Unfortunately Required Reading
Reliving Required Reading with Cocktails and Sass
This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, ethnobotany, drugs, and enough weird stuff to fill a 2-hour podcast. To Listen Along: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unfortunately-required/episodes/A-Whole-New-World-Brave-New-World-e294a3r To Drink Along: Grab something that makes you happy. Amanda had a green apple Jones Soda: A whole mess of resources: Mad Men "I'd like to buy the world... Continue Reading →
This 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. To Listen Along: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unfortunately-required/episodes/Episode-104-Paper-Folding-Peace-Signs-Sadako-and-the-1000-Paper-Cranes-e289otr To Drink Along: Grab yourself a cup of sake. Resources: Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes - Wikipedia... Continue Reading →
This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Victor Hugo's massive fan fiction, Les Misérables. To Listen Along: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unfortunately-required/episodes/Look-Down-Les-Miserables-e278i1m To Drink Along: Champagne Resources: Episode 62: Behold the Cathedral in Which I Grow my F***Bois (Hunchback of Notre Dame) – Unfortunately Required Reading Les Misérables: Study Guide | SparkNotes https://youtu.be/lTTvKwCylFY https://youtu.be/5fJl_ZX91l0 https://youtu.be/UCZ61Hbc7zU https://youtu.be/F0aig3Ukt6E
This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's. Happy Pride! To Listen Along: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unfortunately-required/episodes/Is-the-Movie-Better--Breakfast-at-Tiffanys-e25hrbh To Drink Along: Resources: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unfortunately-required/episodes/Is-the-Movie-Better--Breakfast-at-Tiffanys-e25hrbh https://a.co/d/5B2ViL1 Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman https://youtu.be/RWwOv7BlocE Adaptable: Episode 2: Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote on Apple Podcasts Capote (2005) Trailer... Continue Reading →
This month Amanda and Victoria discuss George Orwell's Animal Farm, and the historical events that inspired it. To Listen Along: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unfortunately-required/episodes/Animal-Harm-Animal-Farm-e24dh05 To Drink Along: Do what you want. We can't stop you. Resources: Sterling Archer on Animal Farm - 9GAG Animal Farm: Study Guide | SparkNotes Animal Farm Russian Revolution and Civil War: Crash Course... Continue Reading →
We made it to 100 episodes. Thank you so much for being alongside us from the start of this weird journey until now. This week we discuss Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and wonder why we give this book to children. To Listen Along: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unfortunately-required/episodes/F-You--Mark-Twain-e22rfna To Drink Along: Bust out the champagne! We're... Continue Reading →
This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca. To Drink along: Tea To Listen Along: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unfortunately-required/episodes/I-Dreamed-I-Went-to-Mandalay-Bay-Last-Night-Rebecca-e21cgio Resources: Rebecca: Study Guide | SparkNotes THE BOY IN THE BOX – Chicago Tribune https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ7XQ5Kmz88 Personality Meet Daphne Du Maurier (1946) - YouTube https://youtu.be/IGgCi8Q31Bo
This week Amanda and Victoria discuss HG Wells as The War of the Worlds. To Listen Along: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unfortunately-required/episodes/Death-From-Above-The-War-of-the-Worlds-e20mdog To Drink along: Kentucky Mule. https://www.liquor.com/recipes/kentucky-mule/ Resources: The War of the Worlds: Full Book Summary | SparkNotes Martians! How Aliens Invaded Earth | Monstrum Orson Welles - War Of The Worlds - Radio Broadcast 1938 - Complete... Continue Reading →
This week Amanda and Victoria discuss the drag that is Doctor Zhivago and why it was so scary to the USSR. To Listen Along: (Updated 02/26/2023) https://anchor.fm/unfortunately-required/episodes/The-Ultimate-KGB-Cck-Block-Doctor-Zhivago-e1vi81b To Drink Along: Vodka, or honestly whatever schnapps you can steal from a rich person's house while caring for their wife who has typhus. Resources: Lara, the true... Continue Reading →
This week Amanda and Victoria discuss A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas. To drink along: as Frederick was known not to imbibe alcohol, we aren't this week either. Aren't mocktails great? To Listen Along: https://anchor.fm/unfortunately-required/episodes/A-Guide-to-Why-Your-Black-Friends-Are-Exhausted-A-Narrative-of-the-Life-of-Frederick-Douglas-e1uqptr Resources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QOTexnD-NE&ab_channel=CrashCourse lify ELA - Chadwick Boseman reads Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka0IRru-JYA&ab_channel=Biography... Continue Reading →
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