Lemuria Bookstore Blog

For all you avid book readers who made a New Year’s resolution to read more challenging novels, here is the answer: Lemuria’s book club which meets at noon on the first Thursday of each month. So, next Thursday, February 2, we will meet at our dot.com building, just outside of Broadstreet Bakery’s north side door, [...]

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Set in the 1950s, Booker Prize winning author of The English Patient, has written a compelling novel, titled The Cat’s Table. Based on the experiences of an 11-year-old boy who embarks on a three week voyage on the cruiser “Oronsay” from Colombo to England, Ondaatje’s new novel grabbed me just as his Anil’s Ghost (2000), [...]

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In getting ready for the long-awaited release of 1Q84 on October 25th, I was pleasantly surprised to find evidence of Lemuria-Staff-Past who have also been devoted fans. Enjoy this review by Catherine, Lemuria Class of 2006. -Lisa A Wild Sheep Chase is, in many ways, Haruki Murakami’s break-through book. It was his first novel translated [...]

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In getting ready for the long-awaited release of 1Q84 on October 25th, I was pleasantly surprised to find evidence of Lemuria-Staff-Past who have also been devoted fans. Enjoy this review by Catherine, Lemuria Class of 2006. One of the more preoccupying themes of Japanese literature in this century has been the question of what it [...]

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Some years ago I met Tom in the fiction room and eventually we discovered that we both loved Murakami. We have had many conversations about books we love, but none so enthusiastic as the ones on Murakami. In all the anticipation for 1Q84, I asked Tom if he would like to join our blog series [...]

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Within the past year Haruki Murakami has become one of my favorite writers. I’d like to take up a little space on this blog to tell you about him and maybe win you over on his behalf. Murakami is a Japanese writer (his works, both fiction and nonfiction, live in the foreign fiction section here [...]

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Teaser courtesy of A. A. Knopf. 1Q84 is coming October 25th. Click here to reserve your copy. Click here to see all of Haruki Murakmai’s books. Click here to see other blog posts on Murakami. hmhm

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Teaser courtesy of A. A. Knopf. 1Q84 is coming October 25th. Click here to reserve your copy. Click here to see all of Haruki Murakmai’s books. Click here to see other blog posts on Haruki Murakami. hmhm

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If you’ve fallen in love with an translated piece of literature, you’ve probably wondered what it would be like to read the work in the original language. My fellow bookseller, Kelly, wrote a blog piece on the translation of literature in July 2009 after the second Stieg Larsson book (written in Swedish) had been released. [...]

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In getting ready for the long-awaited release of 1Q84 on October 25th, I was pleasantly surprised to find evidence of Lemuria-Staff-Past who have also been devoted fans. Walker (Lemuria Class of 2006) said he would be happy if we shared some of his thoughts on one his favorite Murakami books and a recommended first read. [...]

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