Cracked Spines

The Bravest Little Girls in the Forest

April 16, 2023 Season 3 Episode 7
Cracked Spines
The Bravest Little Girls in the Forest
Show Notes

This week, Sarah and Cyrus tackle a subject that is a particular passion of one of them: the character type of Brave Little Girls. Sarah posits a working definition of what this phrase might mean, and gushes over fictions weird little girls who are asked to do too much and who rise to the occasion. Cyrus wonders if anyone had a normal childhood or what a thing might mean. We also talk about Misha Collins and some big questions about gender. (Those are two separate topics, we promise.)

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Media discussed
The Tiffany Aching Series by Terry Pratchett
Spirited Away (2001)
Over the Garden Wall (2014)
The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Abarat by Clive Barker
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
Macbeth (for some reason) by William Shakespeare
The poems of William Wordsworth, specifically "Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood"

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