Lemuria Bookstore Blog

For all you avid book readers who made a New Year’s resolution to read more challenging novels, here is the answer: Lemuria’s book club which meets at noon on the first Thursday of each month. So, next Thursday, February 2, we will meet at our dot.com building, just outside of Broadstreet Bakery’s north side door, [...]

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In the winter of 2006-2007, Lemuria’s book club, named “Atlantis”, came onto the scene at our book store. Created to give Lemuria readers a forum in which to delve into cutting edge literary releases, primarily fiction, the club has grown as each year passes. When I first came to work at Lemuria, I had asked [...]

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Even if you have never heard of Mr. Fox, the design of the book cover should snare you into wanting to read this book, but the desire goes even further within the pages to keep you reading. To further interest the reader,  the type set changes often, moving from an old fashioned font of an [...]

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As the garden section “in charge” person on staff, I get so excited when I hear of a new gardening book. By the time it arrives in the store, I have already thought  of how to market it and write about it. Three delightful Southern gardening books arrived this past year, so if someone asked [...]

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When Robert Olen Butler’s last novel Hell was published a couple of years ago, I realized that I had the opportunity to read one of the preeminent writers of our time.  After all, he had won the Pulitzer in 1992,  for a collection of short stories entitled Good Scent from Strange Mountain. After I finished [...]

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Set in the 1950s, Booker Prize winning author of The English Patient, has written a compelling novel, titled The Cat’s Table. Based on the experiences of an 11-year-old boy who embarks on a three week voyage on the cruiser “Oronsay” from Colombo to England, Ondaatje’s new novel grabbed me just as his Anil’s Ghost (2000), [...]

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Reading Hillary Jordan’s new masterpiece When She Woke is much like reading Hawthorne’s classic The Scarlet Letter at the same time as The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood…..a great mixture, huh? When I read Jordan’s first novel Mudbound in 2008, I was mesmerized by her description of the Mississippi Delta during the horrible sharecropping years. She is [...]

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I finished reading Nightwoods last week, and I will for sure be recommending it to many Lemuria readers during the holidays coming sooner than we’ll all be ready! Nightwoods is fast paced, plot driven, and well written. Although I usually read psychological realism, and usually character driven fiction, I found myself really enjoying this “story”. [...]

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Set in current day Miami, this new cutting edge novel Birds of Paradise examines a family slowly and devastatingly coming unglued, for the most part due to the catastrophic disappearance of their run-away daughter who emerges off and on over a five year period only to beg for money, which her frantic mother is very [...]

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When this new novel arrived in the fiction room not too long ago, I was mesmerized by its catchy cover depicting a woman reclining on a chaise lounge dressed in a long period dress circa 1930s, with a handsome well dressed man gazing at her. They are obviously in a garden enjoying cigarettes, some sort [...]

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