Lemuria Bookstore Blog

It wasn’t the language that impressed me as the most foreign thing about Paris, though knowing a bit of French from school helped with that; for many Americans it is the architecture, its decadence and age. A few years ago, my dad took me and my sisters to Paris. We were there only a few [...]

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Have a Dad?  Aware that Father’s Day is right around the corner?  Don’t want to get him another tie?  Need some gift ideas?  I’m here to help…sort of.  These are not your run of the mill Father’s Day present ideas but then again, I’m not your run of the mill gift giver. First up is [...]

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It’s May and lots of us are graduating!  A book we always sell around this time of year is This Is Water, by David Foster Wallace.  It’s actually a printed speech he gave in 2005 – a commencement address for the graduating class of Kenyon College.  It was, as the book points out, the only [...]

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Does anybody recognize the room in this picture?  I hope not, because if it’s recognizable then it means it still looks messy.  I was recently given the task of cleaning it up – a task that involved no small amount of dust, sweat, tears, etc, and so for that reason if not any others, I [...]

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We received some really special journals the other day. I was familiar with them, but had always been intimidated by how beautiful they were. I thought to myself: How could I ever mess it up with my handwriting? Would my thoughts be eloquent enough? A customer came in today looking for a copy of The [...]

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These are the books that I think that everyone should get for  Christmas!!! These are not in any particular order. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle  by David Wroblewski People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks City of Refuge by Tom Piazza The Little Book by Selden Edwards December by Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop Child 44 by [...]

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