This morning I had a very productive reading,finished the first volume of Dawn of X, read a couple of short stories from Ciudas y otros relatos, written by Édgar Velasco, and published by the amazing independent publisher Paraiso Perdido.
For today I am aiming to surpass 1,000 pages tracked using the Bookly app .
It’s a long shot, but I have some waiting to do, so I’ll use my time wisely.
I have 200 days left of this short “year” of reading, and still over 34,000 pages to go.
As I was saying yesterday, I never back down from a challenge, by the end of this month I will be free from my work on my Masters degree, and I’ll go into turbo mode.
One of the highlights of today is that I read the first 100 pages of my trek thru the Malazan Empire, only 3890 pages to go.
Tonight I think a big batch of caffeine is in order, accompanied by a couple of X- men graphic novels.
I have decided that I going to focus on finishing The Malazan Book of the Fallen, an 10-part epic series by Canadian writer Steven Erikson.
Yesterday, I started the seventh book, Reaper’s Gale, and the plan is to keep track of the remaining four books as one long read.
With that in mind here is the length of each one starting with 1003 pages of Reaper’s Gale.
Followed by the 1,270 pages of Toll the Hounds.
The ninth book is Dust of Dreams, with a total of 816 pages.
And finally, the epic conclusion, The Crippled God, with a total of 908 pages.
Combined they give me 3,997 pages, a great challenge for this year, which consequently will be a short one , this in order to coincide the end of each one with my birthday. Concluding in 2031, with my 50th birthday.
To start off the Malazan Challenge, I have read 41 of the 3,997.
I am up and running on this the first day of Bookly’s Fall Readathon.
I have already logged 2 hours and 2 minutes of my goal of 10 hours.
In order to achieve this I should read 2 and a half hours per day, so this is a great motivator to push forward.
My focus was on two things, my current book , Vengeance of the Iron Dwarf, from which I read from page 88 to 176.
The other is the second volume of Werewolf by night, from which I read from page 108 to 167, and to my delight there’s an appearance by Frankenstein’s monster.
I am aiming today for more than 3 hours of reading and a bit over 300 pages.
On the movie front, I just watched 1 of the 19 movies that were on my list, and it’s probably time to scrap this part from next year’s festivities.
On the reading front, it went a bit better, but not that much, I finished Frankenstein, and read the about half of The Halloween Tree.
Also ,first volume of Marvel’s The Vampire Tales, about 1/5 of the second volume of Werewolf by Night, a couple of short stories from Avatar’s Night of the Living Dead, and the crown jewel of this year’s festivities, Hellboy: The Storm and The Fury.
Not a very productive run, but a really satisfying one.
Right now I am gearing up for my next task, Bookly’s Fall Readathon, which will take place from November 5 to 8, and the main goal is to read 10 hours using the app.