Welcome to another installment of my Magic Mondays , this week was not the most productive one, but as always, I greatly enjoyed the process, what’s the point of doing anything if your not enjoying it.

And believe me, I’m reclaiming that joy from the time that the project began, it feels like all the new possibilities, future collaborations, and some plans beyond the written words in this blog, are injecting new energy into this slumbering project.

Even though this week, number twenty-one of this year of reading broke with the streak of the weekly total, I could only read 521 pages, the other activities from the week more than make up for it, my favorite thing was to resurrect the Caffeine Pilgrimage, post coming really soon I promise, and being a collaboration with someone so special that will be integral part of this new era of the blog, just make it worth not having that much progress for the week.

As always adjust will be made, for example, the goal for the current week, number twenty-two, will have to be 1,724 pages. This is typical when my reading doesn’t get quite where it should be. Not that I’m concerned about a little set-back, it’s actually more fuel for the fire and great motivation to dive into my beloved books and get some reading done.

Now, for the order of business, let us start with the most proximate milestone at hand, the 600,000-page mark. With all the milestones, and in sight of the low number for the week, there was a little step back. Nothing catastrophic and easily managed. For this milestone there’s still 4,749 pages to go, and the new projected date is December 16 of this year, three days later that the last projection, but I’m more than happy that is still happening this year.

The next milestone, the 750,000-page mark, and the one that has an amazing prize at the end, further down the road, I will elaborate more on this matter, but the thing that can be shared right now is that it is a 10-day road trip to reconnect with nature. But in order to do so, I must first reach that coveted goal. Right now, there’s 154,749 pages left, last week the project date was March 31, 2030, there was a little 3 day step back and this week date is April 3, 2030. Still, my main goal is to finish around April, 2027, to have at least 4 years to handle the last quarter million pages.

Talking about the final milestone, the coveted 1,000,000-pages left mark, the same as with the other important milestones, a bit of a step back. The date from last week was May 27,2037 and for this week is June 1, 2037 , just like the other two, a 3 day set back. Not a big issue, but one that I must not let happen that often.

This still keep me in around 55 years old when this milestone is achieved, but with consistency and a lot of caffeine, that goal will be conquered, more now that ever, my motivation is sky high.

A quick recap

• Total Pages (Y-18) : 16,841 pages
• Pages Left (Y-18) : 53,424 pages
• Total Pages (General) : 595, 251 pages
• Date to achieve 600,000: December 16, 2025
• Date to achieve 750,000: April 3, 2030
• Date to achieve 1,000,000: June 1,2037
• Days behind: 2,187 days

For now, I’m off to read

Azriel

Welcome to another Magic Monday, and for the second week in a row, the goal for the 20th week of this year of reading was achieved. The projection for each week is 1,351, considering that the total for this year is 70,265 pages, the minimal average should be the aforementioned number.

Since the first months of the year weren’t that productive, I adjusted the new weekly average, it fluctuates, but for the current week, number 21, my goal is to read 1,683 pages.

The number is not so far fetched, considering that the last two weeks I had a 1,400 (W-20) and 2,000 (W-19) pages. Only need to be more consistent and try to hit those marks on a regular basis. I have started using a weekly planner and there, let’s say a more simplistic way that my previous reading journals, I can keep track of each day progress.

Now that I understand my reading patterns, the amount of pages that are allocated for each day vary, for example, from Monday to Wednesday, normal reading days, the total should be 168 pages for each day, around 10%. Thursday, for reasons I don’t understand, is typically a more active day, 20% is in order or 336 pages.

Friday is the slowest day, around 118 pages or 7%. Saturday is a wild card, sometimes is the most productive day, sometimes my reading is close to nothing, to be on the safe side, it’s treated like a normal day of reading, another 168 pages. Sunday, now that’s the star of the show, coming in on a whopping 33% or 556 pages, which the last few weeks have been achieved.

Now that this new pattern has emerged, I’ll keep tracking how effective it is, but let’s jump into how things are shaping up for my crazy little projects.

The next big milestones is the 600,000 pages mark, on that front , there’s only 5,155 pages left, and the new date to reaching my next stepping stone is December 13 of this year. That’s a 11 days improvement from last week.

On regarding the next milestone, 750,000 pages mark. The new date is now March 31, 2030. Here there was also a significant improvement of 23 days. This particular milestone has become the engine that’s pulling me along. Once this goal is meet, I’m planning to take a week-long trip thru some magnificent natural reserves, sort of a disconnect to reconnect, coming along this journey is someone really special, who has reignited my passion for the written words and more specially for coming back to capturing my progress thru the project.

The next one is the big fella himself, the coveted 1,000,000 pages mark. I’m so glad to say that this goal also saw some significant improvement on the finishing date. Last week the projection was for June 14, 2037, this week is for May 27, 2037. That’s a 19 days improvement.

