Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Tests Read-a-thon ’18-19

In August of this year I did my OWLs, and it has taken me this long to recover! However, I’ve been saying for a while now that I would like to do my NEWTs in January, so here we are.

Now, if you have zero idea what the hell I’m talk about, please, let me inform you. Gintare over at the Book Roast created an amazing read-a-thon based on the exams in the Harry Potter novels. OWLs are your year 5 exams, or Ordinary Wizarding Levels. NEWTs are your year 7 exams, or Nearly Exhausting Wizarding Tests. In order to pass your NEWTs you must first take your OWLs, and the same with the read-a-thon. In order to know what book prompts to read for the NEWTs, you must first read as many book prompts for the OWLs as you can. If you want to listen to G explain it all much better than me though, you should make with the clickies over HERE for the vlog on OWLs, and over HERE for the vlog on NEWTs.

Now, as I passed my OWLs for all the subjects, with the exceptions of Muggle Studies and History of Magic (Professor Binns put me to sleep and I just … couldn’t … do it!), then I have the option to read THIRTY books to gain O’s (outstanding) in the remaining ten subjects, because unlike the OWLs, this isn’t one book per subject. Oh no my friends, this one is MUCH harder. In order to gain an O in a subject, you must first gain an A (acceptable), and then an E (excellent) in that order. In order to pass each subject I must read the minimum A prompt. Therefore, if I read the O book and not the A and the E, then I fail that subject.

Because this is so crazy, and I don’t own a lot of graphic novels (which is how a lot of people managed to not die when this was run earlier in 2018), I’m giving myself an extra 10 days. Yep, you heard me, I’m starting this in line with my holidays from today, 22 December 2018 and going through until 31 January 2019. That’s 41 days to get through as many of the below 30 prompts as I can, and you’re not allowed to double up.

I’ve started a table on what I think I’ll read that matches prompts, but I’ve also left quite a few blank ones. These blanks can basically be filled by just about anything, and I’m counting on my giant pile of contemporary fictions that I’m packing for my holidays to get me through on some of these. The others I’ll have to figure out as I go or smash through a lot of books when I get home (oh, and I’ll be looking after my niece for a week as well when I get back)!

Thankfully I can use books from this challenge against the other challenges I’m doing this year like Beat the Backlist and the A-Z Reading Challenge as well! Right, wish me luck!

Until next time, happy reading! ??

Also – woot!! New header!! I am kicking goals this week!!