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Weekly Wednesday Reading Meme - July 17, 2013
What have you just finished reading?
Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper. I enjoyed it, although it had the trappings of its time: for example, one female human character who wasn't someone's secretary or mom. I was surprised by the ecology theme, which I don't remember becoming much of A Thing until the the end of the 1960s (book was published in 1962). It even had a big evil nature-exploiting company. The Fuzzies are pretty clearly the ancestors of Cherryh's Hisa (in Downbelow Station) and, as some others have pointed out, probably also of the Ewoks. The set-up also made me think of LeGuin's The Word for World Is Forest, although this is a much lighter take. I was feeling fairly offended at the notion of humans "adopting" Fuzzies ... until Piper hit me with the wham line at the end. OK, then! :-)
I also finished my research reading. Some of it was pretty cool. I'll have to remember to bring up the details later.
What are you currently reading?
I'm re-reading Noel Streatfeild's Dancing Shoes (a/k/a Wintle's Wonders), which is a straight-up comfort read. I'm also making my way through a couple of tour books for our trip.
What do you think you'll read next?
I really don't know! Anyone have any suggestions for anything that I could download to the phone for free? Feedbooks has a lot of stuff, but I'm not sure about most of it. It's not that I don't have any money to spend on reading material: I'm leary of using my phone for a financial transaction, frankly. Has anyone used Paypal for this purpose?
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Well, would you recommend any of those books? (I was looking for specific recs, rather than sources.) They don't seem to be sorted in any specific order, which makes them hard to browse.
I'm far from certain that I want to add another book reading app to the phone - I already have Aldiko, which takes ePub and PDF files.
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I don't know, I haven't really read any, and not really sure what you like. So, just thought I'd throw that out there as a place to get free books.
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Ah, OK. Thanks!