These type of steps forward keep me in motion, and hungering for more stories, although there’s still a long way to go, I’m certain that these dates will be keep coming closer to my goal. Right now, I would be 55 years, 11 months, 22 days old when I get to the mountain top, but as always, I’m aiming to be crossing that threshold by my 50th birthday.

A quick recap:

• Total pages (Y-18) : 16,435 pages
• Pages left (Y-18) : 53,830 pages
• Total pages (General) : 594,845
• Date to achieve 600,000 : December 13, 2025
• Date to achieve 750,000 : March 31,2030
• Date to achieve 1,000,000 : May 27, 2037
• Days Behind : 2,183 days

For now, I’m off to read

Azriel

Welcome back to my Magic Mondays, the blissful day when I get to obsess over how much did I actually progress with my goals, hyperventilate, write about it, and then continue with my reading, because panicking has never been a solution to getting to those pages read.

I’ll start with the most proximate goal, and work myself up to the elephant in the room, those coveted million pages.

To start, there’s only 2,063 days left until the deadline of my project, better known as my 50th birthday, and a whole lot of pages to go thru. But as my mantra has always been, “one page at a time”, the next milestone is of the utmost importance.

But I’m getting ahead of myself, the current year, the 18th of this project, began a little bit slow. In the 20 weeks that have transpired, only 3 have been completed with their respective total projected, those numbers will simply not do. The current total is a meager 15,138 pages , but hope has been regained, the past week was phenomenal, a total of 2,000 pages. and I intend to continue with that pace, in doing so, this could be easily a over 50,000 pages year . I’ll make the remaining 237 days worth every second.

My next big milestone is reaching 600,000 pages. I’m glad to say that is even closer that expected, right now there’s only 6,452 pages left, and with the current pace, I’ll be crossing that goal on December 24 of this year, as always,each day , I’ll strive to bring that date close and closer.

The next milestone , 750,000 pages, is another beast , right now my projection is to get to that goal on April 23, 2030. That would leave only a year and two months to read the remaining 250,000 pages, insane numbers , that quite frankly, I see as impossible to achieve, that’s why my intentions is to reach that three quarter of a million pages no later than April 2027, let’s see how this progress each and every week.

Now, for the aforementioned elephant in the room, the projections place that particular milestone way too far from my original goal. Right now it sits, uncomfortably, at June 14, 2037. That’s 6 years and 8 days too late for my liking. As with all my goals, I’ll keep close tabs on the progression forward, as I said before, “one step at a time, one page at a time”, but right now it will seem that jogging is no longer the method of getting there.

A full sprint is my future, a whole marathon at the speed of a 100 meter race.

So quick recap:

Total pages: 593,548 pages

Date to achieve 600,000: December 24, 2025

Date to achieve 750,000: April 23,2030

Date to achieve 1,000,000: June 14, 2037

Pages left on (Y-18): 55,127 pages

For now, I’m off to read

Azriel

I know not quite a Monday but let’s call it a blissful Saturday, and hopefully back to my old writing habits.

My total for the weeks that I didn’t update goes as follows:

• Week 34: 1,443 pages
• Week 35: 483 pages
• Week 36: 821 pages

The only week that gave a little bit over the quota was number 34, but not even close to countering the two awful results of the subsequent weeks. But not all are bad news since my last update, I finished the second volume of Gotrek and Felix´s Adventures and got to around 60% done with Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy, thanks to my plans of getting as close as possible for this year’s total quota, a new section of this blog has emerged as a necessity to refocus the daily efforts toward the coveted 1,000,000-page mark.

With events like my 100-day march, the boldness, and the final breath, each day counts toward this year’s success.

Now let’s talk about MY NUMBERS, the current total is 35,949 of the 64,952 pages of this year’s goal, that’s 3,550 pages of progress since my last update, now the next task is to reach the number 4 spot in my top years of reading, which is currently 9,396 pages away. Still, there’s the 3,000-plus week that eludes me, one of the goals for year number fifteen is to have at least one, and finally have the first sigil, representing one of the three aspects of my inspiration, tattooed on my body.

My reading schedule, the Achilles heel of the whole shebang, is 54 days behind, four days more than the last update, this could be worst but as I commented before, this setback is a reflection of the current book that I’m reading being over 1,000 pages, and the return of H.P. Lovecraft’s story collection, a 1,353-page volume, back to my reading rotation gives me slow progress with a big pay off at the end, by the beginning of the 100-day march I should regain the lost ground and then some. My current projections put my total at 51,396 pages that are 13,546 pages less than what I’m comfortable with. The mantra for every morning will continue to be: one step at a time, one page at a time.

