I’m coming of a reading high that I haven’t experience in quite a while.
My numbers were phenomenal over the weekend and they went as so:
Friday, October 10: 315 pages
Saturday, October 11: 543 pages
Sunday, October 12: 598 pages
I do feel a shift of my focus during spooky season, the combination of colder weather, hot coffee, and wearing hoodies, just make the perfect environment to get lost in books, and with the selection for reading this year it’s only enhancing the experience tenfold.
I must say that my current book, The Reddening by Adam L.G. Nevill grab me by the balls and it doesn’t want to let go. That combination of archeological finds and the tension of disturbing some ancient beasts from their resting place is just done perfectly. Yesterday only sleep kept me apart from reading more of it, still, I made some decent progress, 73 pages.
The other book, Vampirismo, a compilation of classic vampire tales, has gotten me thinking of returning to one of my favorite mini-goals of this project, one short story a day keeps the impending feeling of doom of not finishing this project in time away. So, after that dramatic diatribe, yesterday was the classic tale from John Polidori, The Vampyre, it’s was good but not phenomenal, today on the docket, La buena Lady Ducayne by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, let’s see if this one fairs better.
On the comic book front, I’ll go back to one of my favorite series from the mid-90’s Marvel Universe, Midnight Sons, but this time in its newest incarnation. The Midnight Sons are a supernatural “group” of superheroes that are mainly comprised by Blade, Morbius, and The Ghost Riders Danny Ketch and Johnny Blaze. This particular arc is called Blood Hunt,and apparently they will have to face the Werewolf by Night on steroids. Let’s see if it’s as fun as I remember, either way this one is special, it was a gift from my biggest and best supporter and the one who got me back to writing, forever grateful for that.
As a final note, I have an infinite amount of books and comics that I want to read, and as all bookworms know, that comes with the territory of having mountains of TBR just sitting on our shelves, both physically and digitally, for that matter, and in the interest of bringing those mountains down to hills, I device a couple of reward systems.
The first being a completion of 10 stamps, each stamp is equal to one book finished, in order to buy the next book. In this case in particular I’m using it to continue my dive into one of the most iconic series from Warhammer 40K or better said 30K, that’s an explanation for another time, anyway, I’m of course talking about The Horus Heresy.
I’m hunting for book number five , Fulgrim,the series, by the way, is 60+ books long, and I’m proud to say that I have already collected 5 stamps. I’ll post a photo next time of my card where I keep track of my progress.
The second reward system is time read, and for this particular reward I’m going after at least 24 hours of actual reading and in return, I’ll buy the next volume on a series that only recently came into my radar, The Wandering Inn by Pirateaba.
Right now the series is 17 books in, and with a whopping 23,000 + pages of total story, I’m more than intrigued to jump into a long epic fantasy series. Below you can see the first volume of the series,the second volume, the one that I’m hunting for, and the almost complete reward card
There’s so much to read and achieved, the one thing that I can say is that I haven’t been this motivated in a long time
Off to read
Azriel
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