Coming Attractions:
9 December 2007

Kentaro Ito will offer a philosophical perspective on life when he talks at Good Day Books about “Why is life meaningful?” In order to hear his talk, please buy a copy of You Were Born for a Reason from us.

Past Events
4 November 2007
David Peace explained the genesis of his book, Tokyo Year Zero, from encountering a few lines about the Kodaira Incident in Edward Seidensticker’s Tokyo Rising to reading a chapter about it in Mark Schreiber’s Shocking Crimes of Post War Japan to writing his novel about it.

The event was started a bit late as Mr. Peace and a Good Day Books staff member attended a memorial service for Mr. Seidensticker. Mark Schreiber attended the talk and enthusiastically contributed to the discussion.

David Peace and Mark Schreiber are pictured below, holding each other’s books.

Ode Magazine from San Francisco selected Good Day Books as one of ten leading independent bookstores in the world along with City Lights in San Fransisco and Shakepeare & Co. in Paris in their November issue.

BOOKCLUBS
On 18 November BOOK-CLUB members will discuss: Turkey Unveiled by Nicole and Hugh Pope.

On 9 December, members of our Non-Native Speakers’ group will discuss A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.

Conan the Librarian says: Congratulations page turners! This is the second year you have been enduring Conan’s comments!

For the sake of more interactivity, we have decided to begin an Ask Conan column. Ask away!

Strangest questions of the month: Where is the book I saw here six months ago?

Do you have glasses? I forgot mine.

If I find 10,000 yen in a book, can I keep it?

Strangest request after 8 p.m: Please open the store so I can pick up my copy of Metropolis.

Want a discount? Conan has discovered there is nothing more expensive than ignorance.