I'm Leah! The woman behind Leah's Books, a blog where I write book reviews and post other bookish content.
Ponary Diary, 1941-1943: A Bystander’s Account of a Mass Murder About sixty thousand Jews from Wilno (Vilnius, Jewish Vilna) and surrounding townships in present-day Lithuania were murdered by the Nazis and their Lithuanian collaborators in huge pits on the outskirts of Ponary. Over a period of several years, […]
It felt like July went by so fast! I had a pretty laid-back month, even if my weeks have been busier now that I have to drive Mom and accompany her to all of her appointments, and I’m currently working on updating all of her providers to include […]
First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if, instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? The Rules: First Lines: “Madison Dalrymple leaned her shoulder against the giant […]
Strange New World Thank you to Orbit and Oliver Wehner for providing access to an ARC of this audiobook in exchange for an honest review. “Vivian Shaw knocks it out of the park yet again. If you aren’t reading Dr. Greta Helsing, you’re missing out.” —T. Kingfisher, New York Times bestselling […]
The Midnight Pack Thank you to Orbit and Oliver Wehner for providing me with an ALC of this book in exchange for an honest review. Beauty and the Beast meets Supernatural in the first book of this new urban fantasy detective series! Jericho James is in over her head. She’s […]
Hey y’all! This week our prompt is a genre freebie, This can be a list of books sharing a common genre, or a narrowed list. We all know how much I love when books straddle the line between genres, so this week instead of picking a single genre […]
Totally and Completely Fine Thank you to NetGalley and Dell for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. From the bestselling author of Funny You Should Ask comes an inspiring romance novel about honoring the past, living in the present, and loving for […]
I finished June with 13 ARCs left to be read. Let me start out my first post of August with a little update while I share my Cheez-Its with my dogs (they only get a few). I have been talking about prioritizing my health, both physical and mental, […]
School of Shards Thank you to NetGalley and Harper Voyager for providing me with access to this ARC in exchange for an honest review. The haunting final chapter of the modern classic Vita Nostra trilogy. The Dyachenkos’ magical dark academia novel brings the story of Sasha to a […]
Now that July is almost over, I’m ready to say goodbye to summer. I haven’t gotten to do a lot of summer activities, but the few I did make it to were fun, and I have something going on for the weekend, which should be a great time. […]
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