2025 Book Carnival Circuit: Lazy River Readers

[Teddie]

lol

[ilovebakedgoods (Teresa), Bibliotherapist]

Teddie wrote: "


lol"

LOL! It's almost time to go home and I'm just feeling a bit silly! :D

[Teddie]

:D

[Sammy]

😆

[Lexi]

We are done with another round of Food. I’ll check us in tomorrow morning unless someone else has time before then. Thanks

[Sammy]

"🍿 Food Vendor Word: spectacular
Reader:Laila Jane
Book: Tahira in Bloom by Farah Heron
Date Completed: 04/16/2025
Page Count: 318
Location: Page 36
Sentence: ""I hear the gardens are spectacular.""
"
"🍿 Food Vendor Word: Impression
Reader:Lexi
Book: Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett
Date Completed: 04/18/2025
Page Count: 370
Location: P 5
Sentence: An impressive row of windows
"
"🍿 Food Vendor Word: towering
Reader:Teddie
Book: Amazonia by James Rollins
Date Completed: 04/16/2025
Page Count: 510
Location: p359
Sentence: ...tumbled from the towering heights...
"
"🍿 Food Vendor Word: expansive
Reader:Teresa
Book: Midnight Bayou by Nora Roberts
Date Completed: 04/16/2025
Page Count: 378
Location: p 185
Sentence: ""from the expansive buffet""
"
"🍿 Food Vendor Word: gigantic
Reader:Sammy
Book: The Twelve by Justin Cronin
Date Completed: 04/15/2025
Page Count: 688
Location: loc 546
Sentence: It was a gigantic place.
"

[Sammy]

I'm on it!

And thanks for adding the reader bit into the formula!

[Lexi]

Thank you. Also I think that was Teddie, someone did it before I got to it.

[Sammy]

Whoever it was, Grazie mille! 😁

[ilovebakedgoods (Teresa), Bibliotherapist]

I just finished my book for "Attractions"! Do you want me to post it on the check-in thread, Sammy, or do you want to do it? I can't remember if we are supposed to be consistent with who does our checking in.

🎭 Genre Attraction: The Knowledge Emporium

The Knowledge Emporium: MPG Memoir
Book: Paris: The Memoir
Reader: Laila Jane
Date Completed: 04/10/2025
Page Count: 365

The Knowledge Emporium: MPG nonfiction
Book: The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate — Discoveries from a Secret World
Reader: Lexi
Date Completed: 04/04/2025
Page Count: 288

The Knowledge Emporium: MPG Self-Help
Book: The Upward Spiral
Reader: Teddie
Date Completed: 04/09/2025
Page Count: 240

The Knowledge Emporium: MPG Memoir
Book: Inside Out by Demi Moore
Reader: Teresa
Date Completed: 04/19/2025
Page Count: 304

The Knowledge Emporium: MPG Self-help
Book: How to Stay Alive
Reader: Sammy
Date Completed: 04/09/2025
Page Count: 448

[Sammy]

I think so long as only one person checks in and not several people for the same completion, it's all good, but I'll go do it now 😁

[ilovebakedgoods (Teresa), Bibliotherapist]

Sammy wrote: "I think so long as only one person checks in and not several people for the same completion, it's all good, but I'll go do it now 😁"

Makes perfect sense! I'll be sure to check us in whenever I finish an event, unless I can't for some reason. (WORK! Usually stupid work! LOL)

[Sammy]

No problem. I work from home, so am usually around during my daytime, but that could change in a week or 3!!

[ilovebakedgoods (Teresa), Bibliotherapist]

Sammy wrote: "No problem. I work from home, so am usually around during my daytime, but that could change in a week or 3!!"

Moving time soon?? It seems like you've been on the cusp of moving forever, lol.

[Sammy]

Tell me about it! house should be going on the market in May. The houses on our estate usually shift within a couple of weeks, so it could be go time very soon.

I'm just hoping the house we have our eye on will still be there when the time comes!

