 you can tell from the title. It's gonna be more focused on what I'm reading for April but specifically the readathon that I plan on partaking in which is the OWLs or the OWLs and this is hosted by G over at Book Roast and she does the magical readathon multiple times a year with the OWLs now and then in August with the Nudes and I'm super excited to be participating in it for the first time this year. I am so excited to do this. I cannot even explain to you how excited I am but due to the coronavirus shutting down all of my local libraries and the idea of me not wanting to buy a lot of books for this because of many college students don't really have money right now. I'm not going to be able to do all of the books as graphic novels like I hoped I would. As mentioned in my last video about what I read in March I was able to go to a very small library for one time and I found one graphic novel and it doesn't really fit any of the prompts but I'll be trying to read it anyway. So the rest of my books are just gonna be books on my shelf that I just haven't read and really wanted to and so I'm gonna find as many books as possible on my shelf that can follow the prompts so hopefully I can read all that I need to in order to get the career or at least get the grades in my OWLs for the career that I want to choose. So speaking of the career that I want to choose I have chosen to be a spellmaker because that just sounds really cool really fascinating and kind of it lines up with what I want to be without being super like on the nose almost you know. The thing about the spellmakers that it does have a lot of requirements which I'm slightly worried of and to top it off I also want to go to two seminars which are some new things that she added this year. Obviously I'm gonna have the link to the original video explaining everything down below so that you can go and get more information about it. You can get the links to all the documents that she has on there. She's got some really cool design letters and documents explaining everything. I just haven't printed them off though I want to I just haven't right now so that'll be down below in the description but yeah back to it I want to be a spellmaker which just seems so cool because it's like researching different spells and like where they come from and then creating your own to keep magic alive in today's world and then the two seminars I want to go to are merfolk linguistics which is very on the nose for me anything I can do to learn more languages like ancient runes, merfolk linguistics like whatever throw it to me I love that kind of stuff and then the other one I wanted to do was the Amegas one about transforming into a different animal I just thought that was such a cool element from the Harry Potter universe that I had always wanted to embrace in daily life and obviously can't because I am ashamed to say I am a muggle even though I don't want to be so I this is just another I can kind of get in touch with that really cool concept and so I am planning a lot during the month of April but you know exams are in May so hopefully I'll be okay but now I'm gonna get into the requirements of what it would be for me to do both of those seminars and be a spellmaker so the first one is I have to complete one book that fulfills the requirement for ancient runes and the prompt that is to read a book with a heart in the title or on the cover of the books I'm gonna go find a book that fills this prompt I don't think I have a lot of books that do that so wish me luck ancient runes which I'm super excited for and then I read the prompt and the prompt is to read a book with the word heart in the title or with a heart on the cover and the thing is I looked all over my bookshelf and I really didn't find anything that had heart in the title or a heart on the cover and I was like oh my goodness what am I gonna do I don't have a book for it right up first prompt I don't have a book for it come on and then I looked at the required reading that I have for my literature class and the book that we have to read at the end of the month is called the destroyer by Victor Laval's it's a graphic novel and if you look real close that's a heart it's not the traditional heart shape not a heart but like it's an anatomical graphic novel heart so this is actually what I'm going to read for my requirement for ancient ruins also my requirement for my real-life college class and it's a graphic novel and it's April and I was hoping to read graphic novel in April so here I go I'm really excited to read this because someone in my class actually has read it before and was like it's good so I'll be interested but I might have to wait till the end of April depending on like when my class is reading it but you know if I read ahead it's not the worst thing in the world right so this is what I'm going to be using to complete ancient ruins interesting I know but here I go and then the next class that I'm gonna have to read for is arithmetic now the thing is for arithmetic is that I have to read it for being a spellmaker but also arithmetic is for the merfolk language linguistics seminar so for that I have to read two different books and the prompt for arithmetic is to read a book that is not part of your favorite genre now I have some books that are obviously not part of my favorite genre and like obviously as reading graphic novels not my favorite genre but you know something that I am going to read first one I'm going to read is Miss Peregrine's home for peculiar children the graphic novel the story is by ransom riggs and the art is by Cassandra Dean I am it's interesting because this book is not initially a graphic novel it is just a regular novel but I went to my dad's school's library and I found the graphic novel version of it and so I'm interested in coming at it knowing that was a novel but still not reading the novel like I still haven't read the story so this is gonna be the first one that I read