Aranza (grumpy version) > Recent Status Updates

These days have been super hard for me so I haven’t been able to concentrate and read the way I planned. I’m excited to continue Powers and Thrones, for one. Or I was a suppose. These days I’m just sad.

My almost 18 year old dog, Nicky, passed away. He’s been with me since I was 7. And I adored him. I still do. I always will. But it’s difficult to adapt to this new reality.

Alcibiades is an outstanding candidate for ostracism. Athenians can vote to exile a politician for ten years. Not for anything illegal, but because the citizens judge him to be a danger to the body politic. Huh. Maybe we should bring that back.

Teela is driving me insane.

I love this series already. I fell in love with the narrative style when I read the one about Ancient Egypt, and now just reading the first chapter I’m just as, if not more, fascinated with this one.

I must say…. I’m a bit disturbed with the age gap between Luis Wu and Teela,