Read All The Books

Since this will be the last N.E.W.T.S for the magical readathon, I just had to do it. I'm a little late posting this TBR as it is already the 2nd of August and I have already finished one book but I decided it was better late than never. So for my O.W.L.S I completed Astronomer and Animagus Training so I have decided to complete all the prompts for both for the N.E.W.T.S. For Astronomer I need to  get an O in Arthimancy, O in Astronomy and an A in History of Magic. For Animagus Training I need to get an A in Arithmancy, E in Potions and O in Transfiguration. That is a total of 13 books! Not sure if I can complete all prompts but I will try and mainly focus on completing the Astronomer ones. Here are the prompts for Astronomer and what I have chosen to read: Read a non-fiction:  The Secret - Rhonda Byrne Read a book that ends on an uneven number: Romanov - Nadine Brandes Read a book that's between 260 and 299 pages: Liar Liar - LA Cotton Read a book with a star on the ...

So I have decided to participate in another readathon and this one is BTS inspired! I am really excited for this readathon hosted by theperksofbeingNoura  as she has even made bookmarks that you can print yourself. All the prompts are listed below as well as the link to the bookmarks . So as of now here is my tentative TBR: Persona - Somewhere Only We Know - Maurene Goo Boy With Luv - Love a la Mode - Stephanie Kate Strohm  Mikrokosmos - Old Bones - Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child Make It Right - The Red Scrolls of Magic - Cassandra Clare and Wesley Chu Home - Godsgrave - Jay Kristoff Jamais Vu - Nevernight - Jay Kristoff Dionysus - Circe - Madeline Miller Let me know if you are doing this readathon and who your bias is. I'm still trying to decide between V and RM.

I have decided to participate in the reading rush challenge this year. You can sign up and find all the information on the challenges, rules and hosts here . It runs from the 22nd of July to the 28th July. There are 7 challenges to complete. Here is my tentative TBR: 1. Read a book with purple on the cover: Sweet Valley Twins graphic novel - arc from NetGalley 2. Read a book in the same spot: Sweet Valley Twins graphic novel - arc from NetGalley 3. Read a book you meant to read last year: More Happy Than Not - Adam Silvera 4. Read an author's first book: More Happy Than Not - Adam Silvera 5. Read a book with a non-human main character: Fallen - Lauren Kate 6. Pick a book that has five or more words in the title: The Strange Case of Monsieur Bertin - Daouglas Preston & Lincoln Child 7. Read and watch a book to movie adaptation. Fallen - Lauren Kate As you can see I have doubled up on a lot of the challenges. There is also the option of reading 7 books bu...

Round 2 of the O.W.L.'s Magical Readathon is starting again in April, hosted by the wonderful BookRoast over on Youtube. This year's readathon is slightly different from last year's as you can pick a magical career that you can aim for.  This video  has all the rules as well as the links to the Career Guidebook. After much consideration I have decided to try for Curse Breaker this year which has a total of 6 O.W.L.'s you need to achieve. Ancient Runes, Arithmancy, Charms, Defence Against the Dark Arts, Potions and Transfiguration. However as I usually read more than 6 books in a month I have decided to read books for all 12 O.W.L.'s Here is my TBR: Ancient Runes - retellling A Whole New World - Liz Braswell Arithmancy - work written by more than one author If I'm Being Honest - Emily Wibberley, Austin Sigemund Broka Astronomy - 'star in the title' Stardust - Neil Gaiman Care of Magical Creatures - land animal on the cover A Grimm Warn...

BookRoast on Youtube is back again with another magical readathon, a Christmas edition this time so naturally I had to participate in this one.  You can find the link to her video explaining the readathon rules here . It runs from the 17th of December until the 26th December and there are a bunch of challenges that you can choose from but ultimately you only really need to read 4 books and finish a book that you have already started. I will list the challenges I have decided to follow as well as the books I have chosen for them. 1. Finish your coursework. (finish your current read) I am currently reading Queen of Air and Darkness by Cassandra Clare but I have only just started so hopefully I can get through it quickly as it is a really long book. Over 900 pages! 2. Have a snowball fight with the Weasley twins (a book that you think will be humourous) I decided on I believe in a thing called love by Maurene Goo as it is about a Korean American girl who uses K-Drama techn...

