Lemuria Bookstore Blog

[This blog is posted under my name, but was written by my wife Lizby.  -- Mark] Because my husband works at Lemuria, my addiction to reading has a constant stream of books to feed it. Needless to say, I read quite a bit, and it’s always easy to choose my next indulgence, because my husband [...]

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The Art of Fielding — I’m not sure if it matched the hype, but it’s still awfully good. Can’t wait to see what Harbach does next. Popular Crime — I’ll read just about anything Bill James writes. I blogged about this book previously. It’s All About the Bike — Might be for bike nerds only, [...]

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I mentioned to John the other day that I was planning on blogging about Mark Bowden’s new book, Worm, and he told me that there was a review of it in the Wall Street Journal. John brought me the review and I read it. I was immediately conflicted. The review was…well, it wasn’t good. I [...]

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If you’ve been reading our blog over the last few months, you may have noticed references to our store Twitter account. We’ve had plenty of customers, booksellers, and book industry people follow us, but for those of you who haven’t signed up for Twitter (or are new to it) and have been wondering what it’s [...]

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It’s been, oh, at least a few weeks since I last blogged about a baseball book…what can I say? Whenever I’m feeling a bit uninspired by the next book in my reading stack, I find myself gravitating toward the baseball section. I’m sure it’s possible to write a bad baseball book (I’ve seen them and [...]

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Born to Run is one of those books that I wanted to read when it was released, but the stack of books on my nightstand was too tall at the time. Occasionally I’d spot the book when unpacking boxes or while I was looking for something in the sports and outdoor section, but it wasn’t [...]

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Do you ever find yourself making excuses for a book when you are attempting to recommend it to someone? Stumbling over yourself to point out its shortcomings and failures, assuring your listener that it’s not really a bad book at all (instead of communicating why it’s a good book)? I’ve been reading Bill James’ new [...]

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Customers have been asking us (with increasing frequency) what we think about the new e-readers. Our typical response is that while devices like the Nook, Kindle, or iBook have their place, in most cases we prefer having a real, physical bookshelf and the experience of reading a physical book. We believe that there’s room in [...]

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I’ve been thinking about Moneyball again. Actually, it’s fair to say that I think about Moneyball a good bit. I’m an avid baseball fan, and I have a particular interest in sabermetrics, which is a term coined by Bill James that refers to the statistical, empirical analysis of baseball. Michael Lewis’s Moneyball brought sabermetrics into [...]

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Those Guys Have All the Fun has made quite the impact in the sports blogosphere. ESPN stands as the singular giant in the sports industry, so far-reaching that it has become virtually synonymous with sport itself. It has blurred the line between athlete, journalist, and fan. It has become the establishment, a massive multi-billion dollar [...]

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