Lemuria Bookstore Blog

Growing up, my family’s culinary experiences were limited. Whether it was a sign of the times — I feel like bologna, instant mashed potatoes, fish sticks, toaster pastries, and other “convenience foods” had their heyday in the nineties, and my family took advantage of their kid-friendliness — or because when feeding four kids you’re bound [...]

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Moving is painful whether you’re moving across town or across the world. I recently moved across the neighborhood, which can be the worst sort, I think, because you’re fooled into thinking you don’t have to do much preparation, just run your car back and forth a few times right? Well if you’re not organized those [...]

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As CNN correspondent Kathleen Koch covered the Katrina aftermath on the Gulf Coast, she made a promise to the hurricane victims in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. The day she left, she told them, “I promise I won’t let anyone forget what happened here.” Rising From Katrina is not just a story of destruction and disaster; it’s [...]

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I spied a good looking book on Joe’s desk a few months back; it was the review copy of Howard Norman’s new book, not due out till July.  Well, it’s July!  And not only has his book arrived at Lemuria, but Howard Norman himself will be here on Friday, the 30th! I really enjoyed reading [...]

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I started reading Citrus County this weekend,  John Brandon’s new book and our First Editions Club pick for August. The novel is set in Florida in, you guessed it, Citrus County (visitcitrus.com). The county is on the Gulf coast in central Florida, north of Tampa but south of the panhandle, and it’s home to such [...]

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It’s summertime and we live in Mississippi. Growing up in Florida, I always assumed it was the hottest state; I mean, it’s that part of the U.S. that sticks out at the very bottom — tourists pose for photos at the southernmost point of the country in Key West — so doesn’t that mean it’s [...]

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My summer vacation will be spent at the beach, though only because my family happens to live there. I hail from Vero Beach, Florida, and I’ll be going home for a long overdue visit this weekend. It will be great to spend time with my mom, dad, two sisters, brother and sister-in-law, but I’m especially [...]

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I recently read The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman, and when I was finished, because I read books from cover to cover (reading the acknowledgments, the “note about the font,” and even glancing at the Library of Congress info) (I know, I’m a nerd), I saw at the end that [...]

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When I read the front page review of the NYT Book Review on The Imperfectionists, I must admit I started a bit; Christopher Buckley’s cloyingly sweet words about Tom Rachman’s first novel were almost as shocking to read as the front page Ian McEwan review which denounced his book, Solar, to be so well-written as [...]

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Prime numbers are divisible only by 1 and by themselves. They hold their place in the infinite series of natural numbers, squashed, like all numbers, between two others, but one step further than the rest. They are suspicious, solitary numbers, which is why Mattia thought they were wonderful. Sometimes he thought that they had ended [...]

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