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ugh. show not tell the “NOT ALL CONFEDERATES” edition

Varina by Charles Frazier

December 18, 2019 by andtheIToldYouSos 3 Comments

Well y’all, I’ve done it again. I found another piece of sniveling, self-serving garbage. I finished this one out of spite. I wanted very badly, much like Signature of All Things, to cast this garbage into the sea. Unlike that previous disaster, I could not bring myself to punish the environment with this piece of “not all confederates” garbage.  Charles Frazier spent a mind-numbing 353 pages elaborating on what could have been a pamphlet – “Varina Davis was a lady that had ideas outside of […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: #trashy, American History, Antebellum South, Charles Frazier, civil war, Confederacy, Jefferson Davis, lauded author, varina davis

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR11 Review No:13 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: #trashy, American History, Antebellum South, Charles Frazier, civil war, Confederacy, Jefferson Davis, lauded author, varina davis ·
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