriders.com · Jul 6

Hanging out at @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social until close at 5 today so if you’re in downtown #YEG come by and say hi!

And in person or online, check out our AI* Summer Reads lists!

*Actually Interesting

#Books #Bookstore #ShopIndie #ShopLocal #ShopCanadian

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Winston Pei (he/they/il/iel) @blackriders.com · Jun 29

Oh no. New at @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social & one is coming home with me lol - deets in the alt text!

Also today, the launch of “The Feast” by poet Alycia Two Bears at 2 pm!

It’s a beautiful day for a browse so come say hi! I’m hanging around the store until close at 5!

#YEG #Books #ShopIndie

Picture of a bookseller wearing glasses and a burgundy top peering over the top of a copy of “The World’s Most Beautiful Libraries” by Massimo Listri and published by Taschen, one of four bargain copies in store!

Display of six copies of “The Feast” by Alycia Two Bears, a trade paperback with a purple toned cover featuring a silhouette of a woman. The subtitle for the book is “Two Spirit: Stories, Sex, and the Ceremony Behind it All, and other Poems”

Winston Pei (he/they/il/iel) @blackriders.com · Jun 24

Haven’t done one of these in a while (maybe never on this platform?) but today I’m sharing a #BottomShelfie from the #Science section at @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social

I’m here until close around 9 pm tonight so come by and say hi!

#YEG #Bookstore #Books

Picture of a bookseller with glasses leaning sideways half in a picture of the bottom level of a wood shelf featuring about twenty books. Face out are « How The World Really Works » by Vaclav Smil and « The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science » by Kate Zernike. Other titles include « The Book of Eels » by Patrik Svenson, « Frostbite » by Nicola Twilley, « Life As No One Knows It » by Sara Imari Walker, « Most Delicious Poison: The Story of Nature’s Toxins, from Spices to Vices » by Noah Whitenan, and « The Salmon Cannon and the Levitating Frog, and other serious discoveries of silly science » by Carly Anne York.

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Winston Pei (he/they/il/iel) @blackriders.com · Jun 13

I know the world is on fire but I thought I’d share a little happy thing, a write up of my latest altered book project. www.butterfliesandaliens.com/stacks/surro...

I wanted to share my latest altered book project, with the usual content warning that this kind of art does involve the disassembly of books! But I finally got around to “finishing” some of the book...

Winston Pei (he/they/il/iel) @blackriders.com · Jun 10

Yes, @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social has books, but we also have Jelly Cats! Found two of the summer collection hanging out in our front window! I feel like if you’re in #YEG you should come by and say hi to us!

#ShopIndie #ShopLocal #Books #Bookstores #JellyCats

Picture of a smiling bookseller in glasses and a burgundy top peering out from behind two smiling Jelly Cat stuffies, one of a pina colada-style drink in a coconut with a blue striped straw and a flower coming out the top, the other of a desert island with a large palm tree growing out of it. (Sorry, always so hard to describe Jelly Cat stuffies!)

Something awoke in the garden… — The Butterflies and Aliens Library of Literary Eccentricities and Rarities

Winston Pei (he/they/il/iel) @blackriders.com · Jun 5

Also! @laurcunn.bsky.social ! A wee update on the #DemonPotatoes ... it would appear the immortality spell has been broken! www.butterfliesandaliens.com/stacks/somet...

Now with this direct link to the galleries! In honour of this fine Friday the 13th, thought I’d take the opportunity to make a proper post about a highlight discovery of this past summer, Demon Pot...

www.butterfliesandaliens.com/stacks/water...

Winston Pei (he/they/il/iel) @blackriders.com · Jun 5

Water Moon by Samantha Sotto Yambao — The Butterflies and Aliens Library of Literary Eccentricities and Rarities

We’re back today after our unplanned hiatus to share an acquisition from back in January that finally made it off our TBR list… Water Moon by Samantha Sotto Yambao…

Winston Pei (he/they/il/iel) @blackriders.com · Jun 3

New release Tuesday! And my pre-order is in! It’s Ben Clanton’s latest Narwhal and Jelly book, “THIS BOOK IS DANGEROUS!” The newest addition to my “books aware of their own bookishness collection! I’m at the store until 6 today if you want to come by and say hi! #YEG #Books #ShopIndie #ShopLocal

Picture is of a bookseller in glasses wearing a burgundy top peering over the top edge of “This Book is Dangerous! A Narwhal and Jelly Picture Book”, the latest from author/illustrator Ben Clanton. The cover shows the title above a picture of a frightened jellyfish against a black background with a row of eight large whitish teeth along both the top and bottom of the page… is Jelly inside a creature’s mouth? Are we looking out from inside the mouth ourselves? (Incidentally, the teeth glow in the dark so one can also simply picture two rows of eight white floating in the dark…)

Winston Pei (he/they/il/iel) @blackriders.com · Jun 1

Beautiful new cover for the new omnibus paperback edition of the “Monk and Robot” series by Becky Chambers! I’ve got both this and the two original hardcover novellas on my staff picks shelf, so if you happen to around downtown #YEG do come by and take a look!

#ShopIndie #ShopLocal #Bookstores

Picture of a bookseller in glasses in a beige top holding up a copy of “Monk and Robot” by Becky Chambers (ISBN 9781250386335), a trade paperback omnibus edition that includes “A Psalm for the Wild-Built” and “A Prayer for the Crown-Shy” featuring a light green cover with the title in white handwriting-style lettering and a human hand reaching up from below and a grey robot hand reaching down from above.