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.

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.

I have finished William Gibson's "Distrust that Particular Flavour," I do like to read about writers talking about writing, I particularly enjoyed his end comments after each article. The insight as to the development of character and story and the real life right now inspiration of a future. Having recently read his, "Pattern Recognition" I did find myself thing about a single sentence in that book, of which I really like the back half!! What the words do in my I like( if you want to read it all it is page 66 about half way down the page) "...lateral thinking imp of the perverse, thirty something boy genius, seeker after truth (or at least functionality) in the markets of this young century" The reason I read was reading "Pattern Recognition"   is my dad left it behind as it took up to much space in his luggage to take back to England, so he left it behind, I read it, liked it. So next is China Mieville "Embassytown. Also "stick stones mud homes: Natural Living" Nigel Noyes, I find myself wonder what kind of mark, home, house, I wish to leave or have on the world. Mostly what will I do to have for my daughter to have beyond my life. On that happy, thought. enjoy your day. Dyslexia I find is so cool.

William Gibson: Real Ideas

So anyway I pick William Gibson "Distrust that particular flavour". China a can wait. So I am reading William and it is just, awesome. I like how he uses words to make a world happen in my head. He is describing a real world with real ideas.  I like that he explains things from other cultures and still keeps the mystery, mostly causing a desire too see it for my self.   " This is the closing sentence of an article he wrote for the in house magazine of Tate's(Whatever, whoever that is). Here it is then: "Just as life, lived silently enough, in sufficient solitude, becomes a different sort of sphere, no less perfect." I just want to read and know more because of his words. Man when I get to China he has something to live up to! I know he will up to it. Enjoy you day.

Just to let you know I have finished Dan Simmons flashback, well worth a read I think. It does suck you into it's world, and people and you do end up caring and hoping. Now on to the next one either "embassytown" or on with "distrust that particular flavor" have started both but wonder which I will finish. Oh and those pieces of paper under the books are the beginnings of some thought for another story. Dyslexics should write stories, don't worry about the spelling punctuation first bring the story to life then it can grow from there.  Enjoy your day.