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Dolls of Our Lives

84: Cruel Summer: Troubles for Cécile

Dolls of Our Lives

Allison Horrocks and Mary Mahoney

Society & Culture, History

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Taylor Swift knew you were trouble when you walked in. Cecile knew trouble was brewing when people started wearing mourning clothes and going out less. During the fourth book in the Marie Grace / Cécile series, we find the girls living through a horrific yellow fever epidemic. We discuss what was happening in the summer of 1853 for the people of New Orleans--and how the fictional Rey family fares through it all. This episode also includes a discussion of 90s Con and what in the world was happening in 2011 (when this book came out).

Time Stamps:
00:00-17:57 - 90s Con recap
17:57-01:08:05 - We talk about Troubles for Cecile

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0:00.0

So before we get started on book four of this series, I have to ask you a question and you're

0:05.8

going to be given six choices in the spirit of American Girl. I'm ready, let's do it. This book

0:12.3

is focused on a disease. So by way of getting us to there, I'm gonna ask you to choose which cluster

0:19.5

of songs you would want to live in for the rest of your life if these were your choices. You can

0:25.2

either live in a world that's the only songs you can hear are yellow by cold play, yellow submarine

0:31.9

by the Beatles or anything yellow card just because that's what I've decided. Or you have to listen

0:38.2

to these these three choices on loop. Fever by Peggy Lee, Fever by the Black Keys and the entire

0:44.8

Fever album by Megan Thee Stallion. Oh my god, that's really hard. I like the energy of Megan Thee Stallions

0:53.4

album because I feel like there's some high moments, some upbeat moments. In high school, I was like

0:58.4

very into cold place verse album for a brief period of time and listen to it on a loop. So I feel

1:03.1

like I've lived that and I don't know if I can go back there. Yes. I'm gonna pick the Black Keys,

1:10.4

but just know I don't feel great about my future with that choice. I don't think anyone feels

1:16.0

great about putting yellow fever as the series of choices, but that's what American Girl did. So

1:21.2

here we are. Here we are.

1:22.8

I came along, I rode a song for you, and all the things she did, and it was called

1:37.8

Yettles.

1:49.4

Oh my god. I really did listen to yellow for like that whole album on a loop in high school,

1:56.0

like for real. You're taking me back now, and I remember like he said that he just randomly

2:01.4

opened a book and it said yellow, and that's why he called the song that.

2:05.6

In some ways. Supposedly he wrote it very quickly. Well, I mean, in some ways it's like was this book

2:10.2

conceived and written in a similar style? Hard to say. Find out. We'll find out. Well, welcome

2:16.6

everyone to American Girls, the podcast. This is the show where we're reliving the American Girl

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