Well, it has been a couple of shitty weeks, in general, and particularly on my reading.

In the past 7 days, I have managed to read the pathetic sum of 109 pages.

Haven’t finish any books or Graphic Novels.

You get the idea.

But on Saturday and Sunday, I received a couple of precious little moments that lifted me up.

Let’s start with Saturday or new goodies day.

One of my friends needed more shelf space, I gain some really cool stuff for my ever growing list of reading material.

The graphic adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand and the single issues are a series of comic books based on paintings by Legendary fantasy artist Frank Frazetta.

Also, I dove into my books/comic books stash at my parent’s house and found some Star Wars single issues and graphic novels and a book by Charles Vess, an extraordinary artist who worked on Stardust by Neil Gaiman.

All in all, it was fun watching my stash grow, believe I’m going to need it next year in order to achieve the monumental task that (Y-10) is going to be.

And on Sunday, especially in the early morning, my beautiful desert was covered by gray clouds and light rain. This kind of days just fills me with a deep feeling of peace.

So, coming back to the rough numbers, I have 53 days left on (Y-9) and 11, 358 pages to tackle.

Let’s get this show on the road and go after those pages.

Happy Readings!!!

azr

Sometimes your world just gets rattled by an event so heart breaking that it can only mean that it’s the end of an era.

Sadly this past Tuesday my beloved father passed away.

He struggled, thankfully for a short time, with that dreadful disease known as cancer.

Part of me will forever mourn his absence, and my other part will remember always the time I spent with him.

I inherited quite a few things, besides the eerie physical similarity.

My love for the desert and nature in general, come directly from him; also my sense of humor and love for red wine and sotol.

My curiosity and love for reading comes indirectly from him, through his mother, she always had a house full of books and an extreme passion for poetry.

Needless to say this last few days haven’t been really productive on reading.

I missed him terribly.

And now I raise a toast in his honor, with the most appropriate of drinks, sotol, as one time he said to me, it’s like some one bottled a rainy desert afternoon.

Cheers!! and good night.

azr

Yesterday was slow in all regards.

I’m 57 pages from finishing Apocalipsis and with that only 17 books from completing this year list.

12 of this books are in print, and the remaining 5 are Star Wars novels that I have on my phone.

With 96 days remaining and 17 books to read, I should be finishing a book every 5.6 days.

For now, I’ll focus on Apocalipsis and start with Alan Moore’s Jerusalem, which is one of the big books I have on my list and can’t really read outside the house, you know, because of girth issues.

I’ll try to make headway with the digital ones and with the smaller book that I can carry around and focus on the big ones on the evenings/nights.

Happy Readings!!!

hopefully tomorrow my total count for the year will increase somewhat.

azr.