Lemuria Bookstore Blog

When I ran into Adam Johnson at the Winter Institute book conference last week, I told him that I loved The Orphan Master’s Son so much that I was willing to write – to the point of embarrassment – one blog after another. He said he could help me out by writing a guest blog. [...]

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Dear Listener, I reckon the idea of a rapture-like event has existed for a while.  I’m not an expert on The Rapture, or even Christianity for that matter, but I have always been aware of the possibility of waking up to find the world picked of its morally elite.  The circumstances of such an event [...]

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Even if you have never heard of Mr. Fox, the design of the book cover should snare you into wanting to read this book, but the desire goes even further within the pages to keep you reading. To further interest the reader,  the type set changes often, moving from an old fashioned font of an [...]

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Earlier in the week, I posted a blog about The Orphan Master’s Son: Today is the official release to of what I believe to be one of the best books of the year, The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson.  (Yes, I know it is January 10th!) To add to the excitement, Adam Johnson will [...]

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Today is the official release to of what I believe to be one of the best books of the year, The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson.  (Yes, I know it is January 10th!) To add to the excitement, Adam Johnson will be at Lemuria for a signing and reading on Friday, January 27th. The [...]

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Dear Listener, It took me nearly two months to finish The Stranger’s Child by Alan Hollinghurst.  Although I read several books while “reading” The Stranger’s Child, and was a little tied down with work (Christmas season in the retail business? Sheesh!), it was the tediousness of the book that kept pushing me away.  When asked [...]

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I didn’t add it to the list on my previous post here because I wasn’t finished with 11/22/63 by Stephen King. I finished it over New Year’s weekend and I’d like to add it to that list. Perhaps to the top of it. It is that good.

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I sold The American Heiress by Daisy Goodwin to one of my customers (who is actually a friend’s mom) and a week later she walked in the bookstore with the book in her hand.  Oh no!!!  She didn’t like it was racing through my thoughts and I immediately started to apologize.  She stopped me and [...]

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I often  feel like a short story is only a snippet of what I should read about that particular story. It’s a tease. Unfailingly, I want to know what comes next. I read Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout several years ago and loved it. My love was confirmed when it was awarded the Pultizer Prize [...]

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I am a lover of short stories. I know that short stories turn some readers off, but I am always impressed with an author that can weave a captivating tale in only a few pages. Elissa Schappell is one such author. I’ve recently been reading Schappell’s Blueprints  for Building Better Girls and am thoroughly enjoying [...]

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