I start week thirty-seven with a deficit of 8,086 pages, giving me quite the challenge to balance out this gargantuan number in each of the 15 weeks left on this year of reading. That number for this week is 775 additional pages to the 1,246 pages of the weekly quota.

For the first 500,000 pages, I have only 47,675 pages left, and the new date of reaching that goal is August 23, 2024, that’s around 20 days earlier than the last projection, my sights are still pointed at March 20, 2023, as the desired date to reach the first half of the challenge, now I have 31 days to do so, but according to my current projection, the reality is that I’m 553 days behind schedule.

For the second part of the journey or the other 500,000 pages, my weekly pages needed are now 1,412 with a daily average of 202 pages, one daily page less than the last projection.

Now for the golden prize of 1,000,000 pages, to my delight, the projections put it 6,352 days away, a 62-day gain from the last projection, making the end date July 9, 2040, that’s 3,322 days after the original plan, 38 days less than the last projection. I have to keep reminding myself that my goal is to reach my goal by my 50th birthday, right now, I would be 59 years 1 month, and 4 days old.

To summarize the numbers from my Journey Back.

• Pages to reach 500,000: 47,675 pages
• Days to reach 1,000,000: 6,352 days
• Days behind schedule: 3,322 days

Off to read.

azr.

Once again my Magic Monday has to turn into a Tuesday, but with things going as they are, I really can’t complain.

My total for the week was an amazing 1,491 pages, that’s 19% more than the week’s quota. The goal of picking up my reading of the second volume of Gotrek and Felix´s Adventures and The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy has worked out beautifully, respectively, I have completed 68% and 45% of each book. The plan is to finish them by January 31, which is about 49 and 70 daily pages of each to get this task.

Now let’s talk about MY NUMBERS, the current total is 32,399 of the 64,952 pages of this year’s goal, that’s 1,174 pages of progress since last Monday, with this, this year entered my top 5 of the best page total, now the next task, position number 4, is 12,946 pages away. Still, there’s the 3,000-plus week that eludes me, one of the goals for year number fifteen is to have at least one, and finally have the first sigil tattooed on my body.

My reading schedule, the Achilles heel of the whole shebang, is 50 days behind, one day more than last week, this minimal step back does not concern me that much, this is a reflection of the two current books that I’m reading being over 1,000 pages, slow progress with a big pay off at the end, by the end of January I should regain the lost ground and then some. My current projections put my total at 51,112 pages that are 13,830 pages less than what I’m comfortable with. The mantra for every morning will continue to be: one step at a time, one page at a time.

I start week thirty-four with a more manageable deficit of 7,095 pages, giving me quite the challenge to balance out this gargantuan number in each of the 18 weeks left on this year of reading. That number for this week is 540 additional pages to the 1,246 pages of the weekly quota.

For the first 500,000 pages, I have only 51,225 pages left, and the new date of reaching that goal is September 11,2024 that’s around 6 days earlier than the last projection, my sights are still pointed at March 20, 2023, as the desired date to reach the first half of the challenge, now I have 56 days to do so, but according to my current projection, the reality is that I’m 596 days behind schedule.

For the second part of the journey or the other 500,000 pages, my weekly pages needed are now 1,423 with a daily average of 203 pages, one daily page less than the last projection.

Now for the golden prize of 1,000,000 pages, to my delight, the projections put it 6,414 days away, a 21-day gain from the last projection, making the end date August 16, 2040, that’s 3,360 days after the original plan, 3 days less than the last projection. I have to keep reminding myself that my goal is to reach my goal by my 50th birthday, right now, I would be 59 years 2 months, and 11 days old.

To summarize the numbers from my Journey Back.

• Pages to reach 500,000: 51,225 pages
• Days to reach 1,000,000: 6,414 days
• Days behind schedule: 3,360 days

Off to read.

azr.

Welcome to the third Magic Monday of the year, well almost on a Monday but the thought is what counts, and let me tell you that things are starting to roll quite beautifully.

My total for the week was an amazing 1,523 pages, that’s 22% more than the week’s quota, this week´s plan is to pick up the two books, the second volume of Gotrek and Felix´s Adventures and The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy, that I was reading before my Christmas reading marathon involving a trilogy of Andrzej Sapkowski’s The Witcher and the first 5 volumes of IDW’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which I finally finished over the weekend. In addition to this, I have picked up a new Manga series, Fairy Tail by Hiro Mashima, currently, on volume number 3, and with 52 titles available thru my Kindle Unlimited subscription, there are a lot of stories to go thru.

My goal is to read more Manga series, right now there are a few on my radar like DR. Stone, Claymore, Noragami: Stray God, and Battle Angel Alita, but any recommendations are welcome, I’m kind of new to the genre, and it has hooked me.

