Join us this week as we discuss the school books we liked and disliked, hot takes, Shakespeare conspiracies, literary merit, and how adulthood helps you appreciate the classics.

Literature Mentioned: THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald, THE ILIAD AND THE ODYSSEY by Homer, A TALE OF TWO CITIES by Charles Dickens, OTHELLO, THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, JULIUS CAESAR, and ROMEO AND JULIET by William Shakespeare, “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding, MEDEA by Euripides, A DOLL’S HOUSE by Henrik Ibsan, FAHRENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury, THE MONKEY’S PAW by W. W. Jacobs

-Media Mentioned: Anonymous (2011), The Great Gatsby (2013), Romeo and Juliet (1996), Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper (2004)

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