Aogaku IE3 Daily Blog: Looking for a Good Book?

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2023 Welcome to your IE 3 class blog. The object of this class project is to log in and write your comments, web links, answers to questions, and your questions to others at least twice a week. It's fun and you can include pictures or graphics. Keep it original, helpful, and interesting. Don't forget to spellcheck your work before publishing. Also, when you create your user name, please use your real first name, in Romaji (ex. Ryuki, Mari, Lisa, etc.) so that we know who we are communicating with. Enjoy, and Blog on!

Sunday, April 22, 2012

Looking for a Good Book?

Just a message to encourage you in your book search. Don't feel constrained by the limited copies of books in the libraries. We live in an international city with many resources. I have some copies of books that I am happy to lend you (Dracula, Great Expectations, And Then There Were None, The Notebook, 2 copies of To Kill a Mockingbird, Big Fish, The Great Gatsby, Summer by Edith Wharton, . . . ask me if you have interest in one of these books). Also, the Aoyama Book Center (across from Shibuya Campus) has an OK selection of classic English books. The Yurindo in Yokohama Station Lumine (6th floor) has a very large selection, as does the Yurindo at Queen's Tower. Also, AGU bookstore has a few copies of classics. Project Gutenberg is an Internet resource with many books that are free to download (because they are no longer under copyright . . . Twain, Fitzgerald, and others). Even random old bookshops in backstreets of Shibuya almost always have a few classic books in English. Yesterday I found a very old reprint (1907) of Great Expectations By Charles Dickens for only ¥200! Just offering some options. Blog on!