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[jamesovei]

 Finished reading: The Wild Girls by Ursula K. Le Guin, #6 in the PM Books Outspoken Author series.

Terry Bisson edits a series of short books under the banner Outspoken Authors. Each book consists of at least one shorter piece of fiction, a few essays, and an interview. I've previously read the Michael Moorcock edition. More copies are on my e-reader. I grow more tempted to have shelf copies of this series.

"Wild Girls" is a novelette. I don't believe it's longer than that and didn't feel like a novella though the story itself feels detailed in its world, though she painted much with wide brush strokes leaving the reader to fill in the details. It's a story of a culture that resembled, to me, several cultures of the Russian steppes. The story is about a culture with castes and of two slave girls and who they can, would marry, their feelings about this, and what was done about it. I believe the story is science fiction, as there is no fantasy elements outside a cultural reference to ghosts. If someone else has read this and this culture shows in another of Ursula's books or stories, let me know.

One essay covers modesty, feelings of and not dress as in the bill before the Missouri legislature and the other discusses studies saying Americans still not reading (again.) It also included several of her poems.

I set the alarm this morning so I could get up and do laundry early. After it woke me, I decided I didn't need to do laundry today and, after realizing I was too awake yet still had no interest in getting out of bed, grabbed my e-reader and finished Wild Girls.

Coffee is now brewed, the milk hasn't turned, or didn't appear so, yet. It's time for breakfast. It's pick up prescriptions day later this morning.