Welcome to the glorious return of Magic Mondays, the section of this blog where I torture myself and question why I haven’t read more, you know, normal problems for a book worm.
It’s been 253 days, that’s November 24, 2025 if you’re keeping count, since I made a thorough breakdown of my progress on this crazy journey of mine.
So this will be the first progress report for the nineteenth year of reading. In an earlier post, back in June, I commented that last year was by far my best one, wrangling a whopping 70,570 pages, thus, setting a new standard of total reading that I’m planning to pursue for the remainder years of the project, which aren’t that many.
Well, after almost 2 months of reading, I’m inches away from the first 10,000 pages of the year. My total is at 9,735 pages, this thanks to a plethora of characters, from treacherous Drow to conflicted Dark Knights, let’s say my reading has been nothing short of epic. Still, there’s at least 60,469 pages in front of me.
The next milestones for (Y-19) will be reached firstly 10,000, hopefully in a couple of days, and 15,000 in around 31 days, at the beginning of September, but as always, the objective is to bring that date closer to the middle of August.
Now, for the broader picture, the next big milestones are 700,000, 750,000 and 1,000,000 pages. According to my final projections this first milestone should be achieved by September 15, 2027. The second milestone or the three quarters of that juicy million should be achieved on January 21, 2029, comparing it to my last projection on November of last year, this date has moved up by 399 days, that kind of forward motion is what rekindles my confidence in getting to my goal on my fifteenth birthday.
Lastly, the big boy, that coveted 1,000,000 pages, my last projection put my finishing date by October 26, 2035, and again, if I compared it to November’s projections, I made a leap of 533 days. There’s no secret formula, just consistency and sticking to the mantra: “One step at a time, One page at a time”
I’m still 4 years, 4 months and 21 days behind schedule, but this is no deterrent for me to keep pushing forward, and to further motivate myself, I’m implementing a couple of side-quests.
First, in order to broaden my already swelling book shelves and have more material to dive into, I’m implementing a 49-hour timer that at its completion will hold a couple of books/Graphic Novels/ Manga as a prize at the end of this gargantuan task.
The second side quest is to finally read 100,000 pages in one year, talk about a gargantuan task. Right now my pace is a bit slow, but with 90,265 pages in front of me, and little over 300 days to do it, the task doesn’t seem that far fetched, now the only thing left to think about is the prize at the end of this journey, if you have any ideas, hit me up on the comments.
As the final note of this edition of numbers, I have been tracking for some years how much, with the projections between average pages per day and days left, will I achieve by the time of my 50th birthday, better know in this project as At The End, well, right now that magic number is at 837, 794 pages. I’ll better get back to the Underdark to keep pounding away those pages
A quick recap
- Total pages (Y-19): 9,735 pages
- Pages left (Y-19): 60,469 pages
- Total pages (General): 658,715 pages
- Date to achieve 750,000: January 21, 2029
- Date to achieve 1,000,000: October 26, 2035
- Days Behind: 1,604 days
For now, I’m off to read
Azriel
lostinamillionpages.com 
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