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 • 143 episodes
Cracked Spines
Latest Episodes
Marriage, A History: How Love Conquered Marriage by Stephanie Coontz
Say "I do" to checking out this weeks episode on Marriage, A History by Stephanie Coontz! See, I did a wedding pun, this description writing stuff is easy. Cyrus and Sarah tackle nonfiction this episode, and have a rollicking discussion about m...
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Season 4
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Episode 18
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46:46
The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson
It's finally happening - Cyrus and Sarah have finally read The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson! Turns out they loved it, but isn't that always the way with books you've been putting off? Baru Cormorant is a twisty turny hard fantasy no...
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Season 4
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Episode 17
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50:40
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Did you know it's really hard to write jokes about books with central themes of racism? Cyrus and Sarah find this out while covering Pachinko by Min Jin Lee, an epic historical fiction novel about the the 20th century Korean experience of Japan...
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Season 4
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Episode 16
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44:47
Sunrise on the Reaping/The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Are we in the cultural zeitgeist yet? This week, Cyrus and Sarah cover Sunrise on the Reaping AND The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins, the two latest Hunger Games novels, both of which are prequels to the ori...
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Season 4
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Episode 15
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58:22
READING DEATH PACT THUNDERDOME ULTIMATE SHOWDOWN
RESULTS ARE IN, FOLKS. In the past month, Sarah and Cyrus made a bet to see who could read the most books out of their combined TBR piles. Sarah is a super fast reader with one day a week to functionally dedicate to churning through books; Cyru...
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Season 4
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Episode 14
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55:46