What I’ve been up to in August ⭐ Editing Crisis & Percy Jackson Nostalgia

Hello fellow bookworms ⭐ August went by surprisingly fast, but that might not be a big surprise as that tends to happen when there’s some glorious downtime. However, as I’m not a big fan of summer I’m more than happy that it’s finally September 🍂 Not to be controversial on the blog (😱), but I don’t consider September part of summer it’s autumn if you go according to the meteorological seasons (as opposed to the astronomical ones) which I do because autumn is my second favorite season 🥰 Though the weather won’t be as cool as I’d like for some while, I’m more than happy to get into the autumn spirit again, as this season (+ winter) are always my favorite time of the year when I find myself at my most peaceful 🥰 Last week I went into the city and saw all these Halloween and autumn decorations and it legit made me so happy and feel very cozy inside, I love autumn SOOO much 💕 This was basically just one big ‘why I love autumn rant’ so let’s get into what I did during August (still very much summer)!

Me getting excited about autumn again

Theme: NEWT Readathon

🔄 = Reread 💌 = Library Books

🌼 = Moody Reader Challenge 🐯 = #YARC2019

⌛ = Digital Arc 🎧 = Audiobook

In terms of reading August was a full success, I ended up reading 20 books mainly because I was challenging myself to fulfil as many prompts for the NEWT Readathon as possible. being on my semester break also helped, as it provided me with a lot of free time to read if I so choose to do it! I also participated in 3 1/2 Readathons (NEWT Readathon + Magical All-nighter, Series Crackdown 8.0, Dewey’s 24 Hour Readathon) and they always tend to boost my reading as well – it was fantastic finally getting to some Readathons again, I missed them SO much! 🥰 Especially the two 24 Hour Readathons that I participated in on the weekends did wonders for my reading and it was great to take one day off to just  read all day to my heart’s desire 💕 Midway through the Readathon – after finishing The Heroes of Olympus Series – some serious Percy Jackson nostalgia hit me and I reread the Series in almost one week because I was obsessed again!! I also almost reread the Trials of Apollo books (the fourth book is coming soon) and was generally reminded why I adore Rick Riordan’s work 💙

NEWT Readathon Wrapup ✨

This was SO much fun but I’m also so sad that it’s over again 😭 Hopefully we’ll get another little extra Readathon towards the end of the year like last time, because I need some more Magical Readathon to hold me over to the OWL’s next April 😱 I read 19 books for the NEWT Readathon and got 18 credits (for one subject I only got A and O but not E)!! That’s fantastic as I only needed 7 to fulfill my required subjects. … Did I manage to read the 7 books to get my Magizoologist required grade? Yes, I did! I’m now a proud Magizoologist with some extra credits to certify that I’ve got lots to offer to possible future employers ✨🎉 Getting a magical career was amazing and I cannot wait to do it again next year and try out something else 🥰

A: On the Come Up (Angie Thomas) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

E: The Lightning Thief (Rick Riordan) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐ 🔄

A: The Titan’s Curse (Rick Riordan) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐ 🔄

O: The Hidden Oracle (Rick Riordan) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐ 🔄

 

A: A Curse so Dark and Lonely (Brigid Kemmerer) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

E: Book Elements (Rick Riordan) ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 💌

O: The Dark Prophecy (Rick Riordan) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐ 🔄

 

A: Challenger Deep (Neal Shusterman) ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 💌

E: Wires and Nerve (Marissa Meyer) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐.5 

O: Fireblood (Elly Blake) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐⭐

  

A: Eliza and her Monsters (Francesca Zappia)

E: The Witch Hunter (Victoria Boecker) ⭐️⭐️.5 💌

O: The Tea Dragon Society (Katie O’Neill) ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

A: The Sea of Monsters (Rick Riordan) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐ 🔄

E: The Last Olympian (Rick Riordan) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐ 🔄

O: The Battle of the Labyrinth (Rick Riordan) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐ 🔄

 

A: Mooncakes (Walker, Xu) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🐯 ⌛

E: Prince Caspian (C.S. Lewis) ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 💌

O: The Blood of Olympus (C.S. Lewis) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐⭐🌼

Extra Book

📚 I started Reckless 3 in July and therefore didn’t entirely read it in August, so it doesn’t count towards the NEWT’s & gets its own space here!

