Opening Lines

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday prompt is opening lines, and I decided to go with the first line from 10 books on my physical TBR! These are all very high on my reading list and seeing some of these opening lines definitely makes me excited to get into a few of them!! 

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A Winter’s Promise by Christelle Dabos

“It’s often said of old buildings that they have a soul.” 

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The Toll by Neal Shusterman

 “There was no warning.”

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Aurora Burning by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff

“The disrupter blast hit the Betraskan right in her chest.”

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Chain of Gold by Cassandra Clare

“Lucie Herondale was ten years old when she first met the boy in the forest.”

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The Shadows Between Us by Tricia Levenseller

“They’ve never found the body of the first and only boy who broke my heart.”

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Into the Crooked Place by Alexandra Christo

“Tavia Syn made a living on magic and it was rarely the legal kind.”

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These Witches Don’t Burn by Isabel Sterling

“They say there’s a fine line between love and hate.”

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Heart of Flames by Nicki Pau Preto

“Veronyka kicked as hard as she could at Tristan’s face.”

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Winterwood by Shea Ernshaw

“A boy went missing the night of the storm.”

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Flamecaster by Cinda Williams Chima

“Compared to the freezing weather outside, the stable was warm and steamy and alive with the sleepy murmuring of horses.”

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Tome Topple Readathon TBR

I’ve had a lot of fun doing small little readathon’s throughout the last couple of months so when I seen that Thoughts from Tomes on Youtube was hosting another round of the Tome Topple I decided I had to participate. The Tome Topple Readathon will be taking place from midnight in your time zone on May 9th to 11:59pm in your time zone on May 22nd. I have seen this readathon floating around Booktube for a while now and I have quite a lot of big books on my TBR so I figure this was a great way to finally get around to reading  a few of them. I definitely won’t be completing all of these books but I am hoping I’ll be able to either become a Scholar or a Sage!

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The tome that has been on your TBR the longest

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A tome audiobook

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Tome that’s part of a series

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A standalone tome

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Read 1 tome

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A tome featuring a AAPI main character and/or written by a AAPI author (for Asian American/Pacific Islander Heritage Month)

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Tome from a genre you don’t usually read

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The tome on your TBR with the most pages

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An adult tome

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✨O.W.L.S Magical Readathon TBR ✨

For April I decided to take part in the O.W.L.S Magical Readathon hosted by Book Roast on Youtube, for any information regarding the readathon see her announcement video HERE. I’m not 100% sure what my career is going to be so I am going to try and complete all of the prompts for this round and then when it comes to the N.E.W.T.S I will announce which career path I choose in that TBR!

The prompts & my tentative TBR for the OWLS include:

OWL prompts 2 2020

 

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Heart rune: heart on the cover or in the title

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arithmancy

Magical Qualities of number 2: balance/opposites – read something outside your favourite genre

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astronomy

Night Classes: read majority of this book when it’s dark outside

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care of magical creatures copyHippogriffs: creature with a beak on the cover

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Lumos Maxima: white on the cover

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DADA copyGrindylows: book set at the sea/coast

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divination

Third eye: assign numbers to your TBR and use a random number generator to pick your read

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Mimbulus mimbletonia: title starts with an M

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Witch hunts: book featuring witches/wizards

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Book from a perspective of a muggle (contemporary)

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Shrinking solution: book under 150 pages

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Animagus lecture: book/series that includes shapeshifting

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🍂 Autumn TBR 🍂

 This weeks’s Top Ten Tuesday prompt is what books I am hoping to read during the Autumn months … Summer is finally over and I can’t wait for the colder months to get here! I think all the books I picked have a Autumnal/Wintery vibe so it seemed fitting. Happy Reading!

My Autumn TBR is:

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

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Chain of Gold by Cassandra Clare

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House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J Maas

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The Hand on the Wall by Maureen Johnson

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Heart of Flames by Nicki Pau Preto

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The Crown’s Fate by Evelyn Skye

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Blood Heir by Amelie Wen Zhao

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A Winter’s Promise by Christelle Dabos

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Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi

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The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

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