Category: (Y-18)

Numbers: October 13, 2025

Welcome back to my Magic Mondays, the blissful day when I get to obsess over how much did I actually progress with my goals, hyperventilate, write about it, and then continue with my reading, because panicking has never been a solution to getting to those pages read.

I’ll start with the most proximate goal, and work myself up to the elephant in the room, those coveted million pages.

To start, there’s only 2,063 days left until the deadline of my project, better known as my 50th birthday, and a whole lot of pages to go thru. But as my mantra has always been, “one page at a time”, the next milestone is of the utmost importance.

But I’m getting ahead of myself, the current year, the 18th of this project, began a little bit slow. In the 20 weeks that have transpired, only 3 have been completed with their respective total projected, those numbers will simply not do. The current total is a meager 15,138 pages , but hope has been regained, the past week was phenomenal, a total of 2,000 pages. and I intend to continue with that pace, in doing so, this could be easily a over 50,000 pages year . I’ll make the remaining 237 days worth every second.

My next big milestone is reaching 600,000 pages. I’m glad to say that is even closer that expected, right now there’s only 6,452 pages left, and with the current pace, I’ll be crossing that goal on December 24 of this year, as always,each day , I’ll strive to bring that date close and closer.

The next milestone , 750,000 pages, is another beast , right now my projection is to get to that goal on April 23, 2030. That would leave only a year and two months to read the remaining 250,000 pages, insane numbers , that quite frankly, I see as impossible to achieve, that’s why my intentions is to reach that three quarter of a million pages no later than April 2027, let’s see how this progress each and every week.

Now, for the aforementioned elephant in the room, the projections place that particular milestone way too far from my original goal. Right now it sits, uncomfortably, at June 14, 2037. That’s 6 years and 8 days too late for my liking. As with all my goals, I’ll keep close tabs on the progression forward, as I said before, “one step at a time, one page at a time”, but right now it will seem that jogging is no longer the method of getting there.

A full sprint is my future, a whole marathon at the speed of a 100 meter race.

So quick recap:

Total pages: 593,548 pages

Date to achieve 600,000: December 24, 2025

Date to achieve 750,000: April 23,2030

Date to achieve 1,000,000: June 14, 2037

Pages left on (Y-18): 55,127 pages

For now, I’m off to read

Azriel

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Daily Journal: October 12, 2025

It took a while for me to get back to sharing my progress in this crazy journey of mine, but here I am, eager to get back on track with my reading.

I think the first order of business on this return is to give you a quick update of how my numbers are going and what I’m currently working on.

As you may already know, spooky season is my favorite time of the year, and so far, I have read some amazing eerie and disturbing stories.

In the case of the creature of the Black Lagoon and Dear Creature, the stories follow a reptilian type creature that haunts the waterways, but in two totally different approaches, to be completely honest, I was pleasantly surprised by Jonathan Case’s Dear Creature, not only is it beautifully illustrated, but it also has a more whimsical approach to the creature, sometimes really funny, sometimes really heart wrenching, but in all an amazing tale of trying to belong and find happiness.

On the other hand, the Creature from the Black Lagoon transported me to back when I was 12 and starting to get into those classic creature-features that were already ingrained as the basis of all the genre of monsters.

Another volume I started working on was A Very DC Halloween, seeing the classic characters from the DC universe embroiled in supernatural scenarios is always fun, and just teasing on the cover a Swamp Thing story, well that will get me to open it up every time.

On the book front, I just re-started my spooky season tradition of reading Frankenstein, beautifully illustrated by William O’Connor, as always this behemoth of a book never fails to amaze me, and with the impending release of Guillermo del Toro adaptation, this was the perfect timing to get immersed in it’s captivating story

The two other books that hopefully will be finished by the end of spooky season

The first is a compilation of vampire called Vampirismo, containing some classic authors like Edgar Allan Poe, Alexander Dumas, H.G.Wells, Robert E.Howard and the main reason for buying this particular collection was to finally read the seminal story by John Polidori, The Vampyre. Considered the first romantic vampire story and created on the same faithful night where the brilliant Mary Shelley gave birth to her famous Prometheus.

The second is the folk-horror novel The Reddening by author Adam L.G. Nevill , as the description of the book goes, I’m getting into a world of ancient rituals , prehistoric vengeful gods and mythical red creatures. Sounds like the perfect book to cozy up for the colder weather.

On the number side of things , I’ll just make a quick update, the full rundown of my totals and date of the next achievements will be posted on the next numbers post, which as tradition dictates, will be done on the magic Monday of each week.

So far on this year, the eighteen of reading, my total is 13,971 pages. I started a bit slow but right now my pace has improved drastically. The goal for the year is 70,265 pages, clarifying that I measure from my birthday , which is in June, so the year starts one day after and finishes on the exact date of my birthday.

The two next impending goals are reaching 15,000 pages for the year, projected for October 21, and the next big milestone on the whole project , reaching 600,000 pages, that according to my average and pacing it should be achieved on the last day of 2025, of course I’ll try to bring down that date.

Now more than ever each day gained and each page read is worth gold,my conviction to arrive to those coveted objective has not changed. In around 6 years, I’ll be celebrating with a trip to culminate this amazing adventure, the journey has been spectacular, not let’s thread those final footsteps to my emerald prize .

For now, I’m off to read

Azriel

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Daily Journal: January 11, 2025

For the second day in a row, I have achieved my daily total of pages, I feat not that common in this year of reading. To put it mildly, consistency has not been the common denominator in the past few months, but thankfully, that’s beginning to be a thing of the past.

Today the main reason I could achieve this goal was a graphic from one of my favorite artists/characters combo. On this particular story the Scottish artist Jock takes Batman on a journey to reach Blackgate prison on thru the treacherous streets of Gotham, that not only are infested by a turf war between street gangs but also with the deadly villain EMP and the familiar Killer Croc, the behemoth adversary that roams the underground of the city, all of this while the lights of the city have gone out.

A bloody and almost broken Batman must fight for his survival one city block at a time. As always the fuzzy and dynamic penmanship of Jock fits perfectly with the dark persona of Gotham’s Dark Knight.

This new momentum has inspired me to create some new reading challenges to boost up my total numbers for the year. Of course, to spicy things up, I’m attaching a prize for myself when each of the mini challenges are achieved. I’ll start with the following four challenges, this until I scheme some new ones.

  • 10-day reading streak, at least 179 pages per day
  • 5-day gold reading streak, at 300 pages per day
  • 4 week reading streak, at least 1,253 pages per week
  • 100-day reading streak, at least 179 pages per day

This will help me get things back on track, and achieve another successful year. As you can see there’s a lot of reading to do, and with that in mind

Off to read

azriel

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Daily Journal: January 10, 2025

Today, that’s the approach for this period of my reading.

I have fallen a little behind my reading, nothing catastrophic , but my intention is to get back on track, taking that exact approach. Focus on today.

My current goal for each day, in order to reach my coveted goal, is 179 daily pages. This year ,that number has decreased to 98 pages per day. Still a solid number, but not enough to get me across the finish line.

Luckily ,over the Christmas holiday, I received a batch of books that are slowly taking me out of my slump , and the past few days that number has increased exponentially.

With that in mind, my immediate goal is to cross the 20,000 page line for this year over the weekend, and more importantly restart the streak of the weekly goal, which is 1,253 pages, to carry it until the end of the year of reading, the last 20 weeks of the year are going to be really interesting.

But for now, I’ll focus on today, and those 179 pages that will get me closer to the million pages goal.

Off to read

Azriel

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