Lemuria Bookstore Blog

For all you avid book readers who made a New Year’s resolution to read more challenging novels, here is the answer: Lemuria’s book club which meets at noon on the first Thursday of each month. So, next Thursday, February 2, we will meet at our dot.com building, just outside of Broadstreet Bakery’s north side door, [...]

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In the winter of 2006-2007, Lemuria’s book club, named “Atlantis”, came onto the scene at our book store. Created to give Lemuria readers a forum in which to delve into cutting edge literary releases, primarily fiction, the club has grown as each year passes. When I first came to work at Lemuria, I had asked [...]

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I have now found one of my all time favorite novels, and it will be my number ONE book to sell  for the holidays! So, “What is it?”, you ask! It is: The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh. Naturally, because I am a flower lover and spend most of my spare time in my [...]

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On Thursday, July 7, our book club, “Atlantis” met to discuss The Long Song by Andrea Levy. This novel made the short list in 2010 for the English award, the Man Booker.This was the second work on Jamaica which the author, a native of Jamaica herself, has published.  What an invigorating, delightful time we had [...]

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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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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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