Coming Attractions
24 September 2006
Leza Lowitz, owner and operator of Sun and Moon Yoga Studio, will read from her Yoga Poems while two accompanying yogis “unfold to the lines.’ She will also discuss the composition of her poetry and how yoga inspired her to write.
To attend, please buy a copy of her book Yoga Poems. Seating is limited.
Past Events
27 August 2006
Akihiko Matsutani, author of Shrinking-Population Economics, stimulated a lively question and answer session after talking about the likely consequences of Japan’s declining population. Brian Miller, the translator of this book, also served brilliantly as the language interpreter of the question and answer session.
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BOOKCLUBS
India: A Wounded Civilization by V.S. Naipaul will be discussed on 17 September. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley will be discussed by the non-native speakers’ group on 10 September.
Conan the Librarian says:
Question of the month: Aren’t your rare books well done?
Title of “optimist of the month” goes to the man who came to pick up a book he’d requested: two years after we told him it had come in.
Mel Gibson once scandalously declared: “Actors only write
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Too busy to read? Let Teddy Roosevelt be your model. He read Anna Karenina while pursuing thieves through the Dakota wilderness.
I always enter bookstores with the saying of Paul Erdos in mind: “My brain is open.” I let the suggestions on the shelves speak, until random good luck feeds my need.
Traditionally August in Japan is the month of ghosts and graves, heat and holidays. I tended the grave of author, Alan Booth, whose rare wit brightened many readers’ days. It remains a forlorn hope that some of his newspaper columns will again see the light of day.
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Good Day Books
(Issue #11, September 2006)