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Jeanette Johnson
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Retired school principal. Now I coach school admins who want to be effective leaders without burning themselves out - it’s possible! I love kind people, animals, reading, travel, & good vegetarian food. Dislike cruelty, coffee, and hearing people whistle.
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Was traveling, so I’m a couple of days late with my October @thestorygraph.com - some good reads this month!
Chart of books read in October - 9 in total
November 3, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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My September @thestorygraph.com wrap up …
Chart showing 4 books read in September
October 1, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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My August @thestorygraph.com summary. I also had a rare DNF (“Salt: A World History”).
August reading summary, showing 3 books finished
September 1, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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My July @thestorygraph.com … I think that’s the fewest books in a month since I retired 🤣
July reading stats… just three books this month!
August 1, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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My May @thestorygraph.com reading summary
Chart showing 7 books read in May. Top ratings to All the Beauty in the World, and Book Lovers
June 1, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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My April @thestorygraph.com I read a couple of dense books this month, so my pace was a little slower than it has been. But good stuff, nevertheless.
Graph showing 5 books read, with an average rating of 4.0
May 2, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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My March @thestorygraph.com - two good memoirs this month!
StoryGraph graphics showing 7 books read, average rating 3.14
April 1, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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My February StoryGraph. Expanded repertoire this month thx to @thestorygraph rdg challenges. Some of it has been great- read a terrific nonfiction book about modern art I’d usually never have read- & some of it not so great (currently reading a book that may actually become my 1st DNF book in yrs)
Chart showing readjng stats: 8 books read, 3496 total pages, average rating 3.81. Chart has images of the covers of my 3 highest rated books for the month: Big Little Lies, Rule of Wolves, and Pictures of You. There are also full color pie, bar, and graph charts showing fiction/nonfiction percentages, print/digital format percentages, genres read, and pages read per day.
March 1, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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My January @thestorygraph.com stats 🥰🤓📚
A StoryGraph chart showing books read and their genres
February 1, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Everyone please report and block the imposter account I’ve screenshotted here:
Imposter account photo
January 14, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Sky and Sea
craft a mosaic
of possibilities
and pipe dreams

I could soar to the heavens
Like a wave driving against #ice
I could sink to the deep
Like a stone dropping through water

I could

But I won’t

Instead I’ll feel black sand tether me to Earth
and picture what might have been

#vss365
A photo taken at Diamond Beach at the Jokulsarlon glacier lagoon in Iceland. The sky is vivid shades of blue, filled with a wispy layering of white clouds. Dark blue water stretches off to the horizon. In the foreground is the black sand of the beach, almost completely covered by ice blocks (which have broken off of the glacier over time) of all shapes and sizes, in shades of whites and blues. Many of the ice blocks sparkle from the muted sun coming from behind the clouds in the upper right of the photo. Almost in the center of the picture, a single wave is crashing up toward the sky, having broken against some of the ice.
January 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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And here’s my 2024 wrap-up

#books
#booksky
#storygraph
2024 reading wrapup showing 51 books read, 23,596 pages
January 1, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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My December StoryGraph thanks to @thestorygraph.com - I’m curious to see how these stats will change with me doing their 2025 Reading Challenges. Happy New Reading Year!

#books
#booksky
#storygraph
Screenshot of my December StoryGraph wrap up. It shows 8 books read, totaling 3386 pages, with an average rating of 3.88. Highest rated reads were The Ashes & The Star Cursed King (5.0), King of Scars (4.5), and Funny Story (4.0). 100% of books read were fiction; 63% were in print and 37% digital. Biggest categories were romance and fantasy, followed by contemporary, historical, and sports
January 1, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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I couldn’t share as direct link fr LinkedIn, but this is good from Jason Kaplan. Principals, step into the real role you were hired for. It’s not your job to “run the building”, but to coach, mentor, support, motivate those doing the work that runs the building.

#edusky
#leadership
#principal
Screenshot of LinkedIn post describing the move from manager to executive.
December 11, 2024 at 6:09 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 20/20

#booksky
#bookchallenge
#books

#enneagram
#selfknowledge
#interpersonal
#intrapersonal
Screenshot of the cover of the book, “The Complete Enneagram: 27 Paths to Greater Self-Knowledge”, by Beatrice Chestnut, PhD. The bottom third of the cover is white, with the title, subtitle and author’s name written on it. All of that writing is in black except for the word complete which is in purple. The top 2/3 of the cover shows of a large, lush tree reflected in water in front of it. Rowton the tree and it’s ref is a large circle with three crisscrossing triangles inside it, the symbol of the Enneagram.
December 4, 2024 at 3:07 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 19/20

#booksky
#bookchallenge
#books

#rebeccayarros
#fourthwing
#fantasy
#romantasy
Screenshot of the cover of the book, “Fourth Wing”, by Rebecca Yarros. The background of the cover starts at the top as a pale tan, and then get slightly orange towards the bottom. There is a drawing of a large circle with clouds inside it taking up about 2/3 of the cover. Inside that circle the title the book is printed in all black sans serif all caps, and the drawing of a dragon is located right in the center of the title. Another dragon is towards the top of the circle flying away. Above the title in very small print it says fly or die. The authors name is printed in all caps at the bottom.
December 3, 2024 at 2:11 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 18/20

#booksky
#bookchallenge
#books

#mbti
#intrapersonal
#interpersonal
#relationships
Screenshot of the cover of the book, “Personality Hacker: Harness the power of your personality type to transform your work, relationships, and life” by Joel Mark Witt and Antonia Dodge. Background is mostly white, with a block of light blue in the upper third and a small strip at the bottom. The central image in the large white area is a string of lines with circles at the end of them, sort of looking like a subway map, but overall making the shape of a brain. The lines/nodes are grouped into lines composed of four colors: gold, orange, blue, and green. All lines start from a square box at the core of the “brain”, again divided into four triangles inside it each made of one of those same four colors. The title is printed in all caps, sans serif white type in the blue section at the top, and the subhead is in small black sans serif type just above the “brain” in the white section of the book. The authors’ names are in the same black type underneath the “brain”.
December 2, 2024 at 2:54 PM
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My November #storygraph

