Lemuria Bookstore Blog

“Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.” (Salman Rushdie, “One Thousand Days in a Balloon,” New York Times, December 12, 1991) This is [...]

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There’s a lot to be said about Winter Institute 7, a conference attended by booksellers, publishers and authors this past week in New Orleans, but one thing is for sure: it was a literary love fest. There were so many people talking about the books they love, and for a change, Kelly, Emily and I [...]

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Greetings from Honolulu, Hawaii! When the opportunity arose last fall for a week long vacation to Hawaii, there were no second thoughts for this girl. And, since no vacation is complete without several books in tow (not to mention that it is a loooong flight from the main land to this gorgeous island,) I packed my [...]

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My mother needed one more Christmas present for my husband. She had read somewhere of a new book titled Hunt, Gather, Cook by Hank Shaw. She asked me to order a copy and bring it home with me when we traveled there for the holiday weekend. One week later, I found myself on my 2nd [...]

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The Art of Fielding — I’m not sure if it matched the hype, but it’s still awfully good. Can’t wait to see what Harbach does next. Popular Crime — I’ll read just about anything Bill James writes. I blogged about this book previously. It’s All About the Bike — Might be for bike nerds only, [...]

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I keep a list of what books I read each year. Some years I read an insane amount of books, others my list is a bit shorter. This was a year where I didn’t get through as many as years past. I just looked at my reading list for 2011. I have several books I [...]

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This Christmas all of my family members received books (shocker, I know.)  All through the Christmas season I carefully scanned the tables at the store for the most appropriate selections for mom, dad, sister and brother. Ironically, the bookseller of the family did not come away from the Christmas gift-giving frenzy with one book. So, I decided to make a [...]

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About 30 years ago, on my daughter’s 4th birthday my friendship with Barry Moser began in Dallas, Texas. Being a new dad and not wanting to be away from Saramel, I took her to the bookseller market. A cocktail party for Barry was in our hotel, so off we went. The tuxedo clad Moser and [...]

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You may have seen some of the photos of Barry Moser’s artwork on Facebook and on our blog. On Saturday, December 10 at 11:00 we will be having a signing for Barry Moser on the occasion of his two new books The Cheshire Cheese Cat: A Dickens of a Tale and Franklin and Winston: A [...]

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