Lemuria Bookstore Blog

“Are you there, Satan? It’s me, Madison.” Damned: Thirteen-year-old Madison Spencer has just arrived in hell from a “marijuana overdose.”  She may only be thirteen but as she quickly and repeatedly points out, she’s not a moron or brain damaged, simpleminded or an idiot. As excited as I am about this book coming out and [...]

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I’ve unintentionally been on a magical realism kick here lately and mostly with books that Kaycie has suggested to me, the latest of which is Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link. This lady has got one amazing imagination. A handbag that contains an entire village if opened in a certain way. Zombies who live in [...]

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so i received our advanced readers copy  of palahniuk’s newest novel, damned, that will be coming out in october the other day.  this man knows how to market himself.  the advanced readers copy doesn’t just come in a box with several others from the publisher like most do.  he sends us a big box filled [...]

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one day violaine was reading her favorite author (edgar allan poe, of course) in her usual hangout deep in the woods when a handsome transient appeared on the path and asked her if she know where to find adventure and maybe some coffee and a piece of pie.  “my friend and i,” he said, gesturing [...]

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if you don’t know about mcsweeney’s you are in for a treat.  mcsweeney’s is something i didn’t know about until i started working at lemuria and am more than jazzed about every time a new issue comes out.  here’s a little about mcsweeney’s taken from their website: “McSweeney’s began in 1998 as a literary journal, [...]

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i found this gem of a book when i was working our catalogs the other day and had to build a file for the paperback that is coming out this spring. i realize that i’m way too young to remember when bozo the clown was portrayed by larry harmon but i do remember the  show [...]

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Recently Emily and I have teamed up to give our First Editions Club Members a new opportunity and I’d like to tell you a little bit about it. On February 18th, the grandson of Ludwig Bemelmans, author of the Madeline series, was here at Lemuria signing his new book, Madeline at the White House. With [...]

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i quite often judge books by their covers.  regularly this results in me reading a damn fine book.  it is difficult for me to resist a book that has an amazing cover, even if i know nothing about the book or the author. penguin has two series which feature new cover art that i am [...]

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well…have you?  no?  why not?  i’m willing to bet that i haven’t gone a day without touching at least one book in over ten years.  i wouldn’t have it any other way. i’m not one of those folks who can read from a screen for very long.  if there is something on the internet that [...]

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reading…there’s not much out there that compares to it.  getting totally lost in a book is an amazing thing.  one aspect of being a book lover that some people don’t partake in is the collecting of books.  i don’t understand these folks.  why wouldn’t you want to walk by your bookcase and be reminded of [...]

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