Salutations! Read any good books
lately?
Hard
to
believe the school season has begun, but so it has! In keeping
with the academic rigors of the season, Loganberry hereby requests your
book recommendations and reviews. We know you've had some good summer
months of reading, and we'd like to share your great finds with the
rest of the world. So write us a short (very short) blurb for
something you'd like to share, and we'll post your words with the book,
hoping to find more readers. Anything goes, and of course older
titles and out-of-print gems are eligible. If we choose to use your
review, we'll give you a $10 gift certificate good towards
books of your choice. Here's the form.
Don't forget the easy pdf versions (click on images below). Oh, and I
started a blog...
Larchmere Sidewalk Sale
Saturday, September 1, 11am-5pm
Labor Day weekend brings out more bargains on
Larchmere Boulevard! Join the many and varied shops on Larchmere as
we put extras, oldies, and specials on the sidewalk, creating that
wonderful old-world shopping experience in a real-world historic
shopping district.
Loganberry Books will be offering our twice annual
store-wide 20% off sale -- that's right, this is the last time
this
year such a sale will happen. Super specials on the sidewalk, too, of
course. Come enjoy!
Exciting
recent acquisitions
- new reprint of Parents Magazine Press classic Never Tease
a Weasel
- some 1950s science fiction paperbacks
- newspaper political cartoons from the turn of the century
- Big Little Books like Tarzan and Mickey Mouse
- German children's books exquisitely illustrated from the
'50s and '60s
- a complete miniature leather set of Knickerbocker Shakespeare
- many photography books
- a wealth of new books on environmentalism by Chelsea Green
Publishing
- book marks, book plates, and funky little book lights!
Stump
the Bookseller Selection of the month
B577: Bibelots
All I remember is it was a quality hardback, circa 1978, with a
whitish justjacket and the word "BIBELOT" as an important plot point,
featured in a big way. If the book discusses bibelots, it's my book.
If it doesn't discuss bibelots, it's not. There must be a glass-topped
bibelot table in the book. Of course, I pronounced it bibb'-eh-lot,
and not beeb'-lo, and got teased by another classmate.
Annex Gallery
Meili's Acquisitions
Chinese Peasant
Paintings
Thursday, September 6, 6-8pm
~ first Thursdays ~
When Hal and Joanna Retzler's daughter Meili travelled to China,
she was astounded by the fabulous artwork, from classically inspired
prints to unschooled peasant paintings. This exhibition focuses
on the latter: various sizes and media of untrained and compelling
visions from the countryside of China. Their stark beauty and
immediacy will move you, and the Asian counterpart of Art Brut may
surprise you. Show runs September 6 thru October 1.
N.O.B.S.
Forums
Show & Tell
Thursday, September 20, 7pm
~
third Thursdays ~
Our quarterly Show
and Tell sessions continue! Everyone is
invited to bring biblio treasures and tell us their stories. Where did
these books come from, what makes them special, have you ever seen
illustrations like this? We'll each share some gems, and gain some
knowledge from the collective group. With book collectors, librarians,
afficionados, dealers, bookbinders, and historians in the group, it
will be more than an "Antiques Roadshow" experience, as we'll learn
about the history, bibliographies, biographies, and values of the
books, and put the book into its cultural history context. So bring
your gems from the attic, garage sale curios, and prized possessions.
Learn a little, teach a tad. Sponsored by the Nothern Ohio
Bibliophilic Society, $3 suggested donation.
Bloomsday Book Club
Thursday, September 27, 7pm
~ fourth Thursdays ~
Chapter Seven brought some relief, as Stephen Daedalus became more
likeable and the prose a little more fluent. But chapter eight -- ?
Honestly, Joyce makes up his own sentence structures. We're wading it
out, hoping for enlightenment. Vetrans assure us it's there, but we
haven't found it yet.
Joke of the day: some American tourists were visiting Paris and
standing outside the re-incarnated Shakespeare and Co. With tour book
in hand, one woman announced, "and this is the famous bookstore owned
by Sylvia Beach, where Homer wrote Ulysses. It's currently
owned by the grandson of Walt Whitman." Lucky for the bookstore owner
(a Whitman unrelated to the bachelor poet), the
tourists didn't walk inside, but just continued on their way.
(paraphrased from Time Was Soft There by Jeremy Mercer.)
peace,
Harriett
Loganberry Books
13015 Larchmere Boulevard; Shaker Heights,
Ohio 44120; 216.795.9800
Monday-Saturday 10am-6pm; most Thursdays 'til 8pm
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