Unfortunately Required Reading

By Unfortunately Required Reading

Review and relive the books that made you cringe in school, but now with cocktails and sass.... more

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How many episodes does Unfortunately Required Reading have?

The podcast currently has 139 episodes available.

Unfortunately Required Reading episodes:

April 22, 2023 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.
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1h 32min
March 30, 2023 I Dreamed I Went to Mandalay Bay Last Night (Rebecca)
This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca.

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1h 11min
March 18, 2023 Death From Above (The War of the Worlds)
This week Amanda and Victoria discuss HG Wells as The War of the Worlds.
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1h 56min
February 26, 2023 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.
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1h 20min
February 25, 2023 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.
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1h 6min
February 12, 2023 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.
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1h 32min
January 21, 2023 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.
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51min
January 07, 2023 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.
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54min
December 18, 2022 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.
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59min
December 11, 2022 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.
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1h 20min

FAQs about Unfortunately Required Reading:

How many episodes does Unfortunately Required Reading have?

The podcast currently has 139 episodes available.