logo    Good Day Books (Issue #54, April 2010)
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BookNotes Speaker Series

We were gratified that so many customers of Good Day Books inquired about our April newsletter when it didn't arrive as expected earlier this month. Changes to my travel schedule and the travel schedules of James Church, Donald Keene, and another author combined to produce the "perfect storm": I was unable to schedule a BookNotes speaker for late-April/early-May.

James Church, the author of the Inspector O mysteries Bamboo and Blood, Hidden Moon, and A Corpse in the Koryo, has told me that his "[t]ravel schedule for this spring [was] knocked badly askew by plans for house renovation," but that he "[m]ight be going to Seoul in mid-summer and could stop in Japan on that swing."
 
Donald Keene's So Lovely a Country Will Never Perish: Wartime Diaries of Japanese Writers has finally "rolled off the presses" at Columbia University Press. Several copies are of So Lovely  a Country Will Never Perish are included in the new book shipment that should arrive at Good Day Books tomorrow, and another 20 copies will be included in next month's new book shipment. Professor Keene has notified me that he plans to return to Japan in mid-June.

On 28 March 2010, Azby Brown, the author of Just Enough: Lessons in Living Green from Traditional Japan (Kodansha International, 2010), shared with an attentive and knowledgeable audience his insights into the conservation-minded, waste-free society of Japan's late Edo period (1603-1868).

BookClubs

On 23 May 2010, members of our Non-Native Speakers' BookClub will discuss The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson.

On 16 May 2010, our BookClub members will discuss The Cold War: A New History by John Lewis Gaddis