another one done

Finished "The Fall" the will to live in a vast and unspiralling world. Is so good. The subverted nature of motherhood is rather good too. The way that the poor rise and the rich fail and fall. is good to. so  just maybe I like the work of Chuck Hogan and Guillermo del Toro. O

Oh bought a book "The Explorer" because the cover is such a shade of black and a pleasure to hold. a hard velvet book.

So enjoy your day and have fun because being dyslexic is greta.

finished that one

Finished " The Strain" it is a total delight gripping in all the right places, while giving freedom to me as read to imagine the worst.  Which I did, many times. So now to order the next one,  "The Fall" because I want to know what happens next. While I wait for that one to arrive, I am reading "Childhoods End" by Arthur C Clarke, I have read heaps of books but this is the first one by Arthur C Clarke. Mostly avoid his work, but this is most enjoyable, If you enjoyed that little movie of alien  arrival "Independence Day" this is like that but with fun.

So Now to dyslexia, It is the best ever I find that it is a truly liberating way to view the world.

Won't be long now.....

The Strain keeps being gripping, in ways that  don'r always lead to comfortable dreams, but they are only dreams, so who is worry about that. But Oh it is good, very good. Knowing that there are three volumes does mean that this one might not end well!! But knowing how these guys work, i guess that there may never be a happy ending.

Then I bought a delightful little story hidden in my local comic shop, Adelaide comic shop such an easy thing to remember. and rather nice people do look them up. So anyway the story is "Breath of Bones: a tale of the Golem" by Steve Niles, Dave Wachter, Matt Santoro. If there was ever going to be a Golem I hope it is this one.

This is one I bought because it had a seriously cool title "The Origin of the Feces" David Waltner-Toews,  Then you can never be to aware of the culture you live in, the history that got a people to a particular place and time. So I picked up "Aboriginal Convicts" by Kristyn Harman.

The book about being dyslexic is now out and about in college helping people understand their children.

So if you are dyslexic it is just about the coolest way to see the world, ever. so enjoy the day just because you can.

been buying books

A text book for a course I am just about to start " You Are My People:" Louis Stulman and Hyun Chul Paul Kim. It has a really neat feeling cover but i bought it online so had to discover that later. But it is a great bonus.

Then hit a couple of theological book sales and bought heaps of them particularly around mission stuff. so won't bother to list them. But oh I am so enjoying "The Strain" it is a massive delight, the characters are neatly and cleverly revealed rather then fully formed, and the incidental people that populate stories, are so helpful to my personal tension as I attempt to find sleep.

Just about given up on "Mollusc" so bored by it.

Also a great friend showed me a book that will be helpful thinking about mission and development of ministry "A ministry shaped by mission" Paul Avis.

Have a great day, because you can. Dyslexia is is a fine fine thing enjoying this view of the world. Hope yours is fun to

short stack

So this a quick et of picture of my current desk reading "I wonder what it's like to be dyslexic" is a great way to discover what being a dyslexic is really like a most useful book indeed. Sam Barclay is it's maker.

Then the next is a gift for my office manager, I have always enjoyed Jim Collins work and this is a cheap grab in bookshop so sharing the knowledge and asking more of people,

"Meme Wars: The creative destruction of neoclassical economics"  Kalle Lasn and adjusters because sometimes you should read things you know very little about, and economics is one of those places for me, Don't know if it is good or bad just beginning it, Wouldn't even know if it is a good place to begin but you have to begin somewhere. and this is my place to begin.

Then top of the pile is a comic "Kings Watch" Don't know Jeff Parker, but Marc Laming is a dear and great friend, I support my friends but only buy there work if I like it a lot. I even have original pages hanging in my house, he makes people live on paper. Keep and eye out for his work it is worth seeing.  Oh great comics need two things great art and this comes out of great story and Jeff Parker does this well indeed, they are a great combination.

Enjoy your dyslexia because you can.

Still reading "The Strain" before bed, liking it a lot. This may be a step to far for some people but my toilet book is "Emperor Mollusc and the something or other?" by some bloke, by which you can gauge my level of interest, in it but it does pass the time!!

have a great day because you can      

bed time reading

I have begun "The Strain" it's opening pages chapters is a delight a pleasant sense of mystery. I could guess but i will not i wan't to revel in the moments as they happen. Neat levels of tension, just the right amount to set me of to sleep.

Also I am the only one who forgets how good a reading was after a number of years then you pick it up and the time between just vanishes, an old friend reveals heart felt moments. It is so like that when the post man dropped off  a package to day. in it was a copy of Stephen King "Cycle of the Werewolf". It also contains the art of Bernie Wrightson. The black and white illustrations for each month are utterly stunning. I so like both of there work to have both in a book is a fun thing.

The dyslexia is looking good today, fun to have and live with .

have great day because you can  

back to the blog

Sorry to have kept you waiting, but I have been reading and writing and thinking and enjoying the twisted view of the word that being dyslexia gives you. So I have fallen in love with Ray Bradbury particularly "Fahrenheit 451" It is such a delightful and scathing book. It holds a clear mirror to the values that are being displayed in our current culture. Th sway he thought and saw a elopement in "tech" ear buds for communication, immersive home television, coupled with losing of books. then to link that a shallowness in think linked into emotion. I think would make this a essential read today.

Also read the " Metallica" Biography volume 1. A seriously committed bunch of blokes to what they do, a fun little read about passion and desire.

"Guide to Urban Moonshine" is so cool must do it sometime, but not soon!

Chuck Hogan & Guillermo Del Toro "The Strain"  is resting beside the bed and will be my next bedtime reading.

And five commentaries of Proverbs as It was the church study through January.

 Have great day because you can. If you don't have dyslexia it is a cool way to see the world.