• Book Reviews

    The Excellent Lombards: A Book Review

      Sometimes a book finds you. It’s been a while since I finished a novel purely for pleasure.  I’ve been reading novels for Book Club and non fiction books for teaching and learning and whatnot, but I have been missing just reading for fun – the kind of reading I encourage my children to do every day. Our town’s library has a shelf with new releases.  It’s a shelf I usually veer away from as the new releases are due to be returned in 14 days or less.  Which might seem like a perfectly reasonable request to perfectly reasonable people.  Of whom I am not. Jane Hamilton’s name popped out…