Reckless 3 (Cornelia Funke) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐💌

The Series Crackdown Readathon 8.0, hosted by TheBookMo took place from August 2nd to August 11th and as always I had such a fun time participating! This time around there was another bingo board and a brand-new point system, that made this such a cool event to take part in! I was pretty happy with my progress and I cannot wait for the next round to take place, to tackle some more Series 🥰 You can find my Twitter Thread with all my updates here 💖

1. Fireblood (Elly Blake) 📚 Sequel, Been on your TBR FOREVER

2. The Blood of Olympus (Rick Riordan) 📚  Last book in a Series

3. Wires and Nerve (Marissa Meyer) 📚  Recommended by a friend

4. Prince Caspian (C.S. Lewis) 📚  Film adaption, Includes a map

5. Book Elements (Stefanie Hasse) 📚  First book in a Series, Fantasy

Stats 💌

• Books read 📚 5
• Total Pages read 📚 1679
• Prompts finished ⭐ 8
• Moos collected 🐮 46

Average Rating ⭐ 4.1

Favorite Book 💕

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⭐ Dewey’s 24 Hour Summer Readathon ⭐ The Netgalley Book Tag 📚 

⭐ Getting back to writing #1: Making writing a priority again 🖋 ⭐ 10 Series I want to start 📚 ☕ 

⭐ The Waffle Book Tag 💖 ⭐ Percy Jackson vs Heroes of Olympus Tag 🍵 

⭐ Review: Fireblood by Elly Blake

For this section of my wrapup I’m linking up with the Favorite Blog Posts of the Month Meme that has been created by Kristin @ kristinkravesbooks to showcase our favorite blogs of the month!

• 2019 Mid-Year Reading and Life Wrap-Up + What’s Coming Up Next? (Aimee ⭐ aimeealways)
• Series Crackdown | Wrap-up post (Bec ⭐ becandbooks)
• Hiatus Recap (Beth ⭐ readingeverynight)
• 63 of the best YA books about siblings (Cait ⭐ paperfury)
• What is your Average Book Rating? Don’t Worry I Know How You Can Check! & Dani’s Favorite Books That Define Her! (Dani ⭐ perspectiveofawriter)
• July 2019 Recap [part one, reading] yes I’m not meeting my goals for YARC19, what about it & July 2019 Recap [part two, blogging/life] did you know that I’m a mess and also, lazy? (Julianna ⭐ paperblots)
• And in the Morning, I’m Making Waffles // The Waffle Book Tag (Kat ⭐ novelsandwaffles)
• What I’ve been binge watching 17 & What I’ve been binge watching 18 (Kat ⭐ lifeandotherdisasters)
• Sprinkles of Dreams Author Feature // Debut Authors & Writers to Watch (& Love) (Lily ⭐ sprinklesofdreams)
• Why I Don’t Write Every Day // How To Tell If “Write Every Day” Is Good Advice For You & How I Use Google Calendar To Calendar Block My Life (Madeline ⭐ madelinebartson)
• 10 Books that made me cry ft. heartbreaking characters and inconsolable tears (Malanie ⭐ malanielovesfiction)
• Bookish Baking: blue cupcakes from Percy Jackson,  5 YA books to read when starting college/university, Writing update #9 | I failed Camp NaNoWriMo & The future of YA (part 2) | why do so many adults read YA? (Margaret ⭐ weirdzeal)
• How to give your book blog posts that extra spark/ & 10 young adult contemporaries gems that you should be reading/ (Marie ⭐ drizzleandhurricanebooks)
• My Adult Fantasy Written by Women TBR (Marija ⭐ insidemylibrarymind)
• It’s in the stars: full moon in aquarius (Mel ⭐ cottoncandybookwitch)
• Series Crackdown 8.0 Wrapup (Mel ⭐ thebookmo)
• The Netgalley Book Tag, all about my reviewing habits and novels I can’t wait to read 🌷 (Noémie ⭐ tempestofbooks)
• NEWTs TBR (Pauliina ⭐ bookaholicdreamer)
• Let’s Chat // Re-Thinking the Books We Read #IndieAugust & Let’s Chat! How my reading evolved (Sophie ⭐ sophiexli)
• Recently Read #11: Series Crackdown Wrap Up And MORE & ARC Review: Frankly In Love by David Yoon (Swetlana ⭐ thecaffeinatedbookwormlife)
• We’re Reviving BuJo Posts: Plan with Me August ’19 (ft. My Personal BuJo + My Reading BuJo!!) (Taasia ⭐ libraepaintspages)
• Happy Birthday, Percy Jackson!! (ft. Character Mood Boards + My Favorite Memes) & College 101: 10 Things I Wish I Knew Before College (Tiffany ⭐ readbytiffany)
• Discussions & Rambles // How many main characters is too many? (Xandra ⭐ starryskybooks)
• I’VE (finally) BEEN WORKING ON A WIP AGAIN! & Is it *really* better to be The Chosen One? 🧙‍♀️| The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness (Zoie ⭐ whiskedawaybywords)

