Lemuria Bookstore Blog

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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I take care of the foreign fiction section and I had been eying The White Tiger (click here) on the shelf, facing it out for customers thinking that it might prove to be an excellent read. Well, my hunch proved to be a very popular one. Aravind Adiga was awarded the Man Booker on October [...]

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Being determined to finish this incredible novel about Katrina’s wrath in New Orleans before Piazza’s reading tomorrow afternoon (Wednesday, August 20), I have read for much of the last 48 hours. For its humanity, its forthrightness, its honesty, and its vibrancy in the midst of pain and relived destruction experienced not so long ago by us Mississippians, who [...]

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