[Ashley, The Tipsy Challenger]

🎪 Carnival Announcement! 🎪
Step right up! The Wheel of Fortune has spoken, and here are your results for your next spin:


🍿 Food Vendors: Midway Munchies
Find 5 of the magic words listed below within the pages of your books. Each Team Member must find a unique word, no repeating.
Words: Fundamental, Essential, Central, Core, Uncomplicated, Primary, Pivotal, Crucial, Basic, Unadorned, Snack, Integral, Simplistic, Straightforward, Elementary

🎭 Genre Attractions: The Enchanted Forest
Dive into the genres listed below and read 5 books that fit the theme. Genres may be repeated.
Genre: Fantasy, High Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Fairy Tales, Magical Realism, Paranormal, Mythopoeia, Sword and Sorcery, Dark Fantasy, Mythic Fiction

[Sammy]

Replaced my food book with one I just finished that'll give us double the points 😁

[Teddie]

Nice! :D

[ilovebakedgoods (Teresa), Bibliotherapist]

Noice!

We like your big books, Sammy!

Currently annoyed that I haven't been able to read all day at work because I've been WORKING. Ugh.

LOL.

[Laila Jane]

ilovebakedgoods (Teresa) wrote: "Noice!

We like your big books, Sammy!

Currently annoyed that I haven't been able to read all day at work because I've been WORKING. Ugh.

LOL."

Haha I totally understand this!

[Sammy]

I actually enjoy reading chunky books, so it helps with challenges at least!

The work thing is totally overrated... I'm still looking for that elusive "they'll pay me to read what I want" job... 😆

[Teddie]

Sammy wrote: "I actually enjoy reading chunky books, so it helps with challenges at least!

The work thing is totally overrated... I'm still looking for that elusive "they'll pay me to read what I want" job... 😆"

When you find it, I'll be your assistant :)

[ilovebakedgoods (Teresa), Bibliotherapist]

And I'll be Teddie's assistant! :D

[ilovebakedgoods (Teresa), Bibliotherapist]

🎡Reading Rides: Title Twister


T: title
Book: The Idiot Gods
Reader: Sammy
Date Completed: 04/06/2025
Page Count: 480

I: series title Iconclasts
Book: Aching God
Reader: Teddie
Date Completed: 04/10/2025
Page Count: 414

T: Title "To"
Book: To The Nines by Janet Evanovich
Reader: Teresa
Date Completed: 04/09/2025
Page Count: 388

L: Title
Book: Like Real People Do
Reader: Lexi
Date Completed: 04/01/2025
Page Count: 383

E: AFN: Elle
Book: Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice
Reader: Laila Jane
Date Completed: 04/20/2025
Page Count: 315

T: title
Book: The Perfect Run
Reader: Sammy
Date Completed: 04/04/2025
Page Count: 667

W: title
Book: Wolves of the Calla
Reader: Sammy
Date Completed: 04/03/2025
Page Count: 960

I: Series title "In Death"
Book: Secrets in Death by JD Robb
Reader: Teresa
Date Completed: 04/27/2025
Page Count: 400

S: title
Book: Strange New World
Reader: Lexi
Date Completed: 04/09/2025
Page Count: 416

T: title
Book: The Valley of Horses
Reader: Teddie
Date Completed: 04/03/2025
Page Count: 577

E: AFN: Elissa
Book: Funny You Should Ask
Reader: Laila Jane
Date Completed: 04/14/2025
Page Count: 354

R: AFN: Richard
Book: We Solve Murders
Reader: Lexi
Date Completed: 04/06/2025
Page Count: 400

[ilovebakedgoods (Teresa), Bibliotherapist]

We are checked in for the Title Twister Ride!

[Lexi]

Thank you

[Sammy]

Woohoo!

[Ashley, The Tipsy Challenger]

🎪 Carnival Announcement! 🎪
Step right up! The Wheel of Fortune has spoken, and here are your results for your next spin:


🎡 Reading Rides: Mythic Whirl
Spell out the name of your ride using the first letters of book titles, series titles, or author names.

[ilovebakedgoods (Teresa), Bibliotherapist]

I claimed an H and a W from the ride for now. I can cover any of the letters so if there's one that nobody else wants to touch, just let me know and I'll find something for it.

