Joyland is good rather good

Joyland is rather good. A very fulfilling read, the talk of of an older man recalling his first break up, I have just got to the point in the story where his heart is open to the possibility of a future and love. It is unfolding in a tight grip, that to escape would do the writer Stephen King and this story and disservice. So I might just be falling in like with this one.

The other thing that is a fun is the swearing. The narrater never does but characters do, but the one who does swear you get this totally heartbreaking reveal to his pain and heartbreak. This a good book please read it. it is most enjoyable.

Echos of betrayal drags on.

Still being dyslexic is going well today, great way to be in the world.

the Land of Joy

I started Joyland by Stephen King, It is the very story telling device of "I" that I don't like at all. I am sucked right into the character and want to know the uncertainty of revealed memory over a forty year period. I am so drawn into the tale i want to know to experience, this one. So I will It has a an awesome line "In the years, since. I've discovered there's a lot to be said for boredom."

I like a quiet life it is a glorious thing.

Also my breakfast reading is Elizabeth Moon: Echoes of Betrayal, It is ok still reading hopping it will keep developing as it is got a feather stupid prince guy in a really crappy spot because of his selfishness fun to watch suffering and desire unravel.

Reading well listening to the "Ghost Brothers of Darkland County" It is delightful, and I like it a heap a whole heap.

Dyslexia is a blast I like mine, it is a most enjoyable way to see the world and live in it.

finished a fishing book

I have finished Extreme fishing by Robson Green, I liked it. When I read it I heave the words come out in a Gordie accent, He does fish and his behind the scenes stuff is so fun then heart rending the next. The ones that get away are the funniest, he is Robson is just a delight .

So on to the next one, think Shakespeare and sex next think.

Have a great day and enjoy your dyslexia

New Hobby

So anyway this new hobby could be expensive, turns out that i need a licence from the government. And then it is taxed at $71 a litre to produce, even  if it is only for me.

Also  you can only get a licence if you have some kind of experience in distilling. Government  is a little bit odd.

Dyslexia is neat, one day I'll make neat spirits,

a new hobby

I bought a book because i am thinking about a new hobby.
 Could be fun, nearly as much fun as dyslexia.

classic ink work

So from new stories to old ones. I am reading a delicious treat, Ray Bradbury has written an awesome  tales for many years and done so much with words movies and just about every format for publishing he has done. I like his work. The book I am currently reading is "The Illustrated man".

Watched the movie along time ago Rod Stiger was good in it. but what I now find fascinating is reading the prologue is it reads like Rod Stiger.  So much so I don't remember who the other people in the movie were.

But the book reads really well. if you haven't read it track down a copy, because you are worth it.

Still reading Robson Green "Extreme Fishing" he may just be an actor, but he does fish for real. also I like the way he speaks and fishes. Reading the book is a joy and he does make me smile heaps.

This dyslexia is lark is fun, how you view the world matters seeing unlike others is great and useful blessing.

One thing to be aware of sometimes dyslexics arrive at answers without explaining how they got to the answer. usually they are bright but cannot always explain how they got to the  answer.

which is quiet annoying for others to see.


have fun because you can.

some of this is poorly explained, because i jumped to and answer!!

another one finished

So Myke Cole Shadow Ops: Fortress Frontier is finished. I enjoyed it a lot. It has fun laughter delight and shooting lots of shooting.  Magic on an Industrial military scale, and monsters, goblins. Evil flesh decaying witches, and it is such fun.

buy it and enjoy it.

Myke Cole has left me wanting the next one, This one ends in a great place and wide open to expand a develop to where? Take the ride because you can.

Dyslexia is a great and great thing go and live it well.

just keep reading

Just working my way through Myke Cole. I like his work, I like the twists. The unexpected is so neatly done. They have just encountered a minor not even secondary character from the first book, just a lovely jolting moment. I like it when stories do that. Must read more gripping stories, because you can. Never set you sights so low that the tale never raises you heart rate.

I like my dyslexia how is yours?

Have a great day  because you can.

old books new finds

So I have watched just about every version of the body snatcher movies, but never read the book, so I have tracked one down it is a 1955 edition with red edge and real pulpy! Bad Karma is a great collection of stories, and I like it a lot was kickstarter project so i have a whole heap of goodies., Then "The Flower in the Desert" by John P McD Smith, given to me by his son.

It is a joy to be given stories and tales people are proud of. Looking forward to reading each of these.

I am so enjoying Robson Green and his extreme fishing book, it is a blast. If you like fishing you might like this one. He swears less than on the programme, but he still makes me laugh.

Dyslexia is my joy and burden. I like it, I enjoy it.

so have great day

one finishes and a new one begins

I have finished Stone Mouth, Iain Banks is awesome. It is well crafted, I was lured in to this returning a journey home, and to face a future. This needs to be read by more people, by you, It has a most satisfying ending. A pleasure to arrive at the end of. I think I will search out his other works again. not so much the science fiction stuff.

So I go to a meeting with people and I sit next to rather cool you bloke called Mark who is the grandson of a great anglican bloke and had a book written about him and he sent me one. I shall read it

Also into the Myke Cole as well. But now reading for the next few days going fishing!!!!

a surprise delivery

Sometimes I forget things i have ordered on the net. Living in Australia does sometimes mean that books and stuff arrive a little bit later than the rest of the world. Particularly books the lag can be quite frustrating. I go into the bookshop and ask about books and when I get told that they don't have a release date it is just frustrating. So I go online it the vast delight of abebooks or some other book selling entity. So I ordered this, I liked the first one so waited and waited, Then ordered it forgot that i had and today it arrived. I am quite excited. I like Myke Cole's work.

