#newtsreadathon2019

Newts

A little while ago I did the OWL readathon and in August it was time for the Newts.

For the OWLs I passed the subjects Herbology, Potions and Care of magical creatures. This means that I had to receive certain grades during the newts for these subjects to be able to do the career I chose. In the following picture you’ll see the career I chose and which grades I had to get.

To get these grades I had to read books that fit with the following prompts:

Herbology

A: Mandrake! Quick put your headphones on! Listen to an audiobook

E: Read a book between 350-390 pages

O: Read a book with a flower on the cover

Potions

A: Pollyjuice potion: read your friend’s favourite book!

E: House ingredient: book with a cover in your Hogwarts house colour

Care of magical creatures

A: Follow the spiders! Why couldn’t it be follow the butterflies! Book title that starts with a letter A, for Aragog!

These are the books I read for the prompts:) I kept track of the process on Instagram, so you can go there if you’re interested.

For all the details, go see Book Roast on YouTube. This is running through August and I'm completing my N.E.W.T.'s for Librarian, which means I need:

O in Ancient Runes

A. Ehwaz - Recommended Book ...my mother will not stop talking about is The Promise of Stardust by Priscilla Sibley. No clue what it's about but my library has an audio copy.

E. Written in past tense - Darkhouse by Karina Halle. Another I've been putting off because it's a long series but my library has them all in audio so I'll see if I like it. *usedbookathon read*

O. On TBR for ages - mood read slot, I have a lot to select from.

E in Defense against the Dark Arts

A. Black under dust jacket - Kill the Boy Band by Goldy Moldavsky - I see black and lots of pink!

E. First book you think of - Wilder Girls by Rory Power

E in History of Magic

A. Fantasy - continuing on in the Caraval series with Legendary.

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars.

This was amazing? The premise of the book is the question: what happens to all those kids that find a door to another world and, eventually, find themselves back in this one?

Truly a fantastic concept and McGuire takes you places you don't even realize you are going. The representation is great. She has POC's as main characters. She also has ace and transgendered main characters which I love so much.

The story is a lyrical fantasy, a horror and a murder mystery. You are dropped into this world that is complete ,and, like Nancy, you have to figure out what it is. There's no info dump, just pieces of knowledge that you string together.

My favorite character is Jack. I can't even begin to say how much I loved her. I want so badly to have more of Jack's story.

The writing is haunting and atmospheric. McGuire can turn a phrase and I gasped out loud a few times when reading. I didn't give it a 5 because I sort of figured out halfway who was the killer but I think that wasnt necessarily the most important part. I just wanted to be a bit more surprised.

Highly recommend.

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars.

***Completed for an Acceptable in Ancient Ruins NEWTs Read-a-thon 2019 and the challenge "read a book recommended by a friend." Book 1 of 7 to achieve NEWTs for Librarian.***

1/100 days of productivity

happy birthday percy jackson!! i’m currently rereading the percy jackson and the olympian so i can finally read the heroes of olympus

is anyone else participating in the newts readathon this month?? i’m on my 4th book out of 7

current read: the titan’s curse

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My Sister, The Serial Killer

Oyinkan Braithwaite

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