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2025 Book Carnival Circuit: Central Check-In Thread
🎪 Team Name: Read-iculous Rollercoaster Readers🎟️ Task Completed: 🎭 Genre Attraction: The Drama Stage
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The Nightmare Alley
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🎟️ Task Completed: 🍿 Food Vendor: Tightrope Tacos
🔗 Proof of Completion: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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🎪 Team Name: Ringling Up Books🎟️ Task Completed: 🍿 Food Vendor: The Plot Twist Pretzel
🔗 Proof of Completion: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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🎪 Team Name: DREAMLAND DELIGHT🎟️ Task Completed: RIDES: Title Twister
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🎟️ Task Completed: 🎡Reading Rides: TIME TWIRL
🔗 Proof of Completion: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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🎪 Team Name: Ringling Up Books🎟️ Task Completed: Reading Ride: The Mythic Menagerie
🔗 Proof of Completion: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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🎪 Team Name: Dreamland Delight🎟️ Task Completed: Food: The Ringmaster's Grill
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🎪 Team Name: Cotton Candy Crew🎟️ Task Completed: Rides - Cover Carousel
🔗 Proof of Completion: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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MYSTERY GENRE REVEAL! Picaresque 🔮📚 Book title: Making Money by Terry Pratchett
📝 Justification: Tagged picaresque 3 times
🔢 Page count: 473
👤 Your Name and Team Name: RachelG., Read-iculous Rollercoaster Readers
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MYSTERY GENRE REVEAL! Picaresque 🔮📚 Book title:
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray Date read: 09/06/2025
📝 Justification: On the Picaresque list tagged x12
🔢 Page count: 867
👤 Your Name and Team Name: Anastasia Ruff, Read-iculous Rollercoaster Readers
🎪 Team Name: Lion Tamer Librarians 🎟️ Task Completed: 🎡Reading Rides: Verse Velocity
🔗 Proof of Completion: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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Completion post for Picaresque challengeRead by: Sammy
Team: Lazy River Readers
Book: The Turn of the Key
Pages: 337
Justification: it's on the Picaresque list!
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Congratulations, Cotton Candy Crew…
The spirits of the carnival have smiled upon you! 🎭
🎟️ YOUR PRIZE:
✨ 15 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:
“Guard them well, lest the carnival shadows reclaim what’s theirs… a fate worse than a broken Ferris wheel awaits!” (🎡 eerie merry-go-round music chimes)
Completion post for Picaresque challengeRead by: Maria
Team: magic & mystics
Book: The Hitchhikers Guid to the Galaxy
Pages: 215
Read: 6/12/2025
Justification: it's on the Picaresque list
🎪 Team Name: Magics and Mystics🎟️ Task Completed: 🎭 Genre Attractions: The Knowledge Emporium
🔗 Proof of Completion: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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📚 Book title - Coyote Lost and Found by Dan Gemeinhart Date Read - 6/12/25
📝 Justification - ✨ Picaresque ✨- Was on the Picaresque List
🔢 Page count - 282
👤 Your Name and Team Name - Michelle/Team Magics & Mystics
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🎪 Team Name: Magics and Mystics🎟️ Task Completed: 🍿 Food Vendors: Carousel of Flavors
🔗 Proof of Completion: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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🎪 Team Name: Read-iculous Rollercoaster Readers🎟️ Task Completed: 🎡Reading Rides: Pirate Loop
🔗 Proof of Completion: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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Completion post for Picaresque challengeRead by: Lisa
Team: Cotton Candy Crew
Book: Senlin Ascends
Pages: 448
Read: 6/13/2025
Justification: it's on page 4 of the Picaresque list
🎪 Team Name: Cotton Candy Crew🎟️ Task Completed: 🎡Food - Ferris Wheel of Feasts
🔗 Proof of Completion: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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Read by: Angie
Team: Cotton Candy Crew
Book: Broken Fields
Pages: 222
Justification: Cash Blackbear is an Ojibwe woman - she is shunned and looked down on and considered worthless. Against all odds, Cash survives by her wit and smarts, charm may not be one of her strong suits, but she can turn it on when needed! She can't accept the way society treats Native Americans or women or any underdog - she will fight to save them regardless! She uses her snark and her wit to bring down the bad guys!
Completion post for Picaresque challengeRead by: Teddie
Team: Lazy River Readers
Book: The Crown Tower
Pages: 384
Read: 6/14/25
Justification: Royce and Hadrian are a warrior and a thieving assassin with nothing to lose - paragons of the picaresque.