I have started it, Still reading Stone Mouth, still liking it a lot, it is a great breakfast book. It is building nice and I still don't know what, Stewie's offence or mistake was that forced him to leave Stone Mouth

Iain Bank's has written a good book again, I am enjoying my dyslexia today it is fun and a delight, have a great day because you can/

the picture book

I bought this because he is awesome completely utterly awesome.  Shaun Tan rocks buy this read this like it heaps.

Iain Banks just writes with a beauty that takes ones breath. my breath has been taken.

'Really. And not those sort of videos, either. Music, mostly. And I might be interested in films. Like, acting? Depends though.' She skips, unforced, just like a five-year-old. 'Photography thing could work out....' Iain Banks Stone Mouth

I am a hundred pages in liking it a lot.

Enjoy because you can, because you should.

Dyslexia is a fun I like mine.

best title ever

So I bought a book just because of the title: Death: the deluxe edition. I mean if you are going to die you wouldn't want it to be ordinary? Yes it is the work of Neil Gaiman, which is great bonus, Also read the delightful and it really is " fortunately the milk" more Neil Gaiman but with an added dose of the brilliant Chris Riddell a beautiful read and looking at book. Then my reading for preaching in January. Proverbs: The Tree of life" by Graeme Goldsworthy.

 

 have a nice dyslexic day

Stone Mouth: feel the fog

So breakfast reading is to be "Stone Mouth" by Iain Banks, his opening paragraphs do put you in the mist. A moment in the Haze. You almost feel the dampness on your face. I have liked Iain Bank's words since "The Wasp Factory", which somebody borrowed and never returned. I do struggle with the science fiction portion of his work, but I do try.

Still now I have to go to church and preach. Have a great day because you can.

As a dyslexic there are somethings which are hard, for me reading is not hard, my dyslexia affects my short term memory and sequencing. Both of which make writing hard, it does make written english feel like a third language. A place where I sometime have little confidence.

But that doesn't stop me.

Finished another book

Done with "The Ocean at the end of the Lane" It is awesome, a tightly knit story. The way and walk with memory is delightful. It is a so scary to see a size conveyed and age as apart of story done in a way that draws you into such a "normal" real other world. With such a clear grasp of sacrifice and its follow through, consequences. A life that has to be lived, and that has a value beyond caring. Neil Gaiman is good at this writing lark, don't be fooled it is not a children's tale!

Remember Dyslexia is a blast enjoy it. Have a great day because you can

a little ocean

How can I forget this? How does a person me forget that Neil Gaiman is a very good writer!!!! I am for my breakfast reading "The Ocean at the End of the lane" Ohh it is good so good, the shape and structure, of the opening of the story are so delightfully misleading. The drawing in into the normality of another spirituality or world is neatly done.

I'm liking this tale a whole heap, I like it a lot.

Now dyslexia is a fun way to see the world, It does for my kind give me a great capacity to see change in the world where I live even the smallest change shows, this can on occasions make it quite paralysing emotionally and on occasions stop the thinking in ones head.

Have a great day, because you can.

Nice Finds

So back to reading but before that some of my finds, finding books is a delight as you know. So what did i find. Well I was let into St Albans Abbey for a moments quiet it was after hours had the place to myself. It was most moving, sitting at his tomb. Alban was Britain's first martyr.  So sitting quietly by the tomb contemplating, the direction and purpose of life when the organist starts playing, some organists are good but this guy was totally awesome a master at his chosen instrument. Lost in my own head when he starts to play "If you go down to the Woods today"!!

A gentle moment was ruined, no just enjoyed it made me smile, and wanted to go to the woods.

So anyway they have rather neat second hand book stall, which is always something I do like to find.

I am rummaging through this collection of books, some of which are rather interesting. I am low on space in my luggage so I have to be picky so what do I pick. When rummaging in second hand books I always look for some authors first. I always look for Ray Bradbury and then Stephen Baxter. I does give ones rummaging a focus. Focus is Good.

So I find these and I am thrilled A Ray Bradbury I have not seen before "Bright Phoenix", the Stephen Baxter "Anti-Ice. Then a really good mate gave me a book "Mortal Engines" by Philip Reeve.  

So much reading to do for fun, so dyslexia is a blast, enjoying mine, enjoy yours.

Joe Hill

Well I've been away long plane flights are so helpful for reading big thick books so finished Joe Hill NOS4R2. Which is very fine and worth a read. Each forward movement is a delight each step backwards is frightener. I would be fair to describe an enjoyable romp through personal fear, to a place of solace.

I have moved on to a lovely little book called "The Rook" by Daniel O'Malley. It is a quite a twisty and engaging book, The lead's self discovery is such fun, to see happening.

Still dyslexic, still having such fun

Enjoy the day, because you can.

first person?

My bed time reading has been a first person book all about an "I" It was ok coping with that until turn the page and then had a second person is in the story in the first person, as well. AAAAAHHHHHH, stopped reading that one, then picked up a book at the library, last week fantastic title brilliant cover design, and a horribly done, ( I am using the done as I cannot find a way of spelling something close to {the act of putting someone to death} that the spell checker can find.) That is how dyslexic is restricted, with a dictionary (the book), you can at least flick through to find the word in fact i will do that right now, execute, ha take that dumb spell checker. So anyway the dictionary was better than the two books I put down.

In our household we carry books as a habit, do you, my daughter has a pocket dictionary in her hand bag, she has some of my dyslexia, but she writes and reads heaps she is joy to have around my life.

