It's time for a snack and a shit
Manatee County's Elite Book Club
Reading Rainbow with Cousin Amanda, the only book club where snacks are mandatory, feelings are optional, and banned books come with snack-and-shit reviews. Airing from May 31st to August 18th.
I give it two snack and shit stars, barley
The Best Banned Books of Manatee County
• What Girls Are Made Of
by Elana K. Arnold
• All Boys Aren’t Blue
by George M. Johnson
• Drama
by Raina Telgemeier
• Milk and Honey
by Rupi Kaur
• Boy Toy
by Barry Lyga
• The Freedom Writers Diary
by Erin Gruwell
• Forever
by Judy Blume
• Call Me By Your Name
by André Aciman
• Eleanor & Park
by Rainbow Rowell
• Looking for Alaska
by John Green
• Fun Home
by Alison Bechdel
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower
by Stephen Chbosky
• Lullaby
by Chuck Palahniuk
• Homegoing
by Yaa Gyasi
• Out of Darkness
by Ashley Hope Pérez
• The Handmaid’s Tale
by Margaret Atwood
• Kissing Kate
by Lauren Myracle
• Blankets
by Craig Thompson
• Beyond Magenta
by Susan Kuklin
• Burned
by Ellen Hopkins
• Chosen
by P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
• Oryx and Crake
by Margaret Atwood
• Lucky
by Alice Sebold
• Forever for a Year
by B.T. Gottfred
• Juliet Takes a Breath
by Gabby Rivera
• Life Is Funny by E.R. Frank
• The Nerdy and the Dirty
by B.T. Gottfred
• Infandous
by Elana K. Arnold
• Man O’ War
by Cory McCarthy
• Traffick
by Ellen Hopkins
• Juliet Takes a Breath (Graphic Novel)
by Gabby Rivera
• The Almost Moon
by Alice Sebold
• Jesus Land
by Julia Scheeres
• The Handsome Girl and Her Beautiful Boy
by B.T. Gottfred
• Collected Poems 1947–1980
by Allen Ginsberg
• Dime
by E.R. Frank
• Lighter Than My Shadow
by Katie Green
• The Haters
by Jesse Andrews
• The Carnival at Bray
by Jessie Ann Foley
• A Court of Frost and Starlight
by Sarah J. Maas
• A Court of Silver Flames
by Sarah J. Maas
• Water for Elephants
by Sara Gruen
• I Never
by Laura Hopper
• Empire of Storms
by Sarah J. Maas
• Kingdom of Ash
by Sarah J. Maas
• The Infinite Moment of Us
by Lauren Myracle
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Official Snack & Shit Snack-ables
The Official Book Group of the Ballard Burst
Reading Rainbow with Cousin Amanda is a 46-episode civic satire series where banned YA books are reviewed through chaotic, snack-fueled commentary. Each episode turns teen literature into Manatee County political parody, mixing censorship panic and Florida development absurdity. Every review ends with “two snack-and-shit stars… barely.” Where book critiques spiral into surreal takes on local government, wetlands, and infrastructure collapse.
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