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Squaredle Squaredle is a daily word building game. Swipe letters in the grid to test your vocabulary every day and rise to the top of the leaderboards!

That deserves bonus points to be honest!

I played squaredle.com 03/10:
33/33 words (+3 bonus words)
🎯 Perfect accuracy
🔥 Solve streak: 25

I found it tricky today for some reason!

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Squaredle Squaredle is a daily word building game. Swipe letters in the grid to test your vocabulary every day and rise to the top of the leaderboards!

Felt quite tricky I thought!
I played squaredle.com 03/10:
33/33 words (+3 bonus words)
🎯 Perfect accuracy
🔥 Solve streak: 25

I was going for unis rather than states 😊 Well done both.

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Top Ten Tuesday – Book Titles Featuring Ordinal Numbers #TopTenTuesday #TTT #AnticipatedReads #TBR #Fictionophile #bookbloggers #TuesdayBookBlog @ArtsyReaderGirl #BookSky The rules are simple: Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want. Everyone is welcome to join but please …

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The Sweet Life Café by Helen Rolfe @BoldwoodBooks Book Description: Only a taste of home can heal old wounds ❤️‍🩹🧁☕️ When sisters Addie and Susanna receive invitations to a memorial for their Aunt Gayle, they’re heartbroken to learn the woman who …

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Dark Suits and Sad Songs by Denzil Meyrick Today it’s over to Mandie for her review of Dark Suits and Sad Songs as she continues her Denzil Meyrick series catch up. I read and reviewed the book a couple of years ago and you can read m…

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The Truth About Ruby Cooper by Liz Nugent @PenguinBooksUK @LizNugentwriter Source: Review copyPublication: 12 March 2026 from PenguinPP: 384ISBN-13:978-1844886791 My thanks to Penguin Books for an advance copy for review If my sister hadn’t been beautiful, none of it woul…

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Books Set in Hotels or Inns #Settings #BookList #BookBlogger #TuesdayBookBlog #TopTenTuesday - Reading Ladies Do you love books set in hotels or inns? I have a few recommendations today!

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#GuestPost from Cliff Lovette ~ Circus Bim Bom: A Cold War Adventure #newrelease #TuesdayBookBlog I’m delighted to welcome Cliff Lovette to the blog today with a guest post about his new release, published on March 1st 2026. Cliff explains how the story came to be. THE TRUE EVENTS THAT IN…

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#BookReview: The Shark by Emma Styles @BooksSphere #TheShark #BookTwitter #booktwt #BookSky #damppebbles “Every monster has a weakness. At the height of Australian summer, a serial killer known as The Shark stalks a coastal suburb, hunting young female swimmers. Afraid and furious at the failure…

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#TopTenTuesday : Book Titles Featuring Ordinal Numbers | #TuesdayBookBlog Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish, which is now being hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl. The rules are simple: Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic…

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ARC Review – The Time of My Life by Samantha Tonge @SamTongeWriter @BoldwoodBooks #BookReview #BlogTour #PublicationDay #RespectRomFic #TheTimeOfMyLife I’ve been reading Sam’s books since 2020. She was an author whom I discovered as I first started my blogging journey. Since then, I have read every one of her books and followed her well-earned suc…

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Starting Today – The Time of My Life by Samantha Tonge @BoldwoodBooks @LoveBooksTours #BookstagramTour #BookPromotion #Bookstagrammers #BookReviews Starting Today – The Time of My Life by Samantha Tonge We’re delighted to be partnering with Samantha Tonge and Boldwood Books for our latest Bookstagram Tour celebrating The Time of My Life. Runni…

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Top Ten Tuesday – 10/03/26 – Book Titles Featuring Ordinal Numbers #BookList #TopTenTuesday #TuesdayBookBlog #BookSky #SecretLibraryBookBlog Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to…

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#TopTenTuesday Take Your Positions – Ten Historical Fiction Book Series #TuesdayBookBlog Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl. The rules are simple: Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own…

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ShortBookandScribes #BookReview – Dead Heat by Sabine Durrant Dead Heat by Sabine Durrant will be published on 12th March 2026 by Century. My thanks to the publishers for the proof copy. Former journalist Matt Grimshaw’s life is at a low ebb. He’s…

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ClickWord Build words to score!

