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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.