I started revising my WIP 😱 It’s finally happening! I meant to revise my WIP last year, but it didn’t work out, so I only now got to working on it again. It’s a bit sad, but I was so occupied with my internship and classes beforehand, that I only could start revision once I had my semester break. Currently I have finished my readthrough of my printed manuscript and have sorted through all the notes I have on changes that need to be made. I’ll definitely be doing another writing update all about my progress! In general, I’m trying to do some more writing posts on the blog (I was thinking 2 per month) 💖 Like I mentioned in this month’s writing post I have also been trying to get back to writing frequently and consistently again, sow wish me luck that it’ll continue over the next months 🙂

Me trying to get through revision

To be honest not much else exciting happened. I could finally get back to reading more without feeling guilty again, so that was great! I wrote a lot of overdue Reviews that I had been collecting since my Internship got busier. I even wrote my last internship report that I need to hand in when October comes around. When it comes to my bachelor thesis I only have a vague idea about what I have to do and I’ll have to do my research soon, even though I’m not excited for that I’ve also been thinking a lot about what comes after my Bachelor’s degree and what I want the next years, which has triggered a bit of a personal crisis, because I’m worried I’ll have done nothing memorable and will be falling behind when everyone else is doing exciting things and getting out of their comfort zone. (I know it isn’t like that but good luck trying to get me to actually believe that) You could say I have been thinking and planning a lot.

This month’s theme: Mood Reading yet again 🎉!

For September I have yet again no reading theme in mind (like in July), because there wasn’t anything that spoke to me and with that in mind I didn’t see the point in trying to force one. I’ll be getting back to some mood reading after the intense month of August where I was trying to make every book, I read fit one of  the NEWT prompts so it would count towards my Readathon success. September is meant to be a bit more relaxing even though I really want to participate in another Readathon, now that I still have a lot of free time to myself. However, it’s not going to be as intense as the NEWT Readathon (even though I of course also had a lot of fun challenging myself to fulfill as many prompts as possible). I think maybe I might do some rereads or get to some books that I have been wanting to read for a long time. It’s going to be a more spontaneous and changing TBR this time 😃 Apart from that there’s not much planned for September except for doing lots of revision on my WIP and trying to hopefully figure out what I want to do for my Bachelor thesis. I’ll hope for lots more fun (and autumn) though 💕

The 3 books I checked out of my library that I’ll definitely reading (because I need to return them on time), unsurprisingly they are all Fantasy ✨

What were you up to in August? What was your favorite book this month? Did you participate in the NEWT’s? ⭐