Lemuria Bookstore Blog

It’s going to be a pretty big week next week at Lemuria. It’s the week before Christmas, so please let us help you pick out books for your friends and family. We also have a whole bunch of book signings going on. Come get a book inscribed as a gift or for yourself. Here’s what [...]

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When I drive Harper (4 years) to pre-school we have to drive right past the bookstore. One day a couple of weeks ago she said, “There’s the bookstore,” and I said, “I like the bookstore.” Her response? “Me too, I like the book part”. No better response could she have given. “I like the book [...]

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Bobby Rush showed up unannounced. Yes he did. You should have been there.

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I’m often promoting the short story. I tell people, life is busy and stressful – I put two kids to bed, read bed time stories, and am exhausted, but it helps so much to have one complete reading experience at the end of the day. I can’t sit down and read War and Peace so [...]

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The current #1 movie in the country is The Social Network – if you don’t already know, it’s the movie about the making of Facebook. (don’t be ashamed if you didn’t know – I’m so in the dark that I haven’t actually seen a single ad for this movie although I’m certain they are everywhere [...]

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Beth Ann and Tom were with me on one of the most important days of my life – the birth of my little girl Harper. Well, not really there in the hospital… let me explain. In the fall of 2005 my wife Wendy became pregnant with our first child – my reaction was varied – [...]

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A few days ago my wonderful sister-in-law in Tennessee wrote a very nice blog about Lemuria. (check it out)  Some of you may know that she is a very popular parenting blogger. She mentioned that I have my brother’s dream job. Maybe so. One of the great things about working at Lemuria is the author [...]

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I’m not sure if it’s an age group or a certain type of football fan or just the sort of person who is loyal to Mississippi, but there is, no doubt, a certain group of Mississippians that perk up when the name Bull Sullivan is mentioned. In the story telling tradition of Mississippi there is [...]

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On January 22, 1989 I learned one of those important “how to be a grown-up” lessons. It was the night of Super Bowl XXIII and I was 13-years-old. I had picked the Bengals because, as a thirteen-year-old, I thought the red tiger uniforms were cool. They also had a quarterback named Boomer and another guy [...]

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I’m going to take a break from normal blogging today to tell you about a couple of new things about LemuriaBooks.com. Our website has been around for a long time and for years we have been featuring our events and signed first editions. And for a long time we’ve had a shopping cart on our [...]

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