OWL Reading List (April TBR)

WAH! Another year. Another Magical Readathon. Here is my OWLs List. I am kind of bending the rules again this time, with a few of the prompts, but not by much. Anyway, to begin with I should let you know what the Magical Readathon is, and the OWLS.

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OWLs are the Ordinary Wizarding Level Examinations from the 5th year at Hogwarts (Harry Potter). Students take the exams in order to qualify for the classes that they need to take their 6th and 7th years, so that they can get into their chosen careers. The OWL readathon is a part of the Magical Readathon.

You can go here, for more on the readathon, the 2019 just goes into the OWLs a bit more than this current year. Here for information on this year. Here on the prompt list. And here for the career books.

Essentially how this works, is you pick a career you want, and you look at the requirement classes/exams for that career. You then look at the prompt list and match up those classes/exams to reading prompts.

This year, Seminars were added and so they have additional requirements. However, since I’m reading all the prompts, these aren’t so big a deal.

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Last year my goal was Auror for Newts. This year my goals are going to be Potioneer with Spell Maker as secondary. However, because I’m an over achiever, and this readathon drives me, I am going to read all the prompts.

Total Count: 12 books +2

Why +2? Because I am reading the first book in a series I’ve been meaning to reread, and so I will try to finish the whole series.

How will I be bending the rules? One of the prompts is “at the sea/shore” and the one I picked takes place in a kingdom above a massive lake. I think it counts enough, however.

Enough talk! Time for the Book List!

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Goals:
Alchemist (For then I can be anything)
Potioneer (Top Choice)
Spell Maker (Second Choice)

Seminars:
Animagus Training
Magical Shop Management
Merpeople Linguistics

House: Slytherin

Exams:

Class	Requirement	Book and Author
Ancient Runes	Heart on the cover or in the title	Heart of Stone by C.E. Murphy
Arithmancy	outside favorite genre	The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley
Astronomy	read majority of this book at night	A Face Like Glass by Frances Hardinge
Care of Magical Creatures	Creature w/ Beak on cover	Woven in Moonlight by Isabel Ibanez
Charms	White Cover	The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Defense Against the Dark Arts (D.A.D.A.)	book set at the sea or coast	The Winter Duke by Claire Eliza Bartlett
Divination	Random Number generator selects off TBR	On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
Herbology	Title starts w/ an M	Most Likely by Sarah Watson
History of Magic	features witches or wizards	The Hawkweed Legacy by Irena Brignull
Muggle Studies	contemporary	Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn
Potions	under 150 pgs	The River Between Us by Richard Peck
Transfiguration	includes shapeshifting	Wicked Fox by Kat Cho

Additional Readings:

Hand of Flame by C.E. Murphy

House of Cards by C.E. Murphy

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Considering we are in lockdown, I think that I may be able to finish all of these before that is over. If I do, I got a request to read a novel from an author, so I will get to that and then web novels. This is the month that I finally catch up on all the webnovels that I’ve been looking at like “I’ll get to that.” Time to catch up!

As always this only includes the novels I will read over the course of the month not all the stories I will be reading. Also I swear I’ll finish the Book Thief now. I really loved it when I was reading it on my ipad, but I can’t read digital well, so with my hard copy I should actually be able to get through it without wanting to sleep.

Until next time,

MM

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