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Charm 5. Expecto Patronum
Kellene
In Peppermint Peril by Joy Avon
Read: 3/16/21
3 stars
Task 2. read a book where the MC needs protection
How it fits: Callie needs protection after receiving several threats
Moondance
Thankless in Death. J.D. Robb
Task 5: read a book with fantasy, paranormal or supernatural on main page
How it fits: Tagged 24 times as Fantasy on main page
Read: 03.14.21 5 stars
Next Charm: Fianto Duri

Spell: Charms 5. Expecto Patronum
Jenny
BOOK READ: The One
DATE READ: Mar 13, 2021
TASK #: 2. read a book where the MC needs protection
How it fits: America needs protection when the rebels attach the castle
Vicki
BOOK READ: Layla
DATE READ: 3/09/2021
TASK #: 5. read a book with Fantasy, Paranormal or Supernatural on the book's main page
HOW IT FITS TASK: MPG Paranormal
NEXT SPELL: 1. Alohomora

Spell: Fianto Duri
Jeanne: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Celia: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Next spell: Glisseo

Bobbi:
SPELL: Morsmordre
BOOK READ: Immortal Unchained
DATE READ: 3/20 🌟🌟🌟🌟
TASK #: 3. read a book where someone dies during the story
HOW IT FITS TASK: (view spoiler)
NEXT SPELL: Scourgify
Mamacita:
SPELL: Morsmordre
BOOK READ: Vengeance Road 5* ✔️ 3/19
TASK: #2. read a book with a character that has been 'marked' (your definition)
HOW IT FITS TASK: Steele's whole body is marked with tattoos to cover scars that was inflicted upon him as a child. He was also marked with PTSD from things he had done to him & to do to survive being a victim of child abuse and imprisonment.
NEXT SPELL: Scourgify

Spell: 3. Cave Inimicum
LaurLa
Task: 1. read a book where the MC has an enemy
Book: Thirty and a Half Excuses
How it fits: Rose Gardner has made an enemy of the new reverend's seretary who tries to kill her.
Date Read: 03.20 ★★★
Laura
Task: 5. read a book with Fantasy, Paranormal, or Supernatural on the book's main page.
Book: White Hot
Date Read: 3/18
Rating: 5 stars
How it fits: Fantasy & Paranormal are both MPGs
Next Spell: 3. Confringo

Spell: Relashio
Sha: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Nikk: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Next Spell: 14. Slugulus Eructo

Spell: Glisseo
Celia: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Jeanne: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Next spell: Lumos Solem

Kerri's Completion post Defodio
Book read: The Woman in Blue by Elly Griffiths
Date Read 24/3/21
Task: 2 read a book in a genre you totally 'dig' (your favorite genre) Mystery/Thriller
Next Spell: Crinus Muto
Patti's
Task: 4. read a book with 450+ pages
Marriage of Inconvenience (Knitting in the City, #7) by Penny Reid
Read 2/27
How it fits: 506 pages
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Spell: 3. Confringo
LaurLa
Task: 1. read a book with 'explosion' in the text of the story
Book: Moon Dance
How it fits: The gun went off, a massive explosion that rattled my senses [loc 61.6]
Date Read: 03.26 ★★★★
Laura
Task: 5. read a book with Fantasy, Paranormal or Supernatural on the book's main page
Book: Of Mice and Murder
Date Read: 3/25
Rating: 4 stars
How it fits: Fantasy MPG
Next Spell: 3. Crinus Muto

Charm 6: Fianto Duri
Kellene
Kneaded to Death Winnie Archer
Read: 03.24.21
Rating: 4 stars
Task 1: read a book while simultaneously reading another (two or more books)
How it fits: reading concurrently with 3 other books
Moondance
In a Badger Way Shelly Laurenston
Read: 03.26.21
Rating: 4 stars
Task 5: read a book with fantasy, paranormal or supernatural
How it fits: Tagged 147 times as fantasy
Next Charm: Glisseo

Spell: 3. Crinus Muto
LaurLa
Task: 2. read a book where the MC changes the color of their hair
Book: Extreme Measures
How it fits: Evie changes her hair to blonde when she meets a contact, then changes it back to brunette when the MCs go on the run
Date Read: 03.27 ★★★★
Laura
Task: 3. read a book with two or more different covers
Book: Beard in Mind
Date Read: 3/27
Rating: 5 stars
How it fits: 2 covers (see Laura's completion post)
Next Spell: 13. Sectumsempra

