Hi, I’m Leah, and I read too much. I read across genres, and usually multiple books at a time. I love the thoughts those books awaken in my head, and that's what I'm writing about here.

In a given month I will go from family saga to crime novel; then I‘ll finish a science book in two days or postpone finishing it for multiple years. I have a real problem turning down a book if someone I trust recommends it to me.

So that is what this is: my small and quiet place for a habit that got out of hand a long time ago.

Recently, on the blog

July 16, 2026

The book nobody wanted, years after not wanting it

A grainy black and white photograph of a wide, empty shoreline under a pale sky.

I bought The Slow Regard of Silent Things back when everyone bought it, which is to say, the week it came out somewhere in 2014, along with every other person waiting for the obvious next thing after The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man's Fear.