Good Day Books
(Issue #52, February 2010)
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BookNotes Speaker Series
On 28 February 2010, David Chester, the author of Freelancing in Tokyo: A Unique Guide to Achieving Financial Success in Japan's Most Expensive City (Shining Hour Publishing, 2010), will share information indispensable to successful freelancing in Tokyo. A freelancer in Tokyo since 1993, David has been a(n) a capella singer, French chef, journalist, magazine model, tap-dancing priest, TV producer, voice-over actor, and wedding celebrant (alphabetical listing not exhaustive). To attend David Chester's BookNotes presentation, you must buy a copy of Freelancing in Tokyo from our shop.
During the next few months, our BookNotes speakers will include:
Azby Brown, the author of Just Enough: Lessons in Living Green from Traditional Japan (Kodansha International, 2010). If you read the extended excerpt from Just Enough in Metropolis Issue #828, you were probably as impressed as I by Azby's superb prose and draftsmanship. Having heard Azby speak at the Press Club in Yurakucho earlier this month, I can assure you that his speaking skill is the equal of his writing and drawing skills. Copies of Just Enough are now in stock at Good Day Books.
James Church, the author of Bamboo and Blood (Minotaur Books, 2010). Bamboo and Blood, the third of the Inspector O mysteries set in Pyongyang, was written by the former intelligence officer whose pen name is James Church. Church first visited our shop after Mark Schreiber's 2009 BookNotes presentation on mysteries set in modern Asia. Good Day Books now has in stock trade paperback copies of Bamboo and Blood, which goes on sale in the US today.
The dates for the BookNotes presentations by Azby Brown and James Church have not yet been fixed.
On 31 January 2010, Stephen Mansfield, the author of Japanese Stone Gardens: Origins, Meaning, Form, spoke to an attentive audience that included a Japanese professional gardener and foreigners who had constructed or wanted to construct their own stone gardens. As you may well imagine from the diversity of this audience, Stephen fielded questions that ranged from the mundane (How can I find a supplier for stones of a particular size and color?) to the sublime (How does a Korean stone lantern differ stylistically from a Japanese stone lantern?).
On 28 February 2010, David Chester, the author of Freelancing in Tokyo: A Unique Guide to Achieving Financial Success in Japan's Most Expensive City (Shining Hour Publishing, 2010), will share information indispensable to successful freelancing in Tokyo. A freelancer in Tokyo since 1993, David has been a(n) a capella singer, French chef, journalist, magazine model, tap-dancing priest, TV producer, voice-over actor, and wedding celebrant (alphabetical listing not exhaustive). To attend David Chester's BookNotes presentation, you must buy a copy of Freelancing in Tokyo from our shop.
During the next few months, our BookNotes speakers will include:
Azby Brown, the author of Just Enough: Lessons in Living Green from Traditional Japan (Kodansha International, 2010). If you read the extended excerpt from Just Enough in Metropolis Issue #828, you were probably as impressed as I by Azby's superb prose and draftsmanship. Having heard Azby speak at the Press Club in Yurakucho earlier this month, I can assure you that his speaking skill is the equal of his writing and drawing skills. Copies of Just Enough are now in stock at Good Day Books.
James Church, the author of Bamboo and Blood (Minotaur Books, 2010). Bamboo and Blood, the third of the Inspector O mysteries set in Pyongyang, was written by the former intelligence officer whose pen name is James Church. Church first visited our shop after Mark Schreiber's 2009 BookNotes presentation on mysteries set in modern Asia. Good Day Books now has in stock trade paperback copies of Bamboo and Blood, which goes on sale in the US today.
The dates for the BookNotes presentations by Azby Brown and James Church have not yet been fixed.
On 31 January 2010, Stephen Mansfield, the author of Japanese Stone Gardens: Origins, Meaning, Form, spoke to an attentive audience that included a Japanese professional gardener and foreigners who had constructed or wanted to construct their own stone gardens. As you may well imagine from the diversity of this audience, Stephen fielded questions that ranged from the mundane (How can I find a supplier for stones of a particular size and color?) to the sublime (How does a Korean stone lantern differ stylistically from a Japanese stone lantern?).
BookClubs
On 14 March, members of our Non-Native Speakers' BookClub will discuss One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
On 21 February, our BookClub members will discuss The Revenge of the Past by Ronald Grigor Suny
On 21 February, our BookClub members will discuss The Revenge of the Past by Ronald Grigor Suny