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TheAromaofBooks
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For those of you who like planning ahead - the 2025 #ISpyBingo challenge is now available on Storygraph!!!

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

I am going to TRY to be better about posting each month's board a week or two before the month starts, and tagging those who wish to be tagged 😂 If you want to be on that tag list, let me know!!

The Storygraph link has the “rules“ to this challenge ⬇

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) which, like most of my challenges, are pretty loosey-goosey haha

But the basics are that items can be found anywhere on the outside of the book (front, back, spine) unless specified otherwise. Any item can be either a picture of that item OR the word (so a candle or the word candle) unless the item is listed in quotation marks, which means you have to find those exact words.

If you would like to see the entire year of bingo boards ⬇
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TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) here is a Canva link that should let you view/screenshot them -

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

You can do one board a month or work on all 12 the whole year. Or you can be complicated like me and start each month's board on the first of the month, but give yourself an entire year to clear it to keep things fresh 😁 ⬇
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TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) Literally whatever works for you!! Let me know if you have any questions or if a link doesn't work or if there is a glaring spelling error, etc. Happy searching!!

@BarbaraBB @Faranae @lauredhel @LiseWorks @Read4life @peanutnine @PuddleJumper @willaful
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PuddleJumper Yay! I'm excited 3w
BarbaraBB Perfect! Thanks! 3w
LiseWorks Fantastic, I love this 3w
Read4life Thank you!! 💙📚💙 3w
Deblovestoread Joined on Storygraph. Please add me to your tagged list. 3w
PuddleJumper Is there a place with all this year's boards? I've not been keeping up but I'm gonna use them for extra points 😂 3w
willaful What a nice job you did on the boards! I can see the advantage of Canva. 3w
TheAromaofBooks @willaful - Thank you!! I had wayyyy too much fun picking backgrounds, and Canva does a thing when you are picking your font color where it has several colors that are IN the background, so I got to have matching fonts, too 😂 3w
julieclair Thanks for doing all 12 boards at once! I‘ve joined the SG challenge. Please tag me here on Litsy, too. Thanks, Sarah! 😃 2w
jenniferw88 Please tag me for this, please, Sarah! 5d
Sarahreadstoomuch Very excited for this - I‘d love to be on the tag list! 2h
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willaful
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Two bingos, an excellent month for me! But how irritating that I read two graphic novels this month that showed pictures of students with tons of objects on the cover and neither of them had a laptop or scissors or a freakin' apple. One didn't even make the board!

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Looking great!! 3w
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TheAromaofBooks
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So I've fallen a bit off the bandwagon with the #ISpyBingo challenge this year, but here is December's board - anyone is welcome to participate!!

I have refreshed this challenge for 2025 and will be posting 12 new boards!! I seem to have lost the tag list for this challenge, if I ever had one (lol) so please let me know if you'd like to be tagged with the 2025 boards coming as soon as I finish getting this challenge loaded onto Storygraph. ⬇

TheAromaofBooks @Clowjick came up with the idea for this challenge and I cohosted with her last year, but she's busy with real life these days and has told me I am free to take over the challenge so here we are 😂 I'm pretty stoked about the 2025 boards as I really enjoy this challenge.

At any rate, feel free to use this one for WinterGames or just for fun. Every book can mark off more than one item. These items need to be on the cover of the book, can be on ⬇
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TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) the front, back, or spine!! Let me know if you have any questions - happy spying!! 3w
PuddleJumper Yay another board! I'm doing the whole challenge as a year long thing rather than month by month. I wouldn't get any of the prompts that way. Got 184/300 so far 😅 3w
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TheAromaofBooks @PuddleJumper - I've been doing the same thing. But I think next year I'm going to start a new one every month, but give myself a whole year to clear it. So I start January on 1/1/25 and have to be done by 12/31/25, but February starts 2/1/25 and has to be done by 1/31/26. I cleared sooo many prompts in January/February/March last year and then the rest of year hasn't been as fun 😂 3w
Sarahreadstoomuch I enjoy the #ISpyBingo too, but I‘m not great about posting my progress. As much as I meant to start a new board each month and go back to complete older ones, I totally forgot and will do a better job in 2025! I see your wrap-around approach, or really a year for each board… and I might do that too…. Depends on how my logs line up! lol 3w
LiseWorks I love the#ISpyBoards but really can't finish them in a month, so I have been working on them. I have Jan to July all done. I can't wait for the Dec 3w
Read4life Please tag me!!! Thanks. 3w
willaful please tag me. 3w
peanutnine Woohoo this challenge has been fun! I've been working through all the boards all year and I've managed to get a bunch filled! Please tag me for next year ☺️ 3w
Faranae Add me to the taglist! 3w
BarbaraBB I‘d like to give it a try again! Are you on Storygraph again as well? 3w
TheAromaofBooks @BarbaraBB - It will be!! I'm slowly getting all the prompts entered haha 3w
willaful Tag me please. 3w
MatchlessMarie Tag me for the 2025 boards please! 2w
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JuliaTheBookNerd
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#Game-Puzzle #Game #Puzzle 🧩