for my arithmetic class it's like my other graphic novel so I'm very interested it's gonna be very interesting I think it's gonna have like slight aspect of like horror thriller maybe just because I have seen the movie so I'm curious how it translates into the book especially as a graphic novel so I'm interested in this I am excited to read this the next books that I'm reading for arithmetic is my is another book and this one is a much shorter book which is good because I am reading what is it 11 books 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 11 books in one month plus the books for my classes so I will choose a shorter book over a longer one just so I can get it all done and because of that the next book that I'm reading for my arithmetic class is the Little Prince I will be reading the English translation of it because that is what I have however in the future I do hope to read the French original but for now I have the English and so the English is what I'm gonna read this is a little more like a children's story but it's good for all ages kind of thing which is again not something normally that I read so I'm very interested to read this I've been wanting to read this ever since I got it so yeah that's gonna be my other arithmetic book if this is not a graphic novel it's not a graphic novel but it is still illustrated a little bit of a change in camera view but that's just due to I still don't have quite the perfect place to film yet and my phone died and just always a whole thing but just ignore the whole shift in frame okay also it's gotten darker outside so the lighting is worse and I apologize for that just throughout the video the video quality is just going down and I'm sorry I'm still figuring all that out now that I am back home and I do not have a bright light in my room but I am planning on getting one but I can't leave the house so we're just gonna we're gonna we're gonna work it out it'll be great anyway but let's continue on with the video now that I've just claimed this whole bad filming quality moving back into the video so then the next class that I need to complete is astronomy and the prompt for that one is to read a book just while it's dark outside like there's nothing that you have to choose about the book it just has to be dark outside which is not gonna be a hard one for me because that's what I do majority of my reading anyway it's always before bed after I've done all of my work for the day because that's just that's how I calm down it's how I you know just it's a good way to like wind down but it's also very dangerous because I could either go to bed at 11 12 o'clock like I mean to or I could go to bed at two or three in the morning who knows so I think it all depends on what book I choose and the book I have chosen for that is the Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern I chose this one yes I chose it ironically because it is Night Circus I have to read the book at night when it's dark out that is precisely the only reason I chose this book other than it's on my shelf I wanted to read it I've seen lots of good critiques on it yeah so this one is more about obviously a magical circus that only happens at night but apparently there's some competition between the main two characters and it may end in a situation that is not good for one of them hit hit hit death possibly I think um yeah it's just kind of a magical circus that appears at night randomly in different places so it sounds like a lot of fun sounds like just a really good night read which is why I'm reading it at night also it's called the night circus so I'm gonna stop waving the book on our face while I say nothing about it but yeah I'm excited to read this one it is going to be a bit thicker though like it is you know like 500 pages so it'll be a little challenging for me to get this done along with the other 10 books but I'm really gonna try my best I'm hoping that it will be enough of a page turner while I'll do like a chunk of reading every night but we'll see so this is my astronomy now that we're finally out of the age the next class that I will have to complete is charms and the prompt for charms is to read a book with an all-white or majority white cover and so the book for that that I have chosen is called an unkindness of magicians by cat Howard an unkindness of magicians by cat Howard obviously this book is all slash majority white there's a little bit of like gray on the book but it is majority white so I'm excited to read this so what this book is about is basically it's magicians in New York and every like 20 years or so there starts this whole competitions where each family chooses a competitor and they have to compete for who is like the top family of magicians or things like that I'm not completely sure but I don't like knowing too much about the books before I read them which is why in these tbrs I don't always give a lot of summaries about the books I'm going to read because it's like I know that this book has magic and competition and that's good enough for me um if I if those like basic one sentence summary doesn't capture me in I'm not going to be super excited to read a book so that's why I don't put a lot of work into it I really want to be surprised I guess I also just don't want it to be where I get an idea in my head of what the book is going to be and then if the book isn't that I don't want to be disappointed or annoyed or saying oh the author should have done it this way because it's not my story it's their story so I very much prefer to know very little about the story so I can just follow it and be happy with what it is rather than what I wish it was um so this is going to complete my charts requirements after that I need to complete my divination class and what divinations prompt was it was very interesting and kind of scary I will admit was to do a book chosen randomly like a random generator type thing so I took I figured out all the books I'm going