I am entering the fourth day of my three week long Star Wars reading marathon, and if I can keep up the current pace it will be really productive.
Right now, I have read a total of 831 pages, this includes two amazing graphic novels, The Old Republic: Threat of Peace, and Star Wars-Omnibus: Emissaries & Assassins, this last volume has some adventures of Jedi Master Ki-Adi Mundi in Tatooine , where he encounters a Jedi of the ferocious Tusken Raiders.
I also made some good progress with Star Wars: Revan, currently on page 263 which is almost the halfway point, it is really fast paced adventure into the uncertain lost memories of a really powerful Sith Lord who fought his way into redemption.
I’ll try to finish by Tuesday, my plan is to read one book each week of the readathon, I’ll be looking into my TBR pile to seek my next adventure.
Today marks the start of a three week long Star Wars marathon, this would be the second year I celebrate one of my favorite universes in such manner.
Has you would imagine, and as with pretty much everything else involving the goals of this project, the main idea is to read as much Star Wars material possible.
I’ll start with two stories that are no longer canon, and are set in the Old Republic, that’s about 4,000 years before Episode IV.
I’ll update my total numbers on Friday, and hopefully this reading marathon will be a boost to finish the year strongly.
Each year I try to participate in several readathons, and this will not be the exception.
So far I have planned to participate in at least four this year, 2 organized by different groups, and 2 self appointed.
This will be :
Bookly Winter Readathon
24in48 February 2021
May the force be with you readathon
Seven days of reading Summer Edition
The first one will be Bookly Winter Readathon, organized by the Bookly app, the objetive is to read 10 hours from January 28 to January 31, tracking this on the app.
The second one is organized by the amazing team of 24in48.com, this is a great challenge, the goal is to read 24 total hours over a weekend, this time it will be the weekend of February 6 and 7.
The last two, May the Force be with you readathon, and Seven Days of Reading summer edition, are self appointed.
So, from May 4, the official Star Wars, to May 25, the anniversary of Episode IV, I will read anything, and everything about one of my favorite universes.
I will focus on The Old Republic era, it’s not canon anymore but I have been meaning to read it.
The last one on this preliminary list is the readathon to close out my reading year, and to celebrate my birthday, and as the last one, it’s an intense week of daily challenges, it will take place from May 31 to June 6, my 40th birthday.
I will try a new thing this year, a monthly reading challenge, for this occasion I will take the challenge from my favorite Mexican independent publishing house , Paraiso Perdido.
Picture taken from their official Instagram account: @eparaisoperdido
As soon I finish with The Assassin Apprentice, I will start the first book, Cuando las luces aparezcan by Roberto Abad.
A pretty active year, and hopefully, more activities will surface
Just as a quick update, I still have 5,353 pages to go on January, and my plan for today is to finish Assassin Apprentice, currently on page 372, and read a couple of comic books.
Today starts the NFL playoffs, I have been following football for as long as I can remember, and watching the Superbowl for more than 30 years.
On my favorite things to do, it holds the fifth slot after reading, books, comics, and eating, right now I am watching my favorite team, Indianapolis Colts, face a really tough rival in the Buffalo Bills, let’s hope we survive this week.
In between snaps, I will be reading all that I can, I still have 5,672 pages to go on January.
To try to chip off some pages I’ll keep on reading Assassin Apprentice, currently on page 312, and I will start the new comic book series Star Wars- The High Republic, taking place in the golden age of the Republic, some 200 years before the events of Episode IV
To be completely honest, I have my mind elsewhere, mainly on my thesis dissertation, which is Monday by the way.
But today was a bit more relaxed, so I decided to catch up on The Mandalorian, and because I am a sucker for Bounty Hunters from Star Wars, continue with the next three issues of Bounty Hunters, written by Ethan Sacks, which follows the stories of some of the galaxy’s most infamous hunters.
Hopefully December will be an amazing month, which I am aiming for more than 6,000 pages and a readathon around Christmas, but more on that later.
I have been away for more than 2 weeks, crazy busy with my day to day life.
Reading was put aside for some days in order to get things done.
But now, I am back in the saddle, and eager to gain some ground.
I am doing a Star Wars run, that started on May the 4th, and it will culminate on may 25, which marks the 43th anniversary of the release of Episode IV .
The tally has been a couple of graphic novels about The Clones Wars.
Just about to finish A New Dawn, the first novel of the new Canon, and directly linked to the amazing animated show Rebels.
Also, I’ll try to read to read the history about Captain Phasma, this of course over the weekend
Tomorrow I’ll do a complete update on my numbers, the only thing I can say is that I am over 28,000 pages an still have about 143 days left of reading for this year.
As you may know I am a huge fan of the Star Wars universe, and around this time each year, I like to go back to a galaxy far, far away.
For this year I’ll try something new, I will start today my Star Wars reading marathon, and it will end on May 25th, which marks the date A New Hope was released back in 1977.
I started this morning with John Jackson Miller’s book A New Dawn, focusing on rogue Jedi Kanan and the staring point of the new canon in the universe of Star Wars books.
Also, some graphic novels from the non-canon, and now dubbed Legends storyline of Star Wars, stories from the Clone Wars era.
Right now I am about half-way thru watching Rogue One, and in all honesty, it is my favorite movie from the more recent releases.
It has been a really slow week, at least for my reading, because I have been crazy busy.
So let me just jump into what have I been reading, and some of my numbers.
I have 26,871 of total pages for this year, that’s 3,129 to reach my next goal, and 14,794 pages to reach my ultimate goal for the year, 41,665 pages of total reading.
The other number I would like to point out is that I have finished 16 books in this year of reading, still have another 33 to reach my total of 49 books, which, is a recurrent goal for each and every year.
The last thing concerning my numbers is that I am 34 days ahead of my reading schedule, and if this pace holds out, this would be my best year of reading.
Now back to what I am reading.
Just finished the novelization of the academy award-winning movie, The Shape of Water, and I must say that I loved the movie and the book just takes it up a notch, the characters, especially the Amazonian Deity, are more rounded, and you can peak into their motivations and fears.
I highly recommend it.
Right now, I will start reading the fifth book of the Malazan Book of Fallen, Midnight Tides, it is a whopper of a book in a whopper of a series.
Also, I’ll start to read a comic book series of one of the newest additions to the Star Wars universe, Captain Phasma, in which, we follow her footsteps just as the menacing Star-Killer base is falling to pieces.
I start my first day of reading, this with the sole purpose of reaching 30,000
Besides reading Dragons of Spring Dawning, I started reading a new series from a galaxy far, far away, Bounty Hunters.
To tell the true, I have been waiting to premiere, right now it has two issues, and I purchased the first one.
By the cover alone it looks pretty cool.
The other thing I am currently reading is some compilations of the X-men, I started with the Blue collection on volume 0, this has some issues from the mid 90s.
Let’s see how many pages I can pile up today, on this the first day of 25 of self isolation.
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