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Review and relive the books that made you cringe in school, but now with cocktails and sass. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unfortunately-required/support
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This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unfortunately-required/support
This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Lady Chatterley's Lover, sex politics, and what DH Lawrence means by a "crisis." --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unfortunately-required/support
This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Little Women, Louisa May Alcott, and the myth of typical femininity. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unfortunately-required/support
This month Amanda and Victoria discuss Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis, traumatic childhood abuse, and the utterly depressing life of Franz Kafka. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unfortunately-required/support
Baron Von Cheeseplate returns to discuss 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne with Amanda and Victoria. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unfortunately-required/support
For Spooky Month Amanda and Victoria discuss Stephen King's infamous work The Shining, alcoholism, hotels, and Stanley Kubrick. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unfortunately-required/support
This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, ethnobotany, drugs, and enough weird stuff to fill a 2-hour podcast. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unfortunately-required/support
This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Sadako and the 1000 Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr, as well as the atomic bomb and the lasting effects on America and how it is viewed internationally. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unfortunately-required/support
Look Down (Les Miserables)

Look Down (Les Miserables)

2023-07-2201:22:59

This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Victor Hugo's massive fan fiction, Les Misérables. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unfortunately-required/support
This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's. Happy Pride! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unfortunately-required/support
Animal Harm (Animal Farm)

Animal Harm (Animal Farm)

2023-05-2001:37:02

This month Amanda and Victoria discuss George Orwell's Animal Farm, and the historical events that inspired it. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unfortunately-required/support
F*** You, Mark Twain

F*** You, Mark Twain

2023-04-2201:31:46

By some miracle, we made it to 100 episodes. This week we discuss Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and wonder why we give this book to children. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unfortunately-required/support
This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unfortunately-required/support
This week Amanda and Victoria discuss HG Wells as The War of the Worlds. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unfortunately-required/support
This is the reuploaded version of our episode on Doctor Zhivago. Some listeners advised the end had been cut off by our editing software. Thank you!  This week Amanda and Victoria discuss the drag that is Doctor Zhivago and why it was so scary to the USSR. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unfortunately-required/support
This week Amanda and Victoria discuss A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unfortunately-required/support
Amanda and Victoria FINALLY get to record together in person for the first time in....almost three years?  Welcome back with The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. We discuss ableism, rest cures, and the garden metaphor.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unfortunately-required/support
This week Amanda and Victoria read a book that managed to break Victoria, Richard Bach's Jonathan Livingston Seagull. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unfortunately-required/support
Amanda and Victoria discuss The Witch of Blackbird Pond and why Kit definitely would have been found guilty of witchcraft in Connecticut. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unfortunately-required/support
This week Amanda and Victoria discuss the uncomfortable dating history of Hans Christan Andersen...wait, we mean The Little Mermaid.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unfortunately-required/support
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