owls readathon – Classic Bhaer

To Be Read

Hello and welcome to another TBR post! This month I am super excited because it is April and that means it is time for the OWLs Examinations! If you are unfamiliar with the OWLs Readathon, it is a month long Harry Potter themed readathon hosted by Book Roast on youtube. She does an outstanding job, she puts in so much effort and I could honestly just gush about her for a while. She is a very smart, talented, and dedicated woman. If you want to hear all the information from the creator herself ; the magical careers, prompts and bonus trainings you can do so on announcement video here: Year 3 of O.W.L.s Magical Readathon – Announcement! | Book Roast and you can find the prompt and career information on the Magical Readathon website here: magicalreadathon.com – 2020 Magical Readathon Links

This round I am going to take it a bit easier on myself and I picked the career of Seer. This one only entailed reading three books for the OWLs and three books for the NEWTs later this year. I picked this one for a few reasons, the first being it is interesting. The second being it gives me the opportunity to go for a few of the “extras” this year. So, I will first explain the books I am reading for Seer and then go into the bonus stuff a bit more.

Prompts

Ancient Runes – Heart rune: heart on the cover or in the title

Heart-Shaped Box by Joe HIll

Astronomy – Night classes: read majority of this book when it’s dark outside

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Divination – Third eye: assign numbers to your TBR and use random number generator

They Will Drown in Their Mothers’ Tears by Johannes Anyuru

Animagus and Magical Store things

Animagus Training

Arithmancy – Magical qualities of number 2: read something outside your favorite genre

How to Read Literature by Terry Eagleton

Potions – Shrinking Solution: book under 150 pages

The Girls of Gettysburg by Bobbi Miller

Transfigurations – Animagus lecture: book/series that includes shape shifting

Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman

Magical Shop Management

Arithmancy – Magical qualities of number 2: read something outside your favorite genre

How to Read Literature by Terry Eagleton

Another Unrelated Book

I am buddy reading The Magicians series with Jenna and Reg and I will probably fit The Magician King by Lev Grossman into a prompt somewhere, but I did not just yet. Since it is something I plan on reading I wanted to share it anyway.

Are you joining in for the OWLs this month?

What career did you pick?

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WrapUp12:17

The OWLS are complete! I am both very happy and very bummed out. I truly had a wonderful time reading for this readathon, G did a wonderful job creating it. I am happy because I am very happy with the OWLs that I have passed. In total I passed 7, which I did not expect to happen in the slightest because the last few months I have not been reading like I normally do. It seems like this readathon was the kick in the butt I needed.

-My Results-

OWLs Passed: 7

Required OWLs:

Potions: Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire
Herbology: The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Care of Magical Creatures: Fierce Fairytales by Nikita Gill

Bonus OWLs:

Muggle Studies: Elevation by Stephen King
Charms: My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Transfiguration: The Things I Would Tell You edited by Sabrina Mahfouz
Arithmancy: Classic Penguin

Final Score: Exceeded Expectations

Read 2
Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This being the third book in a series I adore, I was expecting to finally hit a point where the story was going a little blah. I finally found that point in the series. I am not saying that this is a bad book, I still enjoyed it quite a lot. I just found it very different from the others and not in a good way. I would rather explore a single world specifically not see a glimpse of a few without really seeing anything.

The timeline used was interesting and I was happy about what happened to a particular character. Thew writing like the others was very poetic and the story was fast paced as the others. I just kinda found myself not as invested because we were jumping around so much.

Like I said, still a good reads, but so far is a “low” point in the series.

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Classic Penguin: Cover to Cover by Paul Buckley

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This was a very lovely look at all of the editions penguins has come out with for the classics. Not only did I enjoy looking at all of the artwork, but I also really enjoyed hearing the backstory behind design elements and the creators thoughts in some cases.

I think my favorite section was a look behind Penguin Threads. I loved seeing what the other side of the cover was in the original needle point/embroidery.

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The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

While I did enjoy reading this book, I was very neutral about it. I am having a hard time pinpointing why I am so neutral about it. The plot was fun, I enjoyed the characters, and while it is large it is not slow paced.

Maybe it is just because I am not in a fantasy mood like I thought I was?

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Middle Mark Books 2

If you want to see my reviews in full, please see the post, Middle Mark | #OWLsReadathon2019 Update. On that post I detailed the books I read in the first half of the month.