Hi guys, it's Olivia here from Olivia's
Catastrophe. Today I'm here to give you
my OWLs TBR but also my TBR my
self-inflicted 30 books in 30 days
reading challenge that I'm going to be
doing in the month of April. I've done
this once before in November 2018 and I
thought why not do it again. So for my
OWLs I've decided to go for Care of
Magical Children as my career and I'm
also going to be taking merpeople
linguistics because I love mermaids and
I love children. Which is why I've chosen
these two things for me to pursue in my
OWLs. So let's get right down to which books
fit to the OWLs prompts first. My first
class I'm taking is arithmacy and you're
supposed to read something out of your
favourite genre. However, I like, love a lot
of genres so I don't have a genre I
like the least. But for this one I chose
Stories from Arendale. And this is a
Disney frozen book this was gifted to me
by the au pair child that I looked after
in January / February when I left. And I
don't really like Frozen... Like, I don't
dislike it but I don't actually like it
so I guess it's outside of my favourite
genre. And it's not something I would
have picked up myself but I'm going to
read it because he is the cutest and
it's so sweet that he chose this for me. And for charms I need to read
something with a white cover and for
that one I have Dreamology by Lucy
Keating. It's quite a white cover. It's
quite bright and I know this is a
contemporary with some like, magical
realism, fabulism thrown it in. So
curious to see what this is going to be
like. I've had it on my to read list for
a very long time. Then for defense against the dark arts I
need to read a book set at the sea or at
the coast, and for Transfiguration I need
to read a book with shape-shifting in it. And I know that both appear in The
Voyage of the Dawn Treader by CS Lewis. This is the fourth fifth book in the
Narnia series. And because I've watched
the film I know that some shape-shifting
does occur for a certain character. But
that said I am going to be reading all
the rest of the series as well because
I'm doing my 30 books in 30 days
challenge. And I thought it would be good
to like, finish a series that I've
started. So I've already read two of this
series before which is The Lion, The
Witch and the Wardrobe and The Horse Boy. No... The Boy and the Horse or something
like that. So I still need to read Prince
Caspian, The Silver Chair, The Last Battle,
and The Magician's Nephew which I will
also be reading in the month of April.
But that's aside from my OWLs. Let's
go back to the books on my OWLs list.
So for herbology you need to read a
book that starts with an i and i've
chosen It by Stephen King. I'm also
working on reading one of my big books
every single month. Not sure if you've
noticed that trend but that was a secret
resolution that I had for myself. It's been
going quite well. And It is a chunker
so that is going to be my read for April. Then for history of magic you need to
read a book that features wizards and
witches and for that I've chosen Sorcery
of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson. It
involves sorcery and sorcerers so I'm
just counting that like... wizards, witches
and sorcerers. I hope that's okay.
This one was gifted to me by Sydney from
Sydney Stories. So thank you so much
Sydney. I cannot wait to read it
as I loved An Enchantment of Ravens.
Next up for muggle studies I need to
read a book that is a contemporary from
a human's perspective and for that one
I've chosen American Sweethearts by
Adriana Herrera. This is a new adult m-f. So the rest of the series has been m/m
romances but this is a male/female
romance. And it's new adult and it
follows the last character from the
friendship gang that we've been
following and seeing all their romances.
I'm just so excited because there's not
a single book in this series that I
rated less than 4 stars. I absolutely
loved Adriana's writing. She always
brings culture to the forefront
as well as other important themes. And
she's just like, an amazing writer. I will
be reviewing this one on my blog and on
my Instagram so links to those down
below. Watch out for that coming around
the beginning of April. And then last but
not least for potions I need to read a
book under 150 pages. And for that I'm
going to be reading Ghosts by Henrik
Ibsen which is a play. And this is a bind
up of four of his plays. I've already read
the first one in here which is  A Doll's
House, which I absolutely loved. So I'm
looking forward to reading Ghosts by him.
