Once again my Magic Monday has to turn into a Tuesday, but with things going as they are, I really can’t complain.

My total for the week was an amazing 1,491 pages, that’s 19% more than the week’s quota. The goal of picking up my reading of the second volume of Gotrek and Felix´s Adventures and The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy has worked out beautifully, respectively, I have completed 68% and 45% of each book. The plan is to finish them by January 31, which is about 49 and 70 daily pages of each to get this task.

Now let’s talk about MY NUMBERS, the current total is 32,399 of the 64,952 pages of this year’s goal, that’s 1,174 pages of progress since last Monday, with this, this year entered my top 5 of the best page total, now the next task, position number 4, is 12,946 pages away. Still, there’s the 3,000-plus week that eludes me, one of the goals for year number fifteen is to have at least one, and finally have the first sigil tattooed on my body.

My reading schedule, the Achilles heel of the whole shebang, is 50 days behind, one day more than last week, this minimal step back does not concern me that much, this is a reflection of the two current books that I’m reading being over 1,000 pages, slow progress with a big pay off at the end, by the end of January I should regain the lost ground and then some. My current projections put my total at 51,112 pages that are 13,830 pages less than what I’m comfortable with. The mantra for every morning will continue to be: one step at a time, one page at a time.

I start week thirty-four with a more manageable deficit of 7,095 pages, giving me quite the challenge to balance out this gargantuan number in each of the 18 weeks left on this year of reading. That number for this week is 540 additional pages to the 1,246 pages of the weekly quota.

For the first 500,000 pages, I have only 51,225 pages left, and the new date of reaching that goal is September 11,2024 that’s around 6 days earlier than the last projection, my sights are still pointed at March 20, 2023, as the desired date to reach the first half of the challenge, now I have 56 days to do so, but according to my current projection, the reality is that I’m 596 days behind schedule.

For the second part of the journey or the other 500,000 pages, my weekly pages needed are now 1,423 with a daily average of 203 pages, one daily page less than the last projection.

Now for the golden prize of 1,000,000 pages, to my delight, the projections put it 6,414 days away, a 21-day gain from the last projection, making the end date August 16, 2040, that’s 3,360 days after the original plan, 3 days less than the last projection. I have to keep reminding myself that my goal is to reach my goal by my 50th birthday, right now, I would be 59 years 2 months, and 11 days old.

To summarize the numbers from my Journey Back.

• Pages to reach 500,000: 51,225 pages
• Days to reach 1,000,000: 6,414 days
• Days behind schedule: 3,360 days

Off to read.

azr.

Welcome to the third Magic Monday of the year, well almost on a Monday but the thought is what counts, and let me tell you that things are starting to roll quite beautifully.

My total for the week was an amazing 1,523 pages, that’s 22% more than the week’s quota, this week´s plan is to pick up the two books, the second volume of Gotrek and Felix´s Adventures and The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy, that I was reading before my Christmas reading marathon involving a trilogy of Andrzej Sapkowski’s The Witcher and the first 5 volumes of IDW’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which I finally finished over the weekend. In addition to this, I have picked up a new Manga series, Fairy Tail by Hiro Mashima, currently, on volume number 3, and with 52 titles available thru my Kindle Unlimited subscription, there are a lot of stories to go thru.

My goal is to read more Manga series, right now there are a few on my radar like DR. Stone, Claymore, Noragami: Stray God, and Battle Angel Alita, but any recommendations are welcome, I’m kind of new to the genre, and it has hooked me.

Now let’s talk about MY NUMBERS, the current total is 31,225 of the 64,952 pages of this year’s goal, that’s 1,355 pages of progress since last Monday, with this, I’m 923 pages away from making this year enter my top 5 of the best page total. Still, there’s the 3,000-plus week that eludes me, one of the goals for year number fifteen is to have at least one, and finally have the first sigil tattooed on my body.

My reading schedule, the Achilles heel of the whole shebang, is 49 days behind, staying the same as last week, at least I didn’t lose ground, which for me is a victory in itself. My current projections put my total at 51,019 pages that are 13,923 pages less than what I’m comfortable with. The mantra for every morning will continue to be: one step at a time, one page at a time.

