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Now we’re reading All the Pretty Horses in AP
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081
Gravity’s Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
Drink any time the racism and misogyny are just too much to handle. (Experts only.)
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080
Gravity’s Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
Drink any time there’s Anime Boob Physics, only in prose.
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Gravity’s Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
Any time there’s an entire page without a paragraph break, finish your drink. (One continuous page max! Don’t be stupid!)
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078
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Drink every time the narrator mentions:
Dorothea’s simple attire
Celia’s “staccato tones”
Rosamond’s hands
Rosamond’s neck (extra sip if compared to bird)
Will’s curly hair
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Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Drink every time Mr Brooke:
finishes a sentence with “you know,” “and that sort of thing,” or “up to a certain point”
name-drops
is wrong
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076
To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
Drink every time masculinity so fragile
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075
To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
Drink every time a character submits to the mortifying ordeal of being known.
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074
To The Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
Drink every time the narrator reminds you that Mrs. Ramsay is (still) doing a domestic task.
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073
O Pioneers! (Willa Cather)
Any time Cather characterizes stolen Indigenous land as a barren blank slate that white European settlers were destined to nurture into commercially viable property, finish your drink.
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072
O Pioneers! (Willa Cather)
Drink every time Alexandra is gay for The Land.
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071
O Pioneers! (Willa Cather)
Take a shot every time a heterosexual character meets a tragic end.
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070
All the Pretty Horses (Cormac McCarthy)
Any time Rawlins tells John Grady not to do the thing and John Grady does it anyway, finish your drink.
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069 (nice)
All the Pretty Horses (Cormac McCarthy)
Drink any time you have to re-read a section of dialogue to figure out who the fuck said what.
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068
All the Pretty Horses (Cormac McCarthy)
Whenever John Grady gets on a horse and becomes One With the Landscape, finish your drink.
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067
Madame Bovary
Drink every time M. Homais mansplains something.
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baby’s in grad school and reading tons of books again so guess who’s back
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