Lemuria Bookstore Blog

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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So far this year we have seen two major new publications on Ernest Hemingway. Most recently we have seen Volume One of Hemingway’s complete letters, and earlier in the year Lemuria had the honor of hosting an event for Dr. Edgar Grissom to honor the publication of his descriptive bibliography for Ernest Hemingway. As if [...]

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Here is a book that I really liked, but haven’t written anything about. The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides. I got my hands on an early copy and read it this past July on vacation. This book came out last month with much fan fare. If you missed it here is a shot of the [...]

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I’m not a big science fiction fan. I haven’t ever read any Stephen King. As of a few days ago, I can scratch those first two sentences. I’m new to the fiction room and one of the most fun things to do is shelve books. It is a pleasure to see new titles, flip through [...]

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Dear Listener, I have read my share of Cormac McCarthy, often being brought to tears by both empathy and disgust.  After I read an IndieBound synopsis that described Donald Ray Pollock’s first novel The Devil All the Time as “a novel that marries the twisted intensity of Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers with the religious and Gothic [...]

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Since the release of John Grisham’s latest novel, The Litigators, I remembered that Grisham readers and collectors often look to fill in any gaps in their Grisham collections. So, I thought about doing a display where all of Grisham’s books would be together, a place where it would be easy to see the year of [...]

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If you have not had the pleasure of seeing the Broadway play Wicked then I encourage you to do so at some point. This fabulous show opened in October 2003 in San Francisco. Because of the popularity of the play, it expanded to other large cities which also lead to being shown off Broadway in [...]

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Reading Hillary Jordan’s new masterpiece When She Woke is much like reading Hawthorne’s classic The Scarlet Letter at the same time as The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood…..a great mixture, huh? When I read Jordan’s first novel Mudbound in 2008, I was mesmerized by her description of the Mississippi Delta during the horrible sharecropping years. She is [...]

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In 2002 a little green book was published and just about all of the staff went crazy for it.  If you were shopping with us at that time I’m sure that you will remember it because no one left the store without it in their bag. When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka tells [...]

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