to read during April and then I took the rest of the books on my shelf that I owned that I have not read and I put that into a random generator online and the books I ended up choosing for me which I am going to read is The Killing Woods by Lucy Christopher um I mean The Killing Woods it's pretty self-explanatory right death happens in the woods how divination to pick a mystery novel one that you gotta see into the future to know what the ending is because and you're trying to figure it out so I feel like it's very fitting for divination so of course the random generator picked this for my divination read The Killing Woods for my herbology class I have to read a book that starts with the letter M which is interesting for herbology but I mean makes sense M Mandrake or Mantogora makes sense right so for this one I've chosen Master and Margarita the English translation I'm not reading it in Russian I can barely read Harry Potter in Russian let alone something as dense as the Master and Margarita this is a little bit more of a philosophical book and I know this because I actually started reading it a long time ago and I didn't finish it and I really want to finish it for a number of reasons it was given to me by the first person whoever started to teach me Russian he taught me the alphabet and he helped me learn how to introduce myself before I ended up going to Kyrgyzstan where I had to learn a lot more Russian so I could teach English to Russian students anyway whole other part of my life there so I started reading this book but it's just super dense and super like philosophical that I just it's taken me a while to get through it and then with schools made it really busy so I'm choosing this for my herbology class so that I can finally get through Master and Margarita plus it's a double M so I mean hopefully that also will let me do really well on my OWLs is not only finishing this book but double M yeah I'm pulling at strings for quite a few of these but yeah it's what you gotta do and you're reading 11 of books 11 books it's what you gotta do next up is history of magic and again with this one this prompt is to read a book about witches and wizards and there was really only like one book on my shelf that it has magic in a sense of witches and wizards you know like other ones are like magicians or just magic in itself not a lot of witches and wizards that I haven't read but it's history of magic and the one book that I chose that is about witches just so happens to be the one historical fiction that I bought to read in January when I was reading historical fiction and then didn't get to and again I did not even realize that the book I chose was a historical fiction for history of magic until right now as I'm saying it to the camera and that is the witches of St. Petersburg by Emojin Edward Jones Emojin Emojin Emojin Edward Jones I'm gonna go with Emojin because it's St. Petersburg and then Russian it's like sound unless Emojin no Emojin Edward Jones um so this like I said it's historical fiction obviously it takes place in St. Petersburg and it's about these women who are being who are accused of being witches and yeah I think they are witches they just says that they dabbled in the occult so I'm very interested to see how that like qualifies and yeah it's historical fiction it's a book that I got with the intent to read soon and then just never got to it so I'm happy that I'm finally getting to it especially since now I know that I really do enjoy reading historical fiction so which is of St. Petersburg historical fiction history of magic could it get any better four potions which is another book I have to read for my um for my career spell making if the prompt is to read a book under 150 pages um and it's interesting because the book I chose for this I wasn't quite sure if it was under 150 pages so I opened up to the very last page and I don't think you can see this but it's 148 pages that's right two pages underneath what it needs to be for my potions requirement so then I decided to read Peter Pan you know in this classic fairy tale by j.m barry barry barry barry um again this was one that I was going to read for a previous readathon um because it was so short and then I just didn't get to it because I didn't need to but now I have to read a short book and I'm very glad that I do because I'm going to be reading so many books during the next month I'm very glad that this one is 148 pages so I can finally read this classic I love classic books makes sense I love historical fiction if I love classic books um so I'll be reading Peter Pan okay almost done I have one more class and that is transfiguration however I am reading two books for transfiguration one is for my career of being a spellmaker and the other is for the animagus seminar if I end up only getting to one book for transfiguration it's going to count towards my um towards my career rather than the seminar just to be clear because I want to be able to take my newts in august but I would really love to get to both because I would love to transform into one of the creatures that I will be reading about in one of these two books so the first one that I'm going to be reading is called sinner by maggie safewater this if you recognize it you will remember that this is the fourth book in the series of the wolves of mercy falls which I talked about last which I talked about in February I talked about in February's video um that is because it is the first three books were romance and I compared it a lot to twilight because I read it at the same time and it had very similar themes and characters and whatnot but if you watch that video you know that I read the first three books and this is the fourth book I started it and just didn't finish it because it follows um other characters that weren't the main characters it follows like Cole and isabel instead of grace and sam instead of grace and sam and I wasn't super inclined because I didn't want it to