FF: Creativity Takes Many Forms

The title says it all…

For those of you just discovering this feature, the Friday Fragments lists what I’ve read over the past week.  Most of the time I don’t include details of either short fiction (unless part of a book-length collection) or magazine articles.

Sun, Book, Pillows: What More Could a Cat Want?

The Fragments are not meant to be a recommendation list.  If you’re interested in a not-at-all-inclusive recommendation list, you can look on my website under Neat Stuff.

Once again, this is not a book review column.  It’s just a list with, maybe, a bit of description or a few opinions tossed in.

Recently Completed:

Gaming at the Edge: Sexuality and Gender at the Margins of Gamer Culture by Adrienne Shaw.  “Gamer” here means video, not RPG.  Interesting, but dense.  Although academic jargon periodically got in the way of clarity, in the end, it was worth the read.

Who Am I? Pete Townsend.  Audiobook.  Read by Pete Townsend.  Townsend’s thoughtful, incisive view of his own struggles to realize complex artistic visions – despite some seriously self-destructive behaviors – is interesting.  His reading is quite good and means that the text is his own, not “interpreted” by a reader.  This is a huge bonus for autobiography.

The Unfairest of Them All (Ever After High #2) by Shannon Hale.  Between the above and my own crazy workweek, I really needed some lighter reading.  But even in this setting, Hale manages to slide in some serious commentary on when right is wrong and wrong is right.

In Progress:

A Wonderlandful World (Ever After High #3) by Shannon Hale.

The Great Mythologies of the World volume one in the Great Courses series.  Audio.  Sometimes, even with a subject I know a lot about, I enjoy someone else’s point of view.

Also:

Let’s just say I’ve been doing a lot of reading of my own material and leave it there.