Completion post for Picaresque challengeRead by: Lexi
Team: Lazy River Readers
Book: The Ten Percent Thief
Pages: 328
Read: 6/14/25
Justification: Book named after thief who comes from bottom ten percent of society who steals to fund the counter-revolution.
Completion Post🎪 Team Name: Dreamland Delight
🎟️ Task Completed: 🍿Food Vendors: The Riddle Waffle
🔗 Proof of Completion: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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Completion Post ✨Picaresque✨
Read by: Risa
Team: Dreamland Delight
Book: Erdsee: Die illustrierte Gesamtausgabe
Pages: 1118
Read: 6/15/25
Justification: The Wizard of Earthsea is on position 42 on the Great SFF Picaresques List.
Completion Post: Picaresque 🔮Jenny/ Dreamland Delight
Book title: The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman
Justification: Tagged picaresque, and Collum fits the definition to a T.
673 pages
Read: 14 Jun
Completion Post: Picaresque 🔮Name / Team Name: Trisha with Reed-iculous Rollercoaster Readers
Book title: The Bullet Swallower by Elizabeth Gonzalez James
Justification: found on page 7 of the link/genre/list provided
Page count: 272
Read: 6/13
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Picaresque CompletionTo Tempt a Troubled Earl by Fearne Hill
Date ReaD: 6/15
295 pages
How it qualifies: MC Kit is a petty thief who uses slight of hand and trickery to steal an estate
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Bonus PicaresqueSOS Hotel: Icy Reception
Adam Vex
190 pgs
15 june
Fits ...the SOS Hotel Heroes ...or ( A scandalous, ex-porn star demon and a morally shady, billionaire vampire plus a human who may not be human open a hotel for pnr creature who have lost their way, a sanctuary. Adventures are never far away as the 3 put their shady pasts behind to help.others ..things never work out as planned though ...hilarious
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🎪 Team Name: Lion Tamer Librarians🎟️ Task Completed: 🍿 Food Vendor: Midway Munchies
🔗 Proof of Completion: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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🎪 Team Name: Lion Tamer Librarians🎟️ Task Completed: 🎭 Genre Attraction: Wild Card Tent: Picaresque
🔗 Proof of Completion: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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Picaresque completion📚 Book title - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Date Read - 6/15/25
📝 Justification - ✨ Picaresque ✨- Was on the Picaresque List
🔢 Page count - 474
👤 Your Name and Team Name - Erica/Team Magics & Mystics
Picaresque completion
📚 Book title - The Goldfinch BY Donna Tartt
Date Read - 6/14/2025
📝 Justification - ✨ Picaresque ✨- #50 on Best Picaresque Novels- https://www.google.com/url?q=https://...
🔢 Page count - 962
👤 Your Name and Team Name - Dreamland Delight
Team: Carnival CircusBonus Picaresque
The Queer Principles of Kit Webb by Cat Sebastian
Pages: 348
How it fits: Kitt was a highwayman who retired after an injury, he's tasked with teaching Percy the trade so that he can rob his father. He also currently owns a cafe that's a safe space for other illegal activity, such as fencing stolen items.
Finished: 06/10
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Book: Moll Flanders by Daniel DeFoe
Date Completed: 06/16/2025
Page Count: 480
Justification: tagged x35
Team: Cotton Candy
Picaresque CompletionBook: Among Thieves
Author: Douglas Hulick
Date: 6/16
Pages: 416
How it fits: Tagged Picaresque 4x
Team: Ringling Up Books
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🎪 Team Name: Dreamland Delight🎟️ Task Completed: 🎭Genre Attractions🎭: The Mythic Menagerie
🔗 Proof of Completion: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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🎪 Team Name: Dreamland Delight🎟️ Task Completed: 🍿 Food Vendor: Ferris Wheel of Feasts
🔗 Proof of Completion:https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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🎪 Team Name: Curiosity Carnival
🎟️ Task Completed: 🍿 Food Vendor: The Ringmaster's Grill
🔗 Proof of Completion: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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Mark of the Founder (other topics)Among Thieves (other topics)
The Queer Principles of Kit Webb (other topics)
The Goldfinch (other topics)
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (other topics)
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Douglas Hulick (other topics)Cat Sebastian (other topics)
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Task Completed: 🍿 Food Vendor: Circus Sideshow Sizzlers
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