Lemuria Bookstore Blog

For full disclosure, when this blog posts I will be in Dauphin Island, Alabama and will have been since Wednesday.  I am just positive on Tuesday as I write this that I will have a wonderful time and will not want to come home.  I have been packing my book bag for weeks and I [...]

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I have a confession…blogging gives me the vapors.  Unlike most booksellers, I did not major in English and I have no aspirations to be a writer.  All I want is to read, read, sell, and read!  When Lemuria started this blog thing I was not happy, but I have slowly come around and my vapors [...]

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We have all heard the news . . . Borders is going out of business.  We at Lemuria have been keeping up with this story and in fact have been publishing this Bookstore Keys series since January. Read up on this series here. When the news broke on Monday that it was actually happening I [...]

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Ok Jackson…I always hear someone say that there is never anything going on well here is something!!!  This Saturday, July 16 at  F. Jones Corner on historic Farish Street  is Beer and Bones: “The Duece”- a Backyard Grilling Competition, Art and Music Festival. I have a special place in my heart for this particular event [...]

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What is one to do when they realize that they are the last of their kind? Jake Marlowe has to make a decision. After learning that the one other werewolf besides himself has been killed, Jake knows that he will soon be facing his enemies at the WOCOP, an organization that was created to control [...]

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The problem with trying to write and sell a thriller is that you must be careful with what you say so you do not give the plot away.  I will do my best here. “As I sleep, my mind will erase everything I did today.  I will wake up tomorrow as I did this morning.  [...]

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I was reading the Wall Street Journal’s suggestions for Summer reads and Don’t Breathe A Word by Jennifer McMahon piqued  my interest.  Sure enough, we had a copy over in the fiction room so I took it home and read it in two nights. I read it on my couch but really think that it [...]

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I was just sitting here this morning ringing up a customer…my usual banter–thanks for coming in, come back to see us!  Have a great holiday weekend!  Holiday weekend? Wait a minute what is that? Ah yes, Memorial Day, the beginning of summer.  I decided that this weekend will be the perfect time to make sure [...]

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With the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Riders next week in Jackson, I thought I would share a couple of books with you about the Civil Rights Era here in Mississippi and nationwide. Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders by Eric Etheridge Eric, a native Mississippian, has put [...]

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Erik Larson is back again but this time it is 1933, Hitler is rising to power and William E. Dodd has been assigned to Berlin as the United States Ambassador to Germany. Dodd is a frugal professor from Chicago and brings his wife, son and daughter, Martha, along with him to have the opportunity of [...]

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