Welcome to another installment of my Magic Mondays, or better known as the special day where I go thru my week’s reading and see how much progress was made on every front of my project.
To start things off let’s talk about the current year, number eighteen, and on this past week, the twenty fifth, I again achieved my total goal,even if just barely.
The total came in at 1,369 pages, that’s 18 over the minimum average for each week. This is the fourth week in a row that I pass the goal, and I hope to keep that trend going. With these results my total page count for the year moves up to 22,486 pages, really good number, but there’s still 47,779 pages to go on the desired total for the year.
My next focus for the year will be to crossed the next three important waypoints, 25,000, 30,000 and 40,000 pages, on the way to the broader goal. For the most proximate goal, I’m 19 days away, which gives me an approximate date of December 13, 2025, followed by 57, with a date of January 20, 2026, and finally 133 days, with a date of April 6, 2026. The 50,000-page mark is still out of range from this year, about 14 days, but with the current pace, I know it will get within this year to achieve.
As always, I will breakdown those gargantuan numbers into more manageable goals. That’s the only way to get over the 70,000-page mark for the first time in this project.
On the broader picture there’s the case of the next big numbers to achieve, 750,000 pages and the coveted 1,000,000 pages .
Right now, I’m 149,104 pages away from those tree quarters of a million pages, and with my daily average, which is around 96 pages per day for the whole project, I’m looking at a finishing date of February 23, 2030, and improvement from last week projection of 9 days.
Now, let’s talk about the big boy, those million pages, the crowning achievement of my journey, and as it turns out, the beginning of another faces of this project, which I’m glad to say, are cooking right now on my mind and my partner in crime , we have some surprises coming up really soon, and in a not so distant future, some post collaboration, I’m not going to spoil the fun with more details, but is going to be really fun and a chance to work with someone I admire and respect so much.
But, in order to make way for new stuff, I must achieve this behemoth of a goal. Which consequently is 4,155 days away, and according to my calculations, will be achieved on April 10, 2037, that will make me 55 years 10 months and 5 days old,still a long ways to go, but moving in the right direction, only this week, I brought down the finishing date by 12 days, those little steps just keep adding up.
With some holidays coming up, and grand plans of weekend-long reading marathons, I’m sure that 2026 will start on a high note.
A quick recap
- Total pages (Y-18): 22,486 pages
- Pages left (Y-18) : 47,779 pages
- Total pages (General) : 600,896 pages
- Date to achieve 750,000 pages: February 23, 2030
- Date to achieve 1,000,000 pages : April 10, 2037
- Days Behind: 2,136 days
For now, I’m off to read
Azriel
lostinamillionpages.com 
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