Reading Challenges update April

April was a busy reading month for my challenges. I have several which are ongoing so here are how I’m holding up:

First off I would like to check off book challenge I got leftover from last year. I got the last two books from it done this month. The last two books were: Ender’s Game (Ender’s Saga #1) by Orson Scott Card and Kitchen Princess Omnibus, Vol. 3 (Kitchen Princess #5-7) by Natsumi Andō.

1. ✔  Rogue (Shifters #2) by Rachel Vincent
2. ✔ The Witch With No Name (The Hollows #13) by Kim Harrison
3. ✔  Shadow and Bone (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy #1) by Leigh Bardugo
4. ✔  Siege and Storm (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy #2) by Leigh Bardugo
5. ✔  Ruin and Rising (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy #3) by Leigh Bardugo
6. ✔  The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Graphic Novels #1)
   by Rick Riordan, Robert Venditti,
7. ✔  The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Graphic Novels #2)
   by Robert Venditti, Rick Riordan
8. ✔  The Titan’s Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Graphic Novels #3) by Robert Venditti, Rick Riordan
9. ✔  Black Butler, Vol. 2 by Yana Toboso
10. ✔ Black Butler, Vol. 3 by Yana Toboso
11. ✔ Ender’s Game (Ender’s Saga #1) by Orson Scott Card
12. ✔ Kitchen Princess Omnibus, Vol. 3 (Kitchen Princess #5-7) by Natsumi Andō
13. ✔  Shifting Shadows (Mercy Thompson Shorts) by Patricia Briggs
14. ✔ Serpent’s Kiss (Elder Races #3) by Thea Harrison
15. ✔ Girl of Nightmares (Anna #2) by Kendare Blake

For more info on how it all started last year you can check out HERE. It is a reading challenge in a sense that made me read more books I own and gave me some direction into reading more generally. At the time I did not make myself so busy with reading and reading challenges. I might go back at this format of a reading challenge sometime after summer but for now I have other ways of keeping myself busy reading.

Due to a whole lot of reading I decided to do in April I made a decision to try and overlap my reading challenges by using books that fit into more categories in different challenges but keeping it at single book per challenge so I can’t use the same book in a single challenge but can use it in different challenges.

O.W.L.s Magical Readathon is not yet officially over and as a first timer without sense of direction I decided to try going trough all the prompts. Naturally I was a bit overzealous in this challenge but instead of reading all twelve books I managed to pick out for the prompts I read nine and will finish tenth book by the end of the month. While it is not a complete success I consider it a small victory anyway.

Ancient Runes – heart on the cover/or in title

✔ Kitchen Princess Omnibus, Vol. 3 (Kitchen Princess, #5-7) by Natsumi Ando

Arithmancy – something outside my favorite genres (not romance or fantasy)

✔ The Vegetarian: A Novel by Han Kang

Astronomy – read the majority of the book at night

✔ Bite Me (Bitten, #1) by C.C. Wood

Care of Magical Creatures – creature with a beak on the cover

The Dark Prophecy (The Trials of Apollo, #2) by Rick Riordan

Charms – white cover

✔ Ender’s Game (Ender’s Saga #1) by Orson Scott Card

Defence Against the Dark Arts – book  set at sea / coast

✔ Children of the Spider by Imam Baksh

Divination – random TBR pick

Balzac i kineska mala krojačica by Dai Sijie ( Balzac et la Petite Tailleuse chinoise)

Herbology – title starts with the letter M

✔ Maneuver (Men of Inked: Southside Book 1) by Chelle Bliss

History of Magic – book featuring witches / wizards

✔ Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Harry Potter, #1) by J.K. Rowling

Muggle Studies – contemporary

✔ Fork In The Road by J. Coyne

Potions – book under 150 pages

✔ Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Transfiguration – book with shapeshifters

✔ Storm Cursed (Mercy Thompson, #11) by Patricia Briggs

One of the books I did not read I realized did not really fit into the prompt and the other book I ended up not reading  because I ran of time and could not muster up the motivation for. For reading the original post on my O.W.L.s Magical Readathon challenge you can check out HERE and I will be posting a more detailed review on the books in it and how it all went for me sometime in May.

I don’t own the picture I just thought it was cool looking and fit well with magic reading theme.

My usual TBR Jar Draw challenge is still going. I am currently reading Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Harry Potter, #1) by J.K. Rowling which is my pick for it.

Last but not least, my reading challenge for reading more books I already own in 2020 has one update on the list.

1. ✔  Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1) by Leigh Bardugo
2. ✔  Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2) by Leigh Bardugo
3. The Fates Divide (Carve the Mark, #2) by Veronica Roth
4. Prey (Shifters, #4) by Rachel Vincent
5. Carniepunk by Rachel Caine (editor)
6. ✔  The Witch With No Name (The Hollows, #13) by Kim Harrison
7. Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy by Ellen Datlow (editor)
8. ✔  The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1) by Holly Black
9. ✔  The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air, #2) by Holly Black
10. Death of a Darklord (Ravenloft #13) by Laurell K. Hamilton
11. Carry On (Simon Snow, #1) by Rainbow Rowell
12. Wayward Son (Simon Snow, #2) by Rainbow Rowell
13. ✔  The Battle of the Labyrinth: The Graphic Novel (Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Graphic Novels, #4) by by Robert Venditti, Rick Riordan
14. ✔  Black Butler, Vol. 3 by Yana Toboso
15. ✔  Kitchen Princess Omnibus, Vol. 3 (Kitchen Princess, #5-7) by Natsumi Ando
16. Saga: Book Three by Brian K. Vaughan
17. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years #1) by Gregory Maguire
18. ✔  Serpent’s Kiss (Elder Races, #3) by Thea Harrison
19. ✔  Djevojka iz noćnih mora (Anna #2) by Kendare Blake ( Girl of Nightmares )
20. MOR – Plodovi osvete by Josip Kralik
21. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
22. Balzac i kineska mala krojačica by Dai Sijie ( Balzac et la Petite Tailleuse chinoise)
23. Neobičan događaj sa psom u noći by Mark Haddon ( The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time)
24. The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
25. The Borders of Infinity (Vorkosigan Saga #5.3) by Lois McMaster Bujold
26. The Dark Prophecy (The Trials of Apollo, #2) by Rick Riordan
27. The Burning Maze (The Trials of Apollo #3) by Rick Riordan
28. The Tyrant’s Tomb (The Trials of Apollo #4) by Rick Riordan
29. Hellboy, Volume 1: Seed of Destruction and Wake the Devil by Mike Mignola
30. ✔  The Darkness: Darkness/ Batman & Darkness/ Superman 20th Anniversary Collection by Garth Ennis, Jeph Loeb, Ron Marz, Scott Lobdell, Marc Silvestri

 

April was a bit hectic for me since I decided to read more in a month than I did in any month for a while. I tuned my schedule upside down and ended up not posting anything for a whole month. In one hand I was busy reading and then I went all rebel at myself about it and read quite a bit outside all of the reading challenge lists I mentioned above. I will explain about those in my April Book Wrap in a day or two!