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I Spy: A Book of Picture Riddles | Walter Wick, Jean Marzollo

I managed one bingo on the January #ISpyBingo board.
I‘ll continue working on it throughout the year.

TheAromaofBooks

LiseWorks Nicely done. Me too. i managed one bingo line and keep working on it 6d

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Looking great!! 6d

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Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick

Murdle: Volume 2: 100 Elementary to Impossible Mysteries to Solve Using Logic, Skill, and the Power of Deduction | G. T. Karber

I'm going outside the box for one of my reading challenge prompts this year. I'm working through a book of logic puzzles. I'm still reading, but I'm also checking for comprehension. I couldn't bring myself to write in the book in case I pass it along when I'm done, so I'm using one of my MANY little notebooks to good use. Who's doing something similar?

Which tag is everyone using? 😁
#52books #52bookclub #the52bookclub #the52bookclub2025

Librarybelle I‘m using #52BookClub25 🤷🏻‍♀️ 7d

InkedBookworm13 I have volume 1 of that book, and it's pretty fun. Good luck with your puzzles. 😀 7d

mhillis That‘s so fun!! 6d

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AnneCecilie I bought the first volume in this series and couldn‘t get past the first puzzle. Am I supposed to look at them as a sudoko puzzle? 6d

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick @Librarybelle Thanks! Perhaps I'll join you on that hashtag. Now, if only I could get my butt in gear to actually review the few I've read.... 6d

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick @InkedBookworm13 I had every intention of picking up Volume 1, but it was out of stock at the local bookstores I was visiting, so I figured Volume 2 would be a fine place to start. Good luck with your puzzles, too! 6d

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick @mhillis It had been so far! A little break from just straight reading. 6d

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick @AnneCecilie In a way, yes. You'll need to use the descriptions and clues to determine which person had which object and where they had it. For the beginner puzzles, each 9 square box should have one checkmark indicating yes in each row & column. Some clues will eliminate a pairing, so you can use an X. Then, you use your deduction skills. I learned these as a kid, so I didn't need to look at the instructions, but they seem OK. 6d

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick @AnneCecilie If Ms X has the necklace, I'd ✅️ her box, then ❎️ out the other two suspects for the necklace. Other clues may eliminate an option, so you have to infer based on the other info provided. If you still have trouble, perhaps I can scan one of mine & email or arrange a Teams meeting to discuss it with you. The larger ones may prove more troublesome, but the beginner ones should be easier to catch into one you pick up how to do them. 6d

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TheAromaofBooks

I Spy Treasure Hunt: A Book of Picture Riddles | Jean Marzollo

Here is February's #ISpyBingo board!! A reminder that you can play these however you like, but I encourage covering multiple prompts with one book if you can!!

Link to all the 2025 boards: https://www.canva.com/design/DAGVO4NctsY/-lGsmflP3sUW9FsAung8hg/view?utm_content... ⬇

TheAromaofBooks Link to Storygraph: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/85a6eb78-a914-4e84-a200-9073f75...

Anyone can play, but I'm tagging those who said they'd like a monthly reminder!!

@BarbaraBB @Deblovestoread @Faranae @julieclair @lauredhel @LiseWorks @LitsyEvents @MatchlessMarie @Read4life @peanutnine @PuddleJumper @willaful @Sarahreadstoomuch @OriginalCyn620 @Julies_Bookshelf_Adventures @cewilf 1w

Lauredhel Ooh I should put up my Jan board progress 1w

LiseWorks Thank you 1w

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BarbaraBB Thanks! I have matches all my unread books to a 2025 prompt in Storygraph but don‘t have read all the books I could match to a January prompt! 1w

Faranae Goodness, I've been forgetting to add books to my challenges, this and even *my own* haha. Grabbing the February board is a good reminder, thank you! 1w

Deblovestoread Yay! 🩷❤️🩷 1w

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Ruthiella

The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws | Margaret Drabble

so-so

#OffMyShelf “hardback”

This book disappointed me. It‘s not quite memoir nor is it a proper history of jigsaw puzzles or of children‘s games. It‘s a hodgepodge and, IMO, it didn‘t always hang together. Some will find the hodgepodge charming, no doubt. Still, Drabble is a good writer, so it wasn‘t always a slog and I did learn the occasional fact, which hopefully I will remember. Like the Temple of Mithras in London.

wanderinglynn

CaramelLunacy What does it say about the Temple of Mithras? 4w

Ruthiella @CaramelLunacy Not much. Just that it exists in London as part of the “jigsaw” composition of that venerable city. But I googled it and fell down an internet rabbit hole as a result. 4w

wanderinglynn 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 another one off your shelf! 4w

Ruthiella @wanderinglynn Progress! 4w

CaramelLunacy @Ruthiella the best kind of rabbit hole 4w

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Alaina.Doherty

The Inheritance Games | Jennifer Lynn Barnes

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The inheritance games was a fun and entertaining experience. The chapters were short and had something new with every page that continuously adds to the plot. Avery Grambs, the main protagonist of this tail, started with nothing and then is given the entire inheritance of a billionaire in Texas. She is told to inherit the entire fortune she has to live in the Hawthorne house for a year. The Hawthorne family has four grandsons to the billionaire.

