Coming Attractions
30 July 2006

Philip Harper, the first non-Japanese to be recognized as a sake-brew master, will give us a taste when he talks about “The Book of Sake.”  To attend, please buy a copy of his book, The Book of Sake, from us. Seating is limited.

Past Events
18 June 2006

Niall Murtagh talked to an attentive audience about his time as a “blue-eyed salaryman” for Mitsubishi Corp. Niall’s PowerPoint presentation was closely followed, with the listeners occasionally interjecting questions. He is pictured immediately after giving his talk.
 

 BOOKCLUBS

India: From Midnight to the Millennium and Beyond by Shashi Tharoor will be discussed on 30 July. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll will be discussed by the non-native speakers’ group on 9 July.

Conan the Librarian: 

When Conan went out on an errand the other day, he encountered a woman struggling to decipher our street sign.  “Is this a bookstore?”
If you can’t read our sign, you don’t need our product.

“Are all the books here the same price?”
“A rose is a rose is a rose,” Gertrude Stein opined, but our mind flowers are graded according to condition, desirability and rarity.

One of the odd things that occurred this month was someone faxing us our own fax number.

Oddest title of a book sold last month: “The Day My Bum Went Psycho,” bought by a woman who requested
“On the Bright Side, I'm the Girlfriend of a Sex God" and "It's OK, I'm Wearing Really Big Knickers."

Title of the optimist of the month goes to the person who called demanding that we reschedule our monthly speaker because “I have a conflict on that day.”