Lemuria Bookstore Blog

According to clinical psychologist, Meg Jay, the “defining decade” is your twenties. In her new book by the same title, Jay does her best to expel the now socially accepted theory that “thirty is the new twenty.” Having worked with hundreds of twentysomethings in her practice over the past ten years, Jay weaves together personal [...]

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Here at Lemuria, each employee takes on the responsibility of lovingly (for the most part) tending to his/her own section in the store. I lucked out and inherited cooking, which is a perfect fit since I a) like to cook and b) thoroughly enjoy reading a cookbook just like I would any other book. There [...]

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It is not, despite appearances, the end of nowhere. The empty fields are its destination. The weeds let you know where one crop ends and another begins. While other man-made places were covered in people and concrete, here it was the dirt that mattered, and there was just so much of it, between porch lights, [...]

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The industrial eater is, in fact, one who does not know that eating is an agricultural act, who no longer knows or imagines the connections between eating and the land, and who is therefore necessarily passive and uncritical – in short, a victim. When food, in the minds of eaters, is no longer associated with [...]

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Calling all Fancy Nancy fans! Lemuria Books is pleased to announce that we will be hosting an extraordinary – that’s fancy for extra special- Fancy Nancy event on Tuesday, March 6th, at 4:00 pm. We are so excited to have Jane O’Connor, the author of the Fancy Nancy books, come and sign the latest in [...]

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As mentioned in a previous blog of mine, I am a lover of short stories – a personality trait that I’ve determined just cannot be helped. Every now and then my brain needs a break from the novel and I turn to a good collection of short stories.  Recently, I’ve been getting my short story [...]

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Greetings from “Miss Anna!” I am so happy to say that story time here at Lemuria Books has really picked up since the New Year. We are continuing to host a story time at 11:00 am on Saturday mornings and seeing new and old faces alike each week. Recently, we have read Betty Bunny Loves [...]

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Fifteen is not a good number for the women in the Slocumb family.  When Ginny (Big) was fifteen, she found out she was pregnant with Liza. When Liza was fifteen, she found out that she was pregnant with Mosey. Now that Mosey is fifteen, both Big and Liza watch her like a hawk to make [...]

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Greetings from Honolulu, Hawaii! When the opportunity arose last fall for a week long vacation to Hawaii, there were no second thoughts for this girl. And, since no vacation is complete without several books in tow (not to mention that it is a loooong flight from the main land to this gorgeous island,) I packed my [...]

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Back in early November, John Jeremiah Sullivan stopped by the store to sign and read from his recently published Pulphead: Essays. I had received an email from my mother  earlier that day saying please snag her a copy to be signed at the event because she had worked with Mr. Sullivan at the Oxford American when [...]

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