I'm Leah! The woman behind Leah's Books, a blog where I write book reviews and post other bookish content.
Wandering Stars Thank you to NetGalley and Knopf for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There There —winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award, the John Leonard Prize, the American […]
April was hectic for me. The weather was gross, with windy rainstorms for so much of the month, and on top of that, we had the kitchen redone. It was spur of the moment, so a lot of the month was spent wondering where things were and just […]
For today’s prompt, we were given a pretty broad topic of May flowers, and left to ourselves as far as what we wanted to do with this. Where I live, the flowers are all starting to bloom, and I can’t go anywhere without seeing them. I decided to […]
The Boy with the Star Tattoo Thank you to William Morrow Paperbacks and Tess Day for sending me an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. From the acclaimed author of The Third Daughter comes an epic historical novel of ingenuity and courage, of love […]
Today’s discussion topic comes from Sara, one of my good friends. We have a lot of great discussions on such a wide range of shared interests, and this topic idea kind of organically grew out of a larger discussion that we were having. I’ve spoken about problematic authors […]
Lilith Thank you to NetGalley and Blackstone Publishing for providing me with an ARC of this audiobook in exchange for an honest review. From the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of I Am Not Who You Think I Am—a New York Times Thriller of the Year—comes […]
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: “It takes me two weeks to die, locked […]
The Perfect Guy Doesn’t Exist Thank you to NetGalley and Wednesday Books for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. DNF @ 51%. A fanfic writer brings her favorite TV character to life in this friends-to-enemies-to-lovers novel full of humor and […]
I finished March with 24 ARCs left to be read. Happy May! The month of April turned out to be unexpectedly busy for me, well … busier than I was already expecting. Between the weather getting nicer, Passover and family visiting, needing shoulder surgery (which I’m having today, […]
Today’s prompt idea was petty reasons I’ve DNF’d a book, but I typically don’t DNF books for petty reasons. I say typically because there was that one time …. FINE. I’ll tell you since you twisted my arm. I’ve lived within a short drive of a town called […]
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