Now let’s talk about MY NUMBERS, the current total is 31,225 of the 64,952 pages of this year’s goal, that’s 1,355 pages of progress since last Monday, with this, I’m 923 pages away from making this year enter my top 5 of the best page total. Still, there’s the 3,000-plus week that eludes me, one of the goals for year number fifteen is to have at least one, and finally have the first sigil tattooed on my body.

My reading schedule, the Achilles heel of the whole shebang, is 49 days behind, staying the same as last week, at least I didn’t lose ground, which for me is a victory in itself. My current projections put my total at 51,019 pages that are 13,923 pages less than what I’m comfortable with. The mantra for every morning will continue to be: one step at a time, one page at a time.

I start week thirty-three with a more manageable deficit of 7,340 pages, giving me quite the challenge to balance out this gargantuan number in each of the 19 weeks left on this year of reading. That number for this week is 534 additional pages to the 1,246 pages of the weekly quota.

For the first 500,000 pages, I have only 52,399 pages left, and the new date of reaching that goal is September 17,2024 that’s around 10 days earlier than the last projection, my sights are still pointed at March 20, 2023, as the desired date to reach the first half of the challenge, now I have 64 days to do so, but according to my current projection, the reality is that I’m 610 days behind schedule.

For the second part of the journey or the other 500,000 pages, my weekly pages needed are now 1,426 with a daily average of 204 pages, one daily page less than the last projection.

Now for the golden prize of 1,000,000 pages, to my delight, the projections put it 6,435 days away, a 56-day gain from the last projection, making the end date August 29, 2040, that’s 3,363 days after the original plan, 29 days less than the last projection. I have to keep reminding myself that my goal is to reach my goal by my 50th birthday, right now, I would be 59 years 2 months, and 24 days old.

To summarize the numbers from my Journey Back.

• Pages to reach 500,000: 52,399 pages
• Days to reach 1,000,000: 6,435 days
• Days behind schedule: 3,363 days

Off to read.

azr.

As far as my New Year´s resolutions go, the main one is to reinstall the Magic Monday posts, also known as my weekly update, so let’s begin this year by getting back to a much-needed rhythm.

I’m coming off an 8-day marathon, which gave me a little boost to get this year’s reading back on track, from the proposed 15 items on the list, I got thru 10 of them, giving a total of 1,942 pages for the whole marathon, just had to make a few modifications to the list, a couple of volumes of the manga series Attack on Titan were already on my read list, you can see the list below. The items left unread will be part of this week’s TBR pile.

• Blood of Elves
• The Time of Contempt
• Baptism of Fire
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: IDW Collection Vol. 3
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: IDW Collection Vol. 4
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: IDW Collection Vol. 5
• Books of Magic (2018-) Vol.2
• Books of Magic (2018-) Vol.3
• The Dreaming (2018-) Vol.2
• The Dreaming (2018-) Vol.3
• Happiness Vol.1
• Attack on Titan Vol.7
• Attack on Titan Vol.8
• DC/Young Animal: Milk Wars
• Knights of Sidonia Vol. 1

Now let’s talk about MY NUMBERS, the current total is 26,741 of the 64,952 pages of this year’s goal, which a pretty good progress, with this, I’m closer to making this year enter my top 5 of the best page total. Still, there’s the 3,000-plus week that eludes me, but there are glimpses of hope, there’s only a matter of time that this too shall fall.

My reading schedule, the Achilles heel of the whole shebang, is a whopping 60 days behind, this gives me the focus to pick up the pace, because my current projections put my total around 47,000 pages that’s almost 20,000 pages less than what I’m comfortable with. The mantra for every morning will continue to be: one step at a time, one page at a time.

I start week thirty-one with a whopping deficit of 10,435 pages, given my quite the challenge to balance out this gargantuan number in each of the 21 weeks left on this year of reading. That number for this week is 580 additional pages to the 1,246 pages for each week.

For the first 500,000 pages, I have only 56,883 pages left, and the new date of reaching that goal is October 31,2024 that’s around 2 months days earlier than the last projection, my sights are still pointed at March 20, 2023, as the desired date to reach the first half of the challenge, now I have 78 days to do so, but according to my current projection, the reality is that I’m 592 days behind schedule.

The second part of the journey, or the other 500,000 pages, my weekly pages needed are now 1,452 with a daily average of 207 pages, four daily pages less than the last projection.

Now for the golden prize of 1,000,000 pages, to my delight, the projections put it 6,535 days away, a 229-day gain from the last projection, making the end date is November 23, 2040, that’s 3,459 days after the original plan, 75 days less that the last projection. I have to keep reminding myself that my goal is to reach my goal by my 50th birthday, right now, I would be 59 years 5 months, and 18 days old.

To summarize the numbers from my Journey Back.

• Pages to reach 500,000: 56,883 pages
• Days to reach 1,000,000: 6,535 days
• Days behind schedule: 3,459 days

Off to read.

azr.