Then my wife rocks to note books and pens are in here life. Ours has a driving underlying core value we express everyday Our god matters to us and then having a glorious sense of whimsy and it matters in a harsh world to have way that living and being is contrary to harshness with a wilful and deliberate strength of resistance.

Well I am starting to read again, back to Joe Hill we'll no I am saving it for a plane ride of sitting in the airport.

Have great day because you can, dyslexia is a great way to see the world, find one and ask. It is worth it, but maybe it will be hard to express, but give it time.

what to read, what to read?

Well Joe Hill "Nos4R2" is not good breakfast time reading. Will have to find a better time to read that then. May have to swap it around with "The exegesis of Philip K Dick". Or something else Hmmm wonder what else I have I simply refuse to do any work reading at meal time or just before bed. I think "Orthodoxy" Gk Chesterton or James H. Cone or both think I may alternate them.

In our house we read a lot, because we like it and At meal times breakfast and lunch you can read but the evening meal is when we talk and laugh and enjoy time together. Because time together matters.

Dyslexia is a blast at least mine is, Hope you like yours It is the best way to see to view the world.

Have a great day because you can

finished reading a book today

so finished "Magician's End" liked it, my favourite bit was the very last chapter! cannot tell you of it but it was a delight to me and a fitting bookend to this long tale of life. I did like the rather tidy way that Raymond E Feist drew long dead and past characters into the narrative, I has made me want to go and find so old friends in his tales. That will have to wait as my breakfast reading is Joe Hill " NOS-4R2".

So I have been looking through my current book buying and I have to read so much in the coming days and weeks. Some in preparation for a new part-time post I am going to work in.

This is the list:

Dan Roam: The Back of the Napkin.
Nathan Shedroff  & Christohper Noessel: Make it so - Interaction Design Lessons from Science Fiction
Gavin Ambrose & Paul Harris: Basic Design: Layout
Saul Greenberg, Sheelagh Carpendale Nicolai Marquardt & Bill Buxton: Sketching User Experiences - The Workbook
Alexander Osterwalder & Yves Pigneur: Business Model Generation
Con Campbell: Outreach and the Artist

Then for fun list:
Joe Hill: anything by him but mostly NOS-4R2 and "Locke & Key" I am up to Volume 3 more seek out.
Stephen C. Meyer: Darwin's Doubt
 short but I may find rest in others that I have read before because I know the story. Old friends, that help me to understand my own place in the world and whom I desire to be like or become.  A portion of my time is spent in the Bible and I am so glad my "work" allows me to have that time to just be inside the scriptures.

Still as a dyslexic, which is a fluid thing and not a thing to be nailed down closely defined as mine gives me a space to be able to read and read well. But I am bothered by a poor short term memory. I think I am. Yes I am but that means I have developed ways of coping with this. But in all this I like my way of being in the world and how I see it.

So have a great day because you can.

new books

So went to the bookshop not many here in Adelaide, so I am getting know there, they do a rather neat thing with some books they give them away to people have a loyalty card. I have one of them so, I got "Reality Hunger: a manifesto" by David Shields, I think this will an aeroplane book something to read in the airport. Also something call the "The 5th Wave" by Rick Yancey, nice cover, no idea what the story maybe, just a risk on a freebie, kind of easy.

Then with my own money, I bought a book I always thought I had, but turned out I didn't. "magician" by Raymond E. Feist. Then the latest by Joe Hill, " NOS-4R2" Ohh yeah looking forward to this one a lot. Then I picked up the Fringe tie in book "September's Notebook" It is rather nicely presented I like this a lot, I do confess that I like a pleasantly designed book and wow this is. plus a slightly crumpled corner makes it half price.

Finally a work book or a book for work, "The Back of the Napkin" by Dan Roam,  it is a book about presenting information, in pictures. which for a dyslexic will be fun to do. Let you know how it goes.

Now have a great day, because you can.

short but sweet

For while I thought I had misplaced Locke & Key volumes 2 and 3. But I have found so now I can read them. The wait is over read the first one liked it.

Dyslexia is less affected by pictures, have a good day

Joe Hill a man of Hope

I have finished  Joe Hill "Horns" if is most likeable read. It finished Ig well tired it's self together in a most emotionally satisfying way. I find his writing is joyous and pushy. It pushed you to places that are uncomfortable, in ones own head. I also liked his attempts at theology. Flawed but a delight. I like the way he puts his words together.  He in the depths of hurt pain and self-interest engineers hope.

Oh I have also brought more of his work three volumes of Locke and Key. I think that I will gather his work and enjoy this hope filled and hope fuelled writer, Joe Hill rocks.

So as a Dyslexic, I like the world it is a great source of fun and delight,  I like that I don't think like others and that is a joy, I like being a dyslexic. Have a good day because you can.

Oh and my wife has bought me my new annual celebration book The last one was "The Philosophical Breakfast Club" which was  a great read, Now I have a book called "Darwin's Doubt" by Stephen C. Meyer. Upon opening it up to begin reading, I almost laughed out loud as Stephen C. Meyer is educated in Cambridge just like the cast of the "Breakfast Club" Is this some secret subliminal messaging from my wife? She says no but I am not so sure!!!

Enjoy life because you can.

mother to son

Well I am liking this Joe Hill "Horns" I am approaching the closing chapters of the book then there is moments lucidity of Lee's mother which completely totally delightful.

Don't read on if you haven't read the book this a reveal but not the biggie!!!!

