Salutations!
I love autumn. It's the excitement you can smell in the air, the
back-to-school specials, the change of color palette to earth tones.
Some afternoons are perfect for sitting outside with a good book,
some nights are ripe for curling up in a big chair with a cup of tea
and, of course, a book. Sometimes both are possible in the same day!
Read on, exciting book events
are coming.
NOBS Chagrin Valley
Antiquarian Book
Fair
 Saturday,
October 8th, 10am-6pm
It's been awhile since Cleveland has had its own book fair
(although the NOBS Akron Fair continues every Easter weekend). Now we
have a new location, new dealers, and lots of old books to get excited
about. Join us for a special event with 80+ dealers showing off their
best gems and out-of-print specialties. It's at the Family Life
Center, 16349 Chillicothe Road in Bainbridge.
*sponsored by NOBS, the Northern Ohio Bibliophilic
Society
Exciting
recent acquisitions
- Halloween books, like The Witch of Hissing Hill at
left
- a fabulous first edition of A Streetcar Named Desire
- beautiful hand silk-screened and letterpress Halloween cards
- The Snow Baby, 1901, by Josephine D. Peary
- lots of classic and popular theatre scripts from
Pirandello to
Neil Simon
- the elusive kids favorite Caroline at the Ranch by
Pierre
Probst
- The Nancy Drew Cookbook and other children's
cookbooks
- See Again, Say Again by printmaker Antonio Frasconi
in four languages
- Georgia O'Keefe's One Hundred Flowers and In
the West
- a gigantic illustrated tome of Donatello, Italian
renaissance sculptor
Harvest
Celebration
 Saturday,
October 1st
In honor of World Vegetarian
Day
this year, Loganberry is offering 20% off all cookbooks! We
have great vegetarian cookbooks, some fascinating books
on food history and wine, and regional and international cooking.
There's always something new to whet your appetite and culinary
imagination.
Larchmere Boulevard is also hosting a Harvest Celebration with
merchant specials, car and bike washes, and a scavenger hunt (answers
to trivia questions gathered on the street can win you prizes!). Come
join the fun.
Book Signing
 Emily Numbers
Lost and Found....Safe and Sound
Saturday, October 22, 1-3pm
Emily Numbers is a 13 year-old middle school student in Macedonia who
wrote this rhyming picture book about a young child lost in a grocery
store. Nicki Omori drew the illustrations, and together they have
created a pefect picture book with both real and mundane observations
of the world as seen through a child's eyes. Come meet the young
author and ask her about her lifelong writing.
Stump
the Bookseller Selection of the month
 S394: Stuff and Nonsense
a friend of mine (honest!) can't remember most of
the details to find a children's book she would like to see again. it
involves a brother and sister who find a key that eventually leads them
into a fairy kingdom. the prime minister of the kingdom is upset the
children have come in. the boy's customary refrain is "stuff and
nonsense". apparently there's a rule that once you have found your way
in you have the right to be there. the children get called home for
supper, but they still have the key and can always go back. my friend,
of course, does not remember the title nor the author.
Girlfriends Literary Society
 Lighthousekeeping by
Jeanette Winterson
Thursday, October 20th @ 7pm (note date change)
"My mother called me Silver. I was born part precious metal part
pirate." Orphaned and anchorless, Silver is taken in by blind Mr. Pew,
the
mysterious and miraculously old keeper of the Cape Wrath lighthouse.
Pew tells Silver ancient tales of longing and rootlessness, of journeys
that move through place and time, of passion and betrayal. His stories
center on Babel Dark, a local nineteenth-century clergyman who lived
two lives: a public one mired in darkness and a private one bathed in a
beacon of light. Pew's stories are, for Silver, a map through her own
particular darkness, into her own story and, finally, into love. With Lighthousekeeping,
Winterson begins a new cycle and a return to
the lyrical intimacy of her earliest work. One of the most original and
extraordinary writers of her generation, Winterson has created a modern
fable about the transformative power of storytelling.
LitArts Update
 Ah yes,
we did finally finish the floor project.
It looks awesome.
Like a good theatre set, most people don't really
notice it (how forgiving our memories are!). Stop by sometime and
browse through our enormous collection of fiction,
humor, genre fiction, and performing arts. We'll be putting this floor
to hard use in the months to follow, and look forward to having a
groovy special events room.
Special thanks to Jenny!
Annex Gallery
 Friday Drawing Club
Friday Figures
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 1st, 4-7pm
This group of local artists has been meeting for decades on Friday
nights to draw. The current members include Amie
Albert, Laura D'Alessandro, Gene Epstein, Edith Goldstein, David
Kaplan,
Mario Kujawski, Zenni Quante, Anita Rogoff, Catherinlu Russell, and
Jean
Sommer. Come meet the artists and see their latest portraits.
Looking Ahead
 Loganberry Books will host a Local
Author Book Fair on Thursday, November 17th, 5-8pm. It's in
conjunction with the Poets' and
Writers' League Word
Crafters Festival, a week long literary celebration taking place
all over Northeast Ohio November 12-20. Local
authors
who want to participate should contact
Harriett, and the rest of us can look forward to meeting the local
literati of all genres.
We'll also officially celebrate Loganberry's
tenth anniversary (along with Hedda's tenth birthday) on Saturday,
November 19th. It's a party; put it in the book.
I hope to see you browsing at Loganberry soon!
peace,
Harriett
Loganberry Books
13015 Larchmere Boulevard; Shaker Heights,
Ohio 44120; 216.795.9800
Monday-Saturday 10am-6pm
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