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Coming Attractions:
 Robert Whiting
    24 May 2009

Is the wa of Robert Whiting’s 1989 baseball classic You Gotta Have Wa unchanged in 2009?  He will answer this question during his talk. To attend, please buy a copy of the 2009 revised edition of You Gotta Have Wa  from Good Day Books.

 
          Past Events
         26 April 2009
Sumiko Enbutsu captivated her audience with effortless quotes from the Man'yōshū  (万葉集)

and other poetic references during her talk on flowers at Good Day Books.

BOOKCLUBS

On 17 May, BookClub  members will discuss Dreams & Shadows: The Future of the Middle East by Robin Wright.

On 14 June, members of our  Non-Native English Speakers’ BookClub will discuss Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.



Conan the Librarian says:

Strangest greetings of the month:

“Where is your garbage?”
“I want to give you some books.  How much will you give me?”
“Where is your dirty joke?”

Strangest comment of the month:
“Dictionaries are all the same.  They all have words in them.”

Strange Questions of the Month: Why did someone tell me to read this book?

Where are your books on World War I German helmets?

When will Mr. Seidensticker come back?

Only two dogs are allowed into the store:  A “seeing eye man” who brings his blind dachshund, Chumley a.k.a. “Little Big Dog” and “Magic” the dog with his own website.