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Leia’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Leia’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Leia M. Johnson’s Followers (26)
4,367 books
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2,281 friends
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Leia M. Johnson
Goodreads Author
Born
in Joplin, MO, The United States
Website
Member Since
May 2011
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/azulii82
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Sister: A Foster Care and Adoption Story
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Shine Until Tomorrow: Navigating Paradigm Shifts When Life Doesn't Meet Expectations
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* Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more, click here.
Year in Reading: 2025
I have been tracking in both Goodreads and The StoryGraph, but next year, I’m tracking in The StoryGraph only because a) I don’t need both, b) the StoryGraph lets me give partial stars, c) The StoryGraph is Black-owned and uses in-house servers/AI instead of generative AI. Also, I think it’s an easier platform to navigate, and it’s prettier.
I read 120 books this year (all organized to the left
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| 2.75 stars. I loved the prose but didn’t feel there was enough about these stories to distinguish them from the others? Every trigger warning. | |
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| Nora Ephron doing what she does. People are complicated. | |
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| 2.75 stars. An odd book that never really captured my attention fully even though there were some lovely moments. | |
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| 3.5 stars. Comfort read as I clean house. | |
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| 4.25 stars. What a surprise! Like Hallmark with some actual conflict. Delightful | |
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| 4.25 stars. Fun and predictable. A romance for people who hate romance! | |
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| I can’t believe there isn’t another book waiting for me. May have to start over. | |
“God made mud.
God got lonesome.
So God said to some of the mud, "Sit up!"
"See all I've made," said God, "the hills, the sea, the
sky, the stars."
And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look
around.
Lucky me, lucky mud.
I, mud, sat up and saw what a nice job God had done.
Nice going, God.
Nobody but you could have done it, God! I certainly
couldn't have.
I feel very unimportant compared to You.
The only way I can feel the least bit important is to
think of all the mud that didn't even get to sit up and
look around.
I got so much, and most mud got so little.
Thank you for the honor!
Now mud lies down again and goes to sleep.
What memories for mud to have!
What interesting other kinds of sitting-up mud I met!
I loved everything I saw!
Good night.
I will go to heaven now.
I can hardly wait...
To find out for certain what my wampeter was...
And who was in my karass...
And all the good things our karass did for you.
Amen.”
― Cat’s Cradle
God got lonesome.
So God said to some of the mud, "Sit up!"
"See all I've made," said God, "the hills, the sea, the
sky, the stars."
And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look
around.
Lucky me, lucky mud.
I, mud, sat up and saw what a nice job God had done.
Nice going, God.
Nobody but you could have done it, God! I certainly
couldn't have.
I feel very unimportant compared to You.
The only way I can feel the least bit important is to
think of all the mud that didn't even get to sit up and
look around.
I got so much, and most mud got so little.
Thank you for the honor!
Now mud lies down again and goes to sleep.
What memories for mud to have!
What interesting other kinds of sitting-up mud I met!
I loved everything I saw!
Good night.
I will go to heaven now.
I can hardly wait...
To find out for certain what my wampeter was...
And who was in my karass...
And all the good things our karass did for you.
Amen.”
― Cat’s Cradle
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
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Susan wrote: "Good heavens, I'm way behind. I've been reading books mostly related to hospice volunteer work, and the chaplaincy training (this program an intersection of Zen and Jungian theory) for which I too..."Hi, Susan! My world is full of genre fiction and parenting books these days. I think of you so often and wonder what you are up to--sounds like something very interesting--would love to hear more about this chaplaincy training.
Good heavens, I'm way behind. I've been reading books mostly related to hospice volunteer work, and the chaplaincy training (this program an intersection of Zen and Jungian theory) for which I took the foundations course last year, and commence the first unit of CPE is September. The one that most knocked me out recently was Ira Byock's Dying Well. Last year Larry Dossey's book on prayer really put me in orbit, and still resonates in my daily life.
