After a break I came back to the series. The break served me well. I think I actually liked this third one most of the series. But more for the concepts regarding intelligence and sentience.
I think. I think I am not. Therefore I am not. I think. 
I was expecting a virtual unkindness? murder? of corvid pairs to be sent in after the pair had pointed out that had they been there …
Finished Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way), by Sue Macy, which I enjoyed a lot. Also finished Telling the Map, a story collection by Christopher Rowe, of which the best story (novella, really) was “The Border State”.
Next up: Midwife on Call: Tales of Tiny Miracles, by Agnes Light; and The Time Machine Did It, by John Swartzwelder.