I know we’re nearly half way into September, but I hope you’ll give me a pass for having just started this blog back up.
For the month of August, I sat for my NEWTs Exams (started by Book Roast on YouTube). Back in April I passed all of my OWL exams so I had the potential to sit all of my NEWTs. Preparing for the month I felt like I might comfortably complete my average number of books, around 15 books. But apparently I fell into a time loop because I managed 29 (!!) books.
Into the books!
I’m listing these in challenge order, not reading order, so some series are a bit jumbled. I’m going to link to my Goodreads reviews to keep this from being crazy long since, you know, there are 29+ of them. In normal wrap-ups I’ll be posting all my thoughts:
Transfiguration
Book with a gray cover: Infinity Blade: Awakening by Brandon Sanderson (★★)
Book from a new to you author: Off To Be the Wizard by Scott Meyer (★★★★★)
Book set in a kingdom/with royalty: Spell or High Water by Scott Meyer (★★★★)
Potions
Book with a color in the title: White Sand by Brandon Sanderson (★★★)
Book with a male lead character: Gunpowder Moon by David Pedreira (★)
Book over 350 pages: Vox by Christina Dalcher (★★★★)
Muggle Studies
Book by a favorite author: The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson (★★★★★)
A Biography: The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (★★★★)
A retelling: Sea Witch by Sarah Henning (★★★)
History of Magic
Book that would fit in a Hogwarts Library:A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett (★★★)
Book published 5+ years ago: Lord of Chaos by Robert Jordan (★★★)
Book over 400 pages: An Unwelcome Guest by Scott Meyer (★★★★)
Divination
Book set in the future: An Unkindness of Ghosts by River Solomon (★★★★★)
Book under 200 pages: Six-Gun Snow White by Catherine Valente (★★)
Book with mythology: Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (★★★★) **
(I finished this after the readathon ended, but I’m linking it here because I read most of it during August.)
Defense Against the Dark Arts
Book that’s last in a series: The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss (★★★★)
Book with foil on the cover:Circe by Madeline Miller (★★★★★)
Book with ‘dark’ in the title: Dark Matter by Blake Crouch (★★★★)
Charms
Book with magic: Price Guide to the Occult by Leslye Walton (★★)
Book with a cover that charmed you: The End We Start From by Megan Hunter (★★★)
Book that will live a mark: The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (★★★★)
Care of Magical Creatures
Book with an animal of the cover: Life, The Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams (★★★★)
Book under 160 pages: Depression & Other Magic Tricks by Sabrina Benaim (★★★)
Book with dragons: A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin (★★)
Arithmancy
Book over 300 pages: Renegades by Marissa Meyer (★★★★)
Book with an even number of pages: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams (★★★★)
Book that’s a sequel: So Long and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams (★★★★★)
Herbology/Astrology/Ancient Runes
Book with a green cover: Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams (★★★★)
Book with stars on the cover: Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (★★★★★)
Book set in the past: Changeless (★★★★)
And that’s a wrap! Have you read any of these? Let’s chat in the comments.
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