Salutations!
It's time to eat some books! Time to smell the flowers! Time to dive
underwater and see cool marine life!
Quick: identify which sentence above is an April Fool's joke.
Edible Books Festival
 Saturday, April 5,
1pm
~ every first Saturday in April ~
Join us for the fifth year of Loganberry Books
and Strong Bindery's hosting of the Edible Books Festival in
Cleveland. It's an international
event with exhibitions and
competitions all over the world, but here in Cleveland we have just one
rule: make edible art that has something to do with books. How people
choose to interpret that rule is wherein lies the fun. This year's
contest categories are: Best
Imagination, Best Binding, and Best Eating. Each is won by popular vote and awarded appropriate book prizes at
2pm. Then we grab our
forks! Don't be late, the creations don't last long after that!
Entrants:
please register with
Loganberry Books ahead of time, and bring your
creations before 1pm. Every entry receives a handmade miniature book
pin from Strong Bindery and a photo on the Loganberry Books website. Participation: $3 to
vote and eat, and always free to look. FAQs.
Exciting
recent acquisitions
- Little Golden Book favorite Rootie
Kazootie, Detective
- Amy Lowell's 2-volume biography of John
Keats, 1st ed. 1925
- 1950 vintage 4-volume Winnie-the-Pooh
set
- William Blake: His Philosophy and
Symbols by S. Foster Damon, 1st ed. 1924
- Spunk & Bite: a
writer's guide to punchier, more engaging language and style
- Racketty-Packetty House,
Frances Hodgson Burnett, illus. by Harrison Cady
- Fanny Cory's Mother Goose,
1917, with 6 wonderful deco colored plates
- 19th C sewing and needlework tools,
and some excellent needlework books
Annex Gallery
 Altered Book
Group: Red Book Project II
Thursday, April 3, 6-8pm
~ first Thursdays ~
An encore Annex Gallery show featuring the imaginative works of several
local artists who create entirely new works of art out of crusty old
tomes. This year, they each had a volume of the turn-of-century Book
of Knowledge, and they each did something different with it. Artists include
Myrna London Aidlin, Sarah Clague, Gene Epstein, Margaret Yuko Kimura,
Terre Maher, Lynn O'Brien, Jackie Parsons, Myrna Tatar and Anne
Weissman. Show runs April 3 - 28.
In
Concert
 Gene's
Jazz
Hot
Thursday, April 10, 6:30pm-9:00pm
~ second Thursdays ~
Gene's Jazz Hot is fast becoming a tradition here. Think of it:
an easy evening with happy jazz, surrounded by friends and tons of
books. What could be better? Bring a friend, make a night
of it. Grab some eats from across the street at Flying Cranes, or
bring your own. And sit back and enjoy the show. Donations
for the band
gladly accepted.
N.O.B.S.
Forums
Altered Books Group
Thursday, April 17, 7pm
~ third Thursdays ~
Again as last year, the inspirational works of
the Altered Book Group deserves interpretation, explanation, and some
historical perspective. You'll get all that at this informal talk
sponsored by the Northern Ohio Bibliophilic Society, as well as some
artist commentary on how they came up with their ideas and how they
executed them. $3
suggested donation.
Book Signing & Slide Show
 Marc Shargel: Wonders of
the Sea
Friday, April 18, 7pm
Wonders of the Sea: North Central California's Marine Riches is
a visual voyage beneath California's near-shore Pacific Ocean. Created
by award-winning marine life photographer Marc Shargel, the book is a
window onto some of the diverse marine life of California’s North
Central Coast. His images allow you to embark upon a voyage of
imagination, beyond the crash of waves on rocky shores and long arcing
beaches, into the world of life beneath the sea. There you’ll find a
rainbow of color and a diversity of forms on a par with the most
wondrous biospheres on Earth.
About the Author: Marc Shargel is an award-winning marine life
photographer. He graduated Shaker High in 1976. Two years later he was
doing daily underwater science, studying marine biology at Stanford for
a summer. That experience launched a life-long passion that would lead
to political activism and a career in photography. Shargel has been
making photographs in the sea since the 1980s. This is his first book.
80 pages / 77 full-color images. $34.95 http://lumigenic.com/books
Stump
the Bookseller Selection of the month
 O130: Old Man on Apple Pie island
Fairy tale compilation book with very lovely illustrations and most
"typical" Mother Goose fairy tales. About 10 in. wide by 13 in. tall,
not very thick. Last page had unique (at least I'd never heard it
before) fairy tale and picture--there was an old man sitting on a pie
"island" and surrounded by ink "water" with bottles of ink floating
by. Poem went something like "If all the world were apple pie/and all
the water were ink/what.../....to drink?/it's enough to make an old
man... think."
Bloomsday Club
 Thursday, April 24,
7pm
~ fourth Thursdays ~
Chapter Eleven sounds like it should be
half-way through the book, but, alas, it is not. Dreams of finishing
by Bloomsday are dashed, but progress is steady and sure. I know there
are vetrans of Ulysses out there, and I invite you to join us
one of these days for a spirited discussion of the merits and trials of
reading one of the most famous works in modern English. Chapter Twelve
is next.
Austeniana Club
 Thursday, April 24, 7pm
~ fourth Thursdays ~
Pride and
Prejudice is onstage this month at the Cleveland
Play House. The cast has discovered Loganberry Books, and has
offered the book club half-price tickets to come see the play! We may
even meet with the cast to talk about the adaptation process, and other
details of working on this literary masterpiece. If you missed the
meeting, please email for details. Next up: Mansfield Park.
Green Expo
 Saturday, April 26, 10am-6pm
~ annual Earth Day celebration ~
April 22 is the official Earth Day, and the entire week is full of
Earth Day and Go Green celebrations all over the city and country.
Larchmere is no exception. While Shaker Square boasts a Green Expo
with extra vendors at the morning's Farmers' Market, Larchmere
continues into the day with sales, programs, and education on what it
means to be green within an everyday retail context. For many of us on
Larchmere, that means giving life to old and discarded objects -- i.e.,
selling used goods, as we do everyday. But it also means running a
business that recycles its waste, makes energy efficient decisions, and
keeps your money within the community (statistically, 45% of every
dollar spent at a local store stays in that community, as opposed to
13% of every chain store dollar). All of these factors add up to
smaller carbon footprint. We'll also highlight
environmentally-friendly products (like greeting cards made on handmade
recycled paper with seeds embedded in the paper, so you can plant the
card and watch it grow). Loganberry Books also extends a 10% discount
to anyone who arrives by bicycle, foot or RTA today. Go Green.
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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