Manga

It’s been some time since my last post of this Journey to 1,000,000 pages.

I want to re-catch the flow of the almost daily stream of ideas, and most importantly the trek to my coveted goal. It’s most imperative to me to, along with my reading, share the day to day nuances that fuel my path.

In this birthing year, my progress has not been quite want I wanted to be. One month in and my total is around 5,400 pages, when it should be past the 6,000 mark.

I know this doesn’t seem like that big of a difference, but with the days ticking by, only 1795 left until the big 5-0, every day is worth its weight in gold.

To jump start my year, I brought a familiar face that always helps me get back on track. I talking about Kentaro Miura’s seminal work Berserk, the Black Swordsman is back again with his journey against the apostles of madness and the void.

To ease into a good rhythm, my goal is to read the new acquisitions, from number 27 to 34, by the end of the weekend.

The amazing thing is that my partner in crime always pushes me to get those numbers, there’s no better way to spent a Saturday afternoon watching her play Crimson Desert, while I devour those pages, with tea, coffee and cookies, in between everything

Hopefully by Sunday my numbers will be aligned with the projections or even better, on track to read 100,000 pages in the year, a side quest that has eluded me, but it will be conquered.

For now, I’m off to read

Azriel

The third day in a row that once again, I get past my daily reading goal, I’m pretty sure that this type results will become the norm for the rest of the the journey of this year of reading. The current number for today is 203, and I know that one more short reading session before the night is done is in order to try and start the 5-day gold reading streak and the chasing of those mysterious prizes

Not sure that my eyes will agree with the idea, but I’ll give it a go anyway. For this task I’ll recruit the help of the apprentice Witch Coco from to the extremely cute manga Witch Hat Atelier.

Until today, and I can’t recall why, I finally got around reading the first Volume of the series, which has been on my lend list from Kindle for around six months, and to be honest, I was missing some great artwork and story.

I think it was probably a hangover of reading manga during last year’s final stretch so profusely, that I purposely avoid them. But I think that’s way overdue to start some pending series, actually, this is Exactly that kind of light quick reading that will get me back on track with my goals.

Later on the week, now that I mention goals, I’ll write the first Numbers post in a while, there, I will have the whole run down of how things are progressing.

The good news is that the first streak I’m chasing, the 10-day reading streak of at least 179 pages is already on its way. My hope was to start the 4 week streak, but I fell short. But things are finally starting to be more consistent, it only a matter of time to get back on track.

For now

Off to read

Azriel

It has been a week since my last update, I am doing quite fine, but you know sometimes life gets in the way, fortunately, this is not the case with my reading.

I still have 5,125 pages to reach 40,000 pages, and 36 days to do so.

In the book front, I decided to scrap the idea to complete the 49 books in my reading list for the year, I prefer to focus on enjoying the book instead of reaching a goal.

Right now I am on page 256 of 507 of The Adversary, and loving the main character Farideh, the Tiefling Warlock.

On the comic book/graphic novel/manga front, I started the Vertigo comics series Northlanders, written by Brian Wood, and centering on life as a Viking near the year 1000 A.D.

I have finished the first volume, and still have 5 more volumes available in my Kindle Unlimited subscription.

Also. I started reading the first volume of the classic manga Berserk in all its bloody glory, I don’t read that much Manga, but alongside The Lone Wolf this title is one that has been buzzing around my head for quite a while.

For now, I am off to read.

azr.

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