And then because I'm reading 30 books in 30 days
I thought why not just finish the whole
book and read the other two plays by him
in this book. Which are Hedda Gabler and
The Master Builder. So I'm looking
forward to reading just, more of his
plays. And it would be nice to take a
break from reading novels by reading
plays. And now that my OWLs TBR is out
of the way let's go over to the rest of
the books so I'm planning to read for my
30 books in 30 days self-inflicted
challenge. Feel free to join me if you
want though.I would love it. I'm going to
have vlogs up every week so that you can
read along with me.
So the first books that I'm also going
to finish are Six of Crows and Crooked
Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo. Again, I
don't know why I've chosen these ones
as they're quite big. But I want to read them
so I've chosen them. I am really trying
to start and finish some series in the
month of April as you can tell. Very
excited. I've heard very good things about
those two. Then we have Rebel by Marie
Lu. This is a spin-off of The Legend
series by Marie Lu which I absolutely
read and devoured back in 2017? 2018? So I
can't wait to read more by her again.
This was gifted to me by Sydney from
Sydney Stories who's just so lovely so
do check out her channel link down below. Then we have my complete collection of
Sherlock Holmes. I will not be reading
them from this collection. I have
actually not read any of them from this
collection because I do have the
audiobook where Stephen Fry reads all of
these stories to me. But I have three
more left to finish which are His Last
Bow, The Return of Sherlock Holmes and
The Valley of Fear. So I hope to finish
those three short story collections by
listening to Stephen Fry read them to me
throughout the month. I just can't
believe I have this book and I have not
actually physically opened it to read it.
But hey, somehow that's just how it goes. Then we have another series and that is
The Chocolate Box Girls series by Cathy
Cassidy. Now, these are books that I read
when I was younger .I loved everything by
this author when I was a young teenager.
So like 12? 13? And she writes the
romances for really young young adults.
And I just remember loving everything
she wrote. But I never finished this
series because I moved on from younger
books to upper young adult before I
finished the series. But I've decided I
want to go back to the beginning and
just read all of my way through. And I'm
so excited because I feel like I'm gonna
have so much fun just reminiscing with
her writing and everything. So the first
one is Cherry Crush. And then we've got
Marshmallow Skye, Summer Dreams, then we've got
Coco Caramel, then we've got Sweet Honey,
and lastly we have got Fortune Cookie. So
can't wait to read all of these. Continuing on the
trend of finishing series I have Airhead:
Run Away by Meg Cabot. Again, similar with
Cathy Cassidy, I started this series when
I was like 12 to 13 to 14. And then I
just moved on to upper young adult and
totally abandoned it. This is the last
book in the trilogy and I have a vague
memory of what happens in book 1 & 2 but
I am gonna read some plot summaries
before I get round to this one. And just
to finish off the trilogy once and for
all so it's not hanging over my head. And
then last but not least for the last four
books I'm going to be reading I have
Sophie Mackenzie. On a similar note to the
past two authors I've mentioned I loved
Sophie Mackenzie when I was around the
same ages as when I was loving Meg Cabot and Cathy Cassidy. And I started this series, and on a
similar note, never got around to
finishing it because I just got
distracted. They are romance books and yeah, just
looking forward to diving back in. These
are not my favourite from her but they're the
ones I own so I thought I would start here
with getting back into her works.
We've got Falling Fast, Defy the Stars,
Burning Bright and lastly Casting
Shadows. So a couple of rereads, and
then a couple of finishing up series,
starting new series, fantasy... everything! That's how my TBRs are always like.
I've also got to do some reading for
class and I've also got to do a buddy
read that I planned with Gaia Athena of
When Dimple Met Rishi. Not sure where
I'm gonna fit those in but we'll... we'll
figure out a way to make this work! Thank
you so much for watching this TBR. Please
let me know in the comment section down
below: are you joining in with your OWLs? And also what are you planning to read in
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