Reading a few books at once when i have the urge : two on voice : one on sex : one on advertising : and then I was staring at the Acropochrypa and started that. But mainly trying to get over not being able to sort papers in this front room so that it is totally tidy.... some of us just seem to be pile-creators !

Half-way through a little book called 'The Bitch at Work' by Elizabeth Hills (2007) from the library where i went to get a book on Access and reserve a book i could see from the online catalogue was two weeks late back. It's a quiet Saturday .... i've made it so. Said i needed time to work out when i would be at the pub under the changed circumstances; because no way in the world did i want to end up drinking more than before. That decision is made easier by the weather - most of my drinking buddies also smoke and so they sit outside in the beer garden.

I'd already read through Paul Arden's 'Whatever You Think Think the Opposite.' (2006) which was momentous from its description of the fosbury flop; a fabulous denigration of meetings (p72) and a very timely message on p.104. I love these 'quirky' books from these terribly successful creative directors and our library seems to love them too. In a while i'll go back to the morning's paper to read the articles that i kept the paper for, instead of leaving in the coffee shop where i had breakfast. I created and started inputting into the access book catalogue then shut the door on that for the day hours ago. The sun's been out with an indication of iciness in the wind but that just means you can say 'gosh it must be cold in Canberra then'.

Seeing at it was 2008 the last time i blogged and now it's 2011, i guess things are moving along - as they do. And I aim to post regularly for quite a while. Wasnt even sure if my blog still existed !

last book read was Isadore Brodsky's "Sydney Looks Back"... written mid20thC looking back on the days when Sydney sure sounded fun!!! Gee it was a good read! I kept thinking 'there's a movie in here' ... and it has influenced me a lot. I must read more of his stuff and around it. I mean i was crossing over Broadway and came onto the pedestrian island with all the other people who were mainly facing and travelling in the same direction as me - when i started to impress upon myself, after looking at young ones laughing and carrying on - come on you were that young on this island once ... try to remember back ... yet i was so mucked up in those days that's all - at present - that i remember ;-... lol. Life is SO much better now. Anyway - it's a good book.

Watching some cartoon on Hercules, and have Ian McEwan's On Chesil Beach : both of which show my current fascination with Photoshop in that i look at the cover design and the cartoon drawing and go what program did that!   Have had a bit of a break from here as you can see as I have been blogging on bnet as i rejoined them last year. This Hercules cartoon is pretty cute !

My dad writes academic stuff, and so when i eventually started to read - anyway, so i got an interest in the Voynich manuscript, and will update and this post when i've read a bit more or finished both Kennedy &Churchill and Goldstone and Goldstone on that subject. My eyes are too tired right now!!!

When I am ready to read To The Forbiddden Land, selected and adopted from Sven Hendin's Writings, again, I shall endeavour to answer the questions in the back. Originally published in 1934, the copy i have is from the 'First AES Reprint' (Asian Educational Services, New Delhi, 1988) It is an exciting read; I picked it up for $5 last week, and with some emphasis on how many horses and other pack animals died on the journey as to that however exciting it may sound, it was also very dangerous. His descriptions of peoples and their characteristics; logs of dangerous expeditions, of 'loud' auditory remembrances and of nature with a somewhat 'florid' style works. In the short biography at the back his writings obviously amount to quite a few including his autobiography.

Havent sat down and read a book for a while, but recently have started to with Beyond Coincidence (Plimmer & King, 2004). At first i thought i was reading a total sceptics book, but by Chapter 4 we've been introduced to Shelton and his theories of morphic resonance.

Being a great believer in co-incidence myself, i hope to read at least 2 chapters this afternoon inbetween the weekend's de-dusting and socialities round-up.