My OWLs Readathon 2019 TBR and Update

The O.W.L.s Readathon is a month long Harry Potter themed readathon hosted by Book Roast in April. 

The goal of the readathon is to choose a wizarding career and follow those prompts so you can meet the requirements at Hogwarts to go into that field. They vary in challenge so you can choose a career that is easier (meaning you have to complete less challenges) or harder (with more challenges). 

I chose the career Mind Medic because it closely resembles my own real life interest in mental health and because it is one of the harder challenges requiring 8 books to be read. 

You may notice that many of the books I have on my TBR are movies or television shows. This is not a coincidence. I purposely chose books that will help me complete my own 2019 Book to Screen Reading Challenge.

More on  the O.W.L.s Readathon 2019

The wizarding careers list can be found here.

The O.W.L.s reading prompts can be found here. 

If you completed any Charms Extra Credit you can start a day early for each one you completed. I got one extra credit so can start reading today. 

You can also find the readathon on Twitter @MagicalReadathn

Below is the announcement video!

I HAVE PASSED MY O.W.L.s to be a Mind Medic!!

I changed up my TBR and am still working on my credit but I wanted to share the books I actually read for the O.W.L exams for Mind Medic.

My Charms Extra Credit TBR

I did pretty terrible at the last Magical Readathon N.E.W.T.S round so I was really happy that there is a mini-readathon to help complete books in the subject of Charms.

Charms Extra Credit main coursework:

- Alohamora, read a book that's first in a series

I chose Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

- Accio, book that's top of your TBR

I chose The Wicked Deep by Shea Ernshaw (FINISHED!)

- Incendio, words 'fire' or 'flame' in the title/series name, or flame picture on the cover

I chose Warriors: Fire and Ice by Erin Hunter

- Rictusempra, book that 'tickles you the right way' (exciting trope/theme/genre)

I chose Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero

- Lumos, book with a light cover

I chose Wicked by Gregory McQuire

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NEWTs Readathon 2018 TBR

It's 3 am and the NEWTs Readathon started 3 hours ago but I finally got my TBR finished. 

What is the NEWTs Readathon? The NEWTs Readathon is a Harry Potter themed readathon. NEWTs stands for Nasty Exhausting Wizarding Tests. This readathon is the sequel to the OWLs Readathon and is hosted by Magical Readathon. You can see the Youtube announcement here and the reading challenges can be found here. 

During the OWLs Readathon I completed five subjects which included Astronomy, Care of Magical Creatures, Charms, The History of Magic, and Transfiguration. That means I can only choose the reading challenges for those subjects. 

At minimum I need to read 4 books in two subjects to complete the challenge. This means I need to read all 3 books in one challenge to get the grade Outstanding and one book in another subject to get Acceptable. My goal is to get outstanding in two subjects. There's books I really want to read in all five subjects and there's books I'm pretty meh about. 

My kids are two weeks from starting school (I'm a 42 year old single mom) so while everything is pretty crazy getting ready for school, I expect to have a lot of reading time around the 13th so should be able to easily complete this challenge.

On top of it is the last month of my own reading challenge Fun In the Sun Reading Challenge. I kind of failed my own challenge but I'm hoping to make up for it in this last month. I will be creating a Fall reading challenge so be on the lookout for that. It will start on September. I will be creating a Halloween reading challenge as well for October.

I will update my NEWTs Readathon progress on my Twitter so please follow me there to find out how I do!

My O.W.Ls Readathon TBR

I am posting this super last minute even though I've had my TBR planned for awhile. The O.W.Ls Readathon starts in less than three hours and runs April 2nd - 29th and is hosted by @MagicalReadathn on Twitter. The PDF explaining the challenges and grading system can be found here. To get an Outstanding grade only 5 books need read. 

I'm excited about this month-long readathon because I will be reading books that can count towards my own 2018 Paranormal Reading Challenge and my 2018 Young Adult Reading Challenge.

 

I may make some changes to my TBR during the readathon. I really want to read The Diviners by Libba Bray for the Divination challenge but it's a tome of 578 pages! I also really want to read The Shape of Water by Guillermo del Toro for Care of Magical Creatures and have it on hold at the library but the queue is long so I don't think I will get it in time. 

Before I learned about this challenge I had planned on reading entire The Magicians trilogy by Lev Grossman this month but I may just read the first book. I didn't include it on my TBR because it's on hold and I don't actually have it yet. The only categories it really could fit under is Charms (fantasy book) and Defense of the Dark Arts (secret societies/clubs). I think I may read it for Charms because I really want to read A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab. 

There's also other readathons this month that I'd like to participate in. It looks like many of them can easily crossover to these other challenges. I had a really unproductive March and would like to make up for the reading I didn't get done.