Lemuria Bookstore Blog

[This blog is posted under my name, but was written by my wife Lizby.  -- Mark] Because my husband works at Lemuria, my addiction to reading has a constant stream of books to feed it. Needless to say, I read quite a bit, and it’s always easy to choose my next indulgence, because my husband [...]

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Born to Run is one of those books that I wanted to read when it was released, but the stack of books on my nightstand was too tall at the time. Occasionally I’d spot the book when unpacking boxes or while I was looking for something in the sports and outdoor section, but it wasn’t [...]

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Hiking and Mississippi are not the first two words I would put together. However, after spending a good deal of time hiking in the North Carolina mountains, I began to long for the benefits of hiking closer to home. While Mississippi doesn’t have near the inclines, I have been learning in Helen McGinnis’s book, Hiking [...]

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Be forewarned–this is a book for the bike geek. As the title, It’s All About the Bike suggests, the bicycle itself is the subject, the story, not just the background for a morality tale or narrative of human struggle and inspiration. Avid cyclists are prone to imbue their bikes with mythical qualities, to treat them [...]

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Last week Lisa wrote a blog entitled It’s not your typical day at Lemuria about our event with Melody Golding and the Panther Tract crew. Well, she was right, it wasn’t any kind of normal around here. The Panther Tract folks have been touring all over the state in the last week and if you [...]

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There’s a particular danger when one works at a bookstore: the standard for which books are and are not worth reading becomes impossibly high, or at least, complicated. It goes something like this. For one to commit the time and energy to read a particular book, the book must: Have won a major award, or [...]

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Whenever I see the first example of a current events title arrive in the store, I tend to assume that it’s not a very good book. This probably isn’t entirely fair — I’m sure that some very good books have been written very quickly, and I have read enough of them to know they exist. [...]

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Survival and sustenance, high adventure in one of the most ecologically diverse regions in the world where both tropical and alpine conditions co-exist is the setting of this book. It is 1997 and the place is the very farthest Far East right above North Korea, to the east of China and bordered on the east [...]

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Remember when I mentioned there was a good adventury book about cave divers coming out in June? Well, June’s here and so is Blind Descent by James Tabor. If you read Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer, this is very similar, just…opposite. The two teams of climbers in Into Thin Air headed up the same [...]

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My Mercedes is not for Sale I admit that my reason for picking up this book was completely superficial — I used to drive the same Mercedes that’s shown on the cover. The concept immediately hooked me. The author bought a used Mercedes 190D in Holland and drove it across Europe and through North Africa [...]

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