I start week thirty-three with a more manageable deficit of 7,340 pages, giving me quite the challenge to balance out this gargantuan number in each of the 19 weeks left on this year of reading. That number for this week is 534 additional pages to the 1,246 pages of the weekly quota.

For the first 500,000 pages, I have only 52,399 pages left, and the new date of reaching that goal is September 17,2024 that’s around 10 days earlier than the last projection, my sights are still pointed at March 20, 2023, as the desired date to reach the first half of the challenge, now I have 64 days to do so, but according to my current projection, the reality is that I’m 610 days behind schedule.

For the second part of the journey or the other 500,000 pages, my weekly pages needed are now 1,426 with a daily average of 204 pages, one daily page less than the last projection.

Now for the golden prize of 1,000,000 pages, to my delight, the projections put it 6,435 days away, a 56-day gain from the last projection, making the end date August 29, 2040, that’s 3,363 days after the original plan, 29 days less than the last projection. I have to keep reminding myself that my goal is to reach my goal by my 50th birthday, right now, I would be 59 years 2 months, and 24 days old.

To summarize the numbers from my Journey Back.

• Pages to reach 500,000: 52,399 pages
• Days to reach 1,000,000: 6,435 days
• Days behind schedule: 3,363 days

Off to read.

azr.

As far as my New Year´s resolutions go, the main one is to reinstall the Magic Monday posts, also known as my weekly update, so let’s begin this year by getting back to a much-needed rhythm.

I’m coming off an 8-day marathon, which gave me a little boost to get this year’s reading back on track, from the proposed 15 items on the list, I got thru 10 of them, giving a total of 1,942 pages for the whole marathon, just had to make a few modifications to the list, a couple of volumes of the manga series Attack on Titan were already on my read list, you can see the list below. The items left unread will be part of this week’s TBR pile.

• Blood of Elves
• The Time of Contempt
• Baptism of Fire
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: IDW Collection Vol. 3
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: IDW Collection Vol. 4
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: IDW Collection Vol. 5
• Books of Magic (2018-) Vol.2
• Books of Magic (2018-) Vol.3
• The Dreaming (2018-) Vol.2
• The Dreaming (2018-) Vol.3
• Happiness Vol.1
• Attack on Titan Vol.7
• Attack on Titan Vol.8
• DC/Young Animal: Milk Wars
• Knights of Sidonia Vol. 1

Now let’s talk about MY NUMBERS, the current total is 26,741 of the 64,952 pages of this year’s goal, which a pretty good progress, with this, I’m closer to making this year enter my top 5 of the best page total. Still, there’s the 3,000-plus week that eludes me, but there are glimpses of hope, there’s only a matter of time that this too shall fall.

My reading schedule, the Achilles heel of the whole shebang, is a whopping 60 days behind, this gives me the focus to pick up the pace, because my current projections put my total around 47,000 pages that’s almost 20,000 pages less than what I’m comfortable with. The mantra for every morning will continue to be: one step at a time, one page at a time.

I start week thirty-one with a whopping deficit of 10,435 pages, given my quite the challenge to balance out this gargantuan number in each of the 21 weeks left on this year of reading. That number for this week is 580 additional pages to the 1,246 pages for each week.

For the first 500,000 pages, I have only 56,883 pages left, and the new date of reaching that goal is October 31,2024 that’s around 2 months days earlier than the last projection, my sights are still pointed at March 20, 2023, as the desired date to reach the first half of the challenge, now I have 78 days to do so, but according to my current projection, the reality is that I’m 592 days behind schedule.

The second part of the journey, or the other 500,000 pages, my weekly pages needed are now 1,452 with a daily average of 207 pages, four daily pages less than the last projection.

Now for the golden prize of 1,000,000 pages, to my delight, the projections put it 6,535 days away, a 229-day gain from the last projection, making the end date is November 23, 2040, that’s 3,459 days after the original plan, 75 days less that the last projection. I have to keep reminding myself that my goal is to reach my goal by my 50th birthday, right now, I would be 59 years 5 months, and 18 days old.

To summarize the numbers from my Journey Back.

• Pages to reach 500,000: 56,883 pages
• Days to reach 1,000,000: 6,535 days
• Days behind schedule: 3,459 days

Off to read.

azr.