With the impending health crisis that has been sweeping the world, and the decision of our local government to practice self isolation, I think that these coming weeks will be perfect to reach my next milestone.
Rumor is that our “normal” routine will resume on April 20th, so that gives me 25 days to reach 30,000 pages.
Currently I have 22,226 pages of total reading, that leaves me with 7,774 pages to read.
For now, I am off to read, some Tolkien in commemoration of Frodo and Sam destroying the ring of doom.
Stay safe, and hopefully we will come out of this in the best possible way.
I started reading yesterday at 10 pm (Mountain Standard Time), this is to coincide with the official starting time.
And I am glad to say that I have 1 hour and 46 minutes under my belt, and the first graphic novel finished, Lantern City Vol. 2, a really fun steampunk story.
Today I’ll continue with Dragons of Winter Night, hopefully I can finish it by tomorrow, and with the classic Batman tale of Knightfall.
But to kick off this day, I’ll start reading the next volume of Ed Piskor’s X-men: Grand Design, Second Genesis.
Tonight I’ll start with one of my favorite events of my reading year.
The 24in48 readathon, the first one of the year was usually held in January, but as with all of us, sometimes life takes some turns, and our priorities became something else.
With the Coronavirus sweeping thru the world, and the recommendation of practicing social distancing to flatten the infection rate, and the implication of having to stay indoors a lot, I can think of a better way to spent the time.
Maybe not the best of circumstances to have this amazing event making a comeback.
So, the clock is set.
I hope to keep the streak alive, and read the whole 24 hours.
Keep yourself safe, wash your hands often, and stay home as much as you can.
Today as you can tell by the hour, I had a really early start.
I have been dealing with some issues on my left arm, and because of the medicine prescribed to take at night makes me fall asleep really early.
Thus the hour.
But as with my insomnia I’ll take advantage of this.
To start off this morning reading, and hopefully make this be 300-page day, I’ll read the third series of the comic adaptation of The Witcher, Curse of Crows.
Another amazing find on my Kindle Unlimited account.
This is my warm up for next week’s 24in48 readathon.
I have finally reached two major milestones, the first was reaching 300,000 pages of the 1,000,000 pages that comprise my crazy little project, which started back in 2008.
The book that put me thru this remarkable goal was The Walking Dead Vol. 9, a series that I started reading back in 2007, and read from volume 1 to 7.
Right now there are more than 30 volumes.
The culprit of my 300,000 pages
Also, I reached 20,000 pages of this year of reading, this 25 days ahead of schedule.
Consequently, it was the tenth volume of The Walking Dead that helped me cross the 20,000-page mark.
The culprit of my 20,000 pages of this year
The next immediate goal is to pass the halfway mark of this year of reading, which is 20,833 pages, just 775 more to go.
Also, make this year my best one yet, for that to happen, I still have 27,832 pages ahead of me.
For this week of reading, I have lined-up some really of my favorite series.
Starting with the world created by David Petersen, Mouse Guard, with three collections that I found on Kindle Unlimited, also, the second comic book series of The Witcher, Fox Children, still haven’t read the last three numbers.
And lastly, try to finish by Thursday night the second volume of Dragonlance Chronicles, Dragons of Winter Night, I have fallen a little behind, but nothing I cannot make up for.
I spent most of the day resting up, still having some issues with my left arm, and of course reading.
I am pretty sure that two of my goals were met today, reaching 300,000 of total pages, and 20,000 pages for this year.
But I wouldn’t be sure until my digital lists are updated.
For now, I’ll keep on browsing fo new things to read, which consequently have already given me some new material to read.
I’ll finish with the tenth volume of The Walking Dead, and then it’s on to the second series of the Dark Horse adaptation of The Witcher, Fox Children.
After that, I’ll return to the mesmerizing world of Mouse Guard, created by David Petersen, who is this anthology collection known as Legends of the Guard, he shares his world with some heavy hitters.
I have a lot of new things to read, and hopefully I’ll keep on adding to this amazing year of reading.
I just finished the first book, Dragons of Autumn Twilight, of the trilogy Dragonlance Chronicles, in which we meet our fearless heroes on their quest to face a new threat that has come to endangered their beloved homeland.
But not only that, there’s also whisper of the return of the Dark Queen.
I cannot wait to jump right into the second book, Dragons of Winter Night.
This will be the 11th book of this year of reading, and I have put March 12 as the deadline to finish reading it.
I feel really satisfied with my current reading pace.
I am picking up my rythm, and I will probably finish this first book of my quest just on schedule.
With less than 100 pages to go on Dragons of Autumn Twilight, and the rest of today, all of tomorrow, and until 6:00 a.m. of Saturday to finish them, I can see a really promising outcome.
Also, I will try to pass the 20,000-page mark over the weekend, followed by some celebratory drinks.
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