Cracked Spines
Crack open a good book with two wise-cracking besties. Sarah and Cyrus are two queer English majors who use their degrees to commit crimes against literature.
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Reading Challenge Death Match Check In 2: The World War II Spectrum of Quality
We compare books. Hopes are raised and dashed. Determination grows. The stakes have never been higher. Shonen anime intro. Cyrus summons their smuggest expressions. Sarah gets really sheepish about the Resident Evil franchise. Both ...
2026 Reading Death Match - Checkpoint 1
The first month of the reading death match has passed, and your fighters are already at each other's throats. Sarah promises that this time she's really going to do it. Cyrus swears that everyone's hatred only makes them stronger. Who is in the...
The $500 Tortoise and Hare Literary Death Match
Ole Sarah needs a win, and by GOD she is going to get one. Or else she is making that everyone else's problem. In this episode, we hash out the rules for the contest that will finally tear us apart: Who Can Read More Books This Year. First half...
Animorphs 43-47: A Tale of Three Vissers
We're back on that Animorphs grind, this time covering The Test, The Unexpected, The Revelation, The Deception, and The Resistance. And guys, these books that are meant for children are getting DEEP into what constitutes a war crime, what it me...
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
It doesn't get much zeitgeist-ier than this episode's book, Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, a non-political (press f to doubt) hard sci-fi about overcoming your own pathetic cowardice and saving the universe all by yourself except with ten thou...