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.