The O.W.L.s Magical Readathon TBR

This is ridiculous, I’m going to open with that. I hate TBRs and I’m terrible at them. Yet I want to try. I want to ‘take’ the NEWTS later this year and I want to… pass? and have a magical career – at least in my head.

I think quarantine has broken me.

I’m not going to explain this readathon – I’ll  link it below:

https://www.magicalreadathon.com/

So if you’re familiar (or not) here is my plan. I found 4 careers I’m interested. Of the four two of them are rather hefty so I’m just honestly going to go for as many reads as I can that meet the criteria and see where I land. My top two choices Care of Magical Children, and Hogwarts Professor require the most classes. My second two choices are Magizoologist and Librarian. 

What I’ve done is just picked a book for each prompt, and I’m also going to look at the extra credit seminars as well. I usually read quite a bit in a month and I’m hoping to get back into the swing of that so I’m using this as an excuse to be obnoxious about it. Here are the prompts with my approximate choices.

• Ancient Runes : Heart on the cover or in title
  • Dragon Heart by Cecelia Holland
• Arithmancy : Read something outside your favorite genre
  • Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
• Astronomy : Read the majority of a book while it’s dark outside
  • I mostly only read at night so this is going to be any of these
• Care of Magical Creatures : Creature with a beak on the cover   
  • The Dinosaur Lords by Victor Milan
• Charms : White Cover  
  • Thrawn by Timothy Zahn
• Defense Against the Dark Arts : Book set at the sea/coast
  • A Land so Wild by Elyssa Warkentin
• Divination : Assign numbers to your TBR and use a random number generator to pick one
  • Prophets of the Ghost Ants by Clark Thomas Carlton
• Herbology: Title starts with an M   
  • Memories of Silk and Straw: A Self-Portrait of Small Town Japan by Junichi Saga
• History of Magic : Features a witch or wizard
  • The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski
• Muggle Studies : Contemporary book
  • The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• Potions : Book under 150 pages   
  •  Emergency Skin by N.K. Jemison
• Transfiguration Seminar : Book/series that includes shape-shifting
  • Silver Silence by Nalini Singh

So that’s it, we’ll see what happens? Fingers crossed!