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 • 148 episodes
Cracked Spines
Latest Episodes
Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin
This week, Cyrus and Sarah dig into Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin, a horror novel that asks what if Invasion of the Body Snatchers was set at a conversion camp, and wouldn't that just be so super fucked up? Also on the tabl...
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Season 4
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Episode 23
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1:00:39
Heaven Official's Blessing (Volumes 1 and 2)
Welcome to our first episode covering the Heaven Official's Blessing series by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu! And also the Saw franchise. A media match made in heaven that definitely makes complete sense to pair in one episode, because isn't Xie Lian's lif...
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Season 4
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Episode 22
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53:38
Chicken Book Extravaganza feat. Our Actual Chickens
Greetings listeners, here it is - the chicken episode, featuring our five beautiful daughters. This week, Cyrus and Sarah dig into some books about chickens: their personalities, their care and keeping, and how to turn your beautiful backyard i...
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Season 4
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Episode 21
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1:13:12
Animorphs Part 7: Put Him In The Horse Plinko
Cyrus and Sarah are back at it again in the Animorphs mines, this time covering books thirty-three through thirty-seven, and things are getting....well, kind of mid, to be honest. Except for the torture. The torture is great. Dive in to hear ou...
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Season 4
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Episode 20
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53:53
Barbarian Beds: The Origin of the Chair in China by C.P. Fitzgerald (and other books on Chinese history)
This week on Cracked Spines, Cyrus and Sarah dive into Sarah's latest obsession with Chinese history, cracking open several books by...mostly white authors in the 60's-80's. Okay, so it may not be an scholastically accurate or ethical deep dive...
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Season 4
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Episode 19
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1:00:38