Alaina.Doherty Xander, Jameson, Grayson, and Nash. Avery is in a sticky situation when she finds herself falling for two of the grandsons. She then is faced with many problems and her investigating of why she was given billions from a complete strangler, leaves her with some consequential predicaments. 4w

Alaina.Doherty This first person novel is similar to little white lies. A book written by the same author as the inheritance games, where the protagonist is given money to live in a house with her grandmother for a year. If you read and enjoyed little white lies you will adore the inheritance games. 4w

Alaina.Doherty The inheritance games has a couple themes through out as the story progresses, but Avery learns something from each of the grandsons. From Nash she learns it‘s important to be yourself while being on top, you also have to be sharp in this world rather than delicate like the glass ballerina or the knife. From Jameson she learns adventure and games are fun to an extent because if you go to far you could end up hurt. 3w

Alaina.Doherty From Grayson she learns loyalty and respect are two different but cohesive qualities. And from Xander she learns kindness and solidarity through his actions towards her when he decides not to care that Avery got most of the family fortune. The whole book put together has a common qualities but one topic that shows up often is family. Family is the most important element to the brothers and they have each others back as well as having Avery‘s back. 3w

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Ruthiella

The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws | Margaret Drabble

#WhereAreYouMonday

I‘m mainly in Long Bennington in Lincolnshire off the Great North Road where Margaret Drabble‘s maternal grandparents had a tea house and lodging during her childhood. This is a gentle, introspective memoir, focusing mainly on one favorite aunt, but also quite meandering.

Cupcake12

LeahBergen Well, this sounds fascinating! 1mo

Ruthiella @LeahBergen It‘s a bit of a hodgepodge so far, but if you like Drabble as an author, I‘d recommend it. 1mo

readingjedi ...with jigsaws?!? I'm stacking! 🧩🧩🧩 1mo

Ruthiella @readingjedi Jigsaws do come up because they were a shared activity between Drabble and her aunt. But it‘s not the focus of the book, alas. I also love jigsaw puzzles 🧩! 1mo

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LitsyEvents

I Spy Treasure Hunt: A Book of Picture Riddles | Jean Marzollo

Repost for @TheAromaofBooks

Whoops, already dropping the ball on posting the #ISpyBingo board each month 😂 Here is January's board!! You can play this however you like - I personally let a single book fill as many prompts as it can, or you can do one prompt per book, whatever you like best!! If you want all 12 boards for the year, let me know and I'll post the link!!

Original post - https://www.litsy.com/web/post/2824895

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Thank you for sharing!! 1mo

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TheAromaofBooks

I Spy Treasure Hunt: A Book of Picture Riddles | Jean Marzollo

Whoops, already dropping the ball on posting the #ISpyBingo board each month 😂 Here is January's board!! You can play this however you like - I personally let a single book fill as many prompts as it can, or you can do one prompt per book, whatever you like best!! If you want all 12 boards for the year, let me know and I'll post the link!!

TheAromaofBooks @BarbaraBB @Deblovestoread @Faranae @julieclair @lauredhel @LiseWorks @LitsyEvents @MatchlessMarie @Read4life @peanutnine @PuddleJumper @willaful @Sarahreadstoomuch 1mo

Read4life I loved working the boards all year so I‘d like the link please. 1mo

peanutnine Yes please could you share the link for all the boards? I love this challenge 1mo

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ElizaMarie Can you add me to the tag? I loved doing them in the past, but I forgot to look up the boards. 1mo

Faranae Never fear, you'd posted January's board when you announced doing this for 2025, so now I have two copies. I think I'll do it your way - a book can fill as many prompts as it can. Keep it fun and low stress. ❤ 1mo

TheAromaofBooks https://www.canva.com/design/DAGVO4NctsY/-lGsmflP3sUW9FsAung8hg/view?utm_content... 1mo

TheAromaofBooks @Read4life @peanutnine @ElizaMarie - Check the link above and let me know if it works?? I think it will take you to the Canva doc where I made all the boards!! But I'm not completely sure if it's the right thing haha 1mo

peanutnine @TheAromaofBooks looks good to me! Thanks! 😊 1mo

OriginalCyn620 Yay! I‘m in for this year! 😊 1mo

Read4life Thank you. Looks good!! 1mo

ElizaMarie It works thanks!!!! 1mo

julieclair Yay! Thanks for the link. I‘m going to work all the boards all year, and see how many I can get. I‘m sure it‘s a lot of work to set all this up. Thank you, Sarah. This is such a fun challenge. 🙂🩵 1mo

CoffeeNBooks Thank you for doing all this! 1mo

Julies_Bookshelf_Adventures This looks like so much fun! Could you add me to the tag? 3w

TheAromaofBooks @Jules_Bookshelf_Adventures - Absolutely!! And if you want to plan ahead/play all twelve boards all year, there is a link in one of the earlier comments to all the 2025 boards, plus I'll try to remember to actually post each month's board here 😂 I also have the prompts on StoryGraph if you're active there: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/85a6eb78-a914-4e84-a200-9073f75... 3w

cewilf This is so fun!! I‘m in (edited) 2w

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Amiable

Puzzles | Brian Wildsmith

I WAS planning on starting this puzzle to work on throughout the month, but my rocket-scientist son came home and completed it in 24 hours. So, um… yeah. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Mollyanna 😂. Great puzzle. 1mo

Cupcake12 Love this x 1mo

Ruthiella You can undo it and start again! 1mo

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Karisimo My brother and I did this to our mom- I hope she restarts it! 1mo

dabbe 🤩🥳🤗 1mo

AnnCrystal 😎👍💫🧩💝. (edited) 1mo

Meshell1313 Love! 😍 1mo

Gissy Definitely a book lover puzzle😍👌 1mo

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Mpcacher

The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers: A novel | Samuel Burr

As someone who enjoys puzzles of all types, I had to give this one a shot. It is a sweet story about friends and chosen family and I enjoyed it. It did take me a little longer to read than normal, as I kept stopping to solve the puzzles myself. This is a light read, with a bit of a mystery and a touch of romance and was a lovely calm choice during the crazy build up to Christmas. This is a debut novel and I will watch for more. 3.75/5 stars

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