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Boggle is a word game in which players try to find as many words as they can from a grid of lettered dice, within a set time limit. But I think we can use that grid of letters to help us with our TBR lists.

Can you spell a word on the Boggle board using your TBR books?

The letter must connect to a book on your TBR in an obvious way. Such as:
the author's first, middle, or last initial
the month that the book was published
the publisher's name
the first word of the title (you can use or ignore A, An, The)
the first word of the series name (you can use or ignore A, An, The)
the MC's first or last name
the narrator's first or last name
the name of the location where the book is set
the book's MPG (like: Fiction, Adventure, Childrens, Romance)

Rules:
Duration: January 1 - 31, 2025
* No page limit.
* No letter limit for words. I will accept words as short as 1 letter.
* You cannot use any letter on the Boggle board more than once in a word, and the consecutive letters of your words must be adjacent to each other horizontally, vertically, or even diagonally.
* The book must have been on your TBR list for at least one day. (Actually, I don't even mind if you use books that are not on your TBR list :)

January's Boggle board

My spot!

COMPLETED

Is Your TBR List Boggling? (January)
Duration: January 1, 2025 - January 31, 2025

Can you spell a word on the Boggle board using your TBR books?

The letter must connect to a book on your TBR in an obvious way. Such as:
the author's first, middle, or last initial
the month that the book was published
the publisher's name
the first word of the title (you can use or ignore A, An, The)
the first word of the series name (you can use or ignore A, An, The)
the MC's first or last name
the narrator's first or last name
the name of the location where the book is set
the book's MPG (like: Fiction, Adventure, Childrens, Romance)

Rules:
* No page limit.
* No letter limit for words. I will accept words as short as 1 letter.
* You cannot use any letter on the Boggle board more than once in a word, and the consecutive letters of your words must be adjacent to each other horizontally, vertically, or even diagonally.
* The book must have been on your TBR list for at least one day. (Actually, I don't even mind if you use books that are not on your TBR list :)



DAILY
D: Dances with Wolves - Michael Blake 1/17/25
A: Aldous Huxley - Crome Yellow 1/12/25
I: If He Had Been With Me - Laura Nowlin 1/9/25
L: Lauren DeStefano - Wither 1/4/25
Y: The Yellow House - Emily O'Grady 1/11/25

BANS
B: Baby Teeth - Zoje Stage 1/1/25
A: All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy 1/5/25
N: Nikki Turner - The Banks Sisters 1/12/25
S: Secrets of a Charmed Life - Susan Meissner 1/2/25

TENTS
T: The 23rd Midnight - James Patterson 1/8/25
E: Emma - Jane Austen 1/7/25
N: Naomi Novik - His Majesty's Dragon 1/18/25
T: Thunder Point Series - The Wanderer - Robyn Carr 1/23/25
S: Safe Haven - Nicholas Sparks 1/19/25

GLAD
G: Gifted Thief - Helen Harper 1/24/25
L: Lisa See - Peony in Love 1/25/25
A: Adriana Trigiani - Home to Big Stone Gap 1/14/25
D: Davidson, MaryJanice - Undead and Uneasy 1/11/25

COAT
C: Crow Mary - Kathleen Grissom 1/15/25
O: One Weekend in Aspen - Jaime Clevenger 1/21/25
A: Anita de Monte Laughs Last - Xóchitl González 1/26/25
T: Tiffany L. Warren - Her Secret Life 1/26/25

January Boggle Board

Rules:
* No page limit.
* No letter limit for words. I will accept words as short as 1 letter.
* You cannot use any letter on the Boggle board more than once in a word, and the consecutive letters of your words must be adjacent to each other horizontally, vertically, or even diagonally.
* The book must have been on your TBR list for at least one day. (Actually, I don't even mind if you use books that are not on your TBR list :)

Words✒️-
D- December On A Night Like This by Barbara Freethy, 12th-17th Jan. Published in December 2012.
A- Always Always Been You by Jess Buffett, 6th-7th Jan.
I- Innis The Stoneheart Bride by Kati Wilde, 31st Jan. Flora lives in Innis.
L- Lauren Layne You Again by Lauren Layne, 3rd-23rd Jan.
Y- Yeeran Faebound by Saara El-Arifi, 2nd-10th Jan. One of the MCs is called Yeeran.

Is Your TBR List Boggling?
January 2025

My Boggling Challenge (msg 6)

Books Read ❱❱ 12


☑️G ❱❱ Grind ❱❱ first letter of title ❱❱ 01.02 ★★★★
☑️E ❱❱ The Crawling Darkness ❱❱ series Ellie Jordan, Ghost Trapper ❱❱ 01.13 ★★★
☑️N ❱❱ Songs for Perri ❱❱ author Nancy Radke ❱❱ 01.04 ★★★
☑️T ❱❱ The True Love Experiment ❱❱ first letter of title ❱❱ 01.10 ★★★★★



☑️B ❱❱ Can't Buy Me Love ❱❱ series Butler, Vermont ❱❱ 01.05 ★★★★
☑️A ❱❱ Scrimmage Gone South ❱❱ author Alicia Hunter Pace ❱❱ 01.11 ★★★★
☑️T ❱❱ Christmas in Destiny ❱❱ author Toni Blake ❱❱ 01.07 ★★★★


☑️D ❱❱ Graveyard Dog ❱❱ author Darynda Jones ❱❱ 01.03 ★★★★
☑️A ❱❱ Avenged ❱❱ first letter of title ❱❱ 01.23 ★★★★
☑️I ❱❱ Irish Rose ❱❱ first letter of title ❱❱ 01.25 ★★★★
☑️L ❱❱ Undone ❱❱ author Lila DiPasque ❱❱ 01.21 ★★★★
☑️Y ❱❱ Yield ❱❱ first letter of title ❱❱ 01.15 ★★★★

May I clarify the rules?

