Lemuria Bookstore Blog

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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A few months ago our Penguin rep handed me a book that I ended up devouring over the next weekend: 22 Britannia Road by Amanda Hodgkinson. I have been waiting and waiting on the pub date, which is almost here! Attention literary readers, especially those who loved The Invisible Bridge and The Glass Room, for [...]

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This afternoon Lemuria’s book club “Atlantis” will meet at 5 p.m. in our dot.com building which is just outside of Broadstreet Bakery’s north door. We will be having a long awaited discussion of Cutting for Stone, the very popular novel released a couple of years ago which is set in Ethiopia and New York. The [...]

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Spring gloriously sprang into our lives a few weeks ago here in central Mississippi, but the calendar says the first actual day of spring was Sunday, March 20! Hurray, hurray, hurray for all of us gardeners, and a double hurray for the beginning of daylight savings time, which started a week ago! For avid gardeners, [...]

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My renewed interest in the great writer Hemingway was ignited when I read the revised edition of A Moveable Feast, released in 2009, so when I learned that The Paris Wife chronicles the years that the writer spent in Paris with his first wife, Hadley, new interest arose. Those readers who love to read about [...]

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On the surface, Kevin Brockmeier’s new novel might seem a bit weird and “out there”, but as the days pass since I turned the last page a few days ago, I am left with the warm, if rather unexpected, feeling that this is a love story, not presented in traditional form, but in Brockmeier’s original, [...]

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Several months ago, I smiled happily when John and Joe placed an advanced reader’s copy of Joseph O’Connor’s new masterpiece Ghost Light in my hands. In the fall of 2007, I had been one of the lucky ones to hear the Irish author read from his novel Redemption Falls. Those of us who were at [...]

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I’m beginning to feel the gardening bug come to life again. I know, I know that is barely the middle of January, but, still, I feel it coming on. I know that my early blooming daffodils will be peaking their hopeful heads up through the cold damp earth in the next few weeks, and that [...]

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In 2000, Michael Cunningham’s The Hours won the Pulitzer Prize. Those who did not read it probably ended up seeing the spectacular movie by the same name featuring many contemporary Hollywood faces. Now, Cunningham has written another novel, entitled By Nightfall, this time based on the life of an art gallery dealer in New York [...]

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