Lemuria Bookstore Blog

I had quite a stack of books to read, but I picked up C and an hour and a half later, I was engaged, finally making myself put it down shortly before midnight. I picked it up again this morning, and I hardly ever give myself permission to read during the day! This should say [...]

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I am a big follower of MPB’s show “Fresh Air,” as I have mentioned before in a previous blog, so I have once again been awarded a gift of hearing a renowned author, and in this case, a Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry (2007), read from her latest work. I am speaking of the Emory [...]

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As I was driving home one night last week, Mississippi Public Broadcasting was replaying the morning edition of “Fresh Air”, so I got to hear the excellent review of Gary Shteyngart’s new novel Super Sad True Love Story. Readers will remember him from the 2002 publication of Russian Debutante’s Handbook and the 2007 release Absurdistan, [...]

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Next Thursday, August 5, Lemuria’s book club “Atlantis” will be meeting to discuss The Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick. Set in cold Wisconsin in the early 1900s, the novel’s extremely snowy and miserable setting accurately reflects the inner workings of the protagonist’s warped mind. After reading an advertisement in a Chicago newspaper for “a good, [...]

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With her second edition of Questions and Answers for Deep South Gardeners, Nellie Neal has compiled another winner filled with new questions and answers concerning all sorts of gardening topics from whether to prune crepe myrtles or not, to why the leaves of hollies turn yellow, to name just a couple. For the well versed [...]

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Set in the 1950s in Dublin, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne has just been re-released. Made into a movie in 1987, the story is timeless and appeals to good readers who love a psychological examination of characters’ motives and expectations. Judith (Judy), a lonely middle aged woman, who moves from one boarding house to [...]

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A copy of Men and Dogs has been buried in a stack by my bed for a couple of months now while I read the long and wonderful The Invisible Bridge. So, last weekend, I opened Men and Dogs and was immediately pulled in. This is a good summer read. I would not say it [...]

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I am almost trembling thinking about writing about this beautiful, powerful novel. I loved it, loved it, loved it!  I don’t know where to start, but Lisa helped me when she said, “Tell me why I would want to read this novel, Nan? Convince me.” Of course, as most readers will attest, a book this [...]

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I have been out for a week, and therefore have had more time for reading, which I have loved. The following titles show what I have read or am still reading: 1. Eye of the Whale by Douglas Carlton Abrams…..have finished this remarkable novel based on a fiction writer’s look into a marine scientist’s study [...]

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Tupelo native Minrose Gwin has penned quite a remarkable novel set in small town Mississippi during the tumultuous 1960s. The pre-teenaged protagonist named Florence (“Flo” for short) vacillates among several “homes”, one being  the confusingly distraught primary home of her cake-baking emotionally unstable and alcoholic mother and her child abusing Ku Klux Klan leader father, [...]

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