2 Girls 1 Book
by Andria and K
Classics from modern to old; 2 Girls 1 Book give highbrow books, lowbrow reviews. On hiatus for a few weeks, returning soon!Contact For Book Suggestions: [email protected] on TikTok & Instagram: @2girls1bookpodcast
Episodes
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A Room of One's Own: Sad Girls Club
We review Virginia Woolf's 1929 lecture. We go on various rants (some unrelated) as we acknowledge society is attempting to have women's rights careening back to the roaring 20's. Disclaimer: We are not kind to the patriarchy on this one. Swifties beware too.
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The Little Prince: Growing Up is a Trap
A French classic written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. We've read this book a good few times. The Little Prince always reminds us that if you act like an adult all the time it will break your spirit. Don't let fun, imagination, love, and whimsy die! It's not too late. Listen to this episode and…
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The Haunting of Hill House: Shirley's Redemption
We may have been a bit quick to judge in our episode on The Lottery. Shirley Jackson did her thing here. Is it a spooky haunted house? Or does Eleanor have a mental illness and the Dudley's are playing games? Could it all be the work or ghosts?
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Jurassic Park: Lex 🤝 Human Sacrifice
We're baaaack!!!! How much more modern classic do you get than Michael Crichton and these damn dinosaurs? Yet another old white man is given too much power/money. It just some how always goes wrong. Hop on the jeep with us to explore Jurassic hell. We won't be mad if you throw Lex to the raptors,...
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The Lottery: Vague Violence
Where Hawthorne gave us too much information we didn't want, Shirley Jackson is being vague af. A banger in the 1940's we guess. Listen to us tell the tale of a confusing ritual and sooo many names. What's with that rock Mrs. Delacroix?
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Everyday Use: Quilt Drama
A short story by Alice Walker. She kept it light for us this time. Dee drops in after 6 years trying memorialize a culture she's always hated. Maggie's trying to live the culture. Mama's just trying to get through this visit.
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The Bluest Eye: Toni & Tangents
Another Toni Morrison classic. Published in 1970. A series of small stories builds up to one young girl's brutal existence. We switched up the style on this one due to Toni traumatizing us.
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Their Eyes Were Watching God: Everybody's a Critic
Written by Zora Neale Hurston, 1937: The men in Janie's life are both her salvation and her destruction. The girl also has haters her entire life, because she's hot. Janie's literally just trying to live and be happy. Catch some black history facts on this one too!
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Brave New World: Sex, Drugs, and Stability
Published in 1932, genetic manipulation and conditioning is the name of the game. Everybody gets what they want and anything they can't have the World State makes sure they don't want. "Everyone is happy now", until short man syndrome drives Bernard to social revenge by bringing a "savage" from…
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Call of the Wild: Buck Wild
From the fireside of California to the brutal winter of Alaska; Buck learns it's kill or be killed for this mutt. That won't stop him from becoming a legend though. He'll literally bite your throat out. Don't play with the boy
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Animal Farm: Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad
This week we read Animal Farm by George Orwell. Animals take over their farm for freedom only to be enslaved by pigs. You give a mediocre male the tiniest bit of power....You want a dictatorship?? This is how you get dictatorships. This is why reading is important.
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A Christmas Carol: Guilt Tripping Made Popular
Awfully bad attitude to have with a name like Ebenezer Scrooge. Your boomer grandparents only wish they could be this intolerable of the poors. Hear as an old crotchety man is bullied by ghosts into being a good person. This should happen more often. Charles Dickens really crushed with this one…
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Beowulf: Michael Jordan of Monster Slaying
Get in nerds! We're reading Beowulf. In a battle of bad neighbors only a true warrior can save the Danes. You've never fought 9 sea monsters while in a swimming competition? You don't have the grip strength of 30 men? Loser.
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The Most Dangerous Game: Denim Chain Mail
This week we read a story about the 2nd most dangerous game next to clubbing at Parliament House in Orlando circa 2013. Written by Richard Connell. Zaroff is just passionate about his hobby guys. Rainsford just needs to get into the spirit of the game. What? Y'all don't be hunting humans?? Follow...
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The Crucible: Witches & Hoes
In this Arthur Miller play 15 people die, because a farmer cheats on his wife. Fake witches, fake Christians, but real treachery. The lies of the many outweigh the truth of the few in 1600's Salem.
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Cryptic Crackhead
This week we read The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. Why go to therapy when you could take drugs to split your personality and let the worst version of yourself wreak havoc? Why get a hobby when you could stalk an acquaintance just to know their business?
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Frankenstein: Daddy Issues
Mary Shelley really put her foot in this one. Put all your thoughts on this book aside. Dr. Frankenstein is the OG deadbeat dad. The "monster" is just trying to make friends...and take revenge...We swear it's justifiable though!
