Reliving Required Reading with Cocktails and Sass
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 →
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. To listen along: https://anchor.fm/unfortunately-required/episodes/The-Return-of-Two-Host-One-Mic-The-Secret-Garden-e1tqfdi To drink along: https://www.bombaysapphire.com/gin-cocktails/the-secret-english-garden Also, have a nice bit of English cheddar and peasant bread. Resources:... Continue Reading →
This week Amanda and Victoria read a book that managed to break Victoria, Richard Bach's Jonathan Livingston Seagull. To Drink Along: Make a Seabreeze, aka a Capecoder; the favorite drink of drag queens. To Listen Along: https://anchor.fm/unfortunately-required/episodes/A-Thinly-Veiled-Cult-Metaphor--Jonathan-Livingston-Seagull-e1t6r75 Resources: Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Wikipedia Richard Bach - Wikipedia
Amanda and Victoria discuss The Witch of Blackbird Pond and why Kit definitely would have been found guilty of witchcraft in Connecticut. To Listen Along: https://anchor.fm/unfortunately-required/episodes/Cottage-Core-White-Girl-Fantasies-The-Witch-of-Blackbird-Pond-e1seeaj To Drink Along: Hard Cider Resources: The Witch of Blackbird Pond: Study Guide | SparkNotes Elizabeth George Speare Books - Biography and List of Works - Author of 'The... Continue Reading →
This week Amanda and Victoria discuss the uncomfortable dating history of Hans Christan Andersen. To Listen Along: https://anchor.fm/unfortunately-required/episodes/Being-a-Mermaid-is-Just-One-Giant-Metaphor--Isnt-It--Hans-Christian-Andersens-The-Little-Mermaid-e1s2m1e To Drink Along: Make a Hot Toddy, leave it downstairs and realize you are too sick to make a second trip downstairs. Resources: Hans Christian Andersen - Wikipedia The Little Mermaid - Wikipedia How Hans Christian Andersen... Continue Reading →
This week Amanda and Victoria read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Phillip K. Dick, the book that was adapted loosely into Blade Runner. To Listen Along: https://anchor.fm/unfortunately-required/episodes/Do-Androids-Dream-of-Dick--Do-Androids-Dream-of-Electric-Sheep-e1r149k To Drink Along: I don't know, grab a White Claw or something. Resources: Philip K. Dick - Wikipedia Top 10 Philip K Dick Adaptations - YouTube... Continue Reading →
This week Amanda, Victoria, and special guest Baron Von Cheeseplate discuss William Gibson's Neuromancer. To Listen Along: https://anchor.fm/unfortunately-required/episodes/So-Youre-Saying-I-Can-Dodge--Neuromancer-e1qa9mq To Drink Along: The Gibson Martini https://www.liquor.com/recipes/gibson/ Resources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Gibson-American-Canadian-author https://youtu.be/3YNku5FKWjw https://youtu.be/cipxlzjiY6g Neuromancer by William Gibson Plot Summary | LitCharts https://youtu.be/S89BHnaxULo https://youtu.be/sttm8Q9rOdQ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gibson https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B0011EQBOS/ref=atv_dp_share_cu_r https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B0094K35S6/ref=atv_dp_share_cu_r https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B0094M18O2/ref=atv_dp_share_cu_r
Unfortunately Required Reading 