Coming Attractions
             17 June 2007

Don Kenny will talk about the traditional Japanese theatre art called Kyogen, as well as actually performing it at Good Day Books. In order to see the performance and hear the talk, please buy a copy of A Guide to Kyogen from us.

             Past Events
            27 May 2007

Mark Schreiber gave a passionate talk about journalism and his role in it, ably accompanied by Geoff Botting.  The picture shows Mark holding the door prize a lucky winner took home.

Both speakers are pictured below.

BOOKCLUBS

On 17 June, BOOK-CLUB members will discuss: Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counter-insurgency Lessons from Malaya & Vietnam by John Nagle.
 
On 10 June, members of our Non-Native Speakers’ group will discuss Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie.

Conan the Librarian says:

Strangest question of the month:  Do you have a book on ending book addiction? 

Customers potty over Harry Potter deluged us with e-mails this month, asking if we were planning to stay open all night for the “launch” of the latest installment. Despite the “potty training,” our answer is still no!

A Pole wanted to reserve “The Little Prince” in April, saying she was going to be in Japan in October!

Recently a man asked if anyone had enquired about buying tropical fish. I thought fish swim in schools rather than stores.
 
What is the strangest bookstore you have been to? Perhaps a bed with the mattress removed in Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong. Or a Rangoon store, where shoe removal was obligatory, and where there was the largest collection of 19th century books on elephant diseases I’ve ever seen!

Even though we are an English bookstore, the world’s languages come pouring through the doors. A 1975 calendar in Russian. Tin Tin in Chinese, and Harry Potter in Hebrew arrived this month!