Another good week of read, over 1,300 pages.
Remember that I should be reading 812 pages a week to reach my goal of 43,500 total pages for this year of reading.
Tonight, I’ll start my Bookly Readathon, 2,020 pages are in front of me, and 7 days to do it.
For now,I’ll read, and watch the Championship games of the NFL.
azr.
I just reach level 22 on the Bookly app, this means I have used it to log 213 hours of reading.
The next level is 17 hours and 31 minutes away.
Right around this time of year, I would have been getting ready for the 24in48 readathon, but the amazing team of this now an iconic weekend of reading has taken a much-deserved hiatus to regroup.
So I had to look for an alternative to fill my need to binge read.
I found it in the first-ever readathon organized by the reading tracking app Bookly.
It is fairly simple, from Monday, January 20 starting at the stroke of midnight and up until Sunday, January 26 at 11:59 p.m., you can do two things, read for 20 hours, or read 2020 pages.
This obviously using the app to keep track of your progress, I chose the latter.
At the end of the week, you share your weekly report and have a chance to win the free upgrade to Pro.
In my case, I should start on Sunday, January 19 at 10:00 p.m., and read up until Sunday, January 26 at 9:59 p.m., this is because the readathon starts on an Eastern Standard Time zone, and I am on a Mountain Standard Time zone.
If you are interested in participate check the blog entry from Bookly.
I am off to read.
azr
I had a couple of slow reading days.
Inspite of this, I read an amazing graphic novel, Red Sonja : Ballad of the Red Goddess.
Written by the legendary Roy Thomas, and the masterful art work of Estaban Maroto and Santi Casas.
Colored only in black, white, and red, this short but sweet retelling of the She-Devil with a sword it’s a must for all fans of the Sword and Sorcery genre.
This particular edition us the Spanish version published by Planeta Comics, and it is an oversize hardcover.
Today I plan to pick up the pace, and try to read three 300-page days straight.
I am off to read.
azt
I’m on a roll!
Yesterday, I had a 300-page day.
This was thanks to two amazing graphic novels, and a couple of chapters of The New Jedi Order: Agents of Chaos II.
First off, I read the prelude stories to the amazing Mad Max: Fury Road, in this book we can see the story up until before the start of the movie, like the origin of the War Boy Nux, the obsession of Immortan Joe, the journey of Max, and the final task of the kick-ass Imperator Furiosa.
If you liked the movie, this is a must-read.
The second graphic novel was the fourth volume of the Warcraft Manga series Legends, this collection contents little stories from all over Azeroth, my favorite section was the first part of the origin tale of the mother of the legendary Orc Thrall.
Although I am not a huge gamer, the world of Warcraft has always intrigue, and all of the stories, books, and comic books, have been a very pleasant experience.
With this page registered in this year of reading, I have surpassed the 11,000-page mark, and I am also ahead 4 days on my reading schedule.
This year is shaping up to be a great year of reading.
I am off to read.
azr.
Right now I will be closing down my day with a bit of reading.
More specifically with a couple of great adventures.
Yesterday, late at night, I finished the fourth book of the amazing series The New Jedi Order, set 25 years after Episode IV, A New Hope.
With a new threat coming from outside the knowed galaxies, the New Republic must rallie to put a stop to the relentless Yuuzhan Vong.
We finally see the reappearance of our favorite scoundrel, Han Solo, who has been laying low after the tragedy in Serndipal, were he losses his partner in crime, Chewbacca.
But with this warriors cast wrecking havoc on the galaxy, Han must put his mourning aside, and fight once again for the faith of the galaxy.
Let’s see what’s in store in the fifth book of the series, Agents of Chaos-Jedi Eclipse.
The other adventure is an amazing graphic by José Luis Pescador, La caída de Tenochtitlan.
In which the everyday life inside the Aztec empire is beautifully depicted, and how the winds of war came rushing in to take down the gem that was the beautiful city of Tenochtitlan, the heart of the Aztec power.
This graphic is only available in Spanish, but I highly recommend that you learn the language in order to enjoy this amazing piece of art.
In other news, and for the first time in all of the twelve years I have been keeping track of my reading, I am on schedule, in fact, I am a bit ahead.
And to celebrate, I will read some more.
azr.
Quite the improvement from last week, I’ll keep on reading, and enjoying some NFL playoffs action.
azr.
I have finally reached the first 10,000 pages of this twelve year of my reading project.
My current total for registered pages is 10,181
It took me 90 days, and I am just gearing up for what comes next.
The other thing I set out to achieve yesterday, was to have a 500-page day.
I am glad to inform you that, CHALLENGE COMPLETED, this was thanks to my progress in The New Jedi Order book, Agents of Chaos I, and three amazing graphic novels.
The first two were from the current run of Batman: Detective, in which Bruce Wayne is haunted by a villain from his how creation, Karma, he can read minds and recks havoc on all of the Bat-Family, especially on the Signal, who is badly wounded, and on the other volume, Batman teams up with a known nemesis, Two-Face, who is struggling between his good and evil side, while they battle a new threat to Gotham, the Kobra.
The third graphic novel was the eight-volume of my favorite comic book series of all time, Hellboy, in Darkness Calls our favorite demon battles the witch Baba-Yaga, who is out for blood, or more specifically an eye of Hellboy.
While all of these events are unfolding, a much bigger threat is brewing underneath the surface, and it will change Hellboy’s destiny forever.
Thanks to these amazing reads, which I did between plays of the two playoffs games of the NFL, in which, the San Francisco 49ers won easily over Minnesota Vikings, and the Tennessee Titans stunted the Baltimore Ravens, I could close the gap on my reading schedule, now I am only 4 days behind, and the calculated date for achieving 500,000 pages, came down from March 24, 2028, to February 25, 2028, that’s a month of gained time.
For today, I have planned pretty much the same, read my ass off, while I watch the Green Bay Packers take on Seattle Seahawks, and the Kansas City Chiefs take on the Houston Texans, this will determine next week’s Conference Championship games, and eventually the Superbowl.
So today I will be doing two of my favorites things, watch football, and read.
I am off to read.
azr.
I had a slow week, for obvious reasons, but this week has picked up substantially.
Today, I am attempting a 500 page day, and right now I am just passed the 300-page mark.
Let’s see how this week faired.
For now I am off to read.
azr.
I am getting really close to the first 10,000 pages of these twelve year of reading.
Currently, I have a total of 9,280 pages, and my plan is to reach the coveted 10,000 by this weekend, which is perfect because I’ll combine some reading with the second round of the NFL playoffs.
Also, I’ll close the extension of my Star Wars month-long marathon, which started on December, this with some graphic novels, and two novels from The New Jedi Order series.
After closing this amazing marathon of one of my favorite universes, I’ll officially start my new reading mode.
Read whatever the fuck pops into my head.
No one genre or series.
A panoply of choices.
I wonder what I’ll read next.
For now, I am off to read.
azr.
It has been a brutal and emotional start of the year.
This past Saturday my mother passed away, she was 65 years old, and I am grateful to have shared 38 of those wonderful years with her.
She was a special person, calmed and collected, but also full of love and with an enormous willingness to help out anyone in need.
I already missed her, and I know that these past two years were really hard for her, but I am grateful that her fight with her illness was short-lived and that she didn’t suffer.
I’ll carry her in my heart forever.
I will keep my updates of this past few weeks for another post, for now, I’ll reminisce of the good times spent with her, and wish her a safe journey to finally meet my dad, to spend the rest of eternity walking hand in hand thru their beloved purple desert.
azr.
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