be the first three books or about grace and sam and then all of a sudden the fourth book still in the same series the fourth book is about Cole and Isabel and I just wasn't super excited about that if if this book was going to happen I wished it would have been an independent novel but now that I've had some time away from the series I think I'll have a more open idea to reading this book for Cole and Isabel rather than associating it too much with the first three books in the series with grace and sam so obviously this book is about werewolves and this guy has to now lead the pack after asking to become a wolf and so I'm not asking but like hey do you want to be a wolf yes I would love that better than the life I have now okay you're a wolf and now you have to take care of the pack um so yeah this is what I'm gonna read first because I would like to finish the series because I don't generally like leaving series unfinished so Center is gonna be my first transfiguration book the second transfiguration book is gonna be called the mermaid it is by Christina Henry this book I also got recently because I have I had a bookstore right across from the building I lived in at college so I mean it was gonna happen I was gonna buy books um and so this one the mermaid is obviously about a mermaid and what I think happens to her so she's a mermaid transforms into a human joins PT Barnum's circus where she is circused around paraded around as a mermaid I'm not sure if she dresses up like one or if she actually turns back into a mermaid for the show um that is one thing that I am interested in figuring out as I read the book and then I don't know you know in the end did she stay humans she go back to being mermaid I don't know um personally I am really excited to read this I'm very inclined um and so this is gonna be what I read for the seminar of how to be an animagus the thing is though about being an animagus is that I don't get to choose a mythical creature I have to choose an animal technically to be an animagus so I guess it would make more sense if like the book about werewolves was for the seminar because like I could choose wolf or dog to be my animagus and that would make more sense versus transfiguration like both are about transforming creatures but this one could be for an animagus versus this one could not but I want to get this read first because I want to finish the series versus this is a standalone ideally I would like to be able to read both but I mean they're both they're not super huge books like they're not terrible but I have a huge stack next to me of all the books I'm gonna read so this will take priority but it will go towards my class unless I have time to read them both and then I can do the class and the seminar oh my arm is resting on the stack of books and it's right here so much so that is it for this video this was a nice long video about all the books that I'm reading in April I'm not going to be reading any books in April that I haven't mentioned here just because because I know that April was going to be my month of graphic novels and while I am still technically reading two graphic novels and one illustrated book that that just isn't quite enough of graphic novel for me to read in order to really kind of get a grasp on the genre so I'm gonna put that on pause because I no longer have access to a place that has a bunch of graphic novels so I'm really just going to be focusing on the read-a-thon and just minimizing the amount of books on on my shelf that I own I own all of these books except for one the only one I don't own is this one it's center the fourth one in the series um so I'm just gonna be really focusing on getting books on my shelves on my have read this list rather than oh I haven't read it yet I'll get there eventually um so yeah if you like this video let me know by clicking the like button if you have read any of these books or if you are also doing the magical read-a-thon by book roast by g then comment down below what career you're doing if you're doing any of the seminars if you've done it before you know what you're gonna read what are your requirements and things like that um I am super excited and I would be so excited to see what you guys are going to be reading and what you're going to be going for because she added so many new careers this year like I know what it was like last year because I watched the video for last year but it wasn't April so I wasn't going to do the read-a-thon because it wasn't the right time but like I knew what it was and this year she just added so many new things and I'm super excited for it um so yeah like this video comment down below subscribe if you want to see my journey throughout the month of you know me actually attempting to read all 11 books during this time or if you want to continue with me on my journey of reading different genres and you're like oh I was really hoping you would read more graphic novels and do a review of that I am going to be doing that at some point I'm not quite sure when it really just kind of depends when this whole situation kind of lightens up and my libraries open up again um then you know when that happens I will definitely hop back on the train of all right I'm going to read some graphic novels now um but if you have suggestions for those also comment down below I will still be making notes and making a TDR of that um I think that's pretty much all I have to say so I would say good luck to you stay safe stay healthy you know wash your hands it's a very simple very quick thing you can do a couple of times a day wash your hands um they say practice social distancing I think all of us are pretty much quarantined in our houses um but if you do go outside you know don't go up and hug people or smack them or anything you know just like polite wave or a little head nod or verbal like hello I think should be enough of a greeting in a time like this um so yeah stay safe stay healthy and happy eating