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- F*** You, Mark Twain
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.
1 hr 32 min - I Dreamed I Went to Mandalay Bay Last Night (Rebecca)This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca.1 hr 11 min
- Death From Above (The War of the Worlds)This week Amanda and Victoria discuss HG Wells as The War of the Worlds.1 hr 56 min
- The Ultimate KGB C*ck Block (Doctor Zhivago)
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.
1 hr 20 min - The Ultimate KGB C*ck Block (Doctor Zhivago)
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://anchor.fm/unfortunately-required/support1 hr 6 min - A Guide to Why Your Black Friends Are Exhausted (A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas)
This week Amanda and Victoria discuss A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas.
1 hr 32 min - The Return of Two Host One Mic (The Secret Garden)
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.
51 min - A Thinly Veiled Cult Metaphor? (Jonathan Livingston Seagull)
This week Amanda and Victoria read a book that managed to break Victoria, Richard Bach's Jonathan Livingston Seagull.
54 min - Cottage Core White Girl Fantasies (The Witch of Blackbird Pond)
Amanda and Victoria discuss The Witch of Blackbird Pond and why Kit definitely would have been found guilty of witchcraft in Connecticut.
59 min - Being a Mermaid is Just One Giant Metaphor, Isn't It? (Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid)
This week Amanda and Victoria discuss the uncomfortable dating history of Hans Christan Andersen...wait, we mean The Little Mermaid.
1 hr 20 min
About Unfortunately Required Reading
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Review and relive the books that made you cringe in school, but now with cocktails and sass.