Although I didn't manage to get through all the books in my Charms Extra Credit TBR, I did manage to get through 4 of them so I am very happy that I will now have 4 extra days for Charms during next year's O.W.L.S readathon. I managed to read, The Book Thief by Marcus Zuzak, Pants on Fire by Meg Cabot, Heist Society by Ally Carter and Nevernight by Jay Kristoff which completed the accio, incendio, rictusempra and lumos charms. I am very happy with how this readathon worked out. I did not do well in the Spookathon however, in fact I failed miserably. I only managed to get through 2 books. The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes and Killing Time by Linda Howard which only completed 2 of the challenges. Perhaps doing 2 readathons back to back was not the best idea. I will definitely be giving the Spookathon another go next year and hopefully I will do much better.

I have decided to give the Spookathon a go this year as I have been having a lot of fun doing readathons lately so here is my TBR and the Spookathon challenges: 1. Read a Thriller: The Naturals - Jennifer Lynne Barnes 2. Read a book with Purple on the cover: Foolish Hearts - Emma Mills 3. Read a book not set in current time period: Anne of Avonlea - L M Montgomery 4. Read a book with a spooky word in the title: Killing Time - Linda Howard 5. Read a book with pictures: Hollow City - Ransom Riggs This readathon is hosted by Bookandlala on Youtube and goes through October 15 til October 21st. 

So I have decided to compete in a couple of readathons for October and the first one is the Charms Extra Credit Magical Readathon. Next years O.W.L.S readathon isn't until April so there is another mini readathon in preparation for it hosted once again by the lovely Book Roast on YouTube. I will link her video announcing the readathon here . Basically the extra credit readathon is for Charms class and there are 5 areas that you can sit for. Alohomora, Accio, Incendio, Ricutusempra and Lumos. Each spell that you complete adds an extra day for the O.W.L.S 2019 readathon. If you complete 1 spell then next year during the O.W.L.S you start your Charms readathon a day earlier. If you complete all 5 then you start 5 days earlier. The readathon goes from the 8th until the 14th of October. One week in which to read 5 books.  I have decided to attempt all 5 and see how I go. Here is my TBR: Alohomora - Read a book that is first in a series: Stalking Jack the Ripper - Kerri Mani...

Wow what a month it has been! I have never participated in a readathon before so I wasn't sure what to expect but man was this readathon intense! Not sure if all readathons are like this or if it was just that my TBR for it was so BIG!!! 36 books in total! I definitely didn't get to all of them but I did manage to read 30 books!!! I managed to finish with 7 outstandings, 4 exceeds expectations and 1 acceptable. Now I'll break it down so you can see which books I finished for which class, my scores for each class and my star rating for the books: Ancient Runes - OUTSTANDING Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro **** All the little Pieces - Jilliane Hoffman **** Against Nature - Joris Karl Huysmans *** Arithmancy - OUTSTANDING   Top 10 - Katie Cotugno *** Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy - Ally Carter **** Fractured Jewell - Brenda Hiatt **** Astronomy - EXCEEDS EXPECTATIONS Starbound - Brenda Hiatt **** The Sky is Everywhere - Jandy Nelson *** Car...

So I have decided to take part in the O.W.L.S and N.E.W.T.S magical readathon hosted by Book Roast on Youtube. The readathons were inspired by the Harry Potter exams. You can watch her videos explaining both readathons here: O.W.L.S.  N.E.W.T.S  as she does a much better job then I ever could.  I completed all my O.W.L.S in July so here is my wrap-up: Ancient Runes - The Pharoah Key - Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child (read a book with a symbol on the cover) Arithmancy - The 7 Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid (number of cover on the title) Astronomy - Starcrossed - Brenda Hiatt (read a sci-fi) Care of Magical Creatures - The Wishing Spell - Chris Colfer (book with a magical creature) Charms - My Plain Jane - Cynthia Hand, Jodie Meadows and Brodi Ashton (read a fantasy) Defence Against the Dark Arts - Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - Ransom Riggs (read  a book with a secret society) Divination - A World without Princ...