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2025 Book Carnival Circuit: Central Check-In Thread
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🎟️ Task Completed: 🍿 Food Vendor: Midway Munchies
🔗 Proof of Completion: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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🎪 Team Name: Ringling Up Books🎟️ Task Completed: 🎭 Genre Attraction: The Knowledge Emporium
🔗 Proof of Completion: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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Team Name: Dreamland DelightName: Deanna
Book: Bad Magic and the Big Top by Misty Bane
Pages: 186 Pgs
Read: 5/14/2025
How it fits: MCs go to the circus
Team Name: The Book Balancing BeautiesName: Tori
Book: Nothing to Lose by Rebecca Rathe
Pages: 362
Read: 5/15/25
How it fits: Chapter 1, pg. 32, "My skin is mottled with shades of blue, purple, and red."
Team Name: Cotton Candy CrewTask Completed: Ride Sky Chaser
Proof of Completion: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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Congratulations, Misfit Readers…
The spirits of the carnival have smiled upon you! 🎭
🎟️ YOUR PRIZE:
✨ 5 BONUS TICKETS ✨
(Hidden in the Phantom’s sleeve… until NOW!)
🎡 HOW TO CLAIM:
1️⃣ Gather your team under the big top (aka your team thread).
2️⃣ Perform a 10-second “Ticket Dance” (imaginary confetti mandatory!).
3️⃣ The Carnival Master will add your bounty by midnight!
🔮 THE PHANTOM’S PROPHECY:
“Beware the ticket thieves of twilight… squander these, and they’ll vanish like smoke under the big top!” (🎪 sinister calliope tune plays)
Wild Card Roulette : Lion Tamer Librarians: FiBook: The Fantastic Fluke by Sam Burns
How it fits: From blurb: "A lost fox. "
Date Completed: 15/05
Page Count: 288
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Team Name: Dreamland DelightName: Catherine
Book: The Night Circus
Pages: 656 Pgs
Read: 5/15/2025
How it Fits: Characters are in a magical type of cursed circus. Also Many people are being trained and many audition for this night circus.
Completion Post WILD CARD ROULETTETask: Read a book with a title that sounds like a carnival ride!
Book: SOS Hotel: End of the Road
Author: Adam Vex
Pages: 195
Date: 5/15
How it fits: Sounds like a haunted house carnival ride
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Completion Post Wild Card RouletteTask: Read a book with a title that sounds like a carnival ride
Book:
Author: Janice Boekhoff
Pages: 340
Date 5/15/25
How it fits: sounds like a horror ride
🎪 Team Name: Lion Tamer Librarians🎟️ Task Completed: 🍿 Food Vendor: Tightrope Tacos
🔗 Proof of Completion: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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Completion Post - Team Ringling Up BooksWILD CARD ROULETTE
Task: Read a book with a title that sounds like a carnival ride!
Book: The Magic Bullet: A Locked Room Mystery
Author: Larry Millett
Pages: 320
Date: 5/14
How it fits: The Magic Bullet sounds like a carnival ride.
Team Name: Dreamland DelightName: Catherine
Book: Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Pages: 421 Pgs
Read: 5/16/2025
How it Fits: Jacob finds himself in charge of a circus menagerie during the Great Depression.
🎪 Team Name: Dreamland Delight🎟️ Task Completed: 🍿 Food: carousel of flavors
Proof of Completion: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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🎟️ Task Completed: 🎡Reading Rides: Star Glide
🔗 Proof of Completion: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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🎪 Team Name: Ringling Up Books🎟️ Task Completed: 🎡Reading Rides: Ride Name
🔗 Proof of Completion: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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Wild Card Roulette Individual Completion Post Team Name: Lazy River Readers
Name: Lexi
Book: Westside Lights by W.M. Akers
Pages: 285
Read: May 16
How it fits: lights on cover
🎪 Team Name: Lazy River Readers🎟️ Task Completed: 🍿 Food Vendor: The Juggler's Juice Bar
🔗 Proof of Completion: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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📚 Book title - The Road Trip by Beth O'Leary - 5/16/25📝 Justification - “Read a book set in a traveling setting
🔢 Page count - 414
👤 Your Name and Team Name - Michelle/Team Magics & Mystics
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Team Name: Lazy River Readers
Name: Teresa
Book:
by Nora RobertsPages: 583
Read: May 17
How it fits: lights on cover
WILD CARD ROULETTE📚 Book title - The Mammoth Hunters by Jean M. Auel read 5/17
📝 Justification - Prehistoric people saga with lots of travel - to a bison hunt, back to the Valley of Horses so MC Ayla could retrieve many things she had made and left behind, to the Summer Camp of the Mamutoi people from the winter lodge of the Lion Camp, to the ritual annual Mammoth Hunt and at the end MC Ayla departs on a long journey home with her true love Jondalar.
