Unfortunately Required Reading

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Unfortunate Fan Fiction (Boy in the Striped Pajamas)
2026/1/24 | 1h 19 mins.
This week Amanda and Victoria discuss the massive historical inaccuracies of John Boyne's The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and real-life drama.
Don't Make Fun of a God's Mom (The Bacchae)
2025/12/21 | 1h 27 mins.
This week Amanda and Victoria discuss the god Dionysus and the play The Bacchae by Euripides.
Keep Your Friends Close, Vampires Closer (The Vampyre by John Polidori)
2025/10/25 | 1h 22 mins.
This week Amanda and Victoria discuss the novella The Vampyre by John Polidori (NOT LORD BYRON), and how it helped create the vampire genre we know today.
Another Book That Was Clearly a Cry for Help (Dicey's Song)
2025/9/20 | 1h 25 mins.
This week Amanda and Victoria discuss another book that probably should have been a trauma indicator, Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voight...also Anime Horse Girls
Episode 124: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Italy (The Aeneid)
2025/7/27 | 1h 53 mins.
This week Amanda and Victoria discuss the epic poem by Virgil (or Vergil), The Aeneid. Also, our weird obsession with bunt cakes.