I will read before I start A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket book spiral.

The books are quick reads and written such that both adults and children can enjoy.

The Barnes & Noble Review
For fans of that slippery author Lemony Snicket, Book the Ninth is here, and it's completely (but wonderfully) dreadful.
When the Baudelaire Orphans finally make it out of Count Olaf's car trunk (from Book the Eighth), they wind up at the horribly perilous Caligari Carnival. Trying to avoid capture but desperate to find out more information about a possible surviving parent, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny pose as circus freaks, only to be humiliated in front of visitors and pushed to the brink of consumption by lions. Fortunately, though, the three discover a few surprises about fortune-telling Madame Lulu, who offers a faint clue about V.F.D. and even the Snicket family itself.

Snicket fans will be in Ninth Heaven. Again, it's a sad state of affairs for the Baudelaires, but there are some fascinating morsels of hope, plus a few small surprises that might help link it all together. With riveting suspense, wicked intentions, and gullible freaks, The Carnivorous Carnival is definitely an installment that can't be missed. Matt Warner


Annotation
On the run as suspected murderers, the unlucky Baudelaire orphans find themselves trapped in the Caligari Carnival, where they must masquerade as freaks in order to hide from the evil Count Olaf.

From the Publisher
Everybody loves a carnival! Who can fail to delight in the colorful people, the unworldly spectacle, the fabulous freaks? A carnival is a place for good family fun, as long as one has a family, that is. For the Baudelaire orphans, their time at a carnival turns out to be yet another episode in a now unbearable series of unfortunate events. In fact, in this appalling ninth installment in Lemony Snicket's serial, the siblings must confront a terrible lie, an ambidextrous person, a caravan, and Chabo the wolf baby.


About the Author


Lemony Snicket was born before you were, and is likely to die before you as well. His family has roots in a part of the country which is now underwater, and his childhood was spent in the relative splendor of the Snicket Villa which has since become a factory, a fortress and a pharmacy and is now, alas, someone else's villa.

To the untrained eye, Mr. Snicket's hometown would not appear to be filled with secrets. Untrained eyes have been wrong before. The aftermath of the scandal was swift, brutal and inaccurately reported in the periodicals of the day. It is true, however, that Mr. Snicket was stripped of several awards by the reigning authorities, including Honorable Mention, the Grey Ribbon and First Runner Up. The High Council reached a convenient if questionable verdict and Mr. Snicket found himself in exile.

Though his formal training was chiefly in rhetorical analysis, he has spent the last several eras researching the travails of the Baudelaire orphans. This project, being published serially by HarperCollins, takes him to the scenes of numerous crimes, often during the off-season. Eternally pursued and insatiablyinquisitive, a hermit and a nomad, Mr. Snicket wishes you nothing but the best.

The Baudelaire orphans wear disguises and join a carnival freak show to try and find out more information on VFD. The story has fortune tellers, hungry lions, and Count Olaf.

This is being released as part of the Celebrate Life Challenge. This is in celebration of the children in my life.

RELEASE NOTES:

I am mailing the book and the Misfortune Telling Cards I got when I bought the book to Withoutwings. Hope all of you enjoy both

Left to read:
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katintheboots

I recieved the book, and I'm finishing number 9 and then I will start this one.

Oops! I thought I was journaling book 10! I am reading this one and will get it out soon.

Sending on to Heartsong. I mailed Friday along with book 10.

Arrived today! NS couldn't wait and read the library copy of #9 already, but I'll still have him make a journal entry. I'll get to this after I finish my current book. Thank you!

NS gave it away to me what happens to Madame Lulu, darn kid! There was a part where they were SOOO close to learning what VFD stands for, I could feel that letdown! On to number 10 and more mysteries, confusion and craziness!

JE by NS:
It was suspensful! Madam Lulu was about to tell them what VFD stood for, but then got interrupted. And it served her right to be _____ by the _____ because she also broke her promise!

Will be posting one day this week to missprisy!

This arrived today. I have a few bookrings ahead of it, but will get to it soon.

I'm concerned for Klaus & Violet. Just as the story started looking up, Lemony Snicket brings the reader back down to the reality of a Series of Unfortunate Events. Book 10 here I come!

Release #42 for Guinaveve's Keep Them Moving 2007 Challenge.

Book arrived yesterday, I've already started to read it.

Didn't like this one as much as the others. I do want to see what happens so I'll be diving right into Book 10 and then sending both off.

On its way.

I'm glad the spiral is moving again. Will read ASAP.

I also did not like this one as much as some of the others. I found the "freaks" (Snicket's term, not mine) from the carnival so unfreakish as to be unbelievable, but as it's a children's book I give it some leeway to be ridiculous (as many of the adult characters are in this story).

Sending on to katintheboots tomorrow.

Hmm...I already read, received, and sent on a copy of this book to bigcurlyloz as part of the spiral. I'll have to PM NMReader and ask her what she wants me to do with this copy. Anyways, here's a copy of my JE from the one I read:

This is quite possibly the darkest book yet, for reasons that I can't specify without giving away the plot. This book ends on a real cliffhanger, so I am really interested to see what happens in the 10th book.

Per NMReader, I'm going to see if there's enough interest in just this book to continue it as a bookray. If not, I'll try to fulfill a wish from someone's wish list, and if that doesn't work, I'll probably bring it to one of our local monthly BC meet-ups.

There was only one interested person when I offered this book up as a ray, so I am going to RABCK it to sofiathereader in Greece.

I sent this to sofiathereader this afternoon via international flat rate priority mail.

Wow! That's a book which have travelled a lot!

I'll read it when I will have read the books 4-8 of the series.

Thank you katintheboots