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    Magical Readathon Year 2: Spring Equinox TBR (April)

    Yesssp, it’s that time of the year again! Magical Readathon time, by far my favourite readathon! On April 1st, all students of the magical Academy of Orilium are expected back in class, to kick off the spring equinox! If you don’t know what I’m talking about, BookRoast, the creator of this readathon, made a wholeoverview video here. For the announcement…

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    Magical Readathon: Orilium Autumn Equinox TBR

    August is already the third readathon in G’s (Book Roast) Magical Readathon Series. Until a few years ago, The Magical Readathon was a reading challenge inspired by Harry Potter, but now G has taken a completely different route and invented her own universe: Orilium. In essence, Orilium is a prestigious, magical university in the world of Aeldia. We, as readers,…

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    2023 TBR: readathon plans

    Readthons and reading challenges have been a staple in my reading for a couple of years now. I find them motivating and often the extra boost that I needed to finally pick up some of my most intimidating books. So it’s no surprise that for 2023 I also have a number of these challendes lined up. Its quite possible that…

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    Read in April 2023

    April was Magical Readathon month, so this usually means a lot of books are being finished. Even though I did read quite a bit more in april, both in number of books as pages, compared to previous months, I didn’t go too overboard. In total I read 13 books, amounting to 4425 pages. The average April book comes to 340…

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    Genre blanket: August

    Finally some more progress in my genre blanket of 2022! Since we are already quite far into the first month of 2023, I have put the idea of making another bookish blanket in the closet this year. I thought about it for a while, because it really is a very cool concept with surprising results. But since I still have…

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    Reading journal August 2022

    Inspiration for my August reading journal was drawn from a sheet of stickers from the brand Decotime that I had bought at Action. It featured pastel coloured stickers of cute animals with flowery crowns. All very sweet, not my usual style, but I liked this one so much I wanted to use it for my reading log. I ended up…

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    Genre blanket: April

    April was a very prolific reading month, due to the first semester of the new magical readathon by G. Readathons always motivate me to read a lot and this was definitely the case in April, where I read a total of 16 books. This of course also meant quite a lot of crocheting for my genre blanket, for which I…

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    Read in August 2022

    August was the month of the second semester at Orilium University. Whenever I participate in a readathon like this, my monthly number of books read often increases immensly, because as an overachiever I usually want to do more than what is strictly necessary. However, this month I’ve been trying to restrain myself a bit and enjoy the stories I read…