(Y-10) catching a rithym

Finally, I have caught an extraordinary groove, both on my reading and some new vinyl acquisitions.

On the reading front, I finished a couple of graphic novels, Lady Mechanika Vol.1 and Punk Rock Jesus.

Both displaying some breathtaking art.

Mr. Benitez (Lady Mechanika) and Mr. Murphy (Punk Rock Jesus) take along some dystopian realities that fully submerge you onto this shadow-filled worlds that leave you in awe and begin for more.

Also, in glad to inform, that these two graphic novels help me pass the 14,000-page mark for this reading year.

On the sonic front, I have been overwhelmingly active, there are a couple of album on their way, the first is the debut record by Lo Moon because it is traveling from the UK I’ll expect it by the end of next week. The Second one is the newest record by Father John Misty; I bought through an offer by Spotify, a gorgeous red vinyl record will be on its way by June 1, the official release date.

Fortunately, I have some new records to keep me busy in the meantime.

Pure Comedy by Father John Misty, AM and Favourite Worst Nightmare by Arctic Monkeys, Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division, Vitalogy by Pearl Jam and Sunset Strip R.I.P by The Flytraps seem like an extraordinary selection.

And lastly, today marks officially the day that I got up from my lazy ass and started prepping my little desert oasis for the end of spring and the beginning of summer. Lately, I had neglected it, but we have plans to use as often as we can this season, a couple of beers, some hundred pages and just be outside and take in some air.

The first thing was to give my beloved mesquite tree a proper space so it can grow and eventually fill with those amazing yellow flowers the entrance to our home.

More changes to the little oasis in the coming days.

Well now back to it.

Those books are not going to read themselves.

Happy Readings!!!

azr.

12 May, 2018 0

(Y-10) The Drought is over

Today marks the end of a genuinely shitty streak of not finishing anything.

No Books.

No Graphic Novels.

No Comics.

Nothing.

But luckily there will always be The Dark Knight to save my sorry ass.

The last registered book was The Servant of the Shard, on April 7.

20 long days

The third volume of Batman, The Death of the Family, by the impressive creative team of Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo, came to put an end to my prolonged drought, and to top it off, it marks the return of The Joker to Gotham.

Exquisitely done, you can feel tense all throughout the book.

And to keep this machine rolling, yesterday, I finished the fifteen book of The Legend of Drizzt saga, The Promise of the Witch-King, although the legendary drow ranger does not make an appearance, his two main antagonists, Jarlaxle and Artemis Entreri, can carry the story without a flinch.

For now, I’ll focus on the sixteen book of the saga mentioned above, Road of the Patriarch and a graphic novel. Punk Rock Jesus by Sean Murphy.

Keep on going, keep on reaching for that ultimate goal, although it seems unobtainable, I’ll just keep pushing myself.

Some quick number for this the tenth year of my crazy project.

15 books read.
13,551 total pages.
83,215 pages to go.
162 days left in the year of reading.

Happy Readings!!!

azr.

29 April, 2018 0

(Y-10) Painfully lagging

These past few days have been really killer for my progress.

I need to regroup and march on with my reading goals.

I’ll schedule my time to jump between the massive pile of digital and printed Graphic Novels and my enormous pile of books to read.

So, one thing at a time, first I’ll power through Batman Vol. 3: Death of the Family

And then focus on my roaming thru Faerûn with Drizzt and company.

Luckily I’ll have some new sonic companions, three to be exact, but for tonight I will be in good company with The Boss himself.

Happy Readings!!!

azr.

16 April, 2018 0

(Y-10) The Glorious List

This is my crazy ass list, 100 books, pure epic fantasy.

And it goes as follows:

The books with the red text signify on my read pile.

The books with the blue text signify books on my shelf waiting to be read.

The books with the bold text signify books yet to be purchased.

