Salutations!
Boo! It’s Halloweenie season, and we’re bedecked
with witches, bats and crazy cats. Oh, the cat isn’t seasonal. But
as the temperature drops, we’re here to warm up your spirits and offer great
reads, memorable presents, and objects of beauty to admire and inspire.
There’s lots to see here, and we’d love to see you.
Recent Acquisitions
Glossy remainder books have started to arrive – particularly
coffee table pretties and esoteric history – for 50-75% off original
prices. Browsing the remainder table is a treasure hunt for fascinating
and beautiful books that aren’t on the bestsellers list. Here are just a
few of my favorites.
·
ART: Photo Inspirations (in a carrying box!), Comprehensively Clarice Cliff, The Complete Book of
Papermaking, 100 Posters of Paul Colin, Hiroshige: Birds and Flowers, Andy Goldsworthy:
Enclosure, Hokusai: One Hundred Poets, Salavatore Ferragamo: Walking Dreams,
Andrew Wyeth: Autobiography, The Art of Vietnam
·
NON-FICTION: Oxford Companion to
American Food and Drink, Thoreau’s Cape Cod, Illustrated Edition, Grand Canyon:
River at Risk, The Arctic: The Complete Story, Library of Congress World War II
Companion, Birds of Chesapeake Bay, Patents: Ingenious Inventions, Traffic: Why
We Drive the Way We Do, Ginseng: The Divine Root, One to Nine: The Inner Life
of Numbers, Tigers in Red Weather
·
LITERARY: Stylized: A Slightly
Obsessive History of Strunk and White, No-Man’s Land: One Man’s Odyssesy
through The Odyssey, PG Wodehouse: The Heart of a Goof, Decca: The Letters of
Jessica Mitford, The Plot Against Pepys, Elizabeth Bishop: Edgar Allen Poe and
the Juke-Box, The Good Life According to Hemingway, Wordsworth and Coleridge:
The Friendship, Outlaw Journalist: the Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson, and lots of mysteries by Alexander McCall Smith.
Stump the Bookseller Selection of
the month
P468: Pig, Monkey, Fez Hats, Storytelling Contest
I read this book in the 1970s (so written in the '60s
or '70s I think). I remember 3-4 animals, one of which was a pig and another a
monkey. One or more of them wore a Fez hat and a vest. I recall 3 animals
traveling together and coming across a 4th animal. They decided to have a
storytelling contest to see who could tell such a whopper that the 4th animal
would have to say "I can't believe it". If the 4th animal said that,
then the other 3 would win. Each of the 3 told their story and they got more
ridiculous than the one before, but the 4th animal said he believed it each
time. Then the 4th animal told his story of coming across the first 3 animals
and how they were escaped slaves of his and that they were to return to his
home and be slaves. That forced the 3 animals to say "I don't believe
it" otherwise they'd lose their freedom. In the end, the 4th animal won
the other 3 animals' clothing and they ended up being naked.
Annex Gallery
Koichi Yoshida – A
Light on Japan
Thursday, October 7, 6-8pm
~ first Thursdays ~
A keen amateur photographer of flowers, birds and scenery all his
adult life, Koichi Yoshida, now aged 89 and living in Japan, for many years
worked for Canon Camera as a camera engineer. These photographs are a
small selection of some of his finest work. He has won many awards for
his photographs in amateur competitions. Koichi Yoshida is Kayoko
Irie-Frey’s father, and may travel to Cleveland for the opening. Kayoko
owns and runs the Flying Cranes Café across the street from Loganberry Books.
Show continues through November 1.
Larchmere Art & Antiques Walk
Friday, October 8, 5-8pm
~ featuring Wolfs’ Gallery Opening ~
This Friday we celebrate the Wolfs Gallery Opening featuring the
work of Mary Ann Flynn-Fouse (1950's-2010). A dozen or so other Larchmere
shops will be open late, including Loganberry Books. Stop by and check it
all out, we’ll have some nibbles and a special 20% sale on all art books for
just this evening.
Pancake Breakfast
SHAD Fundraiser
Saturday October 9, 9-11am
The Shaker Square Area Development Corporation is
holding a fundraiser featuring everyone’s favorite weekend treat: pancakes!
Bring the friends and family and enjoy a Saturday morning with your
neighbors eating pancakes, pancakes, and more pancakes! SHAD's Annual
Meeting and Community Pancake Breakfast will be held at Our Lady of Peace
School, 12406 Buckingham Avenue, just south of Larchmere. Tickets for the
fundraiser are available online at http://www.shad.org or
at the door: $7 for adults, $5 for children 4 -12, Children under 4 eat for
free. Breakfast includes pancakes, sausage, juice, and coffee.
Gene's Jazz Hot
Gene's Jazz Hot
Thursday, October 14, 7-9pm
~ second Thursdays ~
From
an old Calvin & Hobbes cartoon: Calvin asks, “Hobbes, what do you
think happens to us when we die?” Hobbes thinks, then answers, “I think
we play saxophone for an all-girls cabaret in New Orleans.” Calvin: “So
you believe in Heaven?” “Call it what you like.” :-) Call it Gene’s Jazz Hot and
join us on the second Thursday of this – and every – month for a rollicking
good time. Donations for the band gladly accepted.
N.O.B.S.
Forums
Larry Rakow: The
Magic Lantern Show, a Moveable Books Production
Thursday,
October 21, 7pm
~
third Thursdays ~
During the late 19th century,
children were rewarded with a wonderful variety of novelty books that moved and
popped-up from publishers such as Nister, McLoughlin, Schreiber, Saalfield, and
Raphael Tuck. During the very same Victorian period, adult and child audiences
thrilled to magic lantern shows featuring hand-painted slides that moved on the
screen. Astonishingly, many of the same mechanisms that appeared in moveable
books were used to activate lantern slides and NOBS President, Larry Rakow,
will investigate this phenomenon, hosting both an authentic 19th century magic
lantern show and a decidedly 21st century PowerPoint presentation investigating
the similarities between the two mediums. $3 suggested donation.
Classics Club
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
Thursday,
October 28, 7 pm
The epic battle between man and monster
reaches its greatest pitch in the famous story of Frankenstein. In trying to
create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his
control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings
Victor himself to the very brink. How he tries to destroy his creation, as it
destroys everything Victor loves, is a powerful story of love, friendship …and
horror. –GoodReads.com
peace,
Harriett
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