Review and relive the books that made you cringe in school, but now with cocktails and sass.
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Tocqueville's American Travel Vlog (Democracy in America)
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1:59:00This week Amanda and Victoria discuss the possible series finale of the US by talking about Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America and his accurate, and not so accurate, talking points.
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That's Showbiz Kid (A Confederacy of Dunces)
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2:08:09This week Amanda and Victoria celebrate Victoria's birthday month with A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, and the legacy of New Orleans.
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Inconceivable! Anybody want a Peanut? (The Princess Bride)
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2:25:18Somehow in this economy we get Baron Von Cheeseplate back on the show to discuss William Goldman's The Princess Bride, as well as how much we all hate that weird Evangelical puppet, Douglas.
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The Haunted Audio (Turn of the Screw)
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1:37:00This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Henry James' novella, The Turn of the Screw. After Daddy's Little Harbinger shows up (Mothman) our audio started to have some problems, the episode crashing twice. The rest of his death story is posted on UnfortunatelyRequiredReading.com for the curious.
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This week Amanda and Victoria discuss the Daniel Quinn book of Socratic dialogue with a gorilla, Ishmael.
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This is My Roman Empire (I, Claudius)
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1:18:20This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Robert Graves' epic I, Claudius, and immediately questioning Graves' concepts of history.
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Episode 115: Word by Word (Bird by Bird)
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1:05:26Happy Birthday Month to Amanda! This month, we discuss Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird (and Victoria actually does the shortest short story long.)
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This month Amanda and Victoria discuss City of Night by John Rechy for Pride Month and discuss the old ways and the new of Queer community and acceptance.
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Following the White Rabbit (Alice in Wonderland)
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2:13:13Baron Von Cheeseplate joins Amanda and Victoria to discuss Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll, and the impact of this work on pop culture.
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Little Scam on the Prairie (Little House on the Prairie)
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1:27:16This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie, Manifest Destiny, the Minnesota Massacre, the lie of Westward expansion and why neither host can spell prairie.
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Basically, Just Real Life in Late Stage Capitalism (Fahrenheit 451)
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1:35:08This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.
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Episode 110: I Bet on Losing Dogs (Lady Chatterley's Lover)
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1:16:08This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Lady Chatterley's Lover, sex politics, and what DH Lawrence means by a "crisis."
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Strong Independent Pilgrim (Little Women)
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1:31:26This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Little Women, Louisa May Alcott, and the myth of typical femininity.
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This month Amanda and Victoria discuss Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis, traumatic childhood abuse, and the utterly depressing life of Franz Kafka.
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This Time, We Want to Join a Cult (or Build a Submarine)
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2:22:44Baron Von Cheeseplate returns to discuss 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne with Amanda and Victoria.
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Do You Want to Get Sued? (The Shining)
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2:24:36For Spooky Month Amanda and Victoria discuss Stephen King's infamous work The Shining, alcoholism, hotels, and Stanley Kubrick.
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A Whole New World (Brave New World)
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2:06:55This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, ethnobotany, drugs, and enough weird stuff to fill a 2-hour podcast.
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Episode 104: Paper Folding Peace Signs (Sadako and the 1000 Paper Cranes)
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1:25:12This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Sadako and the 1000 Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr, as well as the atomic bomb and the lasting effects on America and how it is viewed internationally.
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This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Victor Hugo's massive fan fiction, Les Misérables.
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Is the Movie Better? (Breakfast at Tiffany's)
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1:06:56This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's. Happy Pride!
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This month Amanda and Victoria discuss George Orwell's Animal Farm, and the historical events that inspired it.
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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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I Dreamed I Went to Mandalay Bay Last Night (Rebecca)
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1:10:01This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca.
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Death From Above (The War of the Worlds)
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1:56:00This week Amanda and Victoria discuss HG Wells as The War of the Worlds.
