Currently Reading
- Soul Mountain by Gao Xingchen (18%)
- Chinese Myths by Jake Jackson (37%)
- Chinese Myths by Jake Jackson (37%)
- The Sound of Stars by Alechia Dow (29%)
- A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas (47%)
- A Reader's Book of Days by Tom Nissley (08%)
- Mo Dao Zu Shi by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu (13%)
- IT by Stephen King (40%)
- Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en (39%)
- The Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (59%)
- The Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (59%)
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I forgot to post anything last week, so instead I just decided to move the blog post up to this weekend instead. Hopefully I remember to post it. I'm going to get this out of the way now and will likely not ever touch on it again unless something very drastic happens. The Covid-19 outbreak is pretty bad. My state has counties on lockdown already. The governor tried to play nice, but we couldn't be bothered to listen. So, expect a bunch more posts from me while we are pretty much under lock and key and not going anywhere.
Now then, let's move on and keep things upbeat for the rest of the post! So far in the month I've read more books than any other month. I am up to eight of them. There will possibly be more before the month's out, too. I have one more manga to read and then the final 4 books in a readathon I took part in. So we're at least getting reading done during the end of the world as we know it.
Counting my recent reads, my bookish savings account has gone up to almost $900. We're doing very very well there. I believe I may even get over $1000 before the end of April. Why you ask? Because of the OWLs of course. Recently G over at Book Roast started the yearly Ordinary Wizarding Levels (OWLs) Readathon. This is year 3. I'm a "first year" student of Ravenclaw house. I did find the readathon last year, but didn't manage to find it in time for the actual readathon itself. This year I knew about it and joined the Discord server and am sorted. Every year in April we get twelve prompts. They are different year to year. There are careers that you can pick from in the Wizarding World for the NEWTs in August. To apply for the career you must read the NEWTs levels, however, to read the NEWTs you must have passed the OWLs for that particular career.
The OWLs this year and their prompts are:
Ancient Runes - "Heartrune" Read a book with a heart on the cover or the word 'heart' in the title
Arithmancy - "Two, Balance/Opposites" Read a book outside of your normal genre.
Astronomy - "Night Classes" Read a book when it is dark outside.
Care of Magical Creatures - "Hippogriff" Read a book with an animal with a beak on the cover.
Charms - "Lumos Maxima" Read a book with a white cover.
Defense Against the Dark Arts - "Grindylow" Read a book set on or near the ocean or on the shore.
Divination - "Third Eye" Assign numbers to you TBR and use a random number generator to choose your book.
Herbology - "Mimbulus Mumbletonia" Read a book with a title that begins with the letter M.
History of Magic - "Witchhunt" Read a book featuring witches or wizards.
Muggle Studies - "Muggle Perspective" Read a contemporary.
Potions - "Shrinking Solution" Read a book under 150 pages long.
Transfiguration - "Animagus Lecture" Read a book featuring shapeshifting.
I'm deciding between three of the available careers: Journalist/Writer, Librarian, and Trader of Magical Tomes. Currently my mind is on Trader with the addition of Arithmancy for the Magical Shop Management addition. For the time being, I plan to aim to qualify for all three positions, and make my final decision later. There is no hard and fast rule that says you have to pick your career during OWLs. You just have to settle for one during the NEWTs.
Now then, let's move on and keep things upbeat for the rest of the post! So far in the month I've read more books than any other month. I am up to eight of them. There will possibly be more before the month's out, too. I have one more manga to read and then the final 4 books in a readathon I took part in. So we're at least getting reading done during the end of the world as we know it.
Counting my recent reads, my bookish savings account has gone up to almost $900. We're doing very very well there. I believe I may even get over $1000 before the end of April. Why you ask? Because of the OWLs of course. Recently G over at Book Roast started the yearly Ordinary Wizarding Levels (OWLs) Readathon. This is year 3. I'm a "first year" student of Ravenclaw house. I did find the readathon last year, but didn't manage to find it in time for the actual readathon itself. This year I knew about it and joined the Discord server and am sorted. Every year in April we get twelve prompts. They are different year to year. There are careers that you can pick from in the Wizarding World for the NEWTs in August. To apply for the career you must read the NEWTs levels, however, to read the NEWTs you must have passed the OWLs for that particular career.
The OWLs this year and their prompts are:
Ancient Runes - "Heartrune" Read a book with a heart on the cover or the word 'heart' in the title
Arithmancy - "Two, Balance/Opposites" Read a book outside of your normal genre.
Astronomy - "Night Classes" Read a book when it is dark outside.
Care of Magical Creatures - "Hippogriff" Read a book with an animal with a beak on the cover.
Charms - "Lumos Maxima" Read a book with a white cover.
Defense Against the Dark Arts - "Grindylow" Read a book set on or near the ocean or on the shore.
Divination - "Third Eye" Assign numbers to you TBR and use a random number generator to choose your book.
Herbology - "Mimbulus Mumbletonia" Read a book with a title that begins with the letter M.
History of Magic - "Witchhunt" Read a book featuring witches or wizards.
Muggle Studies - "Muggle Perspective" Read a contemporary.
Potions - "Shrinking Solution" Read a book under 150 pages long.
Transfiguration - "Animagus Lecture" Read a book featuring shapeshifting.
I'm deciding between three of the available careers: Journalist/Writer, Librarian, and Trader of Magical Tomes. Currently my mind is on Trader with the addition of Arithmancy for the Magical Shop Management addition. For the time being, I plan to aim to qualify for all three positions, and make my final decision later. There is no hard and fast rule that says you have to pick your career during OWLs. You just have to settle for one during the NEWTs.
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