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The Raven & The Masque of the Red Death: Grief Bird Meets Pandemic
Another dose of Edgar Allan Poe. We're keeping it light this time though. One's a story about a bird!...triggering a man to spiral into grief. There's a party in the other one!...with the backset of a bloody pandemic. Super light!
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Cask of Amontillado & Tell-Tale Heart: Wine & Crime
What's a little wine, guilt, and murder among friends? Edgar Allan Poe is one of everyone's favorites. We're not an exception. We just had to give you our take on the pettiest man alive building people into walls and a very "not crazy" man who's guilt is equal to his insanity. Beware free wine in...
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The Shining PT3: Everyone Needs Dick
An unexpected Part 3, but can you blame us?? Jack has to "correct" his family lest he not make management at the Overlook. Was it really the ghosts or was this in Jack all along? Either way Hallorann is on his way to tussle with some ghosts for his boy Danny. Why are the ghosts all of sudden...
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The Shining PT. 2: Will Work For Ghosts
How many ghosts does it take to break your brain? Is it really breaking your brain if you want the ghosts? An entire hotel full seems like a lot, but Jack loves to party! Danny is 5 years old with the mind of a 500 yr old future seeing wizard. Jack's a shit dad and husband for several chapters.…
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The Shining PT. 1: Kubrick's Biggest Dropped Ball
We're baaaAAAaack and with a double drop! A mediocre man drunk on himself takes a job on an isolated mountain in a spooky ass hotel. His son has an imaginary, but not imaginary future seeing vague friend. His wife would probably rather be any place else. Not sure what her problem is. Only a dozen...
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Sula: Tale of Best Friends*******
Friendship. Betrayal. Pigmeat. These were the ingredients chosen to make the perfect girl, but Eva accidentally added an extra ingredient to the concoction---emotional negligence. And THUS Nel and Sula's tumultuous friendship was born... Check out this episode before our break for spooky season....
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Of Mice and Men
This is one of our favorites. Friendship, struggle, and grief is John Steinbeck's game. He's obsessed with the Depression Era and we're obsessed with him. Leave the Vaseline glove behind.
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The Gift of the Magi Meets the Gift of Gab
This week we review The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry...eventually. First we dive into Harriett Tubman, the voice behind Ducky in The Land Before Time, locking doors, and other random tales. We're ranting on this one, but in our defense we told you we like to talk last week.
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A Good Man is Hard to Find
"Someone should put you in a box floating down the river, Gramma!" A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor. Your racist grandma ever get you killed? No?...Listen... Contact: [email protected]
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1984 : The Thot Police
Buy your next home in Oceania where the government watches your every move and publicly executes you if the don't like what they see. A grand country constantly at war and rats litter the streets! This cozy dystopian society can be yours with the small price of your soul! Bring the kids! We're...
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The Yellow Wallpaper: Creepin' Ladies & Dismissive Husbands
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. We appreciate the crazy you display lady. 1890's women's mental health is NOT it.
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7. The Scarlet Letter: The Coward, the PickMe, and the Redundancy
We're late! We're sorry! The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne sent us spiraling. It's a classic...we don't get it. It's a dunk session y'all.
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6. Macbeth: Lady Macbeth's Dog
In this episode we review Macbeth by William Shakespeare. Let's learn together how the promise of power makes you into a bitch made murdering tyrant that betrays both friend and country. Oh, Scotland!
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Giovanni's Room
In this episode we review Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin. Will David ever stop being dog water? Why is Giovanni being executed? How is Hella even here rn and why does she love a super loser? Listen to us cut it up in our first episode and give an unpretentious break down of this classic. This...
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5. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings PT.2
This is a continuation of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by May Angelou. This episode is brought to you by, Fuck Dolores. Hope she likes the bottom of the pyramid!
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4. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings PT. 1
In this episode we review I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou. We see the POV of Maya growing up in 1930's-1940's Arkansas. This one goes deep guys. All the trigger warnings on this one.
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3. Murder on the Orient Express
A 1930's Croatian backdrop. A cut up gangster. 12 weirdo's trapped on a train. Who killed the man when everyone is a suspect? Hercule Poirot belongs to the world and is on the case. Sherlock can pack it up when buddy's around.
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2. Lord of the Flies
In this episode we review Lord of the Flies by William Golding. A mess of kids, no adults, starvation, a fake monster, and some light weapons. What could possibly go wrong??
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The Island of Dr. Moreau: Man Bear Pig
Worlds collide literally and surgically in this early sci-fi classic. Die alone in a boat or hang out on a animal-human hybrid infested island where the creatures are caught in existential dread and the mad scientist who made them has lost the plot.
About this show
Classics from modern to old; 2 Girls 1 Book give highbrow books, lowbrow reviews. On hiatus for a few weeks, returning soon!Contact For Book Suggestions: [email protected] on TikTok & Instagram: @2girls1bookpodcast
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Andria and K