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The Ultimate KGB C*ck Block (Doctor Zhivago)
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1:19:29This 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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A Guide to Why Your Black Friends Are Exhausted (A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas)
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1:31:38This week Amanda and Victoria discuss A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas.
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The Return of Two Host One Mic (The Secret Garden)
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50:58Amanda 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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A Thinly Veiled Cult Metaphor? (Jonathan Livingston Seagull)
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53:49This week Amanda and Victoria read a book that managed to break Victoria, Richard Bach's Jonathan Livingston Seagull.
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Cottage Core White Girl Fantasies (The Witch of Blackbird Pond)
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58:20Amanda 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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Being a Mermaid is Just One Giant Metaphor, Isn't It? (Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid)
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1:19:43This week Amanda and Victoria discuss the uncomfortable dating history of Hans Christan Andersen...wait, we mean The Little Mermaid.
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Do Androids Dream of Dick? (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep)
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1:11:43This week Amanda and Victoria read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Phillip K. Dick, the book that was adapted loosely into Blade Runner.
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So You're Saying I Can Dodge? (Neuromancer)
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1:34:02Amanda, Victoria, and special guest Baron Von Cheeseplate discuss William Gibson's Neuromancer.
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Trauma All the Way Down (The Haunting of Hill House)
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1:10:09This week Amanda and Victoria cover spooky season with Shirley Jackson's novel The Haunting of Hill House.
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Episode 88: It Was a Monkey? (Murders in the Rue Morgue)
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56:08This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe for Spooky Season.
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These are the MF Jokes (Oedipus Rex)
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1:17:35This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Sophocles' work Oedipus Rex (aka Oedipus the King) and make surprisingly few jokes about incest.
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Sexting in the Time of Cholera (Love in the Time of Cholera)
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1:08:44This week Amanda and Victoria read Love in the Time of Cholera.
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Encanto with Incest (One Hundred Years of Solitude)
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1:19:01This week Amanda and Victoria discuss the most beloved Latin American novel of all time, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude.
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This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Sartre's one-act play No Exit.
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A Night with Uncle Tennessee (The Lady of Larkspur Lotion)
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1:06:14This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Tennesse Williams' one act play, The Lady of Larkspur Lotion.
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Mimosas are Not the Only Brunch Beverage (Oranges are Not the Only Fruit)
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1:09:58This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Jeanette Winterson's Oranges are Not the Only Fruit.
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Getting Dragged by Gods (the Iliad)
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1:29:53This week we discuss the Iliad for Pride month.
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nolite te bastardes carborundorum (The Handmaid's Tale)
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1:16:07This week Amanda and Victoria discuss The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood and despair.
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Another Robbie Burns Inspired Book (Of Mice and Men)
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1:06:32This week Amanda and Victoria unpack Of Mice and Men, the exploitation of the American worker, and the utter exhaustion of existence.
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Like Ducks on a Frozen Pond (Catcher in the Rye)
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1:07:25This 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.
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Being an Adult at 13 Sucks (Dicey's Song)
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42:23This week Amanda and Victoria discuss the heartbreaking book Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voight.
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Irish Catholic Childhoods are Hard (Angela's Ashes)
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1:10:16his week, Amanda and Victoria discuss the memoir Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt.
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Unfortunately Apt War Allegory is a War Allegory
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1:08:55This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Art Spiegelman's Maus and the Holocaust.
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And Nothing Has Changed Since 1974
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1:11:06This week Amanda and Victoria are exhausted and discuss James Baldwin's If Beale Street Could Talk.
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A thinly veiled excuse to talk about Cruel Intentions (Dangerous Liaisons)
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1:18:31This week Amanda and Victoria decide to discuss Cruel Intentions instead of Dangerous Liaisons.
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Button-Induced Trauma (Coraline)
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1:05:15This week Amanda and Tori unpack Neil Gaiman's Coraline, and a lot of childhood trauma in the process. Oh god, those button eyes.
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