1. Do we read a book per letter? For example, a title starting with D?

2. Do we then go to a connecting letter and read another book? And keep going this way until we've formed a word? For example: D A Y = three books?

3. Going horizontally/vertically/diagonally: D A Y is diagonal; would D A I S Y work considering it's going different directions?

Can you tell I'm kinda clueless? 😂😂😂

Not clueless at all, Meg. You got it. And DAISY would work just fine.

January Boggle Board

Picked out a different word:

L Laurie Cass - Lending a Paw 01/22
I Isis Crawford - A Catered Tea Party 01/24
S Durlan Sukegawa - Sweet Bean Paste 01/15
T Robert Thorogood -Death Comes to Marlow 01/06
E Janet Evanovich - Now or Never 01/03
N Nancy Robards Thompson - Slay Bells Ring 01/03

January Boggling

Can you spell a word on the Boggle board using your TBR books?

The letter must connect to a book on your TBR in an obvious way. Such as:
the author's first, middle, or last initial
the month that the book was published
the publisher's name
the first word of the title (you can use or ignore A, An, The)
the first word of the series name (you can use or ignore A, An, The)
the MC's first or last name
the narrator's first or last name
the name of the location where the book is set
the book's MPG (like: Fiction, Adventure, Childrens, Romance)

Rules:
* No page limit.
* No letter limit for words. I will accept words as short as 1 letter.
* You cannot use any letter on the Boggle board more than once in a word, and the consecutive letters of your words must be adjacent to each other horizontally, vertically, or even diagonally.
* The book must have been on your TBR list for at least one day. (Actually, I don't even mind if you use books that are not on your TBR list :)

Can you spell a word on the Boggle board using your TBR books?

The letter must connect to a book on your TBR in an obvious way. Such as:
the author's first, middle, or last initial
the month that the book was published
the publisher's name
the first word of the title (you can use or ignore A, An, The)
the first word of the series name (you can use or ignore A, An, The)
the MC's first or last name
the narrator's first or last name
the name of the location where the book is set
the book's MPG (like: Fiction, Adventure, Childrens, Romance)

Rules:
* No page limit.
* No letter limit for words. I will accept words as short as 1 letter.
* You cannot use any letter on the Boggle board more than once in a word, and the consecutive letters of your words must be adjacent to each other horizontally, vertically, or even diagonally.
* The book must have been on your TBR list for at least one day. (Actually, I don't even mind if you use books that are not on your TBR list :)

S - Skipping Christmas by John Grisham - Finished 1/4/25 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Fits: First word in title
L -The Royal Marriage Arrangement by Rebecca Winters - Finished 1/12/25 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fits: MC name is Lucca
A - Dashing Through the Snow by Debbie Macomber - Finished 1/6/25 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fits: MC name is Ashley
T


C - Colleen Hoover author of Hopeless - Finished 1/11/25 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Fits: Author first name begins with a C
O
A - A Few Drops of Bitters by G.A. McKevett - Finished 1/18/25 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Fits: First word in the book is A
T

T
A Adam & Evie's Matchmaking Tour by Nora Nguyen - Finished 1/24/25 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Fits: First word in Title and MC name A
B Valerie Burns author of A Cup of Flour, A Pinch of Death
Fits: Author last name begins with a B

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January TBR Boggle Board

★B Beware of Chicken 4 22/1
★A MPG Audiobook Hunter's Moon 19/1
★N V Nator: Born Different: A Monster Evolution LitRPG 2/1
★S SOS Hotel: Friendly Sanctuary for the Fiendishly Fabulous 2/1

★C Cinnamon Bun 4 5/1
★O Otfried Preußler: Die kleine Hexe 1/1
★T The Seeker from the Stars 11/1

★R RavensDagger: Cinnamon Bun 5 10/1
★Y MPG Young Adult How to Seize a Dragon's Jewel 16/1
E

★G Gift Wrapped Box 11/1
E
★N MPG Non Fiction The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary 17/1
★T The Horny Ghost of My Dead Boyfriend 11/1
★S Sunbolt 13/1

★T Gav Thorpe: Raven's Flight 12/1
A
★I Paul Ian Cross: Praxx and the Lost Loonax 15/1
★L Little Horus 12/1
★S The Sigillite 16/1

★S Stupid Cupid 21/1
★T Thief of Revelations 19/1
E
N
★T The Way of the Househusband series: 極主夫道 12 Gokushufudō 12 18/1
★S Stuart Jaffe: Killer of Monsters 22/1

I'm in.
Going easy this month. I'll spell out SIT.

S - Sassinak 1/2/25 ****
I - I Am The Codyman 1/23/25 ****
T - The Robe of Skulls 1/4/25 ***

I managed to spell out my short word. I even used 2 books from my TBR list!!!

Can we work on multiple words or must we complete one word at a time?

Caraina wrote: "Can we work on multiple words or must we complete one word at a time?"

You are welcome to work on more than one word at a time.

I'm in..

I'll spell

C
L
A
Y

I'm done!

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Boggling January
Duration: 1/1/25 - 1/31/25

L - Melinda Leigh's Drown Her Sorrows (1/20/25)
I - Iris Johansen's The Naked Eye (1/29/25)
S - Mary Stone's Winter's Redemption (1/15/25)
T - Touch of Frost by Jennifer Estep (1/8/25)
E - Elizabeth Hoyt's The Leopard Prince (1/1/25)
N - Nalini Singh's Play of Passion (1/31/25)

Chose to find and spell 3 words - all done! Thanks for a great new challenge idea!
Updated post: My Boggling Challenge (msg 6)

Books Read ❱❱ 12