OWLs Prep (Lol I am late again)
Dear Reader,
Today is supposedly the end of week one of the magic readathon hosted by Book Roast from the 1st to the 30th of April. However, I haven't even technically started:/ lol. But not to worry. I've spent the day prepping and I am ready! Seriously I am so prepped for this thing, minus being a week late to it haha. SO the link to the website with a timeline of past years and info and all the files and things you need if you want to start a week late too!
https://www.magicalreadathon.com/
Come on we're all in this together man. So I have chosen to be a spell maker because I thought the description was really cool. So for that, I had to pick books for Arithmancy, Astronomy, History of Magic, Charms, Divination, Ancient runes and transfiguration. Yes, that's right. I picked the hardest one even though I'm starting a week late because screw the system! Haha, kidding I'm 1000% gonna fail this.
So going down my Tbr I'll say why I picked them. So for Arithmancy, the prompt was read something outside your fav genre. For this, I wasn't too sure what my fav is- I do like to pick up anything I have a general interest in. But- I do tend to have faries in books. Don't know why. Just doesn't and has never really appealed. However, I have the first 2 books of the cruel prince and everyone says it's good so I just said screw it. Onto the pile it went. So next was Astronomy, for this I had to read a book when It's dark outside. This prompt was a little annoying cause I'm not a huge lover of reading 2 books at once. But I ended up going for The great blue yonder by Alex Shearer which I picked up in a charity shop and its the shortest one with only 200 pages so I thought it would be a good choice for a 'bedtime read'. Next was History of magic and the prompt was a book featuring a witch so of cooooooourse I Serpent and Dove- which I'm very excited for. But it's so big and It's gonna be a stretch to follow my deadlines with. After it Charms which was a book with a white cover. I choose Empire of storms because I'm dumb. That thing is like 700 pages. It would normally take me a month to do that alone! But dream big I guess. Next was Transfiguration prompt: a series that involves shapeshifting. I remember someone was a mouse in A city of Ashes so I choose that- even though I remember literally nothing form city of bones. Next was ancient runes which I just decided to finish the selection cause I didn't have any books I hadn't read that followed the prompt. Lastly, I did Divination where I had to pick a random book off my tbr with a random number generator (in this case Siri) and got a court of thrones and roses- which was really lucky cause I wanted something like that anyway. So I finished picking them and added up all the page numbers and turns out to get that done I have to read exactly 125 pages a day. 125. Wish me luck!
Love Issy
xxx
Today is supposedly the end of week one of the magic readathon hosted by Book Roast from the 1st to the 30th of April. However, I haven't even technically started:/ lol. But not to worry. I've spent the day prepping and I am ready! Seriously I am so prepped for this thing, minus being a week late to it haha. SO the link to the website with a timeline of past years and info and all the files and things you need if you want to start a week late too!
https://www.magicalreadathon.com/
Come on we're all in this together man. So I have chosen to be a spell maker because I thought the description was really cool. So for that, I had to pick books for Arithmancy, Astronomy, History of Magic, Charms, Divination, Ancient runes and transfiguration. Yes, that's right. I picked the hardest one even though I'm starting a week late because screw the system! Haha, kidding I'm 1000% gonna fail this.
So going down my Tbr I'll say why I picked them. So for Arithmancy, the prompt was read something outside your fav genre. For this, I wasn't too sure what my fav is- I do like to pick up anything I have a general interest in. But- I do tend to have faries in books. Don't know why. Just doesn't and has never really appealed. However, I have the first 2 books of the cruel prince and everyone says it's good so I just said screw it. Onto the pile it went. So next was Astronomy, for this I had to read a book when It's dark outside. This prompt was a little annoying cause I'm not a huge lover of reading 2 books at once. But I ended up going for The great blue yonder by Alex Shearer which I picked up in a charity shop and its the shortest one with only 200 pages so I thought it would be a good choice for a 'bedtime read'. Next was History of magic and the prompt was a book featuring a witch so of cooooooourse I Serpent and Dove- which I'm very excited for. But it's so big and It's gonna be a stretch to follow my deadlines with. After it Charms which was a book with a white cover. I choose Empire of storms because I'm dumb. That thing is like 700 pages. It would normally take me a month to do that alone! But dream big I guess. Next was Transfiguration prompt: a series that involves shapeshifting. I remember someone was a mouse in A city of Ashes so I choose that- even though I remember literally nothing form city of bones. Next was ancient runes which I just decided to finish the selection cause I didn't have any books I hadn't read that followed the prompt. Lastly, I did Divination where I had to pick a random book off my tbr with a random number generator (in this case Siri) and got a court of thrones and roses- which was really lucky cause I wanted something like that anyway. So I finished picking them and added up all the page numbers and turns out to get that done I have to read exactly 125 pages a day. 125. Wish me luck!
Love Issy
xxx