	Book	Total Pages
#1	The Hobbit	288
#2	Lord of the Rings	1112
#3	Legend of Huma	384
#4	Dragons of a Fallen Sun	627
#5	Dragons of a Lost Star	550
#6	Dragons of a Vanished	610
#7	The Legend of Drizzt Book IV: The Crystal Shard	344
#8	The Legend of Drizzt Book V: Streams of Silver	377
#9	The Legend of Drizzt Book VI: The Halfling’s Gem	378
#10	The Legend of Drizzt Book VII: The Legacy	341
#11	The Legend of Drizzt Book VIII: Starless Night	369
#12	The Legend of Drizzt Book IX: Siege of Darkness	378
#13	The Legend of Drizzt Book X: Passage to Dawn	375
#14	The Legend of Drizzt Book XI: The Silent Blade	408
#15	The Legend of Drizzt Book XII: The Spine of the World	406
#16	The Legend of Drizzt Book XIII: Sea of Swords	407
#17	The Legend of Drizzt Book XIV: Servant of the Shard	348
#18	The Legend of Drizzt Book XV: Promise of the Witch King	345
#19	The Legend of Drizzt Book XVI: Road of the Patriarch	375
#20	The Legend of Drizzt Book XVII: The Thousand Orcs	384
#21	The Legend of Drizzt Book XVIII: The Lone Drow	384
#22	The Legend of Drizzt Book XIX: The Two Swords	376
#23	The Legend of Drizzt Book XX: The Orc King	398
#24	The Legend of Drizzt Book XXI: The Pirate King	396
#25	The Legend of Drizzt Book XXII: The Ghost King	375
#26	The Legend of Drizzt Book XXIII: Gauntlgrym	389
#27	The Legend of Drizzt Book XXIV: Neverwinter	363
#28	The Legend of Drizzt Book XXV: Charon’s Claw	442
#29	The Legend of Drizzt Book XXVI: The Last Threshold	434
#30	The Legend of Drizzt Book XXVII: The Companions	441
#31	The Legend of Drizzt Book XXVIII: Night of the Hunter	352
#32	The Legend of Drizzt Book XXIX: Rise of the King	352
#33	The Legend of Drizzt Book XXX: Vengeance of the Iron Dwarf	352
#34	The Legend of Drizzt Book XXXI: Archmage	352
#35	The Legend of Drizzt Book XXXII: Maestro	352
#36	The Legend of Drizzt Book XXXIII: Hero	352
#37	Deadhouse Gates (Malazan Book of the Fallen II)	699
#38	Memories of Ice (Malazan Book of the Fallen III)	925
#39	House of Chains (Malazan Book of the Fallen IV)	1044
#40	Midnight Tides (Malazan Book of the Fallen V)	960
#41	The Bonehunters (Malazan Book of the Fallen VI)	1232
#42	Reaper’s Gale (Malazan Book of the Fallen VII)	1280
#43	Toll the Hounds (Malazan Book of the Fallen VIII)	1280
#44	Dust of Dreams (Malazan Book of the Fallen IX)	1276
#45	The Crippled God (Malazan Book of the Fallen X)	1200
#46	The Chronicles of the Black Company	704
#47	The Books of the South	672
#48	The Return of the Black Company	672
#49	The Many Deaths of the Black Company	788
#50	The Vorrh	500
#51	The Erstwhile	462
#52	Beren and Lúthien	289
#53	A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms	369
#54	Dancer`s Lament	418
#55	Deadhouse Landing	387
#56	Dragons of Autumn Twilight	452
#57	Dragons of Winter Night	404
#58	Dragons of Spring Dawning	388
#59	Time of the Twins	421
#60	War of the Twins	412
#61	Test of the Twins	348
#62	Dragons of the Dwarven Depths	594
#63	Dragons of the Highlord Skies	597
#64	Dragons of Hourglass Mage	335
#65	The Second Generation	440
#66	Dragons of Summer Flame	612
#67	Amber and Ashes	362
#68	Amber and Iron	373
#69	Amber and Blood	318
#70	Return of the Crimson Guard	732
#71	The Tales of Bauchelain and Korbal Broach, Vol.1	319
#72	Stonewielder	638
#73	Orb Sceptre Throne	609
#74	The Way of Kings	1005
#75	Words of Radiance	1088
#76	Oathbringer	1241
#77	The Name of the Wind	676
#78	The Wise’s Man Fear	1000
#79	The Slow Regard of Silent Things	177
#80	The Legend of Drizzt Anthology	370
#81	Neverwhere (Illustrated by Chris Riddell)	435
#82	Coraline (Illustrated by Chris Riddell)	192
#83	The Graveyard Book (Illustrated by Chris Riddell)	289
#84	Fortunately, The Milk… (Illustrated by Chris Riddell)	144
#85	The Godborn: The Sundering Book II	352
#86	The Adversary: The Sundering Book III	528
#87	The Reaver: The Sundering Book IV	352
#88	The Sentinel: The Sundering Book V	352
#89	The Herald: The Sundering Book VI	352
#90	The First King of Shannara	538
#91	The Sword of Shannara	670
#92	The Elfstones of Shannara	619
#93	The Wishsong of Shannara	572
#94	Prince of Thorns	389
#95	King of Thorns	609
#96	Emperor of Thorns	449
#97	Forge of Darkness	687
#98	Fall of Light	861
#99	Blood and Bone	850
#100	Assail	542

Back to it then.

azr.

11 April, 2018 0

(Y-10) Reading…reading…reading

I have come to the conclusion that my quest through epicness is going to extended on to next year.