So Lee is dragging out the death of his mother, in the midst of this she has the measure of her son

"You ought to ask for your money back. You got gypped. You're just packaging. Just a good-looking box with nothing in it" Her laughter, was harsh and broken and passing.

I like how he rights, he puts in a moment that is pause inducing. Does cause me to think what would be the measure my mother would have of me. A big desire to the son I am supposed to be.

Still loving dyslexia it is the best way to view the world. Have a great day because you can

Joe Hill is stormingly good

So Mortal oh dear is now gone and I am back into Joe Hill, lost him because I cleared the table for a great evening of eating drinking with people I like. Found him so I open it up and I find this delightful string of words "I'm not going to be the reason for your regrets" in the midst of a slow burning row, between Ig and oh you are just going to read it for yourself. It is worth it well worth it.

Dyslexia is  a total blast mine is anyway

Have a great day because you can

mortal oh dear

So Just for my own self interest I picked up a copy of Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, Some one should paddle that girls butt, as punishment and not in 50 shades way kind of deal. Am going to watch the movie because of the trailer so that worked but I think she is going to be a whinny. She is whinny in this book, won't be getting the rest. There is a thought does occur to me about all this, It is the words of Edgar Rice Boroughs, which I encountered while watching extras on the John Carter Blu-ray, he said about the people who were producing pulp fiction in his time "I want a piece of that action" Know how he feels having waded through this Mortal tosh stuff. So now to do my own writing. Anyone want the movie rights to an idea?


Dyslexia is a good and life affirming thing. I like mine. have fun because you should/

read this book

So Black Theology & Black Power is very good this needs to be read again, it needs to be placed in the hands of another generation of a readers, black and white. I does push me in place I don't like, but what is liked or disliked doesn't matter, a passionate commitment to growth despite myself,

The idea that we grow should is right, growth is not the end, community is. Being a dyslexic is a delight, I like it the way I see and interact with the world because of it.

Have a great day as someone has to.

a forgotten book

This my replacement reading for the "The Philosophical Breakfast Club" I cannot remember where or when I heard about this, I ordered it ages ago and had forgotten that it was even coming!! Oh the excitement to open the packaging and the it is in all it's red splendour. Whatever it was that held my attention, whatever it was that prompted my to search it out, I feel no lack of disappointment, for my not knowing but a growing sense of expectation as this is my bed time reading now.

Joe Hill "Horns" is my breakfast reading, still reading it still liking it, the main character Ig is more likeable at the moment, I guess it is because he is less up himself.

Oh my dyslexia is really good today. Doing me some favours and then in the next letting my know that I have become slack in paying attention. To the things that matter.

Have a good day, because someone has to

didn't bother to finish this one

For my bed time reading I picked up, a book called "Fade to Black" It was  not a good read I did ten or so pages and it saw dull, I couldn't find a way into the character, I didn't care enough, couldn't care enough, Others may like it. I didn't it is off to the second hand shop.

Even as a dyslexic I enjoy the world, I like how it makes me think, , I enjoy how I am. have a great day

the philosophical breakfast club

so I went to the movies watched a bad movie, left it early came home worked then went to bed. I have finished reading "The Philosophical Breakfast Club" by Laura J. Snyder, It is good a very good read. It is the drive to make a difference, that is the fuel for Richard Jones, William Whewell, John Herschel, and Charles Babbage, to change "science"to see greater rigour, and better observation in life and experiments. I like this read it, lots of stuff in here is thought and life provoking.

It is a joy to have read this.

I like being a dyslexic, it is a fantastic way to see the world, enjoy your day, someone has to. Just for information, for some dyslexics, written English is a second language. So this is not my best work or thinking. Just be aware that this could be a what is happening in the dyslexic's that you know.

Still read write enjoy don't be defined by what you are labelled etc., etc,

The Great Bazaar & Brayan's Gold

I finished this last night and I enjoy his work but I do find it most annoying, when an author adds a dictionary to the end of his book, when it is data that should be in a story. The putting in of a Ward Grimoire is not helpful it needs to be inside the tale itself. I like Peter V. Brett's work but he need to trust me, us, we as readers, we are paying attention.

Dyslexia is a good and great way to see the world, enjoy it, it is blast be the best you, not a cheap copy of anyone else.

I stood in line to get this sign by Raymond, and it is today it has been read twice, by me and my daughter to me long than her she read it in an hour or so while I was out get a book she had ordered. It is done Joe Hill "horns" is becoming more spiteful by th page, but I shall finish it, just because I want to know what is happening! "The Philosophical Breakfast club" is nearly done, could be finished this weekend.

Also Raymond also signed his other book "The Magician's End" Not started that yet maybe soon, but some much to read and have to go to work. I like my task in life, I cannot call it work it is just to much fun. I like being me, I like being amongst my family, They cause me to be better than I ever thought or dreamt I could be!

Dyslexia is such a blast I like mine. have a great day because it might just be your turn

Well reading "The Philosophical Breakfast Club" The are all now dead, and now reading the conclusion part of the book. For smart people some of them are quiet mean and stupid. but I have liked it. would whole heartedly recommend it.

I have begun Joe Hill "Horns" It is so far it has mean spiteful lead in Ig. But is engaging beyond him so we shall see how it goes. I am liking it.

My dyslexia is a blast. I like it, hope you have a great day, As I am so far

"Heart Shaped Box"finished reading it at breakfast this morning, a most enjoyable read. Liked it, sad it finished wanted more of the domestic life after everything! Which may say more about me than I would care to confess. Also it has been a very long time since a book other than the Bible grabbed and crushed my heart in a moment of hope. So today was a good breakfast, these were the heart crushing hope filled words, "Sometimes they would trade a kiss that tasted of cold juice and motor oil. They were his favourite kisses."

