Been writing other things and not posting. Which is great as I have thought of an ending to a story that has been on the dictaphone for an age now. In those dull moments in meetings I look like I am paying attention and taking notes, oh but I am not not I am plotting the down fall of villains and the rise of heroes. It is the best reason not to have a smart phone or ipad in a meeting. holding a pen and having real paper. means that you are engaged in the meeting in the room an not on the net. or texting but you really are pay attention. but do remember to keep one ear out for what is happening around you. You just have to speak!! Not been caught out yet but you never know.

Reading again for myself, rather than for some project or other reason just for fun. Servant Leadership, Robert K. Greenleaf and Existence David Brin is my breakfast read. At the end of the day I close with Myke Cole, The one about Soldiers and magic and war and other planes of existence. It is beside the bed and I just cannot be bothered to fetch it. Shadow OPs? could be. But I am enjoying it.

Dyslexics are really nice people hire one today. have a great day as I am going to.

I finished reading "I am legend" by Richard Matheson this morning. I wondered why it was called that, now, I know.  I find myself with one question, a thought. Is this were the idea of describing people as legend begins. If so then it is a misunderstanding, as Robert Neville's understanding would place himself as the last of his kind a complete and utter scourge to what is coming next in the development of mankind. I guess that calling someone legend now may carry a different meaning now. Just wonder where it began. But not interested enough to find out.

However a book I ordered has arrived and now I read it Shadow Ops: Control Point by Myke Cole. Started it already!

Dyslexia is a good thing in my life hope it is in yours, have a great day.

so It is not just about reading books sometime it is about having books books that lift and inspire you to be better and sometimes that is just in your own head. There is one place I have not blogged about that is a total wonderful source for books, yes the library. Are you a member of one? I am a member of two different ones. I have set days of the week when I go. Wednesday and Friday library days. it is where I get to test drive books and yes I have found great books and then gone and brought them they were that good. usually they are design books the ones in the upper price range. So anyway as reading to, I am working my "I am legend" what a fabulous bleak book I have not read such brilliant hope stealing words as these in an age, just when it should lift you it brings another level in the pit that Robert Neville is in. I am learning that both the movies based on this story were far to hope filled!! Still some of the pictures are library books some are the ones I bought. Dyslexia is a good thing I like being one. have a good day

So finished Vince Flynn, now moved on to Richard Kadrey one of the black and white books I bought the other day. Half way through that. It is sad to have lost another great writer Ray Bradbury. So the other I am watching Ray Bradbury talking about ideas and writing everyday, those who inspired him. He talked briefly about Poe, and my daughter now wants to find and read some Poe and read in particular, The Raven. It has been found, read then liked. Very much, so I am told so I may have to read it myself. But It set me thinking, where do you find ideas, What do you do? So Here is an idea that I am currently working through, "Troll Beads" Where do they come from? This has lead to the creation of a whole world and everything in it. The first draft go at it was all first person and I don't think I did it very well. I'll post it on the website. Use the link It is called Pencil Boy and the Troll Folders. These are the works of a dyslexic. A Dyslexic who is happy with the world and enjoying it a whole heap. Enjoy your day.

So Mitch Rapp is killing people, in Cyprus, I grew up there. Richard Neville is fighting vampires, and educating himself in The use of microscopes. I am buying some books today I thought I would only buy books that had black and white covers. did fine until I got home  found the post office had delivered the one on colour. Oh well I was just a away to find a books I don't normally read. Not something based in some kind of phobia OCD deal. I am Dyslexic not anything else. Dyslexia is enough to enjoy. Have a good day.

So anyway this is the book what I bought yesterday. Oh and sadness is around Harry Harrison is dead. In respect to his memory, I shall read Bill the Galactic Hero then The Stainless Steel Rat. It will be a pleasure. Go and find anything he has written and remember a life. Dyslexia is just so rocking. Have a good day

I am doing well, today still reading "I am legend" I do like it I am helpless before his fallibility, his desire to live compared to his frustration at a lack of knowledge. I am finally reading a book that has the  best and appropriate use of a library, (won't tell you read the book). Oh I just would like one faithful rendition of a book into some other format. How cool a video game would "I am legend" make where you defeated vampires by being educated rather than brutal. Used a book or books to know things so you win, and played in real time. so it only went as fast as you could. Ohhh no that is real life. So back to real life off to read a book. Found a Vince Flynn I have not read in a second handbook shop that one or I am legend. Or both at the same time. Am I the only one who does that! Dyslexia is really neat, I like it, have a good day.

Still loving the internal bleakness that inhabits Robert Neville, all the things which have become cliches in Zombie tales are here. All of them done better here than any of the films. Find this story, "I am legend" by Richard Matheson. Some of the old stories are the good ones. New is not aways better or even an improvement!! So read something old today, I am also reading Winstone Churchill  "The Gathering Storm" Volume 1 of Six on the Second World War. I knew so little about this when I thought I knew so much. Then the old story written in stone. Quite literally celtic crosses from tomb slabs very different to the ones that are standing. Such fun to think about, difference and how it comes to exists. Dyslexia is a jolly fine thing, I like it very much. Have a good day enjoy.

