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Good for Samuel.

I wonder if Grace Metalious knew the Trumps? 45 is so much like Rodney, and Leslie seems a lot like Fred.

I hate to admit it, but this is absolutely riveting. I normally dislike misery porn, but this has captured me in the same way that V.C. Andrews did when I was a teen. I don’t think I care to read the sequel, though. Enough is enough.

I always think I‘ve adjusted to what it’s like to read historical fiction and then I read it and remember how distasteful so many attitudes were. Sometimes even stuff from the 80s and 90s, but almost always stuff from 50s America.

That…is unfortunately what I’d suspected. Poor Selena.

Class of 1937! Gosh, I thought this was the 1950s. That changes a lot of things. I was wondering why people were so conservative and judgey, and why they still had outhouses and didn’t get paid much, but I figured it was just life in a small town.

Yikes. I forgot how recent the Civil Rights Movement was.

Bloody hell, that got dark fast.

Ahhh why is this so compelling? Because I’m a drama llama.

This is so pulpy, and yet, rather compelling.