Coming Attractions:
14 September 2008

Leigh Norrie  will talk about ‘Pedal Pushin’ ‘Round Japan’ his bicycle journey from one end of Japan to the other.  To attend this talk, please buy a copy of Japan: 6,000 miles by bicycle from us.

 
5 October, 2008
Not to be missed!

To attend his talk, please buy a copy of Chronicles of My Life from us.

Past Events
  27 July 2008

Ry Beville passionately talked about the poetry of Nakahara Chuya. He spoke of Nakahara’s Dada, French Symbolist and Japanese drinking song influences. Ry also discussed the rhyme in Nakahara’s poetry.

 
 BOOKCLUBS

On 28 September, BOOKCLUB members will discuss The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt.

On 14 September, members of our Non-Native Speakers’ group will discuss The Valleys of the Assassins by Freya Stark.

Conan the Librarian says:
Jack London, the author to be discussed in August’s non-native bookclub meeting, considered the librarian at Oakland Public Library to be his “literary mother.”

Ina Coolbrith, 1841-1928 was crowned California’s first Poet Laureate in 1915.

Strangest request of the month:

I am looking for books on how to make money while sleeping.

Strange Questions of the Month:

Do you have any used books?

Why don’t you have neon bags?

Where do you do massages?  (Sorry, books only massage the mind.)

Do you buy ten year old guide books? 

Where is the famous Conan the Librarian?

Strangest phone calls: 

A food reporter in New York wanted to interview us about an Ebisu restaurant.

A Parisian called to discuss French performance art.

No, we don’t have Japanese pornography.