For me the world of The Endless will always feel like home.
Doesn’t matter how many times I read it always offers something new.
Now, let’s start with Dream’s older sister.
azr
(Y-11) To the Dreaming for awhile.
(Y-11) taking it slow.
I will be focused on my reading for the next two weeks.
The plan is to close the gap in my reading schedule, which is right now 20 days behind.
The goal, to cut this in half.
My total of pages for this year sits at 12,864 pages.
To start off, I’ll read a few issues of The Dreaming, series that ran from 1996 to 2001, spinning off the monumental series Sandman by Neil Gaiman.
The first issue follows baby gargoyle Goldie.
See you in two weeks.
Off to reading
azr.
(Y-11) The epic 100 and the 3,000 pages
Last year I set out to have some epic years of reading, that is to read all of those fantasy novels I was so eager to go through but haven’t got around to doing so.
So, I compiled a list of 100 novels that I was just burning to read.
As you would see in the list below, there are a few series that are true classics, and if you love fantasy you most definitely must read, but there is also some of the new breeds of fantasy writers that are taking this beloved genre by storm.
The red text represents books I have already read.
The blue text represents the book I am currently reading.
| Book | Total Pages |
| The Hobbit | 288 |
| Lord of the Rings | 1112 |
| Legend of Huma | 384 |
| Dragons of a Fallen Sun | 627 |
| Dragons of a Lost Star | 550 |
| Dragons of a Vanished | 610 |
| The Legend of Drizzt Book IV: The Crystal Shard | 344 |
| The Legend of Drizzt Book V: Streams of Silver | 377 |
| The Legend of Drizzt Book VI: The Halfling’s Gem | 378 |
| The Legend of Drizzt Book VII: The Legacy | 341 |
| The Legend of Drizzt Book VIII: Starless Night | 369 |
| The Legend of Drizzt Book IX: Siege of Darkness | 378 |
| The Legend of Drizzt Book X: Passage to Dawn | 375 |
| The Legend of Drizzt Book XI: The Silent Blade | 408 |
| The Legend of Drizzt Book XII: The Spine of the World | 406 |
| The Legend of Drizzt Book XIII: Sea of Swords | 407 |
| The Legend of Drizzt Book XIV: Servant of the Shard | 348 |
| The Legend of Drizzt Book XV: Promise of the Witch King | 345 |
| The Legend of Drizzt Book XVI: Road of the Patriarch | 375 |
| The Legend of Drizzt Book XVII: The Thousand Orcs | 367 |
| The Legend of Drizzt Book XVIII: The Lone Drow | 370 |
| The Legend of Drizzt Book XIX: The Two Swords | 376 |
| The Legend of Drizzt Book XX: The Orc King | 398 |
| The Legend of Drizzt Book XXI: The Pirate King | 396 |
| The Legend of Drizzt Book XXII: The Ghost King | 375 |
| The Legend of Drizzt Book XXIII: Gauntlgrym | 389 |
| The Legend of Drizzt Book XXIV: Neverwinter | 363 |
| The Legend of Drizzt Book XXV: Charon’s Claw | 442 |
| The Legend of Drizzt Book XXVI: The Last Threshold | 434 |
| The Legend of Drizzt Book XXVII: The Companions | 441 |
| The Legend of Drizzt Book XXVIII: Night of the Hunter | 352 |
| The Legend of Drizzt Book XXIX: Rise of the King | 352 |
| The Legend of Drizzt Book XXX: Vengeance of the Iron Dwarf | 352 |
| The Legend of Drizzt Book XXXI: Archmage | 352 |
| The Legend of Drizzt Book XXXII: Maestro | 352 |
| The Legend of Drizzt Book XXXIII: Hero | 352 |
| Gardens of the Moon (Malazan Book of the Fallen I) | 635 |
| Deadhouse Gates (Malazan Book of the Fallen II) | 699 |
| Memories of Ice (Malazan Book of the Fallen III) | 925 |
| House of Chains (Malazan Book of the Fallen IV) | 1044 |
| Midnight Tides (Malazan Book of the Fallen V) | 960 |
| The Bonehunters (Malazan Book of the Fallen VI) | 1232 |
| Reaper’s Gale (Malazan Book of the Fallen VII) | 1280 |
| Toll the Hounds (Malazan Book of the Fallen VIII) | 1280 |
| Dust of Dreams (Malazan Book of the Fallen IX) | 1276 |
| The Crippled God (Malazan Book of the Fallen X) | 1200 |
| The Chronicles of the Black Company | 704 |
| The Books of the South | 672 |
| The Return of the Black Company | 672 |
| The Many Deaths of the Black Company | 788 |
| The Vorrh | 500 |
| The Erstwhile | 462 |
| Beren and Lúthien | 289 |
| Night of Knives: A Novel of the Malazan Empire | 336 |
| Dancer`s Lament | 418 |
| Deadhouse Landing | 387 |
| Dragons of Autumn Twilight | 452 |
| Dragons of Winter Night | 404 |
| Dragons of Spring Dawning | 388 |
| Time of the Twins | 421 |
| War of the Twins | 412 |
| Test of the Twins | 348 |
| Dragons of the Dwarven Depths | 594 |
