Hi guys! It's Olivia here from Olivia's
Catastrophe and today I'm here to give
you my OWL's read-a-thon TBR. So last year
Brook Roast has hosted the Owls magical
read-a-thon and I didn't know it existed
until after it happened when I saw
everybody's great wrap-up videos and I
was like: I wanted to join in! And even
though I've now read most of the
Harry Potter series - one more to go - and I didn't
like it. I get what the Owls are and I'm
still gonna do it, anyway, even though I
don't like Harry Potter. Just bear with me guys, it's a readathon, you know, just jump
in! Anyway, so Book Roast has made this
amazing and I'm gonna leave a link to
everything down below that she has
planned so you can go and join in as
well. But basically you had -- you didn't
have to -- but I chose a career path and
you know me, I am over ambitious and I
like to read and it's my holiday... it happens
kind of in my holiday so I thought let's
be an alchemist. I would love to be an
alchemist. If I can't be an alchemist I'm
going to settle for being a librarian.
And I'm going to show you my TBR. So for
transfiguration the prompt is to read a
book with sprayed edges and for that one
I'm going with The Rest of us Just Live
Here by Patrick Ness. Blue sprayed edges. So
I'm currently reading The Knife of Never
Letting Go trilogy. Yeah, I've got one
more book to go and I am absolutely
adoring it. So when it was like a book of
sprayed edges and I remembered I had
another Patrick Ness book with sprayed
edges it was gonna be this one that I'm
gonna choose. Also know what these books
are about because a lot of the time I
don't know but for what I do know about
this book, it's about this situation
that's happening in the world. And, you
know, there's always those people that
are the chosen ones, the superheroes who
are dealing with the problems. But this
one centers around the people who just
live there while they're off doing all
the saving and they're just side
characters. Basically it's focusing on
the side characters in any like,
superhero or chosen one story. I
love that. I love that.
So for potions the prompt is next
ingredient to read a sequel. And for that
I'm choosing The Glass Magician by
Charlie N. Holmberg. I read the first
one: The Paper Magician
last year in November when I did my 30
books in 30 days reading because it was
quite short and it went by quite quickly,
even though it was quite good. So I'm
gonna
the sequel. When it comes to sequels I try
not to read synopses because I just like
to go in blin. But The Paper Magician
is about this girl who has been in the
school studying to be a magician and you
get different types of magicians. And
she's always wanted to be a mental
magician that deals with all the metal
stuff. But there's a shortage in paper
magicians and as she is a scholarship
student she just gets assigned to be a
paper magician. And they do magic with
paper which sounds so cool like folding
origami and then those things that
you folded come to life. Or you can read
a book and you can make illusions of
what you're reading. And yeah, she gets
signed to be an apprentice to this guy
and they kind of start getting along
when this villain comes in and kind of
steals his heart. Like, out of his body.
And she as an apprentice makes this
paper hot and quickly puts it in his
chest but a paper heart will not last
very long in a body because it's made
out of paper. So she kind of has to hurry
up and go and find his actual heart.
That's what that one is about. I'll be
reading the sequel. The next one is muggle
studies which is to read a contemporary.
And for that I've chosen The Nowhere
Girls by Amy Reed. So, this one I don't
know much about it again. I just know
there's a lot of girl power in this one
and it's about standing up for the topic
of rape, I believe, and rape accusations. Don't quote me on this. I could be
completely wrong. But Andreea from Cheeky
Lines which is a blog - I'll leave a link
to her down below - she read this one and
she really loved it so I'm looking
forward to reading it myself. I've been
meaning to read it for a while. Can't
wait. So the next one is history of magic
and I need to read a book that was published at
least 10 years ago. And for that I have
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson
Burnett. This is one that I read when I
was a child and I really loved it.
But I want to see if it stands the test
of me growing up and I still enjoy it
today. So that's what I'll be reading. It's about this girl who gets sent away
because of bad behavior and I think
she's going to stay with her uncle and
she finds her secret garden and these
people who are in the secret garden who
are related to her. Who've been kept from
her. So, yeah, interesting interesting. I
want to see if I still like it.
And for herbology you need to read a
book with a plant on the cover and for
that I've chosen The God of Small Things
by Arundhati Roy. I believe that's how you
pronounce it.
So again, this is not one that I know
that much about. However, my oldest sister
has read this and loved it and it's been
recommended multiple times by my
creative writing tutor. So I want to give
it a try. I really don't know that much
about it even though I hear amazing
reviews of how brilliant it i. I just
don't know that much about it. But
there's lots of nature on the covers
there's a plant there. So then for divination it's a book that's set in the
future and for that I've chosen Angelfall by Susan Ee. So Angelfall doesn't
exactly -  in the synopsis at least - say the blurb like when it is set. But it's
kind of set in this kind-of apocalyptic kind-of situation. So I'm
just going to kind of stretch the rules
a bit and say it's set in the future
because it's kind of like an
end-of-the-world thing. You always assume
that the end of the world is in the
future if you get my drift. Anyway, so, yes
this one follows these two siblings. There's
Penryn and her younger sibling. And in
this kind of apocalyptic situation the
angels have been sent down to earth and
they're kind of wrecking the place, and
wrecking the earth, and ravaging it. And
this group of angels kidnap Penryn's
younger sister and she's going to go to
the end of the world to find her sister. However, she might need to team up with
this particular angel to be able to do
it and save her sister. That's what this
one is about. Abi Mac Reads read it
really loved it. I tend to like what Abi
Mac Reads likes so I'm looking
forward to it. So for Reducto it's to
read a book that starts with an R and I
had many possibilities but I went for
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier because
it's beautiful. It is, it's beautiful.