Completion Post Crinus Muto
Book: All the Hidden Truths by Claire Askew
Date Read: 26/3/21
Task: 3. read a book with two or more different covers
How it fits: All the Hidden Truths by Claire Askew All the Hidden Truths 'Moving and memorable' The Sunday Times (Three Rivers) by Claire Askew All the Hidden Truths (D.I. Helen Birch, #1) by Claire Askew
Maddielucy(Patti) Completion Crinus Muto
1. read a book with a title that begins with a letter in CRINUS MUTO
THE CASE OF THE DOTTY DOWAGER a cozy Welsh murder mystery full of twists by Cathy Ace
THE CASE OF THE DOTTY DOWAGER a cozy Welsh murder mystery full of twists (WISE Enquiries Agency Mysteries Book 1) by Cathy Ace
Read 3/28
How it fits: begins with C
Next spell: Scourgify

Bobbi:
SPELL: Scourgify
BOOK READ: A Dirty Job
DATE READ: 3/30 🌟🌟🌟🌟
TASK #: 4. read a book that you have to hold with your fingers
HOW IT FITS TASK: It's a paperback edition.
NEXT SPELL: Obscuro
Mamacita:
SPELL: Scourgify
BOOK READ: Shadow Game 5* ✔️ 3/22
TASK: #5. Fantasy, Paranormal or Supernatural on main page
HOW IT FITS TASK: Fantasy MPG, Paranormal Romance MPG
NEXT SPELL: Obscuro

Spell: 1. Arania Exumai
Jenny
Task: 3. read a book with all the letters of BANISH in the title
Book: Sunday the Rabbi Stayed Home
Date Read: Mar 18, 2021
How it fits: SuNdAy tHe rabBI stayed home
Vicki
Task: 1. read a book with 'spider' in the text
Book: Spiders in the Grove
Date Read: Mar 21, 2021
How it Fits: Spiders in the title and in text: "...spiders might be lurking..." loc. 1314
NEXT SPELL: Charm: 11. Peskipiksi Pesternomi

Spell: 3. Crinus Muto
LaurLa
Task: 3. read a book that's been on your TBR list a long time
Book: The Heat of a Kiss
How it fits: TBR since 2014
Date Read: 03.29 ★★★
Laura
Spell: 13. Sectumsempra
Task: 2. read a book where the MC uses a knife.
Book: Rebel Fight
Date Read: 3/29
Rating: 4 stars
How it fits: Gwen uses a knife during fights several times
Next Spell: 13. Scourgify

Spell: Lumos Solem
Jeanne: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Celia: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Next spell: Obliviate

Charm 7: Glisseo
Kellene
Mrs. Morris and the Witch Traci Wilton
Read 3/31/21
Rating: 3 stars
Task 5. read a book with Fantasy, Paranormal or Supernatural on the book's main page
How it fits: Fantasy and Paranormal listed at MPG
Moondance
Wild Sign Patricia Briggs
Read: 03.28.21
Rating: 4.5 stars
Task 2: read a book in 24 hours
How it fits: started at 1000 finished at 1330 on 03.28.21
Next Charm: Lumos Solem

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Kerri
Completion Scourgify
Task 3. read a book with a teacher as a significant character
Book:Tell Me No Lies by Lisa Hall
Date read: 30/3/21
How it fits: A mc becomes a teacher assistant to be closer to chid
Rating: don't waste your time
Next spell:7. Herbifors
Patti
Completion Scourgify
Task: 4. read a book that you have to hold with your fingers
Final Girls by Riley Sager
Read 3/31
How it fits: read the paperback version and held it with my fingers ❤️

Spell: 13. Scourgify
LaurLa
Task: 3. read a book with a teacher as a significant character
Book: My Favorite Souvenir
How it fits: male MC is music teacher
Date Read: 03.30 ★★★★
Laura
Task: 5. read a book with Fantasy, Paranormal, or Supernatural on the book's main page
Book: A Lady of Rooksgrave Manor
Date Read: 3/31
Rating: 4 stars
How it fits: Paranormal & Fantasy MPGs
Next Spell: 13. Reparifarge

Last check-in!!!
Spell: 13. Scourgify
LaurLa
Task: 2. read a book with 'repair' in the text of the story
Book: Evening Stars
How it fits: Which meant Mike’s repair shop had been open for an hour. [loc 44.6]
Date Read: 04.02 ★★★★
Laura
Task: 4. read the 2nd book in a series
Book: One Foot in the Grave
Date Read: 4/1
Rating: 4 stars
How it fits: Night Huntress #2
Next Spell: DONE

Spell: Obliviate
Celia: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Jeanne: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Next spell: Partis Temporus

Congratulations to Laura and LaurLa for finishing the spell practice. We wish them luck on their O.W.L. exams!

Congratulations to Laura and LaurLa for finishing the spell practice. We wish them luck on their O.W.L. exams!"
Wow! Congrats!

