Salutations!


I figured with this much snow we ought to have free parking.  That's the parking meter outside Loganberry trying to stick up over the mound of snow.  Think Shaker Heights will buy it? Maybe my chiropractor might...

Plenty of events and gatherings planned for February, so don't shovel yourself in, now, alright?

Exciting recent acquisitions

• Fine Prints of the Year, an annual review, for 1924, 1925, 1926, 1930 and 1931.  
• some beautiful discontinued art books, all half of their original prices
  
• a fine collection of Derrydale Press  
• The New Nature Library, 8 volumes, 1922, with color plates
  
• A nice set of Louisa May Alcott with colorful embossed covers
  
• The Houses of McKim, Mead and White
  
• Mackey's Revised History of Freemasonry by Clegg
  
• O'Keeffe on Paper, featuring her wonderful and less known charcoals and watercolors
  

Book signing
Judith Petres Balogh, Sunset
Saturday February 17, 1-3pm
Sunset is the fifth book by former Aurora/Shaker Heights resident Judith Petres Balogh. The author was an educator and administrator in the US Department of Defense Dependents Schools (DODDS) in Germany, where she taught classes for the gifted children. After working a few years as school administrator, early retirement followed. She and her husband now live in Ohio and in Hungary, where they converted a "disaster area" into a lovely home (described in This Old House By The Lake).  The Hungarian Academy of Arts and Science in Cleveland awarded her book The Countess and Her Daughter a medal for outstanding literary efforts.  She is pleased to introduce her new novel Sunset, about women bound by deep friendship, ignoring the burdens of age and of life accidents, defying loneliness and arthritis, and each in her own, unique way giving new meaning to life.

Playwriting Workshop for Adults
Taught by local playwright Sarah Morton
Mondays, February 5-March 26, 6:30-9:00pm
In this 8-session intensive,  students will explore the fundamentals of playwriting,  including dramatic structure, story, theatrical language/ dialogue, and character development.  Learn how to turn your ideas on the page into vivid, dynamic, and theatrical writing for the stage.  Discover your own unique voice as a playwright, in a small, supportive workshop setting.  Workshop is geared towards beginning playwrights, but all levels of experience are welcome.  Tuition: $160, limited enrollment.

Gaming Girls
Thursday, February 8, 7pm
If your dominoes have only six plain white dots on them, then you haven't discovered the joys of a games called Mexican Train.  It's a fairly easy strategy game, perfect for unwinding with friends.  'Course there are always some friends who find a strategy in such games and raise the stakes a tad.... 

Bloomsday Book Club
Thursday, February 22, 7pm
We've decided to tackle Ulysses instead of Finnegans Wake (there's an order to the world, after all).  You haven't missed a thing yet, so join us February 22 at the new-improved 7pm time.  How many best-of lists has Ulysses taken top honors?  I've lost count, but it's enough to tempt any ambitious reader.  We'll tackle it slowly,  and discuss it at length the fourth Thursday of each month.  We have The New Bloomsday Book in stock now, and copies of Ulysses forthcoming.  Let me know if you're coming and if you need books so we can best plan.  We might even have cookies.

Stump the Bookseller  Selection of the month
I102: injured animals search for utopia
1970s.  several misfit or injured animals from a pet shop escape and travel together in search of a utopia they believe to be called san diego zoo. There is a snake with a broken tail, a bird or parrot, some animal like a ferret and others. these animals are not adoptable because of their deformities. They adventure into the sewers and I believe they travel in a truck as well. they do not know what a "zoo" is, they just know it is a paradise for animals.

N.O.B.S. Forums
Herb Ascherman:  On Photography
Wednesday, February 21, 7pm  (note date change)
For over 30 years, Herbert Ascherman Jr. has been creating fine art portraiture, specializing in stunning black and white and the resurgent art of platinum photography. What you might not know about him is that he's been collecting books on photography for almost as long as he's been a photographer.  Come learn a bit about the history and collectibility of books on photography for an internationally renown local photographer.
  Free to NOBS members, $3 non-members.

Annex Gallery
Thursday, February 1, 6-8pm
Tri-C Print Club: Multiples/ Works on Paper
The Tri-C Print Club includes experienced artists who have been creating prints for many years as well as students who have recently discovered this exciting and challenging medium.  These original prints have all been hand pulled by the artists.  Come meet the artists at the opening reception and see what they've created!  Artists include: Ron Walsh, Barbara Stanford, Roberta Salo, Jodi Waskinski, Melanie Batelann, Mary Bouk, Jennie Dillingham, Suzanne Dillingham, Rose Gaier, Susan Gibbs, Barbara Eisenberg, Maria Kaiser, Abbey Hallenstein, Joyce Logan, Lilianne Gershenovich, William Johnson, Jeff Quinn, Lynn Koerner, Rozalind Sigel, Nijole Palubinskas, Ruther Stone and Morris Schlechter.  Show continues through February 28. 

I hope to see you browsing at Loganberry soon!

peace,
Harriett

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Loganberry Books
13015 Larchmere Boulevard;  Shaker Heights, Ohio 44120;  216.795.9800
Monday-Saturday 10am-6pm; most Thursdays 'til 8pm

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