Lemuria Bookstore Blog

If nothing else, I was drawn to this cover. All those books? And the title? The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared. Perhaps I love the thought because my father and I are on the same path of reading. Generally, we read the same type of books. It is fun to read [...]

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This book review comes from our friend and occasional bookseller, Billie Green. In her brilliant new memoir, called Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness, Alexandra Fuller returns to her African roots for a closer look at her parents’ own experience as white settlers on the Dark Continent. In so doing, Fuller wisely anchors much [...]

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It is such a hard question when someone asks you to name your favorite book. I have so many and  often that depends when I read the book. I feel certain that some books I liked at one time tend to have to do with when I read them, how old I was, what mood [...]

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Sandra Beasley has had severe allergies to certain foods her entire life. When butter is deadly and eggs can make your throat swell shut, cupcakes and other joys of childhood are out of the question—and so Sandra’s mother used to warn guests against a toxic, frosting-tinged kiss with “Don’t kill the birthday girl!” Now an [...]

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I ran across an essay by Kathryn Stockett yesterday and discovered that it was an excerpt from Katie Couric’s new book The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives. Here’s how the book came about. Katie Couric was asked to give a commencement speech, and as this was not the first time, she [...]

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If you’ve ever wondered what we at Lemuria do behind those old DOS computers all day, I’m going to let you in on some behind-the-scenes bookstore secrets. Once the Christmas rush is over, through the doldrums of summer (come in the store, people!), we take the books off the shelves, look them up, see what’s [...]

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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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You know, some things just take on a life of their own. There seems to be a whole lot of bloggers out there in the world and a whole lot of people who read them and every once in awhile, something extraordinary happens. A blog hits the big time…goes viral…changes the world and starts its [...]

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There’s a particular criticism of devoted readers that I hear occasionally — a challenge to just stop reading about things and to go out and actually do them instead. I’ve often wondered if those who make this challenge have ever read a really, really good book. I wonder this because my experience has been that [...]

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Well, it seems as though Cleopatra has finally met her match and her name is Stacy Schiff. In case that name doesn’t ring a bell, let me enlighten you. Schiff is the author of Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Saint-Exupéry, a Pulitzer Prize finalist; and A Great Improvisation, winner of the [...]

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