Erin C Alexander
@erinalexander.bsky.social
Book collector, collagist, cat enthusiast https://afterwordbooks.bigcartel.com/
Just over a week has passed since fertilization and she’s already looking like a proper pumpkin. 🎃 292 days since Halloween: volunteer pumpkin update
Erin C Alexander@erinalexander.bsky.social · last wk.284 days since Halloween and there’s finally one small pumpkin on the volunteer vine 🎃
The problem with book clubs: whatever book is chosen, I inevitably want to read something else entirely… but a *short story* club, ah, that seems doable. I wonder who on Bluesky would be up for that.
Yesterday was a good mail day! Particularly happy to snag that Orrie Hitt paperback. 📬
Okey dokey! I guess corn is off the menu tonight. For us, anyway…this little dude clearly has his meal cut out for him! 🐛
Great typo. A colleague, publishing a catalogue on a well-known rare books listserv, advertises “interesting non-friction items”.
Beautiful Fraktur font colophon from one of the oldest titles in my library. 📖📚
Considered the oldest complete seventy-eight card tarot deck in existence, the 15th-century Sola Busca — named for the family of Milanese nobles who owned it for some five generations — is also one of the most mysterious: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/sola-busca
Sure, it’s not a shamrock, but I’ll take the luck of a four-leaf wood sorrel. 🍀
My tiny little bug murderess, deep in thought after a successful hunt 🦟
I enjoyed Emerald Wounds so much. Am thrilled to crack into this newly published collection of Joyce Mansour's short stories this morning. ☀️📖📚
Just got yelled at by my cat because I wouldn’t let him hang out inside the dishwasher.
Couldn’t be happier with how this restoration came out, I was shocked by how well preserved it was under all the years of scribbles, dust, and finger gunk!
Today’s project is restoring this vintage Rand McNally celestial globe. Fortunately for me, a Mars Plastic eraser and some patience are making headway removing the yellow Crayola lines.
The second 'a' looks like it's holding the beginning of the word at gunpoint
HuffPost@huffpost.com · 7d ago[Squints] Sorry, does that say ... Instagzam?
Ah yes, the four orders: Ionic, Doric, Corinthian, and Death Metal
Ever buy a vintage paperback for the cover, knowing nothing of the work, and find yourself so engrossed in a fabulous little volume that you only stop to wonder why no one ever recommended this one to you? The Victorian Chaise Longue by Marghanita Laski was that book for me today.
284 days since Halloween and there’s finally one small pumpkin on the volunteer vine 🎃
Am I unreasonably excited for the free wood working tools I just got from a neighbor? Yes, yes I am. Please pray for my fingers as I’m rusty with woodwork.
I keep harping on this but AI “writers” and “artists“ keep showing what unserious tourists they are. People who actually create agonize over adverbs and color palettes and metaphors and gesture. AI people can’t even be bothered to skim their own book once
Indie Book Spotlight@bookspotlight.bsky.social · last wk.This is just so depressing to see. Readers deserve better than this.
It took all weekend, but I finished signing 2,000 tip-in sheets! These will be bound into the UK edition of SLEUTH-HOUND. In addition, I signed 4,000 for the US edition. Who's going to buy these scribbles?! My publisher is crazy! Anyway, if you'd like to grab one: linktr.ee/drlindseyfit...
Please enjoy these photos of a cicada mid-molt! I’ve never seen this before and ended up spending an inordinate amount of time watching it happen this morning.
@monostich.bsky.social’s posts have truly introduced me to some excellent works I would have otherwise missed out on; Light While There is Light is a perfect example. I enjoyed inhaling this book in a few sittings today.
Summer sure is glorious here! Pretty hard to beat being surrounded by water, having local forests to explore, and critters to photograph.
Let’s be clear: what these bastards are doing to these books isn’t digitizing. Digitizing is about preservation and access to the original material. They’re gutting and destroying to make Soylent Green. Don’t let them get away with pretending to do this for humanitarian reasons.
A beautiful little moment. Photo from my collection, no date/info.
Learned a new word: Kadaververjüngung (And yes, that’s a cat book rest)
Show me a man who suggests built-ins with a rolling ladder, and I’ll show you a man I’m in love with. 📚
Thanks Erin!
Erin C Alexander@erinalexander.bsky.social · last mo.Stuck inside today due to wildfire smoke, but at least it gives me an excuse to dive into the latest @markfrost.bsky.social title! Many thanks to the fine folks at the Elliott Bay Book Company for shipping me a signed copy of The Yankee Sphinx. 📚✍🏼
