The Journey: October 18, 2025

Welcome to the post formally known as The Daily Journal. Since sometimes I can’t write daily, I think the best course of action is to change a little bit the dynamic of this entries, just cram my day to day progress with these crazy journey of mine.

Continuing with the spooky season theme of the passed two weeks, I’m knee deep into the not so explored genre horror.

I’m currently on page 138 of the incredibly creepy The Reddening by Adam L.G. Nevill, this book has make me want to further explore the author’s bibliography and probably also check-out the movie based on his popular novel, The Ritual

On the Vampirismo collection, I’m fallen a little bit behind and currently working on the sixth story, La Dama pálida by famous author Alexander Dumas. The goal is get thru each an every single story by the end of October.

On the comic book front, what would spooky season be without tossing some of the genius work by the incredible Mike Mignola, famous for creating the ever expanding universe of Hellboy. Im continuing with Volume number 12 of the Hell on Earth Series, Metamorphosis, the whole continues in shambles as the threat of the mysterious creatures keep haunting human kind.

Also, I’ll throw in some one shoots from Hellboy and one of the series of the Expanded Universe, Rasputin : The Voice of the Dragon, which follows his rise to power that leads up to the summoning of Anung Un Rama, the event that started this whole series

For me, being Mexican, spooky season extends until November 2, that’s when we commemorate our dearly departed with Día de muertos, hopefully, I’ll get around and share the incredible festivities that we partake in honoring the memory of those who left us to go on their new journey.

As I intend to keep my week goal streak going, between tonight and tomorrow, I have around 800 pages to read .

With that in mind, I’m off to read

Azriel

18 October, 2025 0

(Y-12) Happy Halloween

It is finally here, one of my favorite days of the year.

And to celebrate, from the comfort of my because I am fighting a cold, I’ll try to finish Frankenstein, only 67 pages.

Also, watch my traditional list if movies, which are:

Shaun of the Dead
Frankenstein
Bride of Frankenstein
Night of the Living Dead
Paranorman

Hopefully I can go thru them before this spooktacular day is over.

I am off to rest, watch some movies, and hopefully get some reading done.

azr.

31 October, 2019 0

(Y-12) it was the day before Halloween

One more day to go for one of my favorite days of the year, Halloween.

I have still little over 100 pages to go on my traditional Frankenstein read, but there’s time to get it done.

Also, my other favorite Halloween tradition is to watch two classic movies, Frankenstein and The Bride of Frankenstein, both directed by the legendary James Whale, and starring the incomparable Boris Karloff.

Can’t wait to eat my weight in candies and have a day long spook fest.

I am off to read.

azr.

30 October, 2019 2

(Y-10)Waiting

This week has been slow for my reading progress ( as you will see in the numbers a little bit below).

Let’s start with the book front; firstly I made some headway with the Gardens of the Moon, currently on page 108 of 645, secondly I keep on reading the beautiful 200th-anniversary edition of Frankenstein, right now I am on page 60 of 247.

Here are some of the beautiful illustrations by Mr. Plunkert.

I plan to finish it by Halloween and mark the official start of one of my favorite time of the year, something I like to call Monster Mash, which runs from Halloween (31st of October) to Dia de Muertos (2nd of November)

Dia de Muertos is the Mexican holiday where we honor our relatives who have past on; I loved this holiday because is full of color and is actually a celebration of life, a remembrance of those who are no longer with us physically but their memory lingers on vividly in everyone they touched.

During this three day period, I watch classic horror movies, eat industrial quantities of candy, read some of my favorites horror novels/graphic novels and go and watch the traditional “altares” y “tumbas” to commemorate Dia de Muertos.

I am still working on my list of movies and graphic novels.

So far, on the movie front, I have James Whale’s 1931 classic Frankenstein, a sort of tradition to watch it on Halloween. The other movie on my list is George Romero’s 1978 zombie classic Dawn of Dead.

On the graphic novel front, there is only a single book, Hellboy in Hell Volumen 1 by none other than Mike Mignola; I’ll browse around my unread pile of digital graphic novels to find some adequate gems to read.

I’m eyeing some classic Tomb of Dracula comics and some Swamp Thing by Alan Moore to add to the list.

Now let’s talk numbers, now quite the progress I would have liked, but at least it is not a dreadful and frightening zero.

Total pages for (Y-11) : 685 pages.
Pages to go to achieve first milestone (10,000 pages): 9,315 pages.
Pages to go to achieve the main goal of the year (53,000 pages): 52,315 pages.
Pages to go to be the second-best year of reading (32,001 pages): 31,316 pages.
Pages to go to be the best year of reading (47,705 pages): 47,020 pages.

Now back to reading as The War on Drugs gently spins on my record player.

azr.

27 October, 2018 0

(Y-11) only snippets.

Today I was running around getting ready for Halloween, I know it is two weeks away, but it is one of the most fun days of the year, and I like to be prepared.

You know, candy and horror movies. A perfect combination.

On the reading front, today was one of those days that only little snippets of reading are possible.

I started reading the first book of The Malazan Book of the Fallen, Gardens of Moon, this is the type of series that needs a lot of reference material to keep up with so many characters and locations.

I am so excited to get back to this massive stories that build fantastic worlds in which you can explore and get lost for a while.