#DaysDevotedTo… 🍂☕️🧣🍁🌙🥧🕯

#BookNerd 🤓📚💙

Eggs Lovely tableau🧩 1mo
DogMomIrene So many gorgeous sets of books! 1mo
CoverToCoverGirl 🤩🤩🤩… just fainted with happiness after seeing your library. 1mo
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suvata
The Inheritance Games | Jennifer Lynn Barnes
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Pickpick

4 Stars • Avery Grambs, a high school senior, inherits a billionaire's fortune from Tobias Hawthorne, a man she never met. She must live in his mansion with his four grandsons—Nash, Grayson, Jasper, and Xander—while solving puzzles to uncover why she was chosen. The book explores family secrets, rivalry, and Avery's journey to understand her unexpected legacy, leaving many mysteries for subsequent books in the series.

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LeslieO
Where's Waldo Now? | Martin Handford
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I feel like I should have done better, as a retired school librarian. And having been a librarian I‘m not really surprised at any of the books on the list. People will complain about the weirdest things. #IReadBannedBooks #TLT #ThreeListThursday

Here‘s three of my favs from the list
📖 Speak
📖 Monster
📖 Eleanor and Park

dabbe Same here, as a retired English teacher! More for our TBR? Or not. Thanks for playing and sharing! 🧡🤎💛 3mo
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kelli7990
Coffee Time | Helene Hovanec
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AllDebooks Thanks for playing. X 3mo
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AllDebooks
Coffee Time | Helene Hovanec
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Well that week was a blur! Happy #SaturdayChatterday 😊

☕️ Are you having a good weekend?
☕️ What are you up to today?
☕️ Where are you?
☕️ What are your plans for next week?
☕️ Any recommendations - books, places, films/tv shows etc?

@IndoorDame @dabbe @Eggs @TheBookHippie @Chrissyreadit @jenniferw88

AllDebooks I'm off to a 3 yr olds birthday party 🎉 this afternoon. Then, plan a lazy evening catching up on #buddyreads I'm really enjoying revisiting 3mo
Bookwormjillk It certainly was a blur! 3mo
AllDebooks Recommendations- I'm so thrilled Only murders in the building is back, perfect Autumnal tv. I also enjoyed The perfect couple. 3mo
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Librarybelle I was wondering about The Perfect Couple…good to know you enjoyed it! 3mo
IndoorDame It‘s mostly a rest and recovery weekend for me with a bit of housekeeping thrown in so I‘m super excited that there‘s a new season of Call The Midwife to keep me entertained! Loving my current buddy reads The Flight Portfolio and The Hotel, but looking around for a new read-at-your-own-pace book. 3mo
TheBookHippie My son‘s XC race at the butt crack of dawn 🤣🤣🤣🏃🏻 I‘m with @IndoorDame and watching Call the Midwife. Loving all my buddyreads currently! Finalizing my choices for my 2025 lists of group reading I do! 3mo
TheBookHippie FYI Mr BookHippie and I just finished White Collar on Netflix that was fun. He watched the Scott Peterson thing and said yup he‘s still guilty …. I will not watch it. 3mo
Read4life Relaxing and planning for next week. My daughter has her MRI so we‘re going back up to her to meet with the doctors again. I‘ll need to pack and get some things done at home. I also had to move Dr appointments to the beginning of the week so my M-W are now very busy and then the 7 hour drive. Audiobooks are my friends 🤓 3mo
dabbe @TheBookHippie Oh man, that trial! So hard to revisit. He's guilty as the day is long. 3mo
dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 3mo
AllDebooks @Librarybelle it was good. x 3mo
AllDebooks @IndoorDame enjoy 😀 Thanks for the recs x 3mo
AllDebooks @TheBookHippie idk either of those, will check them out x 3mo
AllDebooks @Read4life I hope all goes well with the scan and drs appts x 3mo
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Gryffleclaw95
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“The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers” was a cute and cozy read about finding yourself and new-found family that was immersed in the vast field of puzzles. I enjoyed this story, and I found that it is a great light read that is also heartwarming.