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.

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.

Joyland is good rather good

Joyland is rather good. A very fulfilling read, the talk of of an older man recalling his first break up, I have just got to the point in the story where his heart is open to the possibility of a future and love. It is unfolding in a tight grip, that to escape would do the writer Stephen King and this story and disservice. So I might just be falling in like with this one.

The other thing that is a fun is the swearing. The narrater never does but characters do, but the one who does swear you get this totally heartbreaking reveal to his pain and heartbreak. This a good book please read it. it is most enjoyable.

Echos of betrayal drags on.

Still being dyslexic is going well today, great way to be in the world.

the Land of Joy

I started Joyland by Stephen King, It is the very story telling device of "I" that I don't like at all. I am sucked right into the character and want to know the uncertainty of revealed memory over a forty year period. I am so drawn into the tale i want to know to experience, this one. So I will It has a an awesome line "In the years, since. I've discovered there's a lot to be said for boredom."

I like a quiet life it is a glorious thing.

Also my breakfast reading is Elizabeth Moon: Echoes of Betrayal, It is ok still reading hopping it will keep developing as it is got a feather stupid prince guy in a really crappy spot because of his selfishness fun to watch suffering and desire unravel.

Reading well listening to the "Ghost Brothers of Darkland County" It is delightful, and I like it a heap a whole heap.

Dyslexia is a blast I like mine, it is a most enjoyable way to see the world and live in it.

a new hobby

I bought a book because i am thinking about a new hobby.
 Could be fun, nearly as much fun as dyslexia.

classic ink work

So from new stories to old ones. I am reading a delicious treat, Ray Bradbury has written an awesome  tales for many years and done so much with words movies and just about every format for publishing he has done. I like his work. The book I am currently reading is "The Illustrated man".

Watched the movie along time ago Rod Stiger was good in it. but what I now find fascinating is reading the prologue is it reads like Rod Stiger.  So much so I don't remember who the other people in the movie were.

But the book reads really well. if you haven't read it track down a copy, because you are worth it.

Still reading Robson Green "Extreme Fishing" he may just be an actor, but he does fish for real. also I like the way he speaks and fishes. Reading the book is a joy and he does make me smile heaps.

This dyslexia is lark is fun, how you view the world matters seeing unlike others is great and useful blessing.

One thing to be aware of sometimes dyslexics arrive at answers without explaining how they got to the answer. usually they are bright but cannot always explain how they got to the  answer.

which is quiet annoying for others to see.


have fun because you can.

some of this is poorly explained, because i jumped to and answer!!

the picture book

I bought this because he is awesome completely utterly awesome.  Shaun Tan rocks buy this read this like it heaps.

Iain Banks just writes with a beauty that takes ones breath. my breath has been taken.

'Really. And not those sort of videos, either. Music, mostly. And I might be interested in films. Like, acting? Depends though.' She skips, unforced, just like a five-year-old. 'Photography thing could work out....' Iain Banks Stone Mouth

I am a hundred pages in liking it a lot.

Enjoy because you can, because you should.

Dyslexia is a fun I like mine.

Stone Mouth: feel the fog

So breakfast reading is to be "Stone Mouth" by Iain Banks, his opening paragraphs do put you in the mist. A moment in the Haze. You almost feel the dampness on your face. I have liked Iain Bank's words since "The Wasp Factory", which somebody borrowed and never returned. I do struggle with the science fiction portion of his work, but I do try.

Still now I have to go to church and preach. Have a great day because you can.

As a dyslexic there are somethings which are hard, for me reading is not hard, my dyslexia affects my short term memory and sequencing. Both of which make writing hard, it does make written english feel like a third language. A place where I sometime have little confidence.

But that doesn't stop me.

Nice Finds

So back to reading but before that some of my finds, finding books is a delight as you know. So what did i find. Well I was let into St Albans Abbey for a moments quiet it was after hours had the place to myself. It was most moving, sitting at his tomb. Alban was Britain's first martyr.  So sitting quietly by the tomb contemplating, the direction and purpose of life when the organist starts playing, some organists are good but this guy was totally awesome a master at his chosen instrument. Lost in my own head when he starts to play "If you go down to the Woods today"!!

A gentle moment was ruined, no just enjoyed it made me smile, and wanted to go to the woods.

So anyway they have rather neat second hand book stall, which is always something I do like to find.

I am rummaging through this collection of books, some of which are rather interesting. I am low on space in my luggage so I have to be picky so what do I pick. When rummaging in second hand books I always look for some authors first. I always look for Ray Bradbury and then Stephen Baxter. I does give ones rummaging a focus. Focus is Good.

So I find these and I am thrilled A Ray Bradbury I have not seen before "Bright Phoenix", the Stephen Baxter "Anti-Ice. Then a really good mate gave me a book "Mortal Engines" by Philip Reeve.  

So much reading to do for fun, so dyslexia is a blast, enjoying mine, enjoy yours.

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

mortal oh dear

So Just for my own self interest I picked up a copy of Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, Some one should paddle that girls butt, as punishment and not in 50 shades way kind of deal. Am going to watch the movie because of the trailer so that worked but I think she is going to be a whinny. She is whinny in this book, won't be getting the rest. There is a thought does occur to me about all this, It is the words of Edgar Rice Boroughs, which I encountered while watching extras on the John Carter Blu-ray, he said about the people who were producing pulp fiction in his time "I want a piece of that action" Know how he feels having waded through this Mortal tosh stuff. So now to do my own writing. Anyone want the movie rights to an idea?


Dyslexia is a good and life affirming thing. I like mine. have fun because you should/

read this book

So Black Theology & Black Power is very good this needs to be read again, it needs to be placed in the hands of another generation of a readers, black and white. I does push me in place I don't like, but what is liked or disliked doesn't matter, a passionate commitment to growth despite myself,

The idea that we grow should is right, growth is not the end, community is. Being a dyslexic is a delight, I like it the way I see and interact with the world because of it.

Have a great day as someone has to.

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

didn't bother to finish this one

For my bed time reading I picked up, a book called "Fade to Black" It was  not a good read I did ten or so pages and it saw dull, I couldn't find a way into the character, I didn't care enough, couldn't care enough, Others may like it. I didn't it is off to the second hand shop.

Even as a dyslexic I enjoy the world, I like how it makes me think, , I enjoy how I am. have a great day

The Great Bazaar & Brayan's Gold

I finished this last night and I enjoy his work but I do find it most annoying, when an author adds a dictionary to the end of his book, when it is data that should be in a story. The putting in of a Ward Grimoire is not helpful it needs to be inside the tale itself. I like Peter V. Brett's work but he need to trust me, us, we as readers, we are paying attention.

Dyslexia is a good and great way to see the world, enjoy it, it is blast be the best you, not a cheap copy of anyone else.

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