In light of my plan, to go on to my holiday break with 6 books under my belt and 5,000 pages of total progress, apparently not coming true, I’ll have to reorginaze and probably add another book, three was the original plan, to the end of the year festivities.

For now my main focus will be finish the two books I’m reading , push back Dragonlance: The War of Souls and start head-on with the Legend of Drizzt saga, a 30 book fantasy galore awaits me.

But I’ll start with The Crystal Shard and take it from there.

I’ll keep you post it.

Happy Readings!!!

azr

So, at last the end of this year read is upon me.

I’m going to take this last night and try to finish the final book of this almost extinct year.

With some coffee and chocolate I’ll save good bye and say hello to the most demanding year yet.

Tomorrow, I’ll post my final page count, images of the first book on the year and my new bullet journal that will keep me on track with my reading.

Good night and Happy Readings!!!

azr.

Can’t believe I started this journey more than 9 years ago.

It has been really rewarding and at times a great source of comfort.

As I get ready to tackle a new year I start to project numbers and start to see the true depth of how far behind I really am.

So here is what I come to affectionately named Panic Calculations.

3,288 days since I begin Lost in a Million Pages

200,798 total pages read.

61 average of pages read per day.

16,360  days will take me to read 1,000,000 pages (with the aforementioned average).

friday 25 of July 2053 will be the date I will finish with my crazy journey (again, considering my average).

72 years, 1 month and 20 days will be my age at that date.

Some 22 years later that my original goal.

As you can see I have a great deal of road ahead of me.

And with 96,756 pages looming in the horizon for (Y-10), its do or die time.

So, wish me an uninterrupted flow of books, caffeine, and long nights with excellent lighting.

Happy Readings!!!

azr.

P.S.

On the night of Friday the 13th of October, I’ll post the final page count and raise a glass for dwindling year.

As I watched this year Nobel laureate memories came flooding back.

I remember vividly almost a year ago talking to my dad, as we did all early mornings, and talked about Dylan winning the Nobel.

He told me it was not that big of a surprise, and I quote him, ” his lyric are pure poetry” .

Later that day I send a video of Dylan performing his favorite song, Like a Rolling Stone. He got so fired up when he heard it, I guess it remained him of we he was young.

Well here I’m, blasting Dylan and holding on to this precious memories.

It was announced earlier this morning that the recipient for this year prize is English author Kazuo Ishiguro.

Some of his most notorious work are: Never Let Me Go, The Remains of the Day and The Buried Giant, this last one I had my eye for sometime, Arthurian myth what more can you ask for.

You can see the announcement here.

Well back to it.

Happy Readings!!!

azr.

The inevitable finally has come to pass.

I finally had put down Jerusalem by Alan Moore.

I’m really not in a mindset to give it proper attention.

For the remaining days I’ll focus on finishing Star Wars: Tyrants Test and Fight Club 2.

And give way to total epicness for (Y-10).

Making lists and planning how in hell am I going to read 97,000 pages.

I’ll find a way.

Happy Readings!!!

azr.