It has been 61 days since my last blank day, which means 0 pages read, you’ll have to go back all the way back to December 20, 2022, to find that dreaded result, but there’s no reason to panic, I’ll find a way to get things back on track if there’s a will there’s a way.

Needless to say, but from yesterday’s five tasks from my perpetual reading checklist non were checked off. But today will be a whole different story, the whole deal of the matter is a question of finding the little time nooks to take a breath and read a few pages, I guess there´s far more planning needed in order to achieve harmony between all the spheres that make up my daily life, and just know the perfect way to do so.

Now, for today´s checklist, my tasks go as follows:

• Read 62 pages of Cormac McCarthy´s The Border Trilogy
• Read 160 pages of H.P. Lovecraft’s Collection
• Read 1 story from Biútiful Frik (task already completed)
• Read Spy X Family Vol. 3
• Read 26 pages of Mark Chadbourn´s Hellboy: The Ice Wolves

And speaking of the supernatural Detective and my favorite comic book character of all time, of course, I’m talking about the big red dude known as Hellboy, today he´ll grace my combat armor for the day, as I tackle the treacherous Ice Wolves on a cold and snowy night on a remote New England cabin, full of secrets and fascinating artifacts.

Off to read

azr

Sunday is always an amazing day for reading, it could have been perfect, but I came short of some of my goals for the day, but non the less, it was a rainy day and I read over 300 pages, so this one goes in the win column.

There are now 7 days before the 100-day march and 3,666 pages to get to the 40,000-page mark. From my perpetual checklist, this time around 4 of the 5 tasks of the day was checked off, only the elusive H.P. Lovecraft collection and its more than 100 pages a day has proven more difficult than expected. The other thing that was listed as a priority was to get 377 pages to fill my weekly quota, that task fell short by 68 pages, but still, 1,178 pages for the week it’s nothing to brow upon.

For today, as complicated as Monday comes with life and work getting in the way, my checklist for today goes as follows:

• Read 53 pages of Cormac McCarthy’s The Border Trilogy
• Read 138 pages of H.P. Lovecraft´s Collection
• Read 1 story from Biútiful Frik
• Read Spy X Family Vol. 3
• Read 22 pages of Mark Chadbourn´s Hellboy: The Ice Wolves

Today, if all fall into place, I’ll return to the manga series Spy X Family, currently on volume number 3, following the adventure of spy Twilight, and the seemingly impossible task of procuring a family to infiltrate an elite private school, but as to complicate thing his fake adopted daughter is a telepath.

Off to read.

azr

Yesterday was a fairly productive day, of the five tasks on my checklist, I checked off three. The only two that eluded my capability of reading, reading 48 pages of Cormac McCarthy’s The Border Trilogy and reading 108 pages of H.P. Lovecraft’s Collection, this one, in particular, has been stalled for several days.

The focus for today is trying to get closer to the 40,000-page mark, as I wrote yesterday before my 100-day march begins on February 27. I still have 3,859 pages left to achieve the goal over an 8-day period, having 4 books and 5 mangas left on my TBR pile in order, to sum up, the necessary pages to cross the mark. The other task left to close out the week with at least the quota is to read a total of 377 pages for this lazy rainy Sunday.

I hope the day stays, at least for a little while, with the beautiful cloud cover that our desert enjoys right now, and if it has a touch of light rain it would be perfect to take my reading outside for a couple of chapters in the company of my beloved ash tree.

After crunching a few numbers, today’s checklist goes as follows:

• Read 53 pages of Cormac McCarthy´s The Border Trilogy
• Read 120 pages of H.P. Lovecraft’s Collection
• Read 1 story from Biútiful Frik (see picture and description below)
• Read DR.Stone Vol. 9
• Read 24 pages of Mark Chadbourn´s Hellboy: The Ice Wolves

Before I set out for today’s reading, I would like to share a quick description of one of the books on my TBR pile which I have named “Before the march”, it is Biútiful Frik, a collection of short stories, three of them illustrated, inspired by Mary Shelley´s Frankenstein, the short stories are by Mexican female authors, with the exception of the graphic artist Bef, and their take is a refreshing approach to one of history’s greatest novel.

Off to read.

azr