Lemuria Bookstore Blog

The False Friend by Myla Goldberg (Doubleday/Random House, 2010) Most people have read Myla Goldberg’s first novel Bee Season, AND loved it. I include myself in this category. Well I finished reading Myla’s newest, The False Friend two nights ago. Upon reading the dust jacket I knew that I HAD to read this book. Just the synopsis [...]

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My reading of late has been about as scattered as everything else going on in the holidays. I have a host of books that I am picking up and reading for a little bit and then picking up another one. The holiday grind seems to have significantly shortened my attention span, and courage as I am [...]

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As a young bookseller at Lemuria in the late 70s I became intrigued with the writer Ellen Douglas. She visited the store a few times and introduced herself as Josephine Haxton. I couldn’t believe my lucky stars that I had met another Mississippi writer and one who had a PEN NAME at that, and who [...]

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Well, it seems as though Cleopatra has finally met her match and her name is Stacy Schiff. In case that name doesn’t ring a bell, let me enlighten you. Schiff is the author of Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Saint-Exupéry, a Pulitzer Prize finalist; and A Great Improvisation, winner of the [...]

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Earth by The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (Grand Central Publishing, September 2010) Jon Stewart takes readers through a clever look at various aspects of earthly living.  With an Alien Preface, this guide is a handbook for post-human existence.  Stewart and the writers of the Daily Show take these planetary outsiders through the gamut of [...]

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First of all I would just like to thank all of the crafters out there in the world for dedicating their lives to be surrounded by precious handmade things. Second of all I have made it my life’s mission to join their ranks. The next time you walk through the doors of Lemuria be sure [...]

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Flipping through the galley of Mississippians, I gratefully acknowledged the bios and pictures of Mississippi greats so familiar from literature, racial reconciliation history, music, education and art in this comprehensive Hall of Fame. Then I saw the dogs, dogs standing at attention next to a handsome, outdoorsy looking fellow named Mike Stewart, owner and trainer [...]

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I have this thing with leaves and it’s kind of strange. It started two years ago when I was taking a few design classes and getting pretty arts-and-crafty at home. With the array of beautiful trees on the ole miss campus in Oxford, I began picking up more and more fallen leaves to and from [...]

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I have really had a hard time trying to figure out what to blog about this week. Every book that I am reading and liking it seems so is everyone else in the store–which ultimately means that there are a lot of people in the store with good and similar tastes. So while I was [...]

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The China Study by T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell, II You are what you eat. This is today’s topic. I am not a physician, not a nurse (even though I entered that course of study in trepidation and departed almost as quickly in greater trepidation. But I can practice what I preach [...]

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