🔢 Page count - 690
👤 Your Name and Team Name - Erica/Team Magics & Mystics
Team Name: Dreamland DelightName: Catherine
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Book: Menagerie by Rachel Vincent
Pages: 480 Pgs
Read: 5/17/2025
How it fits: Delilah visits a The menagerie a Circus full of Cryptids and other creatures
🎪 Team Name: Dreamland DelightWild Card Roulette Individual Completion Post
Name: Jenny
Book: The Antidote by Karen Russell
Pages: 420
Read: 5/16/2025
How it fits: The Antidote and Cherry started out at the circus.
WILD CARD ROULETTE Individual📚 Book title -Skyward
📝 Justification - Skyward could be name of carnival ride where riders travel skyward (i.e., similar to a Ferris Wheel)
🔢 Page count - 513
👤 Your Name and Team Name - Lisa/Cotton Candy Crew
Team Name : Cotton Candy CrewTask Completed: Food - Poet's Popcorn
Proof of Completion: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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🎪 Team Name: Dreamland DelightWild Card Roulette Individual Completion Post
Name: Risa
Book: Satan's Affair
Pages: 197
Read: 5/18/2025
How it fits: The FMC is part of a Traveling Halloween Fair.
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📚 Book title: Shadow and Bone
📝 Justification: Our prompt was to have a map in the book, this book has a map in it :)
🔢 Page count: 308
👤 Your Name: Benedicte and Team Name: The Misfit Readers
Team Name: Dreamland DelightName: Catherine
Book: Twilight Eyes by Dean Koontz
Pages: 468 Pgs
Read: 5/18/2025
How it fits: A murder happens in a carnival full of monsters. Slim meets Rya at the carnival and they fall in love.
Wildcard Roulette Team Completion/ Victory!- Dreamland DelightCaraval by Stephanie Garber Juian takes Scarlet to the isle containing Caraval were she is looking for her sister- a twisted carnival 416 Dreamland Delight- Catherine 5/14/2025
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern Many people are being trained and many audition for the night circus 656 Dreamland Delight- Catherine 5/15/2025
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen Jacob finds himself in charge of a circus menagerie during the Great Depression. 421 Dreamland Delight- Catherine 5/16/2025
Bad Magic and the Big Top MCs go to the circus 186
Dreamland Delight- Deanna 5/14/2025
Twilight Eyes by Dean Koontz A murder happens in a carnival full of monsters. 468 Dreamland Delight- Catherine 5/18/2025
Menagerie by Rachel Vincent Delilah Marlow visits a famous traveling carnival, and forced to perform 480 Dreamland Delight- Catherine 5/17/2025
Satan's Affair by H.D. Carlton Satan's Affair is a traveling halloween fair 197 Dreamland Delight- Risa 5/18/2025
The Antidote by Karen Russell The Antidote and Cherry start out at the circus. 432 Dreamland Delight-Jenny 5/16/2025
🎪 Team Name: Magics & Mystics🎟️ Task Completed: 🎭 Genre Attractions: The Mystery Maze
🔗 Proof of Completion: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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Wild Card Roulette Individual Completion PostTeam Name: Lazy River Readers
Name: Laiila Jane
Book:
by Hannah GracePages: 447
Read: 05/18/25
How it Fits: Stripes on cover
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Completion PostCotton Candy Crew
Attraction - The Time Traveler's Depot
Proof of Completion: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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VICTORY!Team: Lazy River Readers
Sammy: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Teddie: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Lexi: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Teresa: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Laila Jane: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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🎪 Team Name: Ringling Up Books🎟️ Task Completed: 🍿 Food Vendor: The Juggler's Juice Bar