(Still kinda messed up because this is the month I started using it, so that weird spike early in the month is just when I started)
A StoryGraph of my November reading. 6 books, 3143 pages My StoryGraph for the month shows it as all fiction. It was a month for fantasy/romantasy
December 2, 2024 at 3:17 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 17/20

#booksky
#bookchallenge
#books

#janeausten
#prideandprejudice
Screenshot of the cover of the book, “Pride and Prejudice”, by Jane Austen. The background of the cover is mostly a pale yellow, and two figures are sketched in color - on the left of the cover is a “dandy” of a man, dressed in brown waistcoat and blue vest - classical regency England clothing, and on the right of the cover is a woman in a simple yellow gown, her hair on top of her head. The man is looking down toward the woman in a haughty way, and the woman is staring off idly into the distance. The title is printed in all caps black type near the top of the cover, and the author’s name is in white superimposed on a large black square taking up about the bottom fourth of the cover.
December 1, 2024 at 2:54 PM
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Happy seasonal #caturday
A cat is wearing a red and green Christmas tie, and is being held up for the camera. The cat is mostly cream colored with a white snout, white whiskers, and a light pink nose. His eyes are light hazel. The cat is looking just to the left of the camera, and does not look happy being subjected to this Christmas wear. A grey Russian Blue cat is sitting on a light colored Berber carpet. He is wearing a Santa hat that has a cloth mouse hanging from underneath. The hat is flattening out the cat’s ears so that the cat looks angry. The cat is also staring directly into the camera with his green eyes, adding to the “I’m going to kill you” sense of the cat’s attitude. Note: the cat is not actually angry - this was the sweetest cat ever and he never got angry. Which is part of what makes this photo even funnier.
November 30, 2024 at 5:06 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 16/20

#booksky
#bookchallenge
#books

#kondo
#sparkjoy
#tidying
Screenshot of the cover of the book, “the life-changing magic of tidying up: the Japanese art of decluttering and organizing”, by Marie Kondo. Cover is of what appears to be a pale sky, very light blue and white, with a few wispy white clouds near the top. The title is printed just under half way down the cover, in all lower case red serif font, with the subhead under it in slightly smaller black serif all lower case font. The author’s name is printed near the bottom right in all lower case black serif font.
November 30, 2024 at 1:21 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 15/20

#booksky
#bookchallenge
#books

#ACOTAR
#romance
#fantasy
#romantasy
Screenshot of the cover of the book, “A Court of Thorns and Roses”, by Sarah J Maas. The cover is a mid-shade of red. A large beast, drawn in fanciful swirls and squiggly lines of black ink, fills almost the entire cover. The beast has a wolf-like head, very sharp claws and fangs, and an enormous body. Superimposed over the wild, taking up all but a tiny sliver at the top of the cover and about 1/5 of the bottom, is the title, printed in all caps, serif font and yellow type. Just underneath that, in smaller font, is the author’s name in all caps serif font, white type. There are also small printed references to the author as a NYT #1 author, and a brief pull quote as a review.
November 29, 2024 at 1:51 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 14/20

#booksky
#bookchallenge
#books

#personalgrowth
#selfhelp
#classic
#sevenhabits
#covey
Screenshot of the cover of the book, “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” by Stephen R Covey. The top half has mostly a red background, with a sun-colored light glowing from the middle of the red. The title of the book is printed on top of that red, in all caps. Underneath that section, the rest of the cover has a white background, with various things printed on it in smaller type than the cover. The subhead (Powerful Lessons in Personal Change) is in blue, the author’s name is in red. A pull quote reviewing the book is in black. Along the very top of the cover it says “Over 15 Million Sold”
November 28, 2024 at 1:02 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 13/20

#booksky
#bookchallenge
#books

#dogs
#humor
#tearjerker
Screenshot of the cover of the book, “Marley & Me: life and love with the world’s worst dog” by John Grogan. The cover is a picture of a cream-colored Labrador retriever puppy, sitting with his head cocked slightly to the right as he looks just off to the right of whoever is taking the photo. It looks like his paws may be dirty. He’s wearing a red cloth collar. He’s sitting on a cream colored carpet, and behind him is a small footrest in brown wood with a cream colored top. The title of the book is written in large serif font across the bottom third of the book (and runs across the lower legs of the dog). The subhead is printed in all lower case across the top of the cover. The author’s name is printed in all lower case just below the title.
November 27, 2024 at 12:58 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 12/20

#booksky
#bookchallenge
#books

#possibility
#teaching
#openheartedness
Screenshot of the cover of the book, “The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life”, by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander. The background of the cover is a bright yellow, and most of the type is in a thin-font black. The title, in all caps, is printed about a third of the way down the cover, and the subhead, in smaller type, is printed just above it. A thin line then bisects the cover, underneath that are the two co-authors’ names (each in all caps, Rosamund’s name slightly larger than Benjamin’s). Almost at the bottom of the cover is a promotional review quote: “One of the nost inspfring, pratical, and uplifting books I have ever read. The very act of reading it with an open heart and mind will improve your health!" -Christiane Northrup. M.D. The title is also written in very large white cursive script across the cover, set behind the rest of the words on the cover- these words are so large that the only things that fit on the front are the words “Art” and “bility”
November 26, 2024 at 12:29 PM