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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Podcasting since 2017 • 135 episodes
Cracked Spines
Latest Episodes
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix
Our favorite horror writer is back at it again! This week we read Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix, a truly harrowing mixture of pregnancy horror, social horror, and eels. In this episode, as you can probably imagine, we tal...
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Season 4
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Episode 10
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Sarah's Bummer of an Extended Vacation: The 2025 Oregon Healthcare Strike
Hey, everyone! Sarah is one of the thousands of unionized healthcare workers on strike in Oregon. At their last job, Cyrus saw how hard a company will work to destroy a union. Let's do some labor chatting.This is a different episode than...
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Season 4
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Episode 9
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This is KINDA an Episode about Murderbot
We discuss the new Murderbot novel, System Collapse by Martha Wells! Which came out in... 2023. We're really part of the zeitgeist. And really, we only talk about Murderbot a little bit before the episode just becomes a confessional bo...
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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Vermis: Which Flesh is Your Flesh?
Haunted catacombs! Mysterious knights! Rat man! For those looking for a game manual on their quest through Vermis, you couldn't ask for more. For those looking to actually play Vermis, well, we've got bad news. The book is a v...
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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1:00:04
Animorphs Part 4: We HAVE to Talk about David
Everyone was like, "look out for David *eyes emoji*" and in this episode we find out why. These three books are jampacked with moments that made us scream a little and we discuss them. (Spoiler: RACHEL. I LOVE YOU, QUEEN.) Sarah marvels at ...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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