Unfortunately Required Reading

nolite te bastardes carborundorum (The Handmaid's Tale) 28.05.2022 1:16:07 ↓

This week Amanda and Victoria discuss The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood and despair.

Another Robbie Burns Inspired Book (Of Mice and Men) 14.05.2022 1:06:32 ↓

This week Amanda and Victoria unpack Of Mice and Men, the exploitation of the American worker, and the utter exhaustion of existence.

Like Ducks on a Frozen Pond (Catcher in the Rye) 23.04.2022 1:07:25 ↓

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.

Being an Adult at 13 Sucks (Dicey's Song) 09.04.2022 42:23 ↓

This week Amanda and Victoria discuss the heartbreaking book Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voight.

Irish Catholic Childhoods are Hard (Angela's Ashes) 26.03.2022 1:10:16 ↓

his week, Amanda and Victoria discuss the memoir Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt.

Unfortunately Apt War Allegory is a War Allegory 12.03.2022 1:08:55 ↓

This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Art Spiegelman's Maus and the Holocaust. 

And Nothing Has Changed Since 1974 19.02.2022 1:11:06 ↓

This week Amanda and Victoria are exhausted and discuss James Baldwin's If Beale Street Could Talk.

A thinly veiled excuse to talk about Cruel Intentions (Dangerous Liaisons) 05.02.2022 1:18:31 ↓

This week Amanda and Victoria decide to discuss Cruel Intentions instead of Dangerous Liaisons.

Button-Induced Trauma (Coraline) 22.01.2022 1:05:15 ↓

This week Amanda and Tori unpack Neil Gaiman's Coraline, and a lot of childhood trauma in the process. Oh god, those button eyes.

Bet You're Pronouncing It Wrong (Eugene Onegin) 08.01.2022 48:34 ↓

This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Alexander Puskin's Eugene Onegin and celebrate a delayed birthday month. 

A Different Goddess in Every Port or Group Projects are a Nightmare (The Odyssey) 27.11.2021 1:32:10 ↓

This week Amanda and Victoria tackle the Odyssey and the audacity.

The Amount of Descriptors Tax My Wits 06.11.2021 1:37:49 ↓

You've waited. You've watched. BARON VON CHEESEPLATE RIDES AGAIN! This week Amanda, Victoria, and the Baron (aka  Jason) return to discuss Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

Really Close Friends, Roommates, Just So Close (Carmilla) 30.10.2021 1:26:23 ↓

This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Carmilla by J. Sheridan le Fanu.

Spooky Incel Sh*t (Sleepy Hollow) 16.10.2021 1:15:59 ↓

This week Amanda and Victoria go through Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow .  Did you know Washington Irving was a George Washington Fanboy?

The Very Worst Suicide Squad Film (A Separate Peace) 18.09.2021 50:06 ↓

This week Amanda and Victoria continue pain month with John Knowles' novel A Separate Peace. It is not peaceful. 

Only Legal in Washington State (Equus) 04.09.2021 1:07:12 ↓

This week Amanda and Victoria discuss the Peter Schaffer play Equus and question our life choices. 

All Loud on the Eastern Back 21.08.2021 1:22:27 ↓

This week Amanda and Victoria discuss World War 1 and The Erich Maria Remarque book All Quiet on the Western Front. As mentioned in our content warning this week: https://www.veteranscrisisline.net/get-help/hotline

I Am Not Feeling Good (Things Fall Apart) 07.08.2021 1:14:27 ↓

This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Chinua Achebe's novel Things Fall Apart. 

Behold the Cathedral in Which I Grove My F***Bois (Hunchback of Notre Dame) 24.07.2021 1:34:32 ↓

This week Amanda and Victoria go through the slog that is the Victor Hugo novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame. 

Amanda and Victoria's Retirement Plan (Arsenic and Old Lace) 10.07.2021 1:04:29 ↓

Amanda and Victoria discuss the Joseph Kesselring play 'Arsenic and Old Lace' as well as women who kill, and black comedies. 

Falling Into the Well of Self Loathing 21.06.2021 45:09 ↓

This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness for Pride Month, and immediately regret it.

Don’t Call My Name, Orlando 05.06.2021 1:16:42 ↓

This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Orlando by Virginia Woolf. 

The Worst Pepsi Challenge 22.05.2021 1:36:26 ↓

This week Amanda and Victoria discuss The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton and PTSD> 

The House on Drama Street 08.05.2021 1:10:21 ↓

This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street. 

Delusions of Grandeur are More Fun with a Friend (Don Quixote) 24.04.2021 1:49:01 ↓

This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Don Quixote de La Mancha.