I have a list of 100 books that is not going down without a fight.

Right now I am working on the second book of The Sellswords Trilogy, The Promise of the Witch-King, number fifteen of the Legend of Drizzt saga.

There are thirty three books of this amazing saga, so, I am getting near the half-point mark.

At the end of my trek true Faerûn awaits another epic quest, The Malazan book of the Fallen, ten main novels and a few more world-expansion stories.

I see my time for this tenth year rapidly depleting.

The new plan is to expand this reading list to two consecutive years of pure epicness

On my next entry there will be a detail list of what is in my read pile and my to-read list.

For this year I have reach 13,032 pages, still a long way to go.

Just keep on reading.

azr.

9 April, 2018 0

(Y-10) I won’t say goodbye, I’ll say fare thee well..

Well, our little getaway has come to an end, but it was really what I needed, some sun, some wind, some wine (actually lots of it) and most of all some peaceful time away from the daily grind.

As posted on the last entry my first stop was White Sand National Monument, after soaking some sun, we spent the night in Alamogordo.

The next day, after a much-needed rest, we went and visit one of our childhood staples, The New Mexico Museum of Space History, it sits high on a hill with some glorious mountains to frame its 4 stories of space exploration.

It was entertaining getting lost between space suits, rocket models, and even a special Star Trek exhibition.

After a few hours of perusing we headed to our next destination, Ruidoso, tuck away in the beautiful Lincoln National Forest, indeed a bastion of peace and quiet.

The first afternoon was dedicated to doing nothing at all, just some reading, which, consequently, I finally finished reading The Servant of the Shard, and enjoying our excellent accommodations.

The Second day we did some light exploring, went to Grindstone Lake, walked the Ruidoso River Trail and finished the day with some wine tasting at the fantastic Noisy Water Winery, in which an accommodating staff walked us through their different varieties and even gave us a taste of their signature green chile wine.

I bought some bottles and hope to write about them shortly.

In all, it was a great outing and just what I needed to get ready for the next phase of my upcoming plans.

Tomorrow, I’ll post an update on my total pages and my progress with this year full of epicness,

Happy Readings!!!

azr

8 April, 2018 0

(Y-10) On the road

The first day of our getaway was an astounding success.

We visited the gorgeous National Park of White Sands in New Mexico.

I’m in love with the desert, it calls to me quite strongly and being surrounded by such breath taking beauty it just make my day.

We walked bare footed in the smooth pure white sand and reconnected with nature, which, if you ask me, was long overdue.

So, day one is done, now to relax, get some rest and read for a while.

Anxious to what tomorrow stores.

happy readings!!!

azr.

5 April, 2018 0

(Y-10) On my last leg…for today

I’m shutting for the day, it was a good day for my reading, not quite where I wanted to close the day, but none the less, a good day.

I leave the day, of course for the current book, on page 87 of 348.

Tomorrow will be a hectic day but on Thursday the voyage begins, and lots of reading with astounding views.

For the last stretch, I will have the sonic assistance of Pearl Jam in the form of their sophomore release VS.

Getting back to my total page count for the year, I finally had a chance to update my reading logs, and I’m glad to inform a 12,684 page total.

Still a lot of work ahead, but, as always, highly motivated.

Now back to reading, to close this day out with at least 100 pages of progress.

azr.

3 April, 2018 0

(Y-10) up and running

I’ll be keeping track of my reading on My Goodreads Page

I’m glad to inform that my pace is good and steady in hopes that it will pick-up later in the afternoon.

For this first reading session, I will be asking the sonic assistance of The War on Drugs in the form of A Deeper Understanding, one of my favorite albums of last year.

Right now, reading The Servant of the Shard on page 46 of 348.

I’ll keep you post it.

azr.

3 April, 2018 0

(Y-10) Let the games begin

One week, one trilogy.

I just finished The Sea of Swords, and now I’ll go all into the next trilogy in the Legend of Drizzt saga.

The Sellswords story arc is made up of The Servant of the Shard, The Promise of the Witch King and The Road of Patriarch. Some 1,200 pages of pure epicness.

I plan to read it by Wednesday and take the other two on our little trip.

With the idea unwinding and just taking it easy for a few days, I think there will be plenty of time for reading and relaxing.

Tomorrow I’ll post an update on my total page count for this year, and it’s going on my progress and expansion of my reading list.

On other news, I received a couple of really cool things in the mail.

First, a reading journal, it comes with some list, blank spaces to fill with your notes of the book in the queue, some top 100 books lists and many more things. Picture an analog Goodreads.

The Second is the latest addition to my ever-growing collection of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, this time is the illustrated edition by extremely talented Gris Grimly, a really fitting way for me to commemorate the 200th anniversary of its publication.