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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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S4E30 Heated Rivalry (ft. A Proprietary Nootropic Mushroom Blend Inspired By Psychodelics)
Hello, everyone, welcome to this episode posted exactly on time where Sarah and Cyrus discuss the romance series of the moment, The Gay Hockey One That Now Has a TV Show. But first, 13 minutes of…
S4E30 Taboo Romance and Captive Prince
Dark romance should be DARKER!!! But where is the line? This week we approach that age-old question through the lens of Captive Prince, a 2016 novel by C.S. Pacat, especially in comparison to the…
S4E29 There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm
It's a book! An actual book! Can you believe it? This week, Sarah and Cyrus read 'There Is No Antimemetics Division" by qntm, a novel that was originally a web serial about the SCP foundation, but…
S4E28 THE PILE: Dissecting Our TBR Lists
This week Cyrus and Sarah each bring their book stacks to the table to discuss what they are planning to read this year. They get immediately sidetracked into an argument about how many books you…
S4E27 2025 ROUND UP: The Milk Chronicles
At long last, the moment we've all been waiting for: Cyrus has finally obtained their white whale du jour, two specimens of the world's tallest chicken. Also it's the end of the year! Here is the big…
S4E26 What To Read When You Aren't Reading
Hello, gang, time for the annual oopsie episode where we acknowledge the sins of our past (not uploading podcast episodes) and lay out our plans to change in the future (start three more podcast?).…
S4E25 Animorphs Part 8: You Can't Keep Inventing Gods!
Hello friends, it's that special time of year - Animorphs time! And also Wasteland Weekend, but you don't care about that, you care about Cyrus and Sarah dunking on these traumatized teens! This…
S4E24 Heaven Official's Blessing (Part 3 and 4)
This week, Cyrus and Sarah are back in the danmei mines, this time with books three and four of Heaven Official's Blessing by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu and if you thought the last two books were complicated…
S4E23 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…
S4E22 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…
S4E21 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…
S4E20 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…
S4E19 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…
S4E18 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…
S4E17 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?…
S4E16 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…
S4E15 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…
S4E14 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…
S4E13 Animorphs Part 6: The Bright, Clear Line
Back at it again in the Animorphs mines. This time, we're reading books 28 through 32, a group that contains vitally important plot, thoughtful and moving character moments, and also whatever is…
S4E12 TBR Pile Death Pact
Okay, maybe it's not a death pact. More of a "financially ruinous" pact for Cyrus specifically. But with the stakes on the table, they're more than willing to dive in. And with how annoying Cyrus is…
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Cracked Spines has published 156 episodes since October 2017, covering topics in Arts, Books.
Cracked Spines is currently highly active with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 53m.
