Author: azrield

Book and Coffee Addict Ocassional Writer Trying to read my way throught 1,000,000 pages before I turn 50

(Y-11) reasons to celebrate (day 19 of 31)

Today I have a lot of reasons to celebrate.

First of all, yesterday was yet again another great of reading, I managed to rack-up 192 pages, and that gives me 19 straight days with 146 pages (which is the daily average for the year) or more.

Secondly, after 66 days, I finally finished the first volume of The Malazan Book of Fallen Series, The Gardens of the Moon, this is a vast scope story, and the cast of characters, gods and places you get to experience is mind-boggling.

And it is my understanding that this world gets even more complex and broad in the second volume of the series, Deadhouse Gates, which I am going to dive right in.

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As you will see, I am ready to go deep into the Holy Desert Raraku, and hopefully, I’ll escape the wrath of the Gods.

The final thing I would like to mention is that the goal for December is within reach, just 815 pages are on my way, so I’ll just keep on pushing and keep the flow going.

Now let’s do a quick recap of my numbers.

  • Total pages for (Y-11) : 6,185 pages.
  • Pages to go to achieve first milestone (10,000 pages): 3,815 pages.
  • Pages to go to achieve the main goal of the year (53,000 pages): 46,815 pages.
  • Pages to go to be the second-best year of reading (32,001 pages): 25,816 pages.
  • Pages to go to be the best year of reading (47,705 pages): 41,520 pages.

Now back to it.

azr.

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(Y-11) focused and catching the flow (Day 18 of 31)

18 of 18.

This feels awesome, and it also reminds me how much fun is to set a goal and keep on crushing it.

So, yesterday’s total was 183 pages.

I had made some headway with Gardens of the Moon, currently on page 554, and passed the halfway point on the first omnibus of the series by Tim Seeley, Hack/Slash.

I’ll try to finish off the night by trying to reach at least page 600 of Gardens of the Moon, at least, but honestly, I am aiming at finishing tonight.

Tick, tock, the December clock is running out of time, and those thousand pages are not going to read themselves.

Now back to it.

azr.

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(Y-11) flowing some more (Day 17 of 31)

17 of 17, I would have never imagined it, but it is looking up.

Yesterday’s total was 153.

If I can keep these numbers up, by the end of December, I could reach 7,000 pages.

Right now my total for the year is 5,559 pages, yesterday, this sum was reached thanks to the first volume of the haunting series Bedlam, a delusional serial killer with a mask fetish, yeah, freaky things.

As with other Horror series, this is not for the easily shocked.

On the book front, I made some headway, currently on page 537, still my plan to finish the first and second volume of The Malazan Book of the Fallen by the end of the year stands, it just a bit more complicated each passing day.

Tonight I’ll close my reading session with a little more of The Malaz Empire and a bit of serial killer hunter Cassie Hack, from which I started reading the first Omnibus.

Happy Readings!!!

azr.

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(Y-11) let’s keep it rolling (day 16 of 31)

Still holding a perfect record.

16 of 16 days with 146 pages or more of reading.

Yesterday’s total was 163.

I just past page 500 of Gardens of the Moon and getting ready for the final stretch of the book.

Also, I finished the first volume of the manga series Warcraft: Legends.

I plan to start reading a graphic novel called Bedlam and try to make some headway with my book.

Back to reading.

azr.

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(Y-11) Let the reading games begin (day 15 of 31)

I sit at the halfway point of my month-long reading session.

And so far, I haven’t missed a beat.

Yesterday’s total was 159 pages.

This thanks to that I finished The third volume of Spawn Origins series, make some headway with The Gardens of the Moon and that I started reading the first volume of Warcraft Legends Manga.

Also, I started planning my reading sessions for the upcoming 24in48 readathon in January 2019.

Tomorrow, I’ll update my numbers and see where I stand, for now, is back to it.

Happy Readings!!!

azr.

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(Y-11) I’ll need a moment (day 14 of 31)

Yesterday was yet again another great day of reading, 169 total pages.

Today started a bit slow and it got worse.

In the afternoon I had all of the intention of doing a bit of reading, but dear old Netflix got in the way.

This time in the form of Alfonso Cuaron’ s new film, Roma.

A true masterpiece set in Mexico City of the 1970’s, this is a story that will stick with me for a while.

I won’t spoil anything, but turn on Netflix and watch a master at his best.

Right now, I’ll enjoy a night out with my beautiful wife as we celebrate 11 glorious years of marriage.

My reading can take the back seat for tonight.

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(Y-11) Another notch (day 13 of 31)

Yesterday was another great day of reading, my total was 156.

I finished the second volume of Spawn Origins series and jump right into another graphic Novel, Dungeons & Dragons: Shadowplague, which by the way I just ended about an hour ago.

This two great graphic novels just push me past the 5,000-page mark, only 2,000 more to go to reach my goal for this vacation period.

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On the book front, I have been progressing slowly, right now I am on page 438 of 627, and my plan to finish my Saturday still stands, just need to push a little bit harder.

Now let’s do a quick recap of my numbers.

  • Total pages for (Y-11) : 5,044 pages.
  • Pages to go to achieve first milestone (10,000 pages): 4,956 pages.
  • Pages to go to achieve the main goal of the year (53,000 pages): 47,956 pages.
  • Pages to go to be the second-best year of reading (32,001 pages): 26,957 pages.
  • Pages to go to be the best year of reading (47,705 pages): 42,661 pages.

This kind of spurts in my reading just add fuel to the fire, it makes me think that come next October those 53,000 pages will be ancient history.

For now, I’ll squeeze every reading ounce to my Kindle Unlimited account, I just can see some Dungeons & Dragons Classic comics in the horizon.

In an earlier post from today, I shared the progress in my Goodreads Reading Challenge, which right now it sits on 119 books out of 100 proposed to finish in this year, I aim to reach 125 total books.

Happy Readings!!!

azr.

 

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(Y-11) keep it going… on a roll (Day 12 of 31)

Yesterday I was worried because of the lateness of the hour and my lack of reading.

But fortunately I pull through.

This of course was achieved mainly because I found the perfect balance between being caffeinated out of my mind and a bit of insomnia mixed into it.

So, last night I read part of the second volume of Spawn Origins series and finished the last manga of Legend of Zelda published in Spanish, The Four Swords.

And thanks to this my total for the day was 236 pages and 4,680 pages for this the eleventh year of reading.

On the book front, I am on page 430 of 627 of The Gardens of the Moon with plans to finish by Saturday.

I forgot to mention that I finally went to see Fantastic Beasts :The Crimes of Grindelwald.

It was really good, the only problem is that is all over the place, if you are planning to do a series of movies, take it slow, building it up and don’t try to give a lot of information in such an short amount of time, and the other things I was wondering, where the hell are all the wizard’s robes, they do look pretty slick in their 20’s attire, but I did miss those eccentric and colourful robes.

Now back to reading.

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(Y-11) struggling…just a bit (day 11 of 31)

Yesterday was another great, I had a total of 163 pages.

Today, not so great, only five pages and, it is almost 10:00 p.m.

But I am not going to panic, I’ll just take it one page at a time and go from there.

I think for this task the services of Mr. Caffeine are in order.

Let’s see how it plays out.

Happy Readings!!!

azr.

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