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 – Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
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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August’s book is: Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
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From one of the most brilliant and provocative literary figures of the past century comes a groundbreaking novel set among the bohemian bars and nightclubs of 1950s Paris, about love and the fear of love.In the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality.
David is a young American expatriate who has just proposed marriage to his girlfriend, Hella. While she is away on a trip, David meets a bartender named Giovanni to whom he is drawn in spite of himself. Soon the two are spending the night in Giovanni’s curtainless room, which he keeps dark to protect their privacy. But Hella’s return to Paris brings the affair to a crisis, one that rapidly spirals into tragedy.
David struggles for self-knowledge during one long, dark night—“the night which is leading me to the most terrible morning of my life.” With a sharp, probing imagination, James Baldwin's now-classic narrative delves into the mystery of loving and creates a deeply moving story of death and passion that reveals the unspoken complexities of the human heart.
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Directions can be found at bottom of www.footnik.com30 attendeesTokyo Ebisu Book Club - Unbeaten Tracks in Japan by Isabella L. Bird
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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September’s book is: Unbeaten Tracks in Japan by Isabella L. Bird**
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Isabella L. Bird's voyage to Japan in the 1870s reveals a country steeped in ancient customs and a rugged landscape of beautiful, flowing hills and country pathways.As of the first Western women to author a book about the Japanese islands, Isabella Bird was keen to relay her observations as accurately as she could manage. The isolationist policy of Japan, which forbade any foreigners from travelling inland, had only recently been lifted. Bird was thus able to witness the urban culture of Tokyo and the rural areas surrounding it, together with the large, northerly island of Hokkaido.
The author offers her observations of the architecture and customs of the native Japanese, and later the Ainu minority ethnic group. Northern Japan's rural culture is revealed as being enormously different from the modern society the world knows today. Modern residents or aficionados of Japan will however recognize many surviving hallmarks, such as the supreme hospitality and generally well-mannered behavior of the locals.
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Directions can be found at bottom of www.footnik.com12 attendees
Past events
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