Social media seems eerily similar to the dramas on the parlor wall in this book. You can entertain yourself for hours on social media and not even know what you were looking at after, just like Mildred watched hours of shows and couldn’t recall what happened. I have a lot of other thoughts about this book, but they are disjointed and I should go to bed. So you can read one of the other hundreds of online reviews of this book if you want more analysis.