Lemuria Bookstore Blog

Morgan Entrekin, Grove/Atlantic publisher, writes a special message this Veteran’s Day: “This fall we published to great success Karl Marlantes’s What It Is Like to Go to War, which I believe is one of the most important books on war ever written . . . On this Veterans Day I hope you will take the opportunity [...]

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Unbroken by Lauren Hillenbrand (Random House, November, 2010) Right up front, I will suggest you read this book. I won’t say you must read this book. Shoulds often breed contempt, rebellion or a secret suspicion that said bookseller is out to make a sale. This being said, you should read this book. It’s the true [...]

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Since reading Matterhorn I’ve caught myself flipping through every Vietnam book that comes in to the store. Some are classics like Michael Herr’s Dispatches or Malcolm McConnell’s Into the Mouth of the Cat, and there are an awful lot of less-than-classic books rehashing the same material. But James S. Robbins’ new book This Time We [...]

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Something I love about reading new books is how they remind you of old books. I went through a serious Tom Clancy addiction when I was in junior high school, and I had forgotten how much I’d enjoyed those novels, especially the earlier ones where the scope was slightly more limited and every nation wasn’t [...]

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Those of you with HBO are lucky because in a couple of weeks, The Pacific is going to air.  It’s a 10-part miniseries done by the same people who did Band of Brothers in 2001 (Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman), and so I think we can go ahead and get really excited.  Band of [...]

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I think it was about two years ago that Tony Horwitz was last at Lemuria. I had just started working here and was at the reading. I was quickly impressed with his candor and knowledge. I could have listened to him talk all day! I purchased A Voyage Long and Strange and my boyfriend read [...]

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Author Jon Krakauer’s own life is every bit as varied and exciting as those he writes about. He is the author of Into the Wild, Into Thin Air, Under the Banner of Heaven and his latest book, Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman. Jon Krakauer was born in 1954, and in addition [...]

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We got a couple new good war books in today. Where Men Win Glory, by Jon Krakauer, examines the life of Pat Tillman. Tillman gave up an NFL career to fight in Afghanistan, and was killed 2 years later. When it came to light that he had likely been killed by friendly fire (and that [...]

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Ok, I took Mississippi history in high school, and I have lived in Mississippi since birth, so I am a little embarrassed to admit that until recently, I knew nothing of Jones County’s secession from the Confederacy during the Civil War. Horrible, I know. To offset this awful deficit of personal knowledge, I began reading [...]

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Here’s a link to a cool video that was shot in our store on June 2nd when Reza Aslan was here for his new book How to Win a Cosmic War. See John’s blog on Reza Aslan.

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