Coming Attractions
        15 April 2007

Genda Yuji will give his perspective on the present and future work environment for Japan’s young people. To attend the talk, please buy a copy of A Nagging Sense of Job Insecurity from us.

            Past Events
         25 March 2007

Sumiko Enbutsu, talked about her latest guidebook, Tokyo: Exploring the City of the Shogun, and gave us some interesting insights into early Tokyo history, including Tokugawa Ieyasu’s hobbies, and the redirecting of the Tone River. She is pictured during her presentation. 
 

 

Mark Schreiber, wearing the cap in the picture below, guided a group to several Tokyo execution grounds on March 10th. Mark will speak at Good Day Books on May 27th.

We get all kinds of visitors to our store, including the man pictured below, who was taking a couple of days to walk around Tokyo, following the Yamanote line.

BOOKCLUBS

On 15 April, BOOKCLUB members will discuss Insurgency & Terrorism by Bard E. O’Neill.  Members of our Non-Native Speakers’ group will discuss The Stranger by Albert Camus on 8 April. 
                                            Conan the Librarian says:

Strangest book title traded this month:  The Hempen Collar- Executions in South Australia 1838-1964. 

Virginia Wolfe called used books wild birds. Many multicolored books flocked to find temporary rest on our shelves from as far away as Zimbabwe this month. They will wait until they find someone who likes the song they sing, for what are books but voices encased in paper? 

Just call us artists?
Vincent Van Gogh was an impressive bookseller, Marcel Duchamp was a librarian before going Dada.  Mr. Hall of Hallmark fame worked in a bookstore before getting carded.