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Unfortunately Required Reading
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Unfortunately Required Reading episodes
- 1 hr 30 min
- nolite te bastardes carborundorum (The Handmaid's Tale)
This week Amanda and Victoria discuss The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood and despair.
1 hr 17 min - Another Robbie Burns Inspired Book (Of Mice and Men)
This week Amanda and Victoria unpack Of Mice and Men, the exploitation of the American worker, and the utter exhaustion of existence.
1 hr 7 min - Like Ducks on a Frozen Pond (Catcher in the Rye)
This week Amanda is drug kicking and screaming into a book they didn't have to read in school and Victoria has flashbacks to dating people who need therapy.
1 hr 8 min - Being an Adult at 13 Sucks (Dicey's Song)
This week Amanda and Victoria discuss the heartbreaking book Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voight.
43 min - Irish Catholic Childhoods are Hard (Angela's Ashes)
his week, Amanda and Victoria discuss the memoir Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt.
1 hr 11 min - Unfortunately Apt War Allegory is a War Allegory
This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Art Spiegelman's Maus and the Holocaust.
1 hr 9 min - And Nothing Has Changed Since 1974
This week Amanda and Victoria are exhausted and discuss James Baldwin's If Beale Street Could Talk.
1 hr 12 min - A thinly veiled excuse to talk about Cruel Intentions (Dangerous Liaisons)
This week Amanda and Victoria decide to discuss Cruel Intentions instead of Dangerous Liaisons.
1 hr 19 min - Button-Induced Trauma (Coraline)
This week Amanda and Tori unpack Neil Gaiman's Coraline, and a lot of childhood trauma in the process. Oh god, those button eyes.
1 hr 6 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.