So it begins, the final one hundred days of this year of reading are upon us, and with that my panic mode sets in automatically.

The only difference for this year is that I feel confident of my current pace and, at least one of my immediate goal is within reach.

As you can tell by this entry’s name I had a happy accident yesterday, my page total was of 426 for the day, I believe that if this was mapped out and thoroughly planned it would have failed miserably.

This grand total was spearheaded by two remarkable graphic novels, Lee Bermejo’s Batman: Noel and the always fantastic Saga, this time was the eight-volume of this award-winning book, written by the powerhouse author Brian K. Vaughan.

This gives me a giant boost and a clear pathway to reach some of the goals and regroup for the upcoming years.

With this burst of reading my total for the year went up to 19,671 total pages, only 329 pages for the first goal and 14,063 pages for the minimal total I intend to have my October.

As the clock winds down on this year, I will try to complete something that past years have somehow eluded me, to write at least one daily post of this last effort to close out the year on a high note.

For today I will attempt to replicate yesterday’s success, but today I will explore a galaxy far, far away in the company of a couple of Scoundrels and a Lord of the Sith, this also of course with a few outings thru the perilous paths of the Forgotten Realms accompanied by rogue Drow Drizzt Do’Urden.

If everything goes as planned, tomorrow a celebratory pizza and wine will be a top priority and a quick and rambling post to spread some of my joy.

Happy Readings!!!

azr.

Every day I inch closer to my 20,000-page goal.

So, I start the third day of this month with a total of 19,221 pages, just 779 pages to reach one of the high peaks of this year of reading.

Although my original goal coming into this year was 96,766 pages, a monumental task, I have become content with the idea of at least reading the total page count of the last two years combined, that is 33,734 total pages.

And that has become my immediate goal, but of course, I am shooting for at least in the 40,000-page realm, and how you may ask I will achieve this, well by reading of course.

These past three days have been quite productive, I finished a bunch of Batman: Detective Comics single issues and the second volume compiling the story arc of The Syndicate of Victims of this same title, these are of the new DC Comics storyline Rebirth, a significant reboot of all their main characters.

I should add that officially Batwoman is becoming one of my favorites characters of the Batman family, she is a total badass.

The next batch of comics on my to-read pile is, from the same reboot of The Batman, Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps, I have the two first story arcs, missed in some single issues and a trade paperback.

I am working slowly back to catch-up with the latest story timeline of DC Comics.

I expect to be really close to my 20,000-page goal by this weekend, all of this I considered it a dress rehearsal for the kick-ass readathon coming up shortly.

Getting into reading shape, now, back to it.

azr.

I start the month of July with a total of 18,373 pages and the whole month to chase those elusive 20,000 pages.

To start off this month-long reading session, I can not think of a better way than to dive right into the latest installment of Batman: Detective Comics, I have fallen so behind with DC Comics current timeline, but there is no better time to catch up with it.

And to send June off in style, yesterday, along with the local art museum, we organized a walk through the ever-changing landscape of the urban context in our fair city.

The particularity of this place is that you can see how slowly it has transformed from cotton fields to strip malls.

Historically, this place was the beginning point of the agricultural area of our city, it will follow the Rio Bravo for approximately 37 miles covered in fields and acequias were not only the agrarian activity thrived but also leisure activities that all people of my age fondly remember.

The purpose of this walking experiences is to rescue some of this history and preserve the memories of this places, through photography, before they vanish beneath a thick layer of asphalt.

Well, I’ll get back to my reading and to enjoy these vacation period.

azr.