Hello again!
So I’m sure I’m not the only person who was slightly started by how fast the year is going by and had been slacking on their personal reading goals for the year so when I came across the Magical Readathon N.E.W.T.S. reading challenge for August I jumped at the chance to get back into the guardrails of my reading goal for the year and make my TBR get away from the one hundred book mark. I decided that even though I did not sit my O.W.L.S. in the spring, that I would try and read enough books to cover all of the challenges for the N.E.W.T.S. and somehow, I managed to do it! These are the books that I read and the challenges that each met as per the guide that I was using:
Ancient Ruins
Book Set In The Past
The Bhagavad-Gita
Most Ancient Book on Shelf
The Bhagavad-Gita
Translated From Another Language
The Bhagavad-Gita
Divination
Set In The Future
New World Rising
Under 200 Pages
The Bhagavad-Gita
Mythology
Deadweather and Sunrise
Arithmancy
At Least 300 Pages
Wicked
Ends On An Even # Page
Wicked
Not The First Of A Series
Forward
Herbology
Green Cover
New World Rising
Has Illustrations
Wicked
Title w/Light, Air, Sun, or Water
Deadweather and Sunrise
Astronomy
Stars On The Cover
Magical Misfits
The World “Sky” In The Title
Aurora Sky:
Set On A Different Planet/World
Wicked
History of Magic
Would Fit In A Hogwarts Library
Magical Misfits
Published At Lease 5 Years Ago
Confessions of a Murder Suspect
At Lease 400 Pages Long
Confessions of a Murder Suspect
Care of Magical Creatures
Has An Animal On The Cover
Wicked
Book Less Than 160 Pages
The Bhagavad-Gita
Includes Dragons In Some Way
Wicked
Muggle Studies
Book From Fave Author
Confessions of a Murder Suspect
Biography
Forward
Retelling
Wicked
Charms
Has Magic In It
Magical Misfits
A Cover That Charmed You
Magical Misfits
You Think It Will Leave A Mark
The Bhagavad-Gita
Potions
Name of Color In Title
The Virgin Blue
Male Lead Character
Magical Misfits
Over 350 Pages Long
Revenge Wears Prada
Defense Against The Dark Arts
Last In A Series
Revenge Wears Prada
Foiled Book
Magical Misfits
Has “Dark” In The Title
The Darkest Corners
Transfiguration
Grey Cover
Forward
New To You Author
New World Rising
Set In Kingdom/Has Royals
Wicked
*The editions I read are shown in the slideshow below*
The Bhagavad-Gita Translated by Barbara Stoler Miller
Revenge Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
Confessions of a Murder Suspect by James Patterson
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
New World Rising by Jennifer Wilson
Forward by Abby Wambach
Magical Misfits by Neil Patrick Harris
Aurora Sky: Vampire Hunter by Nikki Jefford
The Darkest Corners by Kara Thomas
Deadweather and Sunrise by Geoff Rodkey
The Virigin Blue by Tracy Chevalier
By reading these books I was able to meet all three possible challenges for each course and pass them all! Naturally a Harry Potter themed challenge already had my attention but the amount of planning and searching I had to do to get the right books to make this doable was such a blast. I plan to try a few more challenges this year to knock down my TBR even more before all of the new releases for 2019 start to pop up.
How are you guys doing on your reading goals? Did you also sit your N.E.W.T.S.? How did you do?
Always,
Britney