RAINY DAYS
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Harriett

We've declared this week a rainy day.  It doesn't have much to do with the weather, but with the notion that you'll do those pesky jobs, clean that corner, or fix those books on some proverbial rainy day.  The rainy day has come!  Feels great to clean house! 

That's the family at a Christmas outing on the shores of Lake Erie, with thousands of seagulls congregating.  Brisk, sunny, and nice.  We also visited the Rockefeller Greenhouse, which was wonderful, and open, on Christmas day.  Tons of poinsettias!!  Mother (Brenda) took the photographs, and so of course is missing from the portrait. 

CHRISTMAS GOOD NEWS
Thursday, December 27, 2007
Harriett

Ah, Christmas was good.  Loganberry fleece sweatshirts all 'round, and books, candy, and socks.  What more can a girl ask for? 

Top it off with the fact that mother's laptop computer survived a glass of wine on Christmas evening.  Don't ask me why it was drinking, I guess it got into the holiday spirit.  Mother isn't surprised that it survived, of course.  But the rest of us are!

SALUTATIONS 
Friday, December 7, 2007
Brenda

I just read Salutations, and found it very touching and wonderful. Maybe that's because I had forgotten just how great those illustrations are, and how lovely the prose reads, and how much I loved that book.  I wonder if people who either never read it, or don't remember or love it, will like it as much.  I think even the reduced version is a treasure. 

Salutations!  Wit and Wisdom from Charlotte's Web, from E.B. White and Garth Williams.  Hardcover.  Originally $9.95, now $2.99

This, and more, are featured on our Holiday Catalog.  Check it out. 

DIVINE
Monday, November 19, 2007
Brenda

Now is a good time to mention a product sold at Loganberry you may not have seen before.  I'm referring to DIVINE CHOCOLATES.  The bookstore proprietor has a sweet tooth, and when she discovered a particularly delicious chocolate bar produced by a fair-trade farmer-owned cooperative, she wanted to share the find, and ensure herself a continuous supply.  So a small display box of Divine Chocolate bars, in milk or dark chocolate, appear on the checkout counter, and lucky customers often add one to their book and card selections.  Now for the holidays we have an expanded line that includes after-dinner chocolate mints and big 3.5-ounce super bars.  These are simply the BEST chocolate, and every stocking should have some.  Certainly mine. 

CIROBE
Monday, October 29, 2007
Brenda

Chicago is full of great things to see, such as museums and parks.  For three days, all we saw were cavernous exhibition halls built underneath Michigan Avenue, crowded with books, sellers and buyers.  And, oh my, did we buy!  Big fabulous art books, charming children's picture books, histories of an amazing variety of peoples, places and things, and even some bookmarks and music cd's. 

We had lots of fun doing this, even though we ended up completely overloaded.  The books will be shipped to us from about 35 different vendors, some in Europe, and should arrive here well before the holiday shopping season. 

We eagerly  await the unwrapping sessions.  Come see what we bought!  Maybe we will even be willing to let some of them go.  They are all very beautiful, brand new, and priced below retail.  We can't wait to see them again!