Hello fellow bookworms 📖 I have decided to join in with the NEWTsReadathon a bit last-minute. I wanted to do a month-long Readathon (or at least one over 2 weeks), but it seemed like not a lot of Readathons were happening overall. Those that I saw were all around 7-10 days and I’ve recently figured out that I prefer linger Readathons. Therefore, I choose this Readathon, as it sounded like fun and I liked the challenges! The reason why I didn’t pick this one sooner (I did consider it), is because I haven’t done the OWLsReadathon earlier this year, which is what this is based on. The idea is that you are only allowed to do the subjects that you have passed during the OWLs. A lot of people did the OWL’s last month, but I was knee-deep in exams and I actually like the NEWT challenges better, so I’m doing a full on rebel and taking the NEWT’s without taking the OWL’s first. Maybe I will do them sometime, but for now the NEWT Readathon it is!
Now down to the important facts: The Readathon is taking place from August 1st to August 30th. You can find it here on Twitter for cool house award games and reading sprints – the official hashtag to use it NEWTsReadathon2018! This allows you to connect with other participants, which is surely going to be a lot of fun, as I love seeing how everyone else is doing! There is also going to be an Magical All Nighter, meaning a 24 Hours Readathon during the Readathon to boost your reading, which I love! It’s this week, Saturday, August 11th and I’m excited! I just did the Reverse Dewey’s 24 Hours Readathon, so I will go easy and not read too much!
There are 12 subjects with 3 challenges each, meaning that there are 36 challenges in total. You can see the full list of subjects here, as I’ll only talk about those on my TBR! I have decided to pick 5 subjects – since I have no restrictions, I choose the challenges that I liked the most! I’m planning to focus on 3 subjects (those that are underlined: Charms, Potions, Transfiguration) and will read whatever I can from the rest! You are supposed to do the challenges in order, meaning that you do the Acceptable challenge first, then Exceeding Expectations and last Outstanding. I aim to get an O in my 3 chosen subjects, but generally I read what I’m in the mood for and not necessarily in order, but I know that I will likely complete all challenges of at least my chosen subjects 🙂 You can also access a progress sheet here and I also did bullet journal spread that I shared on Twitter!
Here is the host’s announcement video for all further questions!
My NEWTsReadathon 2018 TBR!
As this is so late you can see that I already managed to tick off 3 books from my TBR!
⭐️ Astronomy ⭐️
352 pages ⭐️ 352 pages ⭐️ 162 pages
A: Stars on the cover
E: Book that has a word ‘sky’ in the title
O: Story that’s set on a different planet/world
✨ Charms ✨
324 pages ✨ 343 pages ✨ 395 pages
A: Read a book with magic in it ✅
E: A book with a cover that charmed you (would buy without knowing more about it)
O: A book that you think will leave a mark
🔮 Divination 🔮
290 pages 🔮 160 pages 🔮 525 pages
A: Set in the future
E: Book under 200 pages ✅
O: Read a mythology book
⚗️ Potions ⚗️
384 pages ⚗️ 428 pages ⚗️ 463 pages
A: Has a name of a colour in the title
E: Read a book with a male lead character
O: Book over 350 pages long
🐱 Transfiguration 🐱
382 pages 🐱 528 pages (German) 🐱 320 pages
A: Book with a grey cover ✅
E: Read a book from an author you haven’t read anything of before
O: Read a book that’s set in a kingdom/ has royals
Are you participating in the Readathon as well? What’s your Hogwarts House? 📖
Yay I’m so happy you decided to join NEWTs! Your TBR looks amazing too, so many books in there that I can’t wait to read myself. I’ll be looking forward to your thoughts on them 😊 And I’m a Ravenclaw even though I do have a bit of Slytherin in me so a Slytherclaw 😂 what’s your house?
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Thank you, I’m so excited to read as many of the books as I can! 🙂 I hope you have a great time reading the books on your TBR 🙂 I’m definitely a Hufflepuff, even though I have Ravenclaw tendencies, I guess a lot of us are a combination of two houses 😀
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Ah you have such a fantastic TBR, Caro, I’m spotting so many amazing reads ❤ I loved this Alice Oseman book and can't wait for you to read it, I hope you will love it as much as I did 😀 The Loneliest Girl was also such a brilliant and unforgettable read, I can't wait to hear what you'll think of it 😀 Happy reading! 😀
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Thank you, I’m so excited for all these books ❤ I’m looking forward to reading I was born for this since you talked so highly about it! ❤ I’m also really in the mood for The Loneliest Girl, it sounds so good and! Thank you! 🙂
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I’m loving this TBR, you have so many wonderful books here 😍 I love Labyrinth Lost and Children of Blood and Bone, I hope you do too! I’m taking the NEWTs this month too and I’m so excited! Happy reading, Caro! 💕
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Thank you, good luck with your TBR too! 💕 I loved both Labyrinth Lost and Children of Blood and Bone & I’m so happy about that, as I was really looking forward to reading them! 🙂
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Thank you! I’m so glad you loved them both 😊
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I’m participating in the readathon but I’m doing the OWLs first! I got inspired to make a TBR. I will do NEWTs next month but thank you for letting me know about the 24 hour readathon! I’m so excited!
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Good luck with your TBR, I hope you have fun! 🙂 I also hope that you were successful with the 24 Hours Readathon, I thought it was a great idea to do it during the Readathon as a special feature! 🙂
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Ugh I ended up not reading at all because of drama and more drama and I haven’t read for a week. Hopefully I will be back in the reading mood soon. 😦
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Oh nooo that’s unfortunate 😦
I hope you will be back in the reading mood soon! ♥
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Me too but today I’m going to the Taylor Swift concert and I’m so excited!! Although I won’t have time to read because I need to get ready XD
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Oh that’s cool, I hope you have fun at the concert! 😊
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Omg thank you! I had so much fun! It was amazing 😍😍
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Have fun!!!!
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Thank you!! 🙂
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Although I finished my OWLs in July, I won’t be able to participate in the NEWTs 😥 I’ll try for the next month though! Your list is amazing and consists of so many books I would love to read! Happy August ❤
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Oh no, that’s super sad 😱 but I hope you have fun doing them in September! I also think that the host plans on making this a yearly thing! Thank you, I’m very excited for all of them and I’ve loved a lot of them already ❤
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Wow! You have some awesome books on your TBR. ♥️ A number of them are excellent like The Loneliness Girl and Children of Blood and Bone. Enjoy!
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Thank you! I really loved Children of Blood and Bone 😍 I’m also very excited to get to the Loneliest Girl, it sounds like exactly what I’m in the mood for! 🙂
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Great idea 🙂 I just came across an O.W.L readathon and going to try doing that first. Then NEWTS 🙂
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Thank you 🙂 Good luck with your OWL’s! 🙂
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Thank you 🙂
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