"Heart Shaped Box" if you are going to read it do track down the hard back edition it has really great end papers/

Now I am going to read "Horns" also on the recommendation of a good friend who draws graphic novels and comics and stuff Marc Laming (it is good to have people in your life whom you pay attention to and he is one of them for me) is his name look out for his work, I do,  he recommend "Locke & Key" I now have volume 2 & 3 waiting on the end of my desk, but no volume 1, ordered it but won't read these yet would ruin the beginning of the story and that would be bad.

Still I am enjoying my dyslexia it is rather use full and a delight to me. Have a great day as someone has to, It maybe your turn.

"Heart shaped box" is all about hope, then how to share it when you have none yourself. I like his work, Joe hill is growing on me. Now ro read some more about hope for the hopeless, The desire to live is vast.

So read a little live a lot, some one has to it is your turn, remember dyslexia is a jolly fine way to see the world I like mine enjoy yours

Joe Hill "Heart shaped Box", is unfolding nicely. The tension is rising but was able to put it down and go to sleep last night. Not that it is not kind of scary, it has moments where it does rest in what is familiar in anyones life.  To be taken into a life you don't have and to then have it removed from you still hurts.

So how do you, how do I have my life my real life, the one I breath in and keep it whole and healthy. When the function is of a story is to unsettle you?  Anyway, back in the book "Heart Shaped Box"  is time to think about what harms and where it rises from.

It does take an idea of where does the stuff that is harmful to me, myself where is its beginning point? I like it when an author is prepared to think about how the world might be and could be. As I work towards The end of this book I know I have another of his waiting. Hope it is as good.

This disjointed because I don't know how to joint it, just the dyslexia working.  So do enjoy your day I will mine.

Si have read this I have liked it very much. A Monster Calls, is a work of hope and joy, pain and care.

Towards the end of tale the boy, our hero talks to the monster that calls and these are the words of monster "you were merely wishing for the end of pain, the monster said, your own pain. An end to how it isolated you. it is the most human wish of all."

This book is so beautiful, and hard to read so read it. Jim Kay as the illustrator is a delight every book needs pictures this good.

dyslexia is a great way to see the world. go and see if you can.

Finished World War Z, a really great set of short stories on the same theme. Now I have moved on to the next book Joe Hill, Heart Shaped Box. It was my book of choice for breakfast reading. While on clergy conference. It is quite a captivating read. I am liking it. It has short chapters, which can help. Chapter 3 has twenty words to longer to count than read.  I had to count it twice to to make sure. That might just be my inability to sequence showing. Dyslexia is a tremendous thing in my life. I like it have a good day someone has to.

The hardest part about a zombie story is how do you draw a reader into a place of fear and still cause the reader to want to continue. World War Z does all that very well and quite enjoyably. This morning nearly at the end when I arrived at the most gripping evocative words, the drag an idea to fruition, in me at least. here they are "complete tactile blackout" the idea in its context total terror, all consuming. I didn't like it they are not comfortable suburban breakfast words.

I am dyslexic and enjoying life and the world shown to me. hope you enjoy yours. have a great day, because someone has to.

I am so lost in what I am reading at the moment: World War Z, The Philosophical Breakfast Club, A Monster Calls, The Bible.

These books are pumping ideas in to my thinking. In World War Z the are these "RKR". It is something that Robert Macnamara first brought to my attention with the Vietnam War or American War, depending where you live. "RKR" is resource to kill ratio,  what do you get for what you spend.

The Philosophical Breakfast Club, is just so good, in asking what will you leave behind, not just as a legacy but in you friendships. Some of them don't play well with others.

A Monster Calls is such a tale of heartbreak so far anyway, not convinced it will have a uplifting ending but I will finish it. The effort so far is worth it, I do like the illustrations, more books should have them. The striking black and white are a delight, the monster is a ferocious, repelling, compelling thing. that you may wish to actually pass time with.

A grand thing about my dyslexia, good spacial awareness, the shape and  fit of things is quite intuitive and usually right. I like my dyslexia a whole heap. If you don't have it find a dyslexic and see if it rubs off. Have a great day because someone has to.

Do you ever wonder why you laugh at what you do? What is it that makes you laugh? Do you laugh with or at people? Is it based on other people's pain (there is a German word for that but you can google that for yourself, as a dyslexic does find german words slightly more difficult than English)?

But anyway this is wondering about humour is coming out of Viktor E. Frankl's book "Man's search for Meaning"

"The attempt to develop a sense of humour and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of trick learned while mastering the art of living. Yet it is possible to practise the art of living even in a concentration camp."

The way to find life, and live it. It is not easy, but it can be done. Nothing I live through is as harsh as Viktor's life. The art of living has to be found where ever you live.

Still being a dyslexic and seeing the world that way is such a blast i recommend being a friend to one.

Well I am still in "Man's Search for Meaning", it is a most unsettling book. The width, the depth, the height, of what human beings will do to another human being is completely frightening. Do not forget that this not the purpose of Viktor E Frankl writing this book. The way he lays out the internal life as the means of being somewhere else, is completely thrilling. The question becomes what do you do to build an internal life, that would become all that sustains you when even food is not enough to live on. When terror is at a whim, death is to relieve a man's boredom, or guilt.

I like his work.

Dyslexia is a truly  neat way to see the world. have a great day, because you can.

