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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.
The Book Club
2025/6/08 | 1h 43 mins.
Welcome to our first "Book Club" episode, as Amanda and Victoria discuss Sinners, Conclave and the atrocious Lilo and Stitch live action. Fair warning: there's no outline, no script, and plenty of tangents. Back to our regularly scheduled programming in July!
Episode 123: Not a Single Woman of Color Was Involved or Asked (The Second Sex)
2025/3/22 | 2h 6 mins.
This week Amanda and Victoria explore Simone de Beauvoir's exploration of women, The Second Sex, and discuss intersectionality and a whole blend of modern-day f**kery.