Coming Attractions:
4 November 2007

David Peace will evoke the dark, immediate post-war atmosphere of Tokyo when he comes to Good Day  Books.  His novel Tokyo Year Zero is based on the case of Japanese murderer Kodaira Yoshio. In order to hear his talk, please buy a copy of this book from us.  
             

        Past Events
 2 September 2007

Sumiko Enbutsu  gave a wide ranging talk during her second visit to Good Day Books.  Topics covered included flowers and Heian era esthetics, the water vein running under Ueno, and the difficulties of cleaning up azalea blossoms. 

The enthusiastic Ms. Enbutsu is pictured below. 

Note: All back issues of our newsletter are now accessible from our website.

BOOKCLUBS
On 21 October BOOK-CLUB members will discuss: Ataturk: The Biography of the Founder of Modern Turkey  by Andrew Mango.
Some members are pictured below, at a farewell party for one of the group.

On 11 November, members of our Non-Native Speakers’ group will discuss Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.

Conan the Librarian says:

Are these the strangest questions of the month?:

Are ghost written books for ghost readers? 

Do you have any fiction or novels?

Do you have any Hare Krishna books in Romanian?

Strangest Book Traded This Month: Death to Dust – What Happens to Dead Bodies? by Kenneth V. Iserson, M.D.

Balzac described discussing books he would never write as “smoking enchanted cigarettes.”

Good Day Books has a request service, but please refrain from requesting unwritten books by phantom authors. It makes our brains hurt.

Strangest Thing Left Behind In Our Aisles This Month:  A huge pair of smelly running shoes.

Despite advice to do so, we have no plans to open stores in the first or the second floor of our building, Osaka, Hachijoji, Hachijo Island, or even Hiroo “because Ebisu is so far away from my place.”

The world visits us daily. Last month we had internet visitors from Bhutan, Bolivia, Mongolia and Iceland.