This is part of the Magical Readathon created by G from Book Roast. The announcement can be found here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyL-xeBIYrI
And the information can be found on the G drive here https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Yxt3yHOUo4CfHHu4FnAZfOs9AW_mwEKO
My calling is Rift architect.
For this semester we need to reach certain level. There are 3 levels:
O - Ordinary
Q- Qualified
D - Distinguished
And the levels are ladder like. So the challenges have to be completed in order.
I would need to get
Conjuration
O - The foundation of necromancy. - Book with necromancy themes.
Cemetery Boys, Aiden Thomas
When his traditional Latinx family has problems accepting his gender, Yadriel becomes determined to prove himself a real brujo. With the help of his cousin and best friend Maritza, he performs the ritual himself, and then sets out to find the ghost of his murdered cousin and set it free.
However, the ghost he summons is actually Julian Diaz, the school’s resident bad boy, and Julian is not about to go quietly into death. He’s determined to find out what happened and tie up some loose ends before he leaves. Left with no choice, Yadriel agrees to help Julian, so that they can both get what they want. But the longer Yadriel spends with Julian, the less he wants to let him leave.
Q - The tales bones tell. - Bone on a cover or in the title.
The bone maker, Sara Beth Durst.
Twenty-five years ago, five heroes risked their lives to defeat the bone maker Eklor—a corrupt magician who created an inhuman army using animal bones. But victory came at a tragic price. Only four of the heroes survived.
Since then, Kreya, the group’s leader, has exiled herself to a remote tower and devoted herself to one purpose: resurrecting her dead husband. But such a task requires both a cache of human bones and a sacrifice—for each day he lives, she will live one less.
She’d rather live one year with her husband than a hundred without him, but using human bones for magic is illegal in Vos. The dead are burned—as are any bone workers who violate the law. Yet Kreya knows where she can find the bones she needs: the battlefield where her husband and countless others lost their lives.
Inscription
O - Glyph: Recollection. - A childhood favorite.
Holes, Louis Sachar. Middle grade summer camp with a hint of paranormal. This is a reread.
Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnats. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys’ detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the boys build character by spending all day, every day digging holes exactly five feet wide and five feet deep. There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. But there are an awful lot of holes.
Q - Inkling techniques. - Read a graphic novel / comic/ manga.
Daredevil essentials vol 4, Stan Lee. Marvel hero collection which includes Daredevil #75-101 and Avengers #111
Who else but Marvel would set up a robot from the future to play matchmaker for a femme fatale and the Man Without Fear? Mister Kline's android-laden efforts steer Daredevil and the Black Widow together for a trial whose tribulations could mean the end of the fabled Nelson and Murdock partnership!
I am still not wholly invested in Daredevil, I'll give this another opportunity but if I don't enjoy it, I will give up Daredevil comics; at least for a little while.
Spells & Incantation
O - Spell: Recolor. - Use a color wheel and pick a book matching the color. - Salmon
Aesop's Fables. Classic short stories collection.
Aesop was a slave and storyteller who lived in ancient Greece around 620–564 BCE. No writings by him exist (if they ever existed at all), yet numerous stories and tales have been credited to him and have been shared through oral tradition throughout the world. Many of these use animals as the main characters to convey deeper meanings and morals that have become ingrained in our cultural—and personal—belief systems. For example, in “The Goatherd and the Goat” we learn that there is no use trying to hide what can’t be hidden. In “The Ass and the Purchaser” we find that people are known by the company they keep. In “The Boys and the Frogs,” one person’s pleasure may be another person’s pain. “The Dogs and the Fox” show how easy it is to kick a man when he’s down. And misery loves company, as we see in “The Fox Without a Tail.”
Q - Incantation echo - Find someone else's TBR and pick a book from theirs.
What moves the dead, T. Kingfisher from anyone who is following the Literally dead book club
Horror fantasy- Retelling of Edgar Allan Poe The fall of the house of Usher.
When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruritania.
What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at night, and her brother Roderick is consumed with a mysterious malady of the nerves.
Aided by a redoubtable British mycologist and a baffled American doctor, Alex must unravel the secret of the House of Usher before it consumes them all.
D - Hex: Tonguetie. - Annotate this book
The partner, John Grisham. A legal mystery thriller. I have read it several times but never annotate it before, so great opportunity.
A man will do almost anything for ninety million dollars. So will its rightful owners. They found him in a small town in Brazil. He had a new name, Danilo Silva, and his appearance had been changed by plastic surgery. The search had taken four years. They'd chased him around the world, always just missing him. It had cost their clients $3.5 million. But so far none of them had complained.
The man they were about to kidnap had not always been called Danilo Silva. Before he had had another life, a life which ended in a car crash in February 1992. His gravestone lay in a cemetery in Biloxi, Mississippi. His name before his death was Patrick S. Lanigan. He had been a partner at an up-and-coming law firm. He had a pretty wife, a young daughter, and a bright future. Six weeks after his death, $90 million disappeared from the law firm.
It was then that his partners knew he was still alive. And the chase was on.
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