So this Richard Matheson, my goodness, he totally captures aloneness, rather than loneliness "I am Legend" is better then either of the movies it has spawned. So go and find the book, I have read many books in my life but this is better than those books that are about, being a teenage boy and not fitting into the world. This is far more about a world that changes and leaves a man behind with no place or chance to fit. I am liking this one to. But then why waste time on books you don't like or enjoy. Life is to short for that, but not long enough to fully explore the delights of dyslexia. Have a great day, it could be your turn.

So as my night reading I an reading Malowe's Faust. That is fun enjoying that an oldie but a goodie. For fun I am also having watched "The Omega Man" with Charlton Heston,  Then Will Smith in the remake retelling whatever they call it these days, "I am Legend"  So I have tracked down a copy of Richard Matheson's original story. Like it so for a great first paragraph, will finish that one today. Then something new tomorrow. It is the original story but with the Will Smith Movie Cover.  Have a good and remember dyslexia is quite a cool way to look at the world.

This morning at breakfast I finished, "embassytown". It is a very good read. A beautiful story of love betrayal life and death, and everything in-between. I like it being a story with an uneasy beginning, I like that you have to work you way into this world. Then China Mieville rewards with warmth depth and compassion. With people you care for and about. Then he allows you to be the outsider in the page. the internal, external observer. A willing participant, but the one who is changed is not just "spanish dancer." The whole book for me builds to a set of words that are on page 393. {now you might think that to go here will make it easier or shorter, but it won't so read your way there} These are words of change and revelation of a self, that is able and desires change, then does and wow. so go and read. Dyslexics are the nicest people ever. Enjoy life and have a good day.

So "embassytown" is Good. I like it. I am getting towards the end of it. I am totally enjoy the languages  lessons in a war zone. I like the whole idea of a writer China Mieville, writing about words as culture crossing drug, without knowing it? Words that cause (no cause is not strong enough) Words which by addiction extort worship devotion from not an individual but a community. I like some of his insight into the human condition, I think China Mieville would make a fun person to drink coffee with, as it would be most delightful to wrestle with words, meaning, simile and metaphor.  These are the building blocks to understanding, most things. Enjoy your day, dyslexia is a cool.  

So I am reading "Embassytown" I am enjoying it but find it a interesting mix of ideas. KInd of fun and oddly drawing of a world I don't fully grasp but worth it. I will myself at the end of it and be satisfied. I do find the placing of Christ in this world as intriguing. Also the picture of god-drug, as fun and the power of Language. Then there is this beautiful sentence "How much more awesome was an unexpected salvation?" I like China Meiville's writing. Maybe I'll find some more. Keep enjoying Dyslexia I do. also enjoy the rest of your day' I will.

I am so enjoying "The Walking Dead" just caught myself and changed dad for dead. So I do wonder what the what a the walking dad would be a about. Still "the walking dead", has caused me to think about my very own Zombie story.  I find myself wondering about the values inside the walking dead. How does a desire to hold on to a pst that can not exist ever again, hamper and actively destroy the future you desire. The future you create.

How would you organise a society?
What would be the values you would communicate?
How would you communicate them?
What matters?
Why does it matter?
What will it look like?
Rule breakers?
Education matters!!!

These are the question if find rising in me as I watch then I get the desire to write for myself a future society that may exist under some dreadful circumstances. what would be next when you get past that moment of mere survival. It is at the moment it is called year 5. Dyslexia is so cool, enjoy your day.

So I have started "The Philosophical Breakfast Club"and now know where the first use of the word scientist was! Just so you know it was between William Whenhall and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor in  debate, a moment that would be fun to see. I am enjoying it very much, thanks to my delightful wife for a great gift. Also today the very same delight wife, found part four of "Exile on the Planet of the Apes" both covers, as I am kind of geeky that way about Marc Laming's work, he did the insides,and they are great. I have some of his original art work hanging on my walls. He is so good I pay my own money for it!!

Also found a great bearded skull design around ZZ Top. Music I like a lot. Still reading Winston Churchill's "The Gathering Storm" Volume 1 of his six volume history of World War Two, There is so much I did not know about my own country and the setting and build up to that war. I found my bargain of the day a first edition of "Sole Survivor" by Dean Koontz in an Op Shop, a charity shop for those outside Australia.  Also I have included a picture of my most read book, The Bible this one is the English Standard Version. Which I like a lot, In a few moments I will go to bed and read "Embassytown" China Meiville I am get gently sucked in to another world, which is  I think the  best way for a world to creep up on you. Where I wonder is you favourite place to read to be transported away some where else? Dyslexia is a great thing, I like it. Enjoy your day.

So finished that one next I am reading "The Philosophical Breakfast Club" by Laura J. Snyder, I'll let you know how it goes. Oh yeah read the Bible today as well not all of it just a portion. Being Dyslexic has not stopped me doing things, well maybe one thing. Nope changed  my mind then dyslexia has not stopped me doing anything just makes somethings harder or take longer. I know that now so allow for it.

So I have finished another book Finally I have "Onward" by Howard Schultz. It will a book I return to again maybe three or four hundred times. It leans into me, in way that cause me to want to lift my, not my game because it is more than that, I causes me to lift my life and it's purpose. I like coffee, I enjoy coffee, and this is about so much more what would happen if this passion drive and commitment to a community, occurred and is lived out with a sense of personal purpose. I like this book you cam see how many sticky tabs it now has!! Find it read it particularly if you lead something. Even if that the only person you lead is you. Which you do, You did know that, right!

Oh and I get a light box studio thing for taking picture in, so they should look a little better, Dyslexics rule, enjoy your day.