Lemuria Bookstore Blog

Editor’s Note: Kaycie, a former Lemuria bookseller and blogger pictured left, is now living in Paris while she studies French via New York University. We are lucky to feel that we have our very own Lemurian abroad, in Paris no less, and are tickled to share some of her more-or-less book related experiences from France. [...]

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Within the past year Haruki Murakami has become one of my favorite writers. I’d like to take up a little space on this blog to tell you about him and maybe win you over on his behalf. Murakami is a Japanese writer (his works, both fiction and nonfiction, live in the foreign fiction section here [...]

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Editor’s Note: Kaycie, a former Lemuria bookseller and blogger pictured left, is now living in Paris while she studies French via New York University. We are lucky to feel that we have our very own Lemurian abroad, in Paris no less, and are tickled to share some of her more-or-less book related experiences from France. [...]

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I didn’t know about the Llama Llama books before coming to work at Lemuria, but this little guy is a staff favorite so it wasn’t long before I was familiar with all of his drama. The Llama Llama books chronicle a little llama and his relationship with his mama. Little llama is perpetually losing his [...]

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“Mr. and Mrs. Fang called it art. Their children called it mischief. ‘You make a mess and then you walk away from it,’ their daughter, Annie, told them. ‘It’s a lot more complicated than that, honey,’ Mrs. Fang said as she handed detailed breakdowns of the event to each member of the family. ‘But there’s [...]

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In July I wrote about defining children’s classics, and here I am with a semi-related topic.  New books by authors that I already consider to be classic, which just adds to the conundrum of defining children’s classics.  Are they automatically given classic status?  At this point it doesn’t matter, I’m just excited that I’ve been [...]

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I’ve been working back in OZ lately, mostly with the classics section, and I’ve realized how much of a conundrum this section really presents.  What actually constitutes a children’s classic?  Is it the number of years it has stayed in print?  Is it based on fads (for example, will the Harry Potter series eventually be [...]

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So, I know I’ve blogged already on my love of illustrators, specifically Carson Ellis, but I just wanted to tell you that I’ve found a new favorite.  Her name is Julie Morstad, she’s Canadian, and her artwork is wonderful.  I first saw her work on the  cover of my advanced reader copy of  Kevin Wilson’s [...]

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Lately I’ve been having the urge to re-read a few books. This isn’t something that I do often because, quite frankly, I’ve got too many unread books living on my shelves. But sometimes you just want to hear a good story again.  Or maybe re-reading a certain book isn’t so much about the story but [...]

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Last week I went to see the new Woody Allen movie Midnight in Paris. It really is delightful, and I highly recommend you go see it. I’ve posted the trailer just below, but I’ll sum up the plot for you. An aspiring novelist (played by Owen Wilson) visits Paris with his fiancee and longs for [...]

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