Good Day Books (Issue #50, December 2009) Tel: 03-5421-0957    Email: goodday@gol.com     Website: www.gooddaybooks.com      Coming Attractions:  Stephen Mansfield    31 January 2010 Stephen Mansfield will talk about the aesthetics and design of stone gardens, as he gives his second BookNotes talk at Good Day Books. To attend Stephen’s talk  Sun., 31 Jan., you must buy a copy of Japanese Stone Gardens from our shop.            Past Events              Jake Adelstein    06 December 2009 Jake Adelstein spoke to a standing-room-only audience during his BookNotes talk, which ranged from the collapse of Lehman Brothers to a murder resulting from a credit card scam. Jake is pictured below.    BookClubs On Sun., 24 Jan., our BookClub members will discuss The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. On Sun., 10 Jan.,  members of our  Non-Native English Speakers’ BookClub will discuss The Conquest of Gaul by Julius Caesar. Conan the Librarian says Strangest Printed Matter Presented for Trade in the month A 1920 German school atlas. Some novels in Swedish. A pamphlet on Buddhist Deities. Month’s Strangest Question Where are all your books that were published in the 1950s? Month’s Optimist Asked for a discount on a 100 yen book. Month’s Strangest Request He asked us to unsubscribe him from this newsletter because he left Japan. However, he didn’t tell us his subscription e-mail address or his name!  Strangest Book Traded in the Month  The Blowtorch Trilogy by Mark Brandon “Chopper” Read. Month’s Author Trivia When he was young, Arthur Conan Doyle often sacrificed his lunch money to buy second-hand books.   Season’s Greetings from Good Day Books Our Shop’s Holiday Schedule Dec. 23 - 30  11a.m. - 6 p.m. Dec. 31, Jan. 1 - 3    Closed Jan. 4 - 7      11 a.m. – 6p.m  Thanks for your patronage in 2009. We hope to see you again in 2010.  Enjoy your holidays.