Good Day Books
(Issue #31, May 2008)
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Coming Attractions: 25 May 2008 Michael Hoffman will discuss the Past Events Donald Richie gave a polished talk on ‘The Art of Travel’ that was much appreciated by his attentive |  BOOKCLUBS On 18 May, BOOKCLUB members will discuss Fascism: Past, Present, Future by Walter Laqueur.On 11 May, members of our Non-Native Speakers’ group will discuss The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby. Conan the Librarian says: Strangest Questions of the Month: “Do you mean a used copy is not new?” “Why aren’t your 105 yen books more expensive?” “If you are sold out, does that mean you don’t have any more?” “Is this a Tibetan Language bookstore?” “Where is your carbon credit section?” | Strangest Title Traded This Month: My Booky Wook by Russell Brand. Strangest Book Request: A Tagalog-Roumanian Dictionary. Walking the Old Tokaido Road: Tokyo→Kyoto #6 Progress report: Our intrepid duo continued their Tokaido Road hike from Oiso to Odawara. Pictured below is the noted “poetry house” called “Shigitatsu-An” at Oiso.  It is said Saigyo, (1118 -1190) the famous poet, made the following poem near this location. Kokoro naki mi ni mo aware wa shirarekeri shigi tatsu sawa no aki no yūgure Even to the heartless this sad beauty is felt: snipe-birds rising from a stream in the autumn sunset. |
craft of writing in his talk “Imagined Reality vs. Reported Reality.” To attend this talk, please buy a copy of Birnbaum: A Novel of Inner Space from us.
audience. His talk covered a lot of ground including getting lost in Marrakesh, reading Flaubert on the Nile and the situation in Burma.