Lemuria Bookstore Blog

All I can say is wow. I have been noticing this book for several weeks but I felt it too intimidating to actually read. Then my dear friend and bookstore colleague, Pat, told me she was reading it and not wanting to be outdone, I decided that I would as well! The book is: Bonhoeffer: [...]

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As I was straightening some bookshelves this week, I came upon a new memoir: Let’s Take the Long Way Home by Gail Caldwell. Everyone knows that I am a sucker for memoirs, especially sad ones, so I grabbed it and started reading. It is the story of a friendship between Gail Caldwell and Carolyn Knapp. [...]

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How in the world did August get here so fast?! I have been trying to carve out some reading time of late and catch up on some books that I have wanted to read. I loved hearing Audrey Niffenegger when she was at Lemuria a couple of weeks ago. I have to say that Time [...]

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I went to hear Mary Karr read at Lemuria Wednesday night. I was familiar with her name but had never read any of her memoirs or poetry. Her latest book, LIT, had caught my eye with its fabulous front cover and knowing she was coming soon, I picked it up last week. I finished it [...]

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I have always been a history buff. I grew up with a father who loved to read books having to do with history or historical figures. Some that I remember seeing on his bedside table were about Churchill, Madam Chiang Kai-shek, Mark Twain; anything on World War II, the Terracotta Soldiers, Nixon, Kennedy, etc. He [...]

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For the last few weeks, my life has been filled with weddings, bridesmaid’s luncheon “giving” and taking my baby daughter to her college orientation. Obviously, she is not an actual baby…she’s eighteen… but in my mind, I still think she is five years old and playing “teenager”.  Alas, she checked out her dorm, checked what [...]

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My initial idea was not to blog about books ranging from the ridiculous to the sublime but as I looked over my potential “grab bag of blog books”, that’s what I thought I had collected. On second glance, though, I think there’s more to some of these than meets the eye and without any forethought, [...]

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Okay, over the last few weeks, Joe and Mark have shown us what’s on their bedside tables, as in “What I’ve been reading.” Since I am very nosy and incurable curious, I have LOVED that sneak peek into the “Secret Lives of Reading Men.” That having been said, I felt it time for a woman [...]

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Well, I was all set to blog this week about Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson…..as I sat down to begin I had a sudden impulse to check the Lemuria Blog. To my amazement (and dismay) there before me was a beautifully written entry on MY BOOK! I had momentary thoughts of deleting Nan’s [...]

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There has been a flurry of great biographies hitting our shelves of late. I will only tell you about a few but come into the store and see for yourself! Kid Carolina by Heidi Schnakenberg tells the story of R. J. “Dick” Reynolds Jr. who was the heir to his father’s vast tobacco empire. While [...]

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