| Dragons of the Highlord Skies | 597 |
| Dragons of Hourglass Mage | 335 |
| The Second Generation | 440 |
| Dragons of Summer Flame | 612 |
| Amber and Ashes | 362 |
| Amber and Iron | 373 |
| Amber and Blood | 318 |
| Return of the Crimson Guard | 732 |
| The Tales of Bauchelain and Korbal Broach, Vol.1 | 319 |
| Stonewielder | 638 |
| Orb Sceptre Throne | 609 |
| The Way of Kings | 1005 |
| Words of Radiance | 1088 |
| Oathbringer | 1241 |
| The Name of the Wind | 662 |
| The Wise’s Man Fear | 1000 |
| The Slow Regard of Silent Things | 159 |
| The Legend of Drizzt Anthology | 370 |
| Neverwhere (Illustrated by Chris Riddell) | 435 |
| Coraline (Illustrated by Chris Riddell) | 192 |
| The Graveyard Book (Illustrated by Chris Riddell) | 289 |
| Fortunately, The Milk… (Illustrated by Chris Riddell) | 144 |
| The Godborn: The Sundering Book II | 352 |
| The Adversary: The Sundering Book III | 528 |
| The Reaver: The Sundering Book IV | 352 |
| The Sentinel: The Sundering Book V | 352 |
| The Herald: The Sundering Book VI | 352 |
| The First King of Shannara | 538 |
| The Sword of Shannara | 670 |
| The Elfstones of Shannara | 619 |
| The Wishsong of Shannara | 572 |
| Prince of Thorns | 373 |
| King of Thorns | 609 |
| Emperor of Thorns | 449 |
| Forge of Darkness | 687 |
| Fall of Light | 861 |
| Blood and Bone | 850 |
So far I have read 26 of 100 books, and my total of pages is 11,048 of the 53,459 pages all of these books sum up.
For the Christmas break I have big plans, first is to read a couple of books from The Malazan Book of the Fallen and to finish Mark Lawrence’s Broken Empire series.
In other news, yesterday I reached another milestone of this year of reading, a total of 3,000 pages.
As I planned for yesterday, I read a couple of issues from the newly published Sandman Universe spin-off series, on this journey I was in good company, firstly by great magician Tim Hunter and secondly by the prince of Darkness himself, the morning star, Lucifer.
These are two great books, and you should check them out, but for my taste, I was more intrigued by the Lucifer series.
I am still a little behind schedule with my reading but giving the circumstances I have achieved more than expected.
For today, I plan to work on The Gardens of the Moon for a little bit, and also to read a graphic novel I purchased a while back, Un samurái ve el amanecer en Acapulco, by Mexican writer Álvaro Enrigue and Spanish illustrator Sonia Pulido.
Well now, back to reading.
azr.
(Y-11)Breathing a little easier
Just finishing with my work for the semester at my Master’s Degree and I can breathe a little bit easier.
I’ll take a few days to unwind and read a little bit.
I have plans to reach 3,000 pages by tomorrow.
So now let’s see how my numbers are.
- Total pages for (Y-11) : 2,664 pages.
- Pages to go to achieve first milestone (10,000 pages): 7,336 pages.
- Pages to go to achieve the main goal of the year (53,000 pages): 50,336 pages.
- Pages to go to be the second-best year of reading (32,001 pages): 29,337 pages.
- Pages to go to be the best year of reading (47,705 pages): 45,041 pages.
I have some work to do, but in order to achieve this, I have some things line up.
Firstly, I will try to finish the first volume of the graphic adaption of my favorite novel, American Gods by Neil Gaiman.
Secondly, the seventh issue of the fantastic series Batman: White Knight by writer/artist Sean Murphy.
And finally, the first issues of the expanded Sandman Universe series, this time is the turn of The Books of Magic and Lucifer, it is always exciting to dive into this massive universe that made me fall in love with comic books.
And in between all of this, I’ll try to make some headway with The Gardens of the Moon, got to keep the epicness blowing.
I know, lots of reading, but finally a little time to read.
Back to it.
azr.
(Y-10) 59 days… back to The Dreaming
In the little off time that I had this week, I read the return of The Sandman, creation of the multi-talented and my all time favourite Author Neil Gaiman.
He leaves his creation in really able hands, and I am hopeful that this is going to be a great new run of this mesmerizing world that I discovered almost 20 years ago.
Give yourself to explore this and all of the previous chapters of one of The greatest stories ever told.
Now, I’ll take advantage of being wide awake and do some more reading.
azr.