And also because I feel like my sister,
my mum, people on Instagram, Cara from Wilde
Book Garden all seem to really like this
book. Abi Mac Reads again. And I just
need to read it and know what everybody
knows about this book that makes it so
amazing. Even though it's not like,
read-a-thon friendly because it's
quite a big book, it's classic-y... I am
gonna read it anyway!
Charms is to read an adult work and I
read adult books all the time but in
particular I'm gonna read room by Emma
Donoghue. Again there's not much -- this is
a movie cover and I don't really like it but
I'm going to borrow my sisters edition
when I read this -- and this one follows
this boy. I think he's five years old and
he lives in this room with his mother.
And that's all you know! And there's not
much to go on.
But I've heard that it's really really
good and again my mother and my sister both
read it and enjoyed it so hopefully I
will too. Then for care of magical
creatures it's to read a book that has a
land animal on the cover and for that
one I'm going to be reading Fairy Tail
the manga volume one. There's this like
cat on the cover. I don't even know if
it's like, a fantasy cat or not. But like,
it looks like a cat and it's got like,
four legs and a tail which means
whatever animal it is, it should have
originally belong on the land. I'm going
with that because I just need something
that's gonna be a quick read for this
read-a-thon as well, seeing as I've
chosen to read some adult-y literary
classic-y books in my TBR as well.
And yeah, I've been meaning to try a
Fairy Tail and I also want to try
watching the anime eventually but I want
to try reading it first so let's see how
that goes. For the next one is to do
astronomy which is a book that has the
word star in either the title or the
series title. And I'm really struggled
with this one because I just had nothing
that I could read, but I ended up
settling on Black Leopard Red Wolf by
Marlon James which I recently got when I
went to his event. You will note there's
no star in the title but the trilogy is
called The Dark Star Trilogy so it got
me covered. Goodreads thank you for
letting me know what the trilogy is
called because I just typed in star into
Goodreads and I was looking and looking. I was like I have none of these books, I
have none of these books, right, got one! So um, this one follows this street
urchin who I believe is Wolf.
I believe the street urchin is Wolf and
he lives in this kind of African
mythological place and his best friend
is Leopard who is this shapeshifter. And
both of them kind of getting tangled up
in politics, getting tangled up in this
fighting and it kind of goes from there.
It's an epic fantasy as far as I can
tell from what he was talking about at the events.
That ties in African mythology. I am
looking forward to it and we're gonna
get a lot of black rep in the
characters and it just sounds very very
good to me. It's a big chunker hence why I
wanted a manga for one of them. I don't
know if I'll actually finish this but
I'm going to try. Then for arithmacy
read a book that was written by two or
more authors. I've chosen Dracul, another
big book! Tthis one's by Dacre Stoker and J.D.
Barker.
And it is a like, prequel to Dracula. So
Dacre is related to Bram Stoker in some
way like some great-great nephew or
something like that. And they've
collected some journals of notes that
the author had about writing Dracula and
what came before and they've kind of
composed it into a book and made it
fiction.
I love Dracula so I cannot wait to read
this book. It's one of my anticipated reads
of last year
when I saw it on foldedbetweenthepages --
I'll leave a link to her instagram down
below. She kind of featured this one I
just had to have it read it. So I can't
wait to read it. It's a very big chunk or
once again, I don't know if I'm gonna
finish it but I'm gonna try. I'm too
optimistic when I comes to my TBRs aren't I...
And then the last book is ancient runes which is to read a retelling. The
Silent Songbird by Melanie Dickerson. So this one was sent to me for review
ages ago I never finished it. I started
it and I've tried and I tried. I think I
started it three times and never
finished it. I'm gonna finish it! Because
I do a review it. So this one is a little
mermaid retelling it's about, as far as I
can tell from how much I've read,
basically this woman is in this
privileged situation and she has to
marry for political reasons and she
doesn't want to do that. So to escape she
runs away and to not give away her class
and her situation she pretends to be a
mute. And her maid is the one who does
all the talking. And they end up in this
other castle where she serves this Lord
and she kind of... I think there's a romance
between her and the Lord. And something to
do with her singing and being heard... It's
a little mermaid retelling okay, the
storyline's kind of like that. And I'm
looking forward to it... ish. I'm not
actually. Really? I don't know? I just want
to finish the book and it might be good.
I've not given it a proper chance.
So we'll see. So that's all I've got on
my TBR, it's quite ambitious. I don't
think I'm gonna read all of it. I know
what you're thinking: like, Olivia you
always read like 15 plus books in a
month why you worried about 12 books? It's because when I set a TBR it's so much
harder for me to stick to then when I
just read whatever I want. But yeah, I'm
so excited to do this read-a-thon. Catch
me on Twitter guys, talking about it.
Please let me know in the comment section
down below if you are planning to join
this read-a-thon, and if you've read any
of these books let me know what you
thought because yeah. Actually only tell
me good things
because that'll motivate me more. Tell me good things, okay?
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guys in the next one. Goodbye! And for that
one I've got The Silent Song Berg... The Silent Song... maybe I should just stay silent.
And this one is by dark - Dacre Stoker and J.D. Warder. No, no, it's not,
where did you get those names from? This one's by Drace... *cries*
I've just been rambling a bit, okay, this
is not like me, I'm not a Rambler, what's
going on? Anyway...