Bobbi: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Mama: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

SPELL: Vera Verto
Barbara

DATE READ: 3/16
TASK: 2. read a book with an animal on the cover
HOW IT FITS: owl on cover
Alison

DATE READ: March 19th
TASK: 3. read a book with a real person mentioned in the book
HOW IT FITS: William Faulkner and other American writers are mentioned on page 477
NEXT SPELL: 3. Cave Inimicum from Charms

Charm 8: Lumos Solem
Kellene
Murder in an Irish Village Carlene O'Connor
Read: 4/7/21
Rating: 2 stars
Task 1. read a book with 'narrow' in the text of the book
How it fits: "James was finally on the straight and narrow..." p. 19
Moondance
Smoke Bitten Patricia Briggs
Read 04.03.21
Rating: 5 stars
Task 5: read a book with Fantasy, Paranormal or Supernatural on the book's main page
How it fits: Tagged 589 times fantasy, 337 times paranormal and 70 times supernatural
Next Charm: Obliviate

Spell:
Charm 11. Peskipiksi Pesternomi
Jenny
Task: 3. read a book where the MC attends school
Book: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Date Read: Apr 1, 2021
How it fits: Harry Potter attends Hogwarts School for Witchcraft & Wizardry
Vicki
Task: 5. read a book with Fantasy, Paranormal or Supernatural on the book's main page
Book: Prom Night in Purgatory
Date Read: Apr 5, 2021
How it Fits: MPG Fantasy > Paranormal
NEXT SPELL: Curses, Hexes, and Jinxes #2. Brachiabindo

Spell: Curses, Hexes, and Jinxes #2. Brachiabindo
Jenny
Task: 2. read an old book (your definition)
Book: The Time Machine
Date Read: Apr 9, 2021
How it fits: initially published in 1895
Vicki
Task: 4. read a book from a trilogy
Book: Dangerous Illusions
Date Read: Apr 9, 2021
How it Fits: book #1 from the trilogy
NEXT SPELL: Curses, Hexes, and Jinxes - 1. Anteoculatia
Team 17 - D.L. and Denise
D.L.
SPELL: Expecto Patronum
BOOK READ: Somebody's Baby by Annie Jones
DATE READ: 4/7/21
TASK #: 4. read a book where the MC is a father
HOW IT FITS TASK: The MC Adam finds out he is the father of young Nathan.
Denise
SPELL: Expecto Patronum
BOOK READ: The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
DATE READ: 10 Apr 2021
TASK: #5 - Read a book with Fantasy, Paranormal or Supernatural on the book's main page
HOW IT FITS: MPG Fantasy
NEXT SPELL: Arania Exumai
Link to our thread
D.L.
SPELL: Expecto Patronum
BOOK READ: Somebody's Baby by Annie Jones
DATE READ: 4/7/21
TASK #: 4. read a book where the MC is a father
HOW IT FITS TASK: The MC Adam finds out he is the father of young Nathan.
Denise
SPELL: Expecto Patronum
BOOK READ: The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
DATE READ: 10 Apr 2021
TASK: #5 - Read a book with Fantasy, Paranormal or Supernatural on the book's main page
HOW IT FITS: MPG Fantasy
NEXT SPELL: Arania Exumai
Link to our thread

Completion Post Herbifors
Flowers for the Dead by Barbara Copperthwaite
How it fits Flowers for the Dead by Barbara Copperthwaite
Task 1 read a book with flowers on the cover
Date read 3/4/21
Maddielucy(Patti) Completion Herbifors
Task: 4. read a book you purchased
The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
Read 4/7
5 stars
How it fits: I bought this hard cover awhile ago. So glad I read it!
Up next: Finite Incantatem

SPELL: Cave Inimicum
Barbara

DATE READ: 4/10
TASK: 2. read a book with 'beware' in the text of the story
HOW IT FITS: when Jhane Mor gasped out, beware, p123
Alison

DATE READ: April 9th
TASK: 5. read a book with Fantasy, Paranormal or Supernatural on the book's main page
HOW IT FITS: top MPG of Fantasy
NEXT SPELL: Morsmordre from Spells

Charm 9: Obliviate
Kellene
Murder in Season Jessica Fletcher
Read 04.12.21
Rating: 4 stars
Task 3: read a book with “attempt” in the text
How it fits: "What she's experiencing is her mind's attempt to hold on to itself..." p 248
Moondance
Emerald Blaze Ilona Andrews
Read 04.12.21
Rating: 4 stars
Task 5: read a book with paranormal, fantasy or supernatural on the main page
How it fits: Tagged 478 times as fantasy
Next Charm: Partis Temporus
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Spell: 11. Obscuro
LaurLa
Task: 5. read a book with Fantasy, Paranormal or Supernatural on the book's main page
Book: Before the Midnight Bells
How it fits: mpg Fantasy
Date Read: 03.14 ★★★★
Laura
Task: 1. read a book where a significant character has poor eyesight
Book: Extra Credit
Date Read: 3/12
Rating: 4 stars
How it fit: Violet has poor eyesight and wears glasses
Next Spell: 3. Cave Inimicum