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    Coming Attractions

25 March 2007

Sumiko Enbutsu, guide extraordinaire, will take us on a mental mystery tour of historic Tokyo with her upcoming talk on "Exploring the City of the Shogun." To attend the talk, please buy a copy of Tokyo: Exploring the City of the Shogun from Good Day Books.

 

Note: Our April speaker will be Genda Yuji, an associate professor at the Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo.  He will talk about A Nagging Sense of Job Insecurity on April 15th.

Mark Schreiber's

Tour of Tokyo Execution Grounds will be held on Saturday March 10th.  Please see our website for more information. 

  

Walter Roberts,



a friend of Good Day Books, will play Willy Loman in Death of A Salesman. The play will be performed on March 16-18.  More information is available at
www.tokyoplayers.org .

  Past  Events
18  January 2007 

 

Roland Kelts (author of Japanamerica)  closest to the camera, and contributing writer Leo Lewis gave a lively talk about the influence of modern Japanese culture on the West.  The talk was very well attended as the following photo testifies.     


        

 

      

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 BOOKCLUBS

On 18 March, BOOKCLUB MEMBERS will discuss Understanding Terror Networks by Marc Sageman. Members of our Non-Native Speakers’ group will discuss Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier on 11 March. 

Conan the Barbarian says: 

We keep eyes peeled for books that people request.  However it will be a long time before we see a copy of Leo Tolstoy by Anna Karenina.  Or the Shakepearean drama called 'The Sonnets." 

Books from Zanzibar and Iceland came to the store this month.  People in Austria and Australia read our newsletter, and readers in Croatia, Columbia and Cocos-Keeling Islands access our site. 

 

Strangest name for a novelist?  Moon Unit Zappa is surely a contender.

 

What is worse than burning a book? Ignoring it.

 

"I never read a novel.  That kind of reading annoys me," Adolf Hitler.