About us
Join us for lively book discussion in Central Tokyo.
Fiction and non-fiction books and great chat with a friendly crowd!
We usually meet in a pub in Ebisu but occasionally we meet in Osaki.
We will have read the book, or at least most of it, before we come along and most people contribute their opinions and thoughts on the book.
We have a list of questions to act as a prompt if we run out of topics.... but this is rare as we all generally have lots to say.
If the group is large, we split in to smaller groups and we discuss the book and related topics as they come up.
The pub kindly lets us book without taking a course menu or asking for a booking fee, but we do need to order drinks and there is a food menu available.
We hope you enjoy being a member.
Upcoming events
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Tokyo Ebisu Book Club - Stay with Me by Ayobami Adebayo
The FooTNiK EBISU, 1-11-2 Ebisu, Shibuya-Ku, Asahi Bldg 1F, Tokyo, JPRead the book (or most of It)
Order a drink/food at the counter
Enjoy discussing with your fellow book-lovers!
We split into groups for the discussion.
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November’s book is: Stay with Me by Ayobami AdebayoAmazon may not clearly flag the most available English version so there's a link at bottom.*
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Ilesa, Nigeria. Ever since they first met and fell in love at university, Yejide and Akin have agreed: polygamy is not for them. But four years into their marriage—after consulting fertility doctors and healers, and trying strange teas and unlikely cures—Yejide is still not pregnant. She assumes she still has time—until her in-laws arrive on her doorstep with a young woman they introduce as Akin’s second wife. Furious, shocked, and livid with jealousy, Yejide knows the only way to save her marriage is to get pregnant. Which, finally, she does—but at a cost far greater than she could have dared to imagine.
“A thoroughly contemporary—and deeply moving—portrait of a marriage.... In the lineage of great works by Chinua Achebe and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.” —The New York Times Book Review* Amazon link: https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/Stay-Me-novel-Ayobami-Adebayo/dp/1101974419/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.-m77PEEn_kFMIhiElvCJZtzPyJe6cOKlaGbFZbQkE074mnKMxdFJlqOZWzq6nC8xuqsFaaWiZl4U0Sewzo-17-uRVo_arCht5_ivDxss_TE.Rg129fkrVVhWE3-3rufwAwByySzRd3w7gygf_FyWiJM&qid=1789096196&sr=8-1
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Directions can be found at bottom of www.footnik.com25 attendeesTokyo Ebisu Book Club - Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The FooTNiK EBISU, 1-11-2 Ebisu, Shibuya-Ku, Asahi Bldg 1F, Tokyo, JPRead the book (or most of It)
Order a drink/food at the counter
Enjoy discussing with your fellow book-lovers!
We split into groups for the discussion.
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December’s book is: Life of Pi by Yann Martel
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One boy. One boat. One tiger.
After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orangutan--and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. The scene is set for one of the most extraordinary and beloved works of fiction in recent years.The bestselling Booker Winner of all time.
"Every page offers something of tension, humanity, surprise, or even ecstasy" ― The Times
"Extraordinary . . . Life of Pi could renew your faith in the ability of novelists to invest even the most outrageous scenario with plausible life" ― New York Times Book Review
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Directions can be found at bottom of www.footnik.com9 attendees
Past events
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