Midday is upon me, and I am glad to say the my progress has been really satisfactory.
There are 199 pages left on Dune: The Battle of Corrin, and from the look of it there’s a pretty good chance I’ll get thru them sometime after midnight.
To make this day-long reading session much more enjoyable I am thrilled to welcome my two good friends, pizza and red wine.
On a side note, my current total for the week now sits at 760 pages, still shooting for 1,000, but will see.
With little under an hour left on the day I am glad to say that the halfway point of Dune : The Battle of Corrin, currently on page 323 of 620, my goal is to leave around 250 for tomorrow’s reading.
For the total pages of the week I’m really close to 700, so shooting for over 1,000 isn’t that complicated, maybe even 1,250, but I must not get ahead of myself, first thing first, keep the 52 books in 52 weeks challenge on schedule, and then reduce the accumulated pages a little each week.
Let’s see how the Monday report fairs, and then scheme some new crazy challenge to get back on track, like, I don’t know, read 100 hours each month, just an idea, not like I have been thinking about it.
As the day briskly passes I have become aware that this last two weeks have been really slow, snail pace at their best, well that’s about to stop.
I have 388 pages left on Dune: The Battle of Corrin, and a whopping 1,476 pages left on this week’s, that’s including the negative pages that have been accumulating from passed weeks. Both numbers are crucial for this year reading.
To be perfectly honest I think the total page count for the week is a little over my known capabilities, but finishing the book, that I can do, it’s one of those situations where you have to pick your battles wisely.
What I will do is to have some in between sessions, sort of breathers from the more intense reading.
I come to find that in this kind of situations nothing better move things along than reading some mutant action, and with a couple of classics by Chris Claremont, Days of Future Past and Gods Loves, Man Kills, this weekend promises to get me back on my lane.
For the most part of today my reading has been accompanied by a particularly good new album that just was released today.
Infinite Granite by Deafheaven, this amazing group, that jump rope with shoe gazing and black metal, have accomplish a deep, dark and ethereal album, that’s probably the heaviest music that they have created.
My favorite track is between Villain and Mombasa, but to be sure, let’s listen to the whole album again.
Check it out below, and be sure to listen to their previous work.
As the weekend begins, there’s still 525 pages left on this week’s book, Dune: The Battle of Corrin.
That’s 175 pages, 1 bottle of red wine, and about 2 chocolates per day, sounds like a fun weekend, this book will mark my first leg thru the Dune universe, which will continue probably around November with The Sisterhood of Dune, I’m going chronologically.
For my next adventure I am torn between starting N.K. Jemisin’s award winning series, or a trio of Ernest Cline books.
But first thing first, let’s get the weekend’s celebrations, and but that I mean reading without pants.
Although a bit late, last night, I finished the tenth book of this year of reading.
The second volume of the trilogy Legends of Dune, The Machine Crusade, focuses on the Infinite battlegrounds of the conflict between the League of Nobles and Omnius, the evermind, and his thinking machines
The Butlerian Jihad, as it has become known for , the now figurehead of the human side of the conflict, the uprising of Serena Butler against her Machine captors
The books depicts, intensively by the way , about 36 year of the conflict, stretching thru various parts of the now famous universe created by Mr. Herbert. I am particularly interested on the creation of the Navigators Guild, there are hint of the past history of this universe and what made this story so compelling, to see its genesis is simply amazing.
One of the great things, and without spoiling anything, although the books have been in print for almost 20 years, anyway, is that the authors do not shy away from high stakes, in which, this characters you become to love, have to face hard and possibly life threatening situations.
To continue with my journey the next tale is the short story The Faces of a Martyr, contained in the book The Road to Dune, and the final chapter of the Trilogy, The Battle of Corrin.
And to get back on track with my challenge of 52 books in 52 weeks, I only have 5 days to finish it.
This was not a memorable week for my reading, with only 740 of the 1,246 of the projected total and 98 pages left on this week’s book, Dune: The Machine Crusade, these numbers put a dent on my good mood, but more importantly on my good reading pace.
I start this week with 798 negative pages, carried over from the pass to weeks, and if all fairs well, 6 days to read the final volume of the Legends of Dune prequel, The Battle of Corrin.
Since the main rule of this journey is to enjoy every single thing that I read, and everything else is secondary, that would mean that I’m right on track
Hopefully next week everything will be back to normal.
With less than two hours left on this Sunday, I am not even close to where my reading should be.
On Dune: The Machine Crusade my progress was somewhat satisfactory, currently on page 562, which leaves 139 pages to finish, the goal is to leave less than 100 pages for tomorrow, and hit the ground running with the final book of this trilogy, The Battle of Corrin.
On the goal of at least 800 total pages for the week, there’s still 209 pages in front of me, I’ll do my best by throwing some X-men action, right now I am reading the conclusion of the events that started on House of M, the aftermath of Messiah Complex and Messiah War, The Second Coming, let’s see what the futures have waiting for Hope.
I have a gargantuan task ahead of me, yesterday’s reading was pretty decent, with a total of 234 pages for the day, and progress on Dune: The Machine Crusade to page 440, the day can be considered a win.
The task for today is to try and gets as close an humanly possible to finishing the book, there’s 244 pages left, which are doable but present quite the challenge.
What concerns this week’s total page count, 1,246 pages, I’m really behind, 815 pages to be precise, on this front passing the 800 total page mark will be more than enough.
My the end of next week hopefully all will be back in balance, specially my 52 books on 52 weeks challenge.
With two days left on the tenth week of this year of reading and watching my total so far I can only say, uh-oh.
I have a measly 180 of the 1,246 pages projected for this week, and to make things even trickier, I am on page 322 of 701 of this week’s book, Dune: The Machine Crusade.
Now there’s a choice to be made, do I focus on finishing the book or on the page count.
Let’s see how things develop over today, but rest assured, there’s going to be some intense reading over this really rainy weekend.
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