I have a confession…blogging gives me the vapors. Unlike most booksellers, I did not major in English and I have no aspirations to be a writer. All I want is to read, read, sell, and read! When Lemuria started this blog thing I was not happy, but I have slowly come around and my vapors have decreased (only slightly). It is actually kinda fun especially when people comment and a little conversation starts because one thing I am good at is talking. So I talk through my fingers, so to speak. I know that many of you who read the blog also are fans of our Facebook page. I really like that because I can just throw out a sentence or question or two and see what happens. Now we are on Twitter!!! The bookstore and some of us individually. I mean Lemuria has come along way since I started here 11 years ago…I remember when we started using the interoffice email and we thought we had hit the big time!
The reason I’m going on and on is because I want to let you know about something that we have started on the weekends!! Every Friday on Facebook and Twitter we want you to tell us what you are reading over the weekend!! It’s called Mississippi Reads Weekend!!! How fun is that!! You don’t have to be living in Mississippi to join in just some how connected. A MS Expat? Whatcha reading? Reading a Mississippi Author? Let us know? If you spent the summer with your grandparents running barefoot through the Delta…we want to know if you are reading fiction or nonfiction!!!
This is how you can join in on Mississippi Reads Weekend…
Facebook…
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/LemuriaBookstore
Twitter…
http://twitter.com/#!/lemuriabooks
When you post on twitter make sure that you mention @lemuriabooks and use the #msreadswkend!
If you want to follow me on Twitter I am @Maggie4Lemuria. I usually only post about the bookstore but occasionally something else slips in. I just can’t help myself!
By the way, My Mississippi Reads Weekend selection is….The Return of Captain John Emmett by Elizabeth Speller. I started it last night and am ready to get home and get 
back to it. It is a debut novel that takes place in London, 1920 after the Great War. Laurence Bartram has survived the war but do to a family tragedy his ‘home’ is not the same and he has basically withdrawn from the world. Then one day he receives a letter from Mary Emmett, the sister of a classmate and she wants him to help her understand her brother’s death. John Emmett returned home from the war but kills himself while in a veterans hospital. Mary convinces (or charms) him into helping her and Laurence enlists help from his friend, Charles. While putting together the missing pieces of John’s life more veterans turn up dead and Laurence must ask questions and get answers that force him to relive is own experiences that he is trying to forget.
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