The way a book looks matters, I saw it on the shelf liked the title and the cover art. The texture of the cover was just beautiful. The silver embossed title, "A Monster Calls" " A novel by Patrick Ness from an original idea by Siobhan Dowd.  That was the most intriguing set of cover words I had read in a long time so I bought it.

The internal illustrations are delightful, they have a raw, crude, truthful quality. I hold great hope for a story that does the same.

Today I shall enjoy being dyslexic because it is a blast. have a good day because you can

I am reading "Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor E. Frankl. It is a book that needs to be read slowly. With deliberate intent. I also while browsing through TED, there was moment of him talking which was just neat, watched it twice. I have his voice in my head now. It is harrowing for all the right reasons. Find it read it, like it pass it on.

There is a brief time about when people give up and what that looks like. I found myself, wondering what that would like today. In the concentration camp, when someone smoked there own cigarettes, they have given up and they are not trading anymore. What is that we keep to ourselves that we used to share or pass on.

Never forget dyslexia is a grand thing I like mine. Have a good day, because someone has to.

So I like this book, I like it a lot. Saw the trailer, bought the book, watched the movie. I know there is always the difference between formats. One is not better than the other they are just different ways and means of telling a story.

The movie is a totally delightful love story which involves the recovery of what is truly believed to be unrecoverable. As a priest and christian I see so much in it. That makes me smile with glee and not the musical.

The book as a format allows for deeper questions to be raised. Mostly because you can be in the head and emotions of a character (I hate spelling that word it takes at least three goes even with a spell checker) I away a voiceover never can.

There is moment in a bar in the book where on flat screen tv's are play incomplete loops of sports. A delightful time, when the zombie wonder about who is alive and who is dead and what the thinest of differences are between these states. I like this book read it enjoy it. I makes for great dreams, I read this before sleeping.

Remember dyslexia is a really really marvellous thing. A fantastic way to see the world and live in it.

Enjoy have a seriously good day, as it is your turn.

So reading "warm bodies" Isaac Marion's book. It is far less bleak that I thought humour, pathos moments of delight mixed in with the living dead. The bleakness kicked in with this terrible thought.

"...If everyone's too busy building things and shooting things to bother feeding their souls, screw them. Just write it on a notepad and give it to me. I'll read it."
 "A whole book for just one person," Nora says, looking at me. Could that ever be with it?"

Completely and utterly yes yes yes every time.

I like this book a lot will enjoy the movie to.

It is possible that being dyslexic, is a rather good thing. have a great day someone has to.

So it has been a little while been in some books, well still in "the philosophical breakfast club" it still pushes me, I ran into these words as one friend writes to another "Who the deuce ever did anything worth naming without a sacrifice of some kind or other?"

Then the book I am reading at breakfast and dinner, in our house we read heaps the only meal no reading is allowed at is the evening meal (oh we don't read at meals when we have visitors as that would be rude).  So anyway I am reading "Warm Bodies" I think it is a as important a parable of our times as the first living dead movies, were to their time. I like this book heaps.

I am also picking up on old one of my book shelves "What consumers really want: Authenticity" by James H. Gilmore & B. Joseph Pine II.

I'll let you know how that goes.

Being a dyslexic does mean that you are hyper aware of the world around as it changes all the time, and each change means a new map in a persons head, so just be aware, when a dyslexics complains about something new. You are rewiring their/our head each time.

I still think it dyslexia is best way to see the world. Have a good day, because someone has to.

I am reading "The Philosophical Breakfast Club" it is a most enjoyable book, It is a delight. I just know so little about so of the things I should know about. These four guys are just such a set of revolutionaries, who determined to change the time, the country, the community they existed in. To work towards this required a level of commitment to each other, then to a wider set of ideals or dreams that the world can be different.

In reading it in bed last night,  I was struck by the staggeringly huge idea, that when these guys got married they to tours around the new and rising ways of industry, visiting factories across England. Then it became fashionable to do this and see what the future might look like. The honeymoon were factory visits. How wild is that, to look beyond the immediate future you would desire in and with a partner, to see how you would fit in a bigger space. That is beyond a set sexual encounters.

That would be a very different way to see the world. An almost dyslexia way to see the world. It does make me desire a better deeper set of education.

Have a great day, because someone has to.

So I slipped into Adelaide comic con thing, and had a lovely time with all the people there. They were lovely. I am so delighted to meet and talk to people who are illustrators and story tellers that is my heart warming sing bit. I meet Greg Holfeld I like his work, I you have not seen his work you need to find Captain Congo and his various adventures. He signed a copy of Captain Congo and the Crocodile King.

I also picked up a copy of a little title of "The Lesser Evil" by Shane W. Smith he signed that to. Finally one of my favourite people sign his book for me , when I have read it I will tell how it is. I has been a grand weekend. I will look forward to the next weekend. I may just go to another comic con thing. I like people, people are so cool. Now as a dyslexic, I am happy and content, the world is a lovely delightful place and I like how I see it. I hope you do to, if not change what you can, then grow cause growing is best.

So having read about a fictional rediscovery of hope, in the book "Wool". I was in a bookshop wondering what I would by as my one book this month, when I passed through the "sci-fi/fantasy" section, and into the "classics"  there not finding anything that held my attention, I was walking out through the self-development department, when nestling in this section, was book others had written about, and I had half heartedly looked out for then it was there a tiny little paper back book.

It feels quite strange to have a book of this magnitude in a paperback book, I feels heavier in the hand than it should, as if ideas and life add mass to mere paper.  so anyway this book is Viktor E. Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning"

Do read it

Also I am reading Karen Lord's "Redemption in Indigo" It is quite enjoyable to be in a world where names don't trip of the tongue, and food is a glorious weapon.

