It has been quite a while, 3 months and a few days to be exact. I’m please to inform that all is well with my reading and I have so much to write that is hard to start.

So here it goes…

I’ll begin with a side project that started on (Y-7) and it permeated to (Y-8). I’m talking about “6 months of Star Wars”. The really simple premise was to read, for 6 months obviously, only Star Wars Novels from the now dubbed “Legends” universe. This in build up to the december release of Episode VII: The Force Awakens. Let me first say that I loved the movie. Say what you may it had the same effect that the original trilogy had when I was maybe 4 or 5 years old and watch it for the first time. But getting back to the books, it was a great experience, the books really broaded the scope of this great universe. My favorite of the 21 books I read was probably Dark Force Rising  by Timothy Zahn, of all the books I think Mr. Zahn is the best to player in this vast universe of talented creators. The book that most impress me was Red Harvest, the idea of “zombies” or deranged sith if you will sounds a bit off but somehow Joe Schreiber makes it work. Here is the full list of my Star Wars side project.

Eight of this books are part of (Y-8), so in general it was a success.

Right after I finished with the side project I started picking off some of the books in my list for this year, which you can see in this previous entry https://lostinamillionpages.wordpress.com/2015/10/12/reading-list-for-y-8/.

The first book was A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin, what else can I say about this complex and deep series. I really like the book, still A Storm of Swords is still my favorite.

It took me 1 month to read it, but time well spent. The next books where La Frontera de Cristal by Carlos Fuentes, Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett and El príncipe de la niebla by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, in that particular order.

Right now I’m working on three books, 1Q84 Libro 1 y 2 by Haruki Murakami, which is apparently going to be the longest of the year at 944 pages, La larga marcha by Richard Bachman (a.k.a. Stephen King) and on my nook, Mort by the latte great Sir Terry Pratchett.

On the book front this pretty much gets you up to speed, the other cool things that happen over this extended period of time were two that stand out. The first the snow storm that hit my precious Ciudad Juárez the day after christmas. I haven’t seen that much snow in quite a while.

The other is my christmas presents, a gigantic coffee mug of my favorite Star Wars character and the graphic novel Sandman:Overture the newest of the series written by genius Mr. Gaiman.

So that’s in a nutshell my last three months. And to top of this entry here is my progress with this year project and the total in this 1,000,000 pages adventure.

• Total pages for  the eight year : 4,874 pages
• Days left for the eight year: 258 days
• Books left for the eight year: 40 books
• Pages left to read in my goal for the eight year: 16,417 pages
• Total pages of Lost in a million pages: 172,019 pages

happy readings

azr

The Absolute Sandman, Vol. 1 by Neil Gaiman

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

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I took my sweet time re-reading this book, and it was more magical and deep that I remember it.

We get introduced to Lord Morpheus, the king of Dreams, and how he was imprisoned by a order of so called magician, who by the way where expecting to capture Dream older sister Death. Eventually he breaks his imprisonment and sets out to reclaim his almost crumbling kingdom of Dreamland. He needs to recover some of this artifacts to restore said kingdom and he goes to Hell, literally, to do so.

If you haven’t read this amazing comic book do yourself a favor and go out, I do mean right this very instant, and buy it. You won’t regret it.

azr, hopefully making a return among the living.

It has been 15 days since the last entry and they have been mildly productive. At last, after two months, I have finish reading A Storm of Swords in my opinion the best book of the 3 books I have read of a song of fire and ice series. This mark then the beginning of 6 months of Star Wars reading. My plan is to read my all-ready vast Star Wars library and gear-up for the December 18 release of Episode VII. I’m going to begin this challenge with the first book of the series Jedi Academy written by the sci-fi giant Kevin J. Anderson. On a little side note, my challenge of reading 20,000 total pages for year seven before my 34th birthday is going to fail miserably, still I’m determined to finished the larger scope challenge of reading 50,000 + pages for this year. So to recap :

• Total pages for the seventh year: 11,297 pages
• Days left for the seventh year: 143 days
• Pages left to read in my goal for the seventh year:  44,638 pages

Quite a challenge but I’ll have fun with it. This two weeks have also been hectic and really fun, I had the chance to revisited a place that I help design and construct and it’s also one of my favorite spots to go and unwind. To read for a while in total peace. Just with sound of the wind and the trees.

The project consist in a park with a artificial lake holding about 3 million liters of reclaim water. This water comes from the nearby treatment plant is now use to water around 600 plants and is house to various migratory birds. It was a really privilege to work on a project like this and to watch it blossom through the years has been more that rewarding.

The other thing that happen was that my little desert oasis received some much deserved love.  It’s now more that ready for the mild nights of my beautiful desert.

So to open-up this season the order of business is to have a few cold ones and great conversation with friends.

Happy readings!!!!

azr