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The Magical Readathon: Orilium Autumn Equinox 2024

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Since I’m posting this after September 1, the ✨2024 Orilium Autumn Equinox✨ has already begun and I’m excited to get back to it! It might be overambitious of me to still participate when I know just how busy this month will be but the FOMO is real and I don’t want to miss out on one of my favourite annual reading challenges!

If you have no idea what I’m talking about, our lovely host G @Book Roast created this Beginners Guide to the Magical Readathon, just in case you’re interested in starting your own journey to Orilium!

Let’s see what this latest semester has in store for us, shall we?

CHARACTER BACKGROUND

Guild Tier Points: 370

  • Name: Meeska Shonara
  • Guild: House of the Arcane
  • Calling: Illusionist Rogue
  • Status: Adept
  • Background: Urban
  • Province: Kerador
  • Heritage: Earthling (Fire)
  • Conduit: Staff
  • Legacy: Pocket Dimension

As I mentioned in my Spring Equinox post, Meeska has decided to pursue the Mage Hunter calling this year because they think their Illusionist Rogue capabilities complement it well. I realise I didn’t do my usual Spring Equinox wrap-up so here’s a quick recap of what I read to successfully complete the semester:

  • Elemental Studies: Bend Toward the Sun
  • Spells & Incantations: Promise of Darkness
  • Conjuration: Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone
  • Restoration: The Starless Sea

Orilium Autumn Equinox 2024 Prompts + Possibility Pile

Meeska needs to achieve these grades (and read six books) to complete the Autumn Equinox:

  • Spells & Incantations
    • O: Charm – Dancing Stars → 5-star predictions
    • Q: Spell – Memory Clip → Book shown in any of G’s videos
    • D: Incantation – Carbon Copy → Steal a book from another TBR
  • Conjuration
    • O: Conjure – Bats → Bat on the cover
    • Q: Conjure – Laurels → Book that won an award
  • Restoration
    • O: Night Dew → Night sky on the cover

As always, being an epic mood reader possibility piles are the way to go for maximum flexibility, lol!

*covers linked to Goodreads*

SPELLS & INCANTATIONS:

O—Charm: Dancing Stars → 5-star predictions

The Undermining of Twyla and Frank by Megan Bannen, If Only You by Chloe Liese, House of Frank by Kay Synclaire, In Memoriam by Alice Winn, Half a Soul by Olivia Atwater

Q—Spell: Memory Clip → Book shown in any of G’s videos

Squire by Nadia Shamas & Sara Alfageeh, The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green, The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty, Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll, The Crimson Moth by Kristen Ciccarelli

D—Incantation: Carbon Copy → Steal a book from another TBR

You, Again (Caro’s Blog), The Book Eaters (Kerri’s Blog), Lovely War (Morgan’s Blog), Delilah Green Doesn’t Care (Leslie’s Blog), Starling House (Louise’s Blog)

CONJURATION:

O—Conjure: Bats → Bat on the cover

I’ve surprisingly already made a start on this prompt so I’m reading A Rival Most Vial for this prompt! It was hard to find a book with a bat on the cover (yes, the bat on here definitely counts! 😉)

Q—Conjure: Laurels → Book that won an award

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka, This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone, The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin, Milkman by Annar Burns, Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart

RESTORATION:

O—Night Dew → Night sky on the cover

Every Other Weekend by Abigail Johnson, Wendy, Darling by A.C. Wise, Nine Tailed by Jayci Lee, Saving Noah by Lucinda Berry, The Atlas of Us by Kristin Dwyer

I’m hoping to participate in the Autumn Equinox side quest as well since I didn’t manage to do it in the Spring Equinox but let’s see—I’m not going to get even more overly ambitious cos this is already a lot, and I’m woefully terrible at even glancing at my possibility piles. 😂

And that’s it for the 2024 Orilium Autumn Equinox! I’ve had some of these books on my TBR for ages and hope to get to them this month—let’s see! 😍 Who else is heading back to Orilium this semester? What are you most looking forward to?

9 thoughts on “The Magical Readathon: Orilium Autumn Equinox 2024”

  8. I hope you’re having a lovely time during the Magical Readathon, I can’t believe it’s already almost over 🥺 I hope you had a 5-star read for your 5-star prediction! I love the prompt and was lucky that I actually got a 5-star read out of it 🥰

    Did you end up reading You, Again? The cover gives off such fall vibes 🍂

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