Live the life you have not the one you don't. Build a future you want to be in rather than some kind of dull media fed fantasy thing. Dyslexia is a grand a great way to see the world don't waste the gift or gifts you have be the friend you want to have. Have a great day, as someone has to.

I have read "Wool", I have liked "Wool", I would recommend it as a way looking at a small world that wishes to be bigger greater than it was and dreams of what might be, if a life is lived with in and through truth, with a determination to see what freedom may make someone.

Then that maybe come a reason to breathe, to live, there will be a sacrifice somewhere, so be prepared for it. There is always a cost, someone always pays. Are you ready?

So the way you view the world matters a whole heap, If we don't take time pause you will miss the world. so stop right now!

Dyslexia is a cool way to view the world if you don't have it find a dyslexic and learn. Enjoy today as it is a blast of a day

I am liking Wool, it is like the time a I watched a movie that could have been. dull. As I watched it I found my self watching the titles and hoping someone dies and if someone does, I'll stop and watch the rest. the lead actor promptly hangs himself. I must confess to enjoying the moment of mental power!

Still "Wool" just got better, with a non-ritual death, in a new job and not quite sure of place, power and intrigue. It is unfolding in a most pleasant fashion. The keeping of a mental silo geography is most helpful, to knowing the shape of the story, and power players by the rise and fall of them. Still never forget dyslexia is a good thing, don't let others shape the world for you. It is your life, see it as you need to fit into as is best and follow where God leads. There is nothing better. then being yourself, every single day, Enjoy this day as it the one you have.


Oh that movie was Jesus of Montreal, watched it at Greenbelt

So I reading my way through "Wool" as the lead characters descend through the silo into the depths, you can feel the calm rise in them as you walk down into the deep unknown.

I am enjoying the opening chapters and looking to seeing these elderly people build a future, that might be based in hope and truth, or it might not!!!

Also my not buying books didn't work to well. I have brought "The Accidental Creative" Todd Henry "Comprehending Mission" by Stanley H. Skreslet and "The War of the Worlds" by H.G. Wells illustrated by Edward Corey. They are most lovely illustrations, I think more books should have illustrations these ones do add a great sense of menace and doom

Dyslexia is a rather marvellous way to be in the world, I like mine enjoy yours, be living well it is worth it every time.

Oh today is a sad day, I blinding flash of disappointment. A single moment of inattention, produces a missed opportunity. That I really wanted to hear Karen Lord talk about her writing. I thought it was this coming Sunday. But it was last Sunday. So I will have to go and get a copy of her books "Redemption in Indigo" and her new one forget the title but it was in SFX recently which is why I thought I might like to hear her. Missed it missed it, oh well the delivery man has just delivered, Yeah a new book Quiet by Susan Cain. Recommended by a smart bloke i know. So picked it up. So dyslexia is a blast I enjoy mine, hope you enjoy your world and life

Wool is what I have begun now, it is by Hugh Howey. I like a book that has moments of small intrigue, it opens with a man who wants to die. Sitting in his cell which has a massive floor to ceiling screen showing him the outside world. In all its bleakness and all he can do is wonder about the dead pixels in the screen. who will have the skills to fix it, if not then will it one day be mostly dead pixels and will it matter. So I am enjoying this book,

Being dyslexic is a rather nice way to be. I like this very much my dyslexia allows me to read, writing is harder and takes a lot more energy to do. It is made easier by being able to use a computer, It means I don't have to rewrite everything out to remove the mistakes I could not see and usually make new ones as I rewrite. Si how ever it is make sure you live well and enjoy the world as much as you can have a great day.

"Zero History" is done and finished, I liked it very much. To rejoin some characters and to see some from a completely previous story returning changed grown and stating as really fully existing in their worlds.  which do feel similar to ours. Ordinary lives but shot as with the camera I own that has various settings such as PopArt or Dramatic, William Gibson writes easily with these settings and it feels normal. I think i don't want to live might take a holiday. Dyslexia is a blast I like mine enjoy yours.

Now I shall read and finish "The Philosophical Breakfast Club" live a life you like this day

So I have calmed down now, I do hope you read Peter V Brett "The Day Light War" So now I wait for  the next book, and without ruining the ending of the book A dictionary is not an ending to a book!!!! Come on learn how to finish a story, don't remember who said it but it goes like this "leave them wanting more" I am so close to not wanting more and I liked this, very much I liked these three books. Dyslexia is a grand thing, I enjoy mine hope you enjoy yours. Now back to Zero History  have a good day

So Peter V. Brett the daylight war, I have now read 693 page not finished yet but will be soon. still enjoying it. Do wonder why fictional politics has less impact that reading real politics. Being Dyslexic is a jolly fine thing.

I have brought the new Peter V Brett. I am reading it it is good so far.

I like when my sleeping dreams collide with my awake life. Last nights will a part of what I am currently writing. Children, zombies building a better world a better life beyond survival. Still that will come one out time.

I am back into William Gibson, "Zero History", It is full of characters from "Spook Country" It is quite pleasant to meet some old friends, I do find it nice to see what happens next, looking forward to this one.

I like the way Mr. Gibson draws me into a world so easily. Makes or enables me to care about people so very unlike me, in every way. If I ever meet him I'd thank him so much. I like his use of words I have to look up in dictionary. I like it when I learn new words. Dyslexia is a very grand thing, a good way to see the world. Have a good day, because someone has to. Go read book, sit on the beach, walk outside whatever the weather, join a Chinese new year party, teach someone else how start blog. enjoy this moment

So reading away and writing too. "The Philosophical Breakfast Club" I find it totally fascinating, I am wondering at the purpose and reason for education and training. I fully roundedness of these guys and their determination to work to change the world and science in particular, to make it better, to add a great degree of precision, to how the world is measured and observed, I is my own self interest to have as wide a set of interests as possible, to just be learning. always learning. So my dyslexia will become a tool to use, a way of looking at world that is rather neat. enjoy your day.

