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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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 I have put another book down. I put it down because it hasn't worked for me. It was going great right up to the nazi psychic had to walk through London. There was no sense of menace or arrogance or impending doom as he draws near to the hero's family and life and I don't need dull in my life. so I have put "Bitterseeds" down. I went back to reading "Make it so" The book on sci-fi interfaces. Which is completely and utterly captivating. I am enjoying my dyslexia at the moment. Have fun.

Visited a mate in hospital yesterday, stopped in a bookshop (Dymocks) picked a couple of books for him, 1001 battles that changed the course of history and volume one of Winston Churchill's world war two account. For myself a long time ago I read Bob Woodward's account of the life and death of John Belushi. Total enjoyed that, so having had that experience I picked up what I guess is his new one The Price of Politics, I take an interest in this stuff because of an old and dear friend who taught me this stuff matters thank Des. I am Dyslexic and very good at it. What are you good at? Have a  good day someone has two.

so I am up it is before 7-00 am and the sunshines brightly through the window, it is the long weekend a bank holiday, a time of great rejoicing will occur in my household, we will dance and sing just because we can. We will in the end rest and read a book and writing and creativity will happen. Today is a good day to be a dyslexic. I like being a dyslexic. So back to writing about trolls and fairy creatures, freedom and liberation and the cost of getting to that freedom. Enjoy today because you can.

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.

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.

Reading is a delightful thing to do, I do it every day, so should you.  Reading is grand there is something that we should all do from time to time and that is this. Read out loud, it makes you read what is there rather than just guessing what might be there. Read it aloud for your own benefit. It is more fun to read out loud for another's benefit.   The hardest part of reading aloud is when you read graphic novels or when someone has done it in dialect, To read out loud in dialect I would recommend just about any story by Brian Jacques his Redwall www.redwall.org/ tales are just great stuff, you may need to find an English person first of all to get the accent right as some are quite regional, my wife does the best accents ever! So today treat yourself, read something you have never read out loud before out loud. Reading can be hard for some dyslexics but do it anyway, even it takes more time, it is worth it.  Enjoy have great day.

Right then to writing, was the plan. So what a plan doesn't work out just stop pause and wonder why was that? The hardest things the stopping. You don't have to carry on. It is ok to stop. Sometimes the best thing is to stop. There is a time when you need to stop. The space where you think and work is cluttered! You find yourself think about the stuff on your desk and not the stuff in your head our life. It is the stuff of life that matters, you and I are meant to live. So go take walk, speak to a friend, wake someone up, this cane fun is the time difference is great!!!! I live in Australia it can happen, sorry if it does but it can happen coming the other way too. So love and forgiveness can be shared out. Oh yeah read a book, find a new one an old one there are moments where the words of another will lift your mind, heart, self to a newer hopefully better place. sometime just another place will do. My next place will be the table for a delicious bowl of carrot and corriader soup using orange and purple carrots. I will enjoy, you enjoy the rest of your day. The sunset is at the beach where I prefer to walk with my wife and daughter at the end of the day we laugh, talk, and splash in the ocean.

Some authors I have been reading for many years, I have ones whose books I just keep an eye out for. This one is in my top half a dozen and brings a thrill to my heart when I find one of his books I find them in the oddest places, once found a copy go The Zap Gun in an English Pub in Eastbourne, In East Sussex, I bought a pint and a book. Still on my shelf.

If you don't know The Zap Gun dig it out from somewhere, enjoy. The author is Philip K Dick. Yes oh you go the blade runner guy. Yes but So much more than that. If you know anything about him then you would need to read, The Exegesis of Philip K Dick. I have begun it. Seek it out enjoy. as I am doing right after I finish this post.

As a dyslexic, somethings are difficult Math is difficult. Well I have an emotional response to Math, mostly it is based in animosity, dislike bordering on rage, I find Math difficult, yes I don't like it. I have not passed on my dislike to my daughter. I have revealed and delighted in her perseverance and skill. Out off this and our joint enjoyment of the television show "Numbers"while watching it a book got a mention, I wondered if it was real and guess what it is.  So I bought a copy. Now to read it