[ilovebakedgoods (Teresa), Bibliotherapist]

Genre Attraction: The Enchanted Forest


The Enchanted Forest: MPG High Fantasy
Book: The Bird and the Sword
Reader: Laila Jane
Date Completed: 04/26/2025
Page Count: 293

The Enchanted Forest: MPG Fantasy
Book: A Drop of Corruption
Reader: Lexi
Date Completed: 04/23/2025
Page Count: 432

The Enchanted Forest: MPG Fantasy
Book: For We Are Many
Reader: Teddie
Date Completed: 04/20/2025
Page Count: 384

The Enchanted Forest: MPG Fantasy
Book: The First to Die at the End by Adam Silvera
Reader: Teresa
Date Completed: 04/30/2025
Page Count: 550

The Enchanted Forest: MPG Fantasy
Book: The City of Mirrors
Reader: Sammy
Date Completed: 04/20/2025
Page Count: 602

[ilovebakedgoods (Teresa), Bibliotherapist]

Fantasy genre checked in!

[Sammy]

Yay!

[Lexi]

Great, thank you

[Teddie]

woot!

[Ashley, The Tipsy Challenger]

🎪 Carnival Announcement! 🎪
Step right up! The Wheel of Fortune has spoken, and here are your results for your next spin:


🎭 Genre Attractions: The Time Traveler's Depot
Dive into the genres listed below and read 5 books that fit the theme. Genres may be repeated.
Genres: Historical Fiction, Time Travel, Alternate History, Historical Romance, Steampunk, Regency, Historical Mystery, Biographical Historical Fiction, Prehistoric Fiction

[ilovebakedgoods (Teresa), Bibliotherapist]

Hmmmm, I’m debating which genre to read for that. Kind of been feeling a good old fashioned historical romance. But a historical mystery sounds fun!

[Sammy]

Hahahaha... typically, I'm reading a whole heap of historical non-fiction for BQ this month 😆

I can squeeze something in, but may be a couple of weeks!

[Teddie]

I picked a time travel book with a decent page count, but I'm wavering on my choice a bit - with the political climate and chaos going on in the US right now, not sure whether this is the greatest time to read that one.

[ilovebakedgoods (Teresa), Bibliotherapist]

Teddie wrote: "I picked a time travel book with a decent page count, but I'm wavering on my choice a bit - with the political climate and chaos going on in the US right now, not sure whether this is the greatest ..."

I was looking at your book because I was curious and I had a similar thought to you as I read the synopsis. I was like, "Nope, not today, Satan."

So, it's either a fun romance or murder for me! The antidotes to real life, hehe.

[ilovebakedgoods (Teresa), Bibliotherapist]

Sammy wrote: "Hahahaha... typically, I'm reading a whole heap of historical non-fiction for BQ this month 😆

I can squeeze something in, but may be a couple of weeks!"

Of course you are, hehe.

[Teddie]

ilovebakedgoods (Teresa) wrote: "I was looking at your book because I was curious and I had a similar thought to you as I read the synopsis. I was like, "Nope, not today, Satan."

lol - yeah ... I think I'm going to switch to Replay or Between Two Fires - I've got to hit that medievalish era for another task to replace 1632 lol.

The Archer's Tale it is! lol

[ilovebakedgoods (Teresa), Bibliotherapist]

That sounds like a winner!

[Sammy]

Ohhhh, I love Cornwell! One of my favourite authors. Good choice!

[Teddie]

Sometimes I randomly tell my kids "I am Uhtred, son of Uhtred" - they are not impressed.

[Laila Jane]

Teddie wrote: "I picked a time travel book with a decent page count, but I'm wavering on my choice a bit - with the political climate and chaos going on in the US right now, not sure whether this is the greatest ..."

Had to look up your book too. I agree, not a good time to read that one. Probably not for a while

[Teddie]

yeaahh, I agree.

[Sammy]

Teddie wrote: "Sometimes I randomly tell my kids "I am Uhtred, son of Uhtred" - they are not impressed."

They should be. Maybe they need some educating...

My husband and I used to make lots of Sharpe references the kids didn't get, so we sat them down and did a Sharpe movie marathon with them. They shall become cutured, whether they like it or not! 😂

[Lexi]

Teresa, can I have your I spot where you haven't put a book there yet? I just got The Gentleman and His Vowsmith by Rebecca Ide in from the library. I only have one letter from this round and you have 3.

[ilovebakedgoods (Teresa), Bibliotherapist]

Sure, Lexi! Go for it.

[Lexi]

Thank you. I hope the book is good.