Lemuria Bookstore Blog

Since 2006, many of us have read the The Blind Side by Michael Lewis, and since this past fall, many of us have seen the movie “Blind Side” with Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw and Quinton Aaron. Many of us have also followed the amazing football career of Michael Oher as he played for Ole Miss [...]

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wow.  i’m not too sure what to say about this one.  i know that i can’t get enough of chelsea handler.  i’ve read her two previous books and laughed my ass off the whole way through.  i truly hope that she doesn’t make this stuff up and at the same time can’t imagine a life [...]

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After I had  moved to Jackson about three years ago, I noticed that my fiancé got kind of excited about the local news. He said, “Let’s see what Barbie has to say about the weather!” And he would comment if Maggie (or Howard or Roslyn) was on that night. I thought how silly. Who’s Maggie [...]

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Letters to Jackie . . . I wish I had written this book….seriously. Never mind that I am a Republican. Never mind that I am not all that crazy about John Kennedy. Never mind that I am not all that crazy about Jackie Kennedy. I still wish I had written this book. Why? Well, my [...]

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There are lots of great reasons why independent bookstores should be supported, and the other day I read an article that reminded me of what is perhaps MY favorite part of exploring independent bookstores (and also it’s one of my favorite parts of working at one): our displays!   Believe it or not, the piles of [...]

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There seems to be an epidemic of medical books lately. (pun very much intended) Not quite the usual kind though. It seems that doctors as well as patients are dropping the veil which has shrouded the carefully guarded world of medicine. Doctors are talking about their faults and showing hospitals their failings and oversights. Additionally, [...]

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Malcolm Jones will be at Lemuria to sign and read from his memoir, Little Boy Blues, tomorrow night (Tuesday the 2nd) starting at 5pm. Jones’s childhood in North Carolina wasn’t idyllic; he didn’t see much of his father, who was drunk much of the time he was around, and, while his mother was a bigger [...]

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I have just finished reading All Things at Once by Mika Brzezinski. Name sound a little bit familiar? Currently, she is the co-host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” with Joe Scarborough, but she also happens to be the daughter of Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security advisor, during the Jimmy Carter administration. Her book, says The New York Times Book Review,  [...]

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Elizabeth Gilbert has a new book. Ordinarily, this kind of thing is not huge news but this particular writers’ previous book was Eat Pray Love. So what? Well….several years ago, THAT book become a megabestselling and deeply beloved memoir about Gilberts’ process of finding herself by leaving home. She faced down a premidlife crisis by [...]

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No one who read Jeannette Walls’ memoir, The Glass Castle, can forget her riveting opening sentence: “I was sitting in a taxi, wondering if I had overdressed for the evening, when I looked out the window and saw Mom rooting through a Dumpster . . . Mom stood fifteen feet away. She had tied rags [...]

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