I haven't been able to read H.P. Lovecraft as my daughter won't give it back, sometimes you have to wait to take your turn, I am learning to wait.

Well it is February and my book buying fast is over, and I ma slowly easing my way back in. I have bought and read Vince Fynn's The Last Man, I have always enjoyed his writing. I might consider him a guilty pleasure, but I have way to much respect for Mitch to have any guilty. Then working my way into The Philosophical Breakfast Club, I find myself caught by a small idea or ideas. I would seem that I need a wider set of reading and experience, I need to be pushed  or drawn into, deeper set of ideas or rationales for being or doing what I do. Well that is some of my reading, buying now I have beautiful hard back edition of H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction, Wool by Hugh Howey: The Skinner by Neal Asher: I got that for a whole Dollar. To paraphrase the great thinker and swimmer Dory "Just keep swimming; Just keep swimming" Remember dyslexia is a rather fun way to see the world.

I do like "The Exegesis of Philip K Dick" very enjoyable book I have been enraptured by his letter to Claudia Bush July 5 1974. The wonderful way the universe, "Logos" leads him through a series of dreams to a dull book is a blast. Wonder if it is worth tracking down a copy of that dull book?  There is much to like a Mr. Dick's writing it is well worth exploring. Please don't be fooled by the films from his work they miss the depths, nuances, and lose some of the total glorious second level characters, Buster Friendly from "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" Deckard's own sheep, you know he had a sheep right? See you need to find the actual book. Please don't use "Total Recall" either version as guide. Do enjoy them as separate things in themselves, if you can.  Dyslexia rules, I like mine how is yours? Enjoy today it is a good one

I have finished with Existence by David Brin, I liked Tor Pavlov. The cover was the best bit. I gave up on it, am done with it Thanks now on to the next one. "The Exegesis of Philp K. Dick" Oh I am looking forward to this one. Dyslexia is my fun how is yours.

there is an idea that i have read about, in regard to film about how late you can arrive in scene, and how early can you leave. I do wonder, why it is that the best bits of a book are at the end. I have manfully struggled my way through "Existence" by David Brin. The first four hundred pages are hard work, but the growth. In one particular character was lovely to see, she was Tor Pavlov, I have come to like her. Her diminishing physical humanity, draws a greater degree of life from and into her. The distinction between her and the ai life was fun to watch. So I have a few more pages to go. At page 473 the narrative structure made sense. To watch two characters not speak to each other across chapter breaks when one of them only hopes the other, is there. While the other, hopes not to be found. well so far anyway. Oh this had better have a great pay off and not be part of one of those where it becomes a trilogy.

I am a dyslexic, there is a thrill in not seeing the world like other people. There is a greater joy in thinking differently to others as well, have a great day because someone has to.

So twelve day in and not brought a book not even online, oh i feel good about myself. I also stopped buying gum as well. So reading about Isaiah the bible book liked that , not settled in my head yet but it will eventually. also spook country goes on like that. Terry Prachet his collected short stories is a delight I think when he writes about what he has written is the best bit and AS Byete introduction is a revelation most enjoyable discover why some people read particular things, put a script into a place the other day and now the wait begins, must put my socks on now a go to a wedding. Dyslexia means that written English is my second language. Being a dyslexic is rather nice.

So I have not bought a book so I am reading them instead, So I am reading William Gibson "Spook Country" and at the same time (not literally at the same time), David Brin "Existence" when I run across the same idea sure they are expressed slightly differently, the idea is this an electronically enhanced, augmented, annotated world. In the William Gibson world it is used to place art into the world that can only experienced with the right "glasses" A limited interaction is possible.

Then in David Brin's world it is the predominate way of living in the world, it seems to be quite disturbing, and oddly a way that is mostly used by the poorer strata of society, at this point it would seem to the easiest way to stop people rising up intellectually or as seen in the middle ages that feudal societal structure. The easiest way to stop the revolutionary give them something to watch that feels like you could participate.

Then the wealthy and these are extremely stupidly frighteningly rich, are the least well rather less obviously augmented, I do find I am liking William Gibson world at the moment over David Brin's but I will work through them both. Still I like my dyslexia what are you doing with yours. Have a great day.

So I am on a book buying fast.  I am going to catch up on what I have bought, so later in the year I will, have no backlog of reading, these next few weeks are going to be a delight to be in. So finishing Spook Country then finishing existence, then on to the next will finish Churchill on the second world war this year, reading is a joy do it more and more. Dyslexia is a jot to me keep working at being a better one. If you have not read "the gift of dyslexia". Please do it will help you understand your dyslexic if you live with one or have it yourself. have a great rest of the day. have a good one.

It is the turn of the year 2012 into 2013, and my own personal tradition is to go to bed early, well i did that after sharing a cup of rather pleasant whiskey with my good friend Shaun McGrath, then riding the Springer home, from the clubhouse. As I lay in bed listing to the fire works, I was finishing chapter four of William Gibson's Spook Country. The close of the year with the fading light of the fire while i put the book down, so I can sleep "And felt the luminous instant pass, as it always must." I likes William Gibson, nearly as much as being a dyslexic. Have a happy new year.