Envious bump for those whose thought process allows them to write more than three paragraphs at a time and keep the interest of readers, as well as the flow of a story going in eight different directions in the beginning and coming back together in the end toward the goal of many readers appreciating the writers efforts and actually reading for pleasure and for political awareness (if the two can coexist).
Thanks for those kind words ... and having read some of your on posts here on FR, I know that the first part about not writing more than three paragraphs and not keeping people's interest decidedly does not apply to you.
As to the goal you touched on in the last statement ...
reading for pleasure and for political awareness (if the two can coexist).
The entire premise and reasoning behind the series is the postion and belief that they most certainly can coexist ... indeed that they must.