Lemuria Bookstore Blog

Unbroken by Lauren Hillenbrand (Random House, November, 2010) Right up front, I will suggest you read this book. I won’t say you must read this book. Shoulds often breed contempt, rebellion or a secret suspicion that said bookseller is out to make a sale. This being said, you should read this book. It’s the true [...]

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Even the mention of the Madeline series brings a smile to my face —for in our family these books have happily spanned three generations—My mother read the first book about Madeline to me when I was a child. Then I, of course, couldn’t wait to read them all to my own daughter. And since I [...]

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I remember the first time I found out about Madeline. My mama and daddy went to London to visit my aunt and uncle and they came home with Madeline in London for me. Being a red-headed little girl, I was over the moon to have a book about another red-headed girl. I had a major [...]

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I recently had a chance to sit down and talk to Dr. Steve Kistulentz, a local writer, about his new book of poems entitled The Luckless Age. If you skim through the titles of the poems, you may find yourself laughing. Only a child of the 1980s with a PhD in English could write a [...]

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Whether it’s the googly-eyed peanuts or the braided hair door handles, Amy Sedaris shares her well-honed hospitality skills in I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence. Need to know the best way to usher you and your girlfriends into a proper Ladies’ Night? You’ve got to get the right wig, apparently, so there’s a chart [...]

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Festooned by a calligraphic black spill across the dust jacket, white block letters announce that this book is “The International Bestseller” written by a very young Italian who just happens to also be a physicist. Against a stark pure white background are two slightly wet peas in a green pod and the title in uneven [...]

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StrengthsFinder 2.0 by Tom Rath (Gallup, 2007) A few years ago for his birthday, my dad decided that, instead of giving him presents, he wanted us all to read the book Now, Discover Your Strengths and take the accompanying online assessment. He had just finished the book and was obviously excited. Marcus Buckingham and Donald [...]

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Due to the fact that I am in charge of the craft section I have acquired a very respectable craft book collection. I wrote a blog not long ago about the craft book that has started this very welcome epidemic in my life. Well the new book of my obsession is called Knitting Mochimochi by [...]

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Death of the Adversary: A Novel by Hans Keilson (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010) Francine Prose wrote a compelling review back in August in the New York Times Book Review about two novels by the author Hans Keilson. His two books and Death of the Adversary and Comedy in a Minor Key were written about [...]

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Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters by Lesley M. M. Blume (Yearling Books/Random House, 2006) I rarely re-read books but this book definitely warrants reading again and again. The book of which I speak is Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters. Cornelia is a girl who lives in Greenwich [...]

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