Lemuria Bookstore Blog

Lemuria already misses Mississippi’s renowned and beloved artist and author Miriam Weems whose untimely and tragically sudden death shook us all  tremendously on Saturday, August 20. Our sympathies go to her sons, Sam and Baxter, to her husband Tommy, and to her brother Dick. . . The collection of  Miriam’s paintings, titled Mostly Mississippi, which [...]

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I have now found one of my all time favorite novels, and it will be my number ONE book to sell  for the holidays! So, “What is it?”, you ask! It is: The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh. Naturally, because I am a flower lover and spend most of my spare time in my [...]

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In the spring I was handed the ARC (advance reader’s copy) of a novel, yes, I did say “novel” starring Flannery O’Connor as a main character. Now, reread that previous sentence!  For those English majors of us who have read and studied Flannery O’Connor’s shocking and provoking  short stories for decades, I was fascinated.  And, [...]

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On Thursday, July 7, our book club, “Atlantis” met to discuss The Long Song by Andrea Levy. This novel made the short list in 2010 for the English award, the Man Booker.This was the second work on Jamaica which the author, a native of Jamaica herself, has published.  What an invigorating, delightful time we had [...]

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I am really, really excited about the new Southern gardening book which just appeared in my gardening section by surprise a couple of weeks ago. Everyone who has looked at it agrees with me that it is a beautiful book, but also a “keeper” for Southern gardeners. The photos alone are “eye candy” for obsessed [...]

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As an avid gardener, I am always interested in the history of gardening, whether it be the immediate past history of my friends’ gardens, or the history of some of the first gardens of America. As a teenager, I followed my mother around Williamsburg, Virginia, studying the formal English based gardens of the Virginia planters. [...]

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Not often does a life long advertising executive put his pen to paper and yield, on the first try, a captivating work of fiction, but David Abbott from the United Kingdom, meets this challenge in the newly released The Upright Piano Player. Those readers looking for  a provoking summer read, but not typically a “beach [...]

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If you have not heard about our book club, come join us this coming Thursday, June 2 at noon at our dot.com building. We always meet the first Thursday of the month to discuss our latest selection. This Thursday, June 2, we will be discussing Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann. Set in [...]

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In the last several years I have become fascinated with the contemporary English novel. I love reading English dialect and enjoy the descriptions of  the English countryside and often of London. I also find the English authors have an authentic voice which appeals to my literary cravings. In the spring of 2009, I read Little [...]

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Even though I live a few miles away from Jackson in a semi country-side, I have never had trouble with deer eating any of my flowers or plants, UNTIL this past fall. I guess I bragged to my neighbors, who had been battling the deer non-stop for many years, too much! So, I planted my [...]

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