Lemuria Bookstore Blog

back in december of 2007 i read an awesome little book of short stories titled st. lucy’s home for girls raised by wolves. about a week ago when our random house reps were here for a sales call they met with all of us lemurians to share their big upcoming titles.  one that i had [...]

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Y’all remember Robert, he used to work at Lemuria.  I think he goes by Bobby now but I still call him Robert.  I guess it’s a reverse nickname.  Well anyway, Robert works for LSU Press and he stopped by the bookstore and told me that Josh Russell, author of Yellow Jack, had a new novel [...]

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When John Brandon started his first novel, Arkansas, he was boxing up perfume samples for fashion magazines by day since he had found that teaching high school was not conducive to writing. The page lay empty after a day of kids, books and computers. Factory work, often from early morning to early afternoon, left time [...]

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It’s not every day that Maggie and John like the same book. They were both sending me their postings on Troy Matthew Carnes’ first novel, Rasputin’s Legacy, at the same time so I decided I would post them together. Maggie’s take: I take Rasputin’s Legacy home one night. I do my normal routine…read the synopsis, read [...]

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A copy of Men and Dogs has been buried in a stack by my bed for a couple of months now while I read the long and wonderful The Invisible Bridge. So, last weekend, I opened Men and Dogs and was immediately pulled in. This is a good summer read. I would not say it [...]

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What a great event we had last night!!  Minrose Gwin, a Tupelo native, was here signing and talking about her novel, The Queen of Palmyra.  Lemuria’s book club, Atlantis led by our own Nan Graves Goodman (who has a great blog on the novel too), had chosen the novel as their selection for June so [...]

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Moving Forward With My Head Turned Back: Why I’m So Pumped to Read at Lemuria Here’s the deal. I grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, but spent most of my life nearly positive that the two kindest people in the world lived in Jackson, Mississippi.  Well, they lived in Jackson first and then Brandon, although [...]

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Lemuria is excited to welcome visiting writer Glenn Taylor! Today he will be in the store at 5:00 p.m. signing copies of his new book The Marrowbone Marble Company. The novel is set in Taylor’s home state of West Virginia and focuses on the life of the lead character, Loyal Ledford. The storyline traces the [...]

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Tupelo native Minrose Gwin has penned quite a remarkable novel set in small town Mississippi during the tumultuous 1960s. The pre-teenaged protagonist named Florence (“Flo” for short) vacillates among several “homes”, one being  the confusingly distraught primary home of her cake-baking emotionally unstable and alcoholic mother and her child abusing Ku Klux Klan leader father, [...]

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I come from a wintry, flinty, and hilly place called the Ozarks, where limestone runs in deep, moon-gray seams and ridges. Moving to Mississippi in 1998 was thrilling—pine trees, bamboo, gardenias, anoles, flying cockroaches, soil that shifted, skies roiling with Gulf moisture. You could throw a thought on the ground, and it would grow, in [...]

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