Lemuria Bookstore Blog

Next Thursday, August 5, Lemuria’s book club “Atlantis” will be meeting to discuss The Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick. Set in cold Wisconsin in the early 1900s, the novel’s extremely snowy and miserable setting accurately reflects the inner workings of the protagonist’s warped mind. After reading an advertisement in a Chicago newspaper for “a good, [...]

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What a great event we had last night!!  Minrose Gwin, a Tupelo native, was here signing and talking about her novel, The Queen of Palmyra.  Lemuria’s book club, Atlantis led by our own Nan Graves Goodman (who has a great blog on the novel too), had chosen the novel as their selection for June so [...]

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Tupelo native Minrose Gwin has penned quite a remarkable novel set in small town Mississippi during the tumultuous 1960s. The pre-teenaged protagonist named Florence (“Flo” for short) vacillates among several “homes”, one being  the confusingly distraught primary home of her cake-baking emotionally unstable and alcoholic mother and her child abusing Ku Klux Klan leader father, [...]

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The Atlantis Book Club discussing The Piano Teacher by Janice Lee. March’s book is The Outlander by Gil Adamson. In April, they’ll discuss City of Refuge by Tom Piazza. See Nan’s last blog posting on the book club.

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Lemuria readers: If you are thinking of including more reading and maybe a book club in your New Year’s resolutions, here’s the ticket: Lemuria’s book club “Atlantis”, which meets the first Thursday of the month late afternoon in the upstairs lobby just outside of Lemuria’s front door. For January, we’ll be reading The Piano Teacher [...]

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Last year when I read Ron Rash’s new book Serena, I was pulled in from the very start! I had heard him read from A World Made Straight a few years ago and had recognized then what a talented, captivating writer he is.  Serena, in paperback, has just been released, and our book club will [...]

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Alain-Fournier’s French classic The Lost Estate, recently released in a new translation by Penguin Classics, is one of the most magical novels that I have read in some time. Set in the countryside of France in the late 1800s, the novel revolves around a boys’ boarding school whose newest student, Meaulnes, called “The Grand Meaulnes” by the other students [...]

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On Thursday, July 2, Lemuria’s book club “Atlantis” will be discussing Jhumpa Lahiri’s 2008 publication of her second book of short stories: Unaccustomed Earth.  For her first short story collection titled Interpreter of Maladies, this accomplished internationally known Indian writer, won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000.  Many readers will also remember reading her novel The [...]

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“Atlantis” is the name of our Lemuria book club, and we meet the first Thursday of the month at 5:15 p.m. in the upstairs lobby of Banner Hall just outside our front door. We would love for you to join us! We read fiction and non-fiction. Some of the titles we have read in the [...]

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Welcome readers of fiction and non-fiction to Lemuria’s book club! An open invitation awaits those Lemuria readers who would like the opportunity to join a lively, challenging book club. We call ourselves “Atlantis”. We meet at 5:30 p.m. in the upstairs lobby on the second floor of Banner Hall, just outside the front door of Lemuria, on the [...]

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