🔗 Proof of Completion: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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As we're allowed to submit additional books for the Roulette event, started and completed within the designated time period:Wild Card Roulette : Lion Tamer Librarians: C
Book: The Sultan and the Storyteller
How it fits: the main characters win the final battle against the villain and banish him
Date Completed: 05/14/2025
Page Count: 238
Wild Card Roulette : Lion Tamer Librarians: C
Book: Five for a Dollar
How it fits: the murderer loses the skull of a victim
Date Completed: 05/15/2025
Page Count: 220
Wild Card Roulette : Lion Tamer Librarians: C
Book: Toby Tyler
How it fits: the MC loses his pet monkey
Date Completed: 05/15/2025
Page Count: 252
Wild Card Roulette : Lion Tamer Librarians: C
Book: Thin Air
How it fits: several characters lose their lives
Date Completed: 05/16/2025
Page Count: 320
Wild Card Roulette : Lion Tamer Librarians: C
Book: Tell No Tales
How it fits: a character loses their portfolio of illustrations, and also his life
Date Completed: 05/18/2025
Page Count: 194
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Team Name: Lazy River Readers
Name: Teresa
Book:
Pages: 348
Read: May 17
How it fits: lights on cover (disco ball and a lighthouse)
Team Name: Lazy River Readers
Name: Teresa
Book:
Pages: 770
Read: May 1
How it fits: light on cover (lighthouse)
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Wild Card Roulette : Lion Tamer Librarians: RichardBook: My Mama, Cass
How it fits: MC lost her mother
Date Completed: 05/13/2025
Page Count: 262
Wild Card Roulette : Lion Tamer Librarians: Richard
Book: A Hard Kick in the Nuts
How it fits: MC lost his good friend, Ryan Dunn
Date Completed: 05/14/2025
Page Count: 257
Wild Card Roulette : Lion Tamer Librarians: Richard
Book: Bound by Blood
How it fits: People lost their lives
Date Completed: 05/17/2025
Page Count: 234
Wild Card Roulette : Lion Tamer Librarians: Richard
Book: Lolita
How it fits: MC lost her innocence
Date Completed: 05/17/2025
Page Count: 376
Wild Card Roulette : Lion Tamer Librarians: Richard
Book: Tolstoy & the Purple Chair
How it fits: MC lost her mother
Date Completed: 05/18/2025
Page Count: 247
Additional Wild Card Roulette books for Lazy River ReadersTeam Name: Lazy River Readers
Name: Sammy
Book: Plan for the Worst
Pages: 413
Read: May 14
How it fits: striped sail on cover
Team Name: Lazy River Readers
Name: Sammy
Book: The Dark Tower
Pages: 1050
Read: May 18
How it fits: Bright light behind the tower
Wild Card Roulette : Lion Tamer Librarians: AnnaBook: A Sinner's Saint
How it fits: Vin loses his dad.
Date Completed: 05/15/2025
Page Count: 306
Wild Card Roulette : Lion Tamer Librarians: Anna
Book: A Sinner's Lies
How it fits: Daisy loses her job.
Date Completed: 05/13/2025
Page Count: 500
Wild Card Roulette : Lion Tamer Librarians: Anna
Book: Nine Month Contract
How it fits: Trista loses her apartment
Date Completed: 05/17/2025
Page Count: 358
Additional books for Wild Card Roulette📚 Book title
The Devil's Star by Jo Nesbø📝 Justification (how it fits your prompt) Costumes are worn by theatre performers which is being directed by husband of victim who is also an actress in the play
🔢 Page count 528
👤 Your Name and Team Name Anastasia Read-iculous Rollercoaster Readers
📚 Book title
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear📝 Justification (how it fits your prompt) Billy Beale disguises himself when goes undercover at the Retreat
🔢 Page count 304
👤 Your Name and Team Name Anastasia Read-iculous Rollercoaster Readers
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🎟️ Task Completed: 🎭 Genre Attraction: The Spyglass Observatory
🔗 Proof of Completion: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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Name: Catherine
Book: Caraval by Stephanie Garber
Pages: 416 Pgs
Read: 5/14/2025
How it fits: Julian takes Scarlet and Donatella to Caraval an island hosting The Night Circus