Coming Attractions
19 June 2006

Niall Murtagh will talk about his time as a “blue-eyed salaryman” for Mitsubishi Corp. To attend, please buy a copy of his book, The Blue-Eyed Salaryman, from us. Seating is limited. 

Past Events
28 May 2006

Richard J. Samuels, a political science professor from MIT, spoke to a very receptive and well informed audience on “How Leaders Matter.”  Professor Samuels is pictured below, taking notes during questioning. 
 

Robert Whiting dropped into the shop to sign some of his books.  His Tokyo Underworld is “in development” as a movie by DreamWorks. The movie will be directed by Martin Scorsese, and the screenplay is by Jason Cahill and Nicholas Pileggi.
Robert may appear at Good Day Books but we have not settled on a date. He is pictured taking time out from signing to give us a smile.

BOOKCLUBS

China’s New Order by Wang Hui and Theodore Huters will be discussed on 25 June.

The Story of My Life by Helen Keller will be discussed by the non-native speakers’ group on 11 June.

Conan the Librarian reports from S. E. Asia: 

In his Letter to Eckmann Goethe calls architecture “frozen music.”  Thus a library can be considered a temple of frozen thought. 
Thailand’s National Library in Bangkok fits this description, being shaped like a wat or Buddhist temple, and standing beside a temple. Inside the library, yellow robed monks admit the world by reading newspapers, or opening the golden clasps to a story. Monks also use the Laotian National Library in Vientiane, a sleepy institution in a sleepy town. Tomes sit safe behind locked doors  in the crumbling and calm un-refrigerated building.