Meh! Top combo was a compromise eventually: alter x saz. Was hoping for unsafe across the top but the a had come too often to risk another.

ClickWord.org Daily 1130: 549 points (top 30% 🎉)
11 words:
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💪 Best word: 188 points
🔥 Streak: 105 days 🦉

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Top Ten Tuesday 10th March 2026: Ordinal Numbers  | #TopTenTuesday #amreading #bookrecommendations #TuesdayBookBlog #BookSky 💙📚 This week's topic: Ordinal Numbers It's an exciting Top Ten Tuesday for me this week as I chose the topic! It seemed like a good idea at the time but actual it was harder than I thought. The idea is to come up with ten books with an ordinal number in the title ie first, second, third etc. I did think I would try to go right from…

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This week's topic: Ordinal Numbers It's an exciting Top Ten Tuesday for me this week as I chose the topic! It seemed like a good idea at the time but actual it was harder…

Unexpectedly, me too!

Squareword - Daily Word Puzzle Game Play Squareword, the free daily word puzzle! Guess 5-letter words to uncover a 5x5 grid where every row and column forms a valid word. New puzzle every day!

squareword.org 1499: 8 guesses

First letter on second line away from a seven 😁

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<6:🟩 <11:🟨 <16:🟧 16+:🟥
#squareword #squareword1499

Strands #737
“Hey"”
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A fun one!

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Connections
Puzzle #1003
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Slight blip!

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Squaredle Squaredle is a daily word building game. Swipe letters in the grid to test your vocabulary every day and rise to the top of the leaderboards!

Yes, enjoyed speeding through this one!
I played squaredle.com 03/09:
34/34 words (+1 bonus word)
🎯 Perfect accuracy
🔥 Solve streak: 24

Lie With Me by Philippe Besson | Audiobook Review Lie With Me by Philippe Besson published with Penguin in 2019 & was translated from the original French by Molly Ringwald.

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Warning Signs by Tracy Sierra @tsierraauthor @tsierraauthor.bsky.social @michael.l.crouch @prhaudio @prhaudio.bsky.social #WarningSigns the setup… Zach is twelve years old and on a father-son backcountry ski weekend with his father Bram who has organized the trip for his top investors. His business is in trouble and Bram needs thei…

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#AudiobookReview – The Last Letter of Rachel Ellsworth by Barbara O’Neal #BookSky #TheLastLetterofRachelEllsworth #ContemporaryFiction #SecretLibraryBookBlog Synopsis: “Two women overcoming past traumas embark on a healing journey across continents in a novel about friendship, family, and rediscovery by the USA Today bestselling author of When We …

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Squaredle Squaredle is a daily word building game. Swipe letters in the grid to test your vocabulary every day and rise to the top of the leaderboards!

Same here, pleasingly speedy!

I played squaredle.com 03/09:
34/34 words (+1 bonus word)
🎯 Perfect accuracy
🔥 Solve streak: 24

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“The Vanishing” by Sophia Tobin – Book Review @SimonBooks @simonschusterE @SophiaTobin1 #TheVanishing #BookReview #BacklistReview #HistoricalFiction In this crazy, disturbing, modern world, it was a pleasure to escape to the Yorkshire Moors in the time of candlelight and chamber pots. I appreciated the setting and the antiquated jargon that put…

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Good Bad Girl by Alice Feeney @alicewriterland Book Description: Sometimes bad things happen to good people, so good people have to do bad things . . . Twenty years after a baby is stolen from her push-chair, a woman is murdered in a care home.…

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Cover Reveal! The Bone Mother Suzy Aspley – The Bone Mother I heard Suzy Aspley practice her pitch for what became her debut novel, Crow Moon, at an Edinburgh Noir At The Bar event just before Bloody Scotland in 2019. The…

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