Witches & Witchcraft Reading Challenge – sign-up post

June 6, 2014 Lark_Bookwyrm Challenges 2

Keeping track of 4 year-long and up to 2 shorter challenges at once wasn’t enough to keep me busy (hah!), so I’ve decided to join the 2014 Witches and Witchcraft Reading Challenge hosted by Melissa’s Eclectic Bookshelf. I enjoy books with witches (Harry Potter, A Discovery of Witches, Madelyn Alt’s mysteries, and so on) and I realized I had already started this challenge without realizing it: I’ve read 3 books already and I’ve got 6 more scheduled to read by the end of November.

A summary of the rules is below. I’ve decided to sign up at the ‘Mother’ level of 11 to 15 witchy books, because otherwise it wouldn’t be a challenge — I should have 8 by the end of the year as it is! I’m also interpreting the definition of “witch and witchcraft” pretty narrowly — elven magic, for instance, doesn’t count. (Nor, alas, does libriomancy.) But elemental magic is close enough, I think.

Here are the books I’ve read or plan to read. Title links take you to my reviews; dates are the date I finished reading the book.

Elemental Magic: All New Tales of the Elemental Masters (ed. by Mercedes Lackey) – 1/08/14
Dark Witch (Cousins O’Dwyer #1; Nora Roberts) – 2/08/14
Shadow Spell (Cousins O’Dwyer #2; Nora Roberts) – 2/08/14
Be Careful What You Witch For (Family Fortune Mystery #2; Dawn Eastman)
A Discovery of Witches (All Souls Trilogy #1; Deborah Harkness) – plan to re-read
Shadow of Night (All Souls Trilogy #2; Deborah Harkness) – plan to re-read
The Book of Life (All Souls Trilogy #3; Deborah Harkness
Blood Red (Elemental Masters; Mercedes Lackey)
Blood Magick (Cousins O’Dwyer #3; Nora Roberts)

Challenge Rules, condensed:

This challenge will run from Jan 1, 2014 – Dec 31, 2014. Link up a sign-up post, your reviews and a wrap-up post.
Grab the reading challenge button (code & button below) and post this reading challenge on your blog to track your progress. You do not have to be a book blogger to participate.
Any full length book that includes a witch as a main character or includes major witchcraft elements counts. They may be fiction or non-fiction.
Books can be any format (bound, eBook, audio).
Re-reads and crossovers from other reading challenges are allowed.
You can move up levels, but no moving down.
Sign-ups will be open until Dec 15, 2014.