Cracked Spines

By Cyrus Amelia Fisher and Sarah Palmer

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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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Episode Date
How To Learn Languages Fast But Maybe Not Like. That Fast
May 18, 2026
Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Endure Domestic Air Travel
May 04, 2026
Cleaning (With The Help of Books)
Apr 21, 2026
Writers Talking About Writing Books About Writing
Mar 25, 2026
Heated Rivalry (ft. A Proprietary Nootropic Mushroom Blend Inspired By Psychodelics)
Mar 04, 2026
Taboo Romance and Captive Prince
Feb 10, 2026
There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm
Jan 26, 2026
THE PILE: Dissecting Our TBR Lists
Jan 13, 2026
2025 ROUND UP: The Milk Chronicles
Jan 01, 2026
What To Read When You Aren't Reading
Dec 16, 2025
Animorphs Part 8: You Can't Keep Inventing Gods!
Sep 22, 2025
Heaven Official's Blessing (Part 3 and 4)
Sep 08, 2025
Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin
Aug 25, 2025
Heaven Official's Blessing (Volumes 1 and 2)
Aug 12, 2025
Chicken Book Extravaganza feat. Our Actual Chickens
Jul 28, 2025
Animorphs Part 7: Put Him In The Horse Plinko
Jul 14, 2025
Barbarian Beds: The Origin of the Chair in China by C.P. Fitzgerald (and other books on Chinese history)
Jun 30, 2025
Marriage, A History: How Love Conquered Marriage by Stephanie Coontz
Jun 16, 2025
The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson
Jun 03, 2025
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
May 20, 2025
Sunrise on the Reaping/The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
May 06, 2025
READING DEATH PACT THUNDERDOME ULTIMATE SHOWDOWN
Apr 22, 2025
Animorphs Part 6: The Bright, Clear Line
Apr 07, 2025
TBR Pile Death Pact
Mar 24, 2025
Animorphs Part 5: The Weekend is Cancelled
Mar 11, 2025
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix
Feb 25, 2025
Sarah's Bummer of an Extended Vacation: The 2025 Oregon Healthcare Strike
Feb 19, 2025
This is KINDA an Episode about Murderbot
Feb 11, 2025
Vermis: Which Flesh is Your Flesh?
Jan 28, 2025
Animorphs Part 4: We HAVE to Talk about David
Jan 13, 2025
2024 Recap: DIY, Top Fives, and the Raw Power of Animorphs
Dec 31, 2024
A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
Dec 17, 2024
Animorphs Part 3: It's All Uphell From Here (Books 11-19)
Dec 03, 2024
Danmei Beatdown!!
Nov 19, 2024
"That's Life!" A Harrowing Tale of Triumph, Humiliation, and Gravity Falls
Nov 04, 2024
The Book of Billl (and More!)
Nov 04, 2024
A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland
Oct 22, 2024
Nestlings by Nat Cassidy
Oct 09, 2024
Alien Romulus: We did not like The Man
Sep 11, 2024
This Is Not An Episode About Dungeon Meshi (lofi)
Jul 30, 2024
Illumicrate Book Subscription Box
May 31, 2024
He Who Drowned The World by Shelley Parker-Chan
May 14, 2024
Ex Marginalia: Essays from the Edges of Speculative Fiction
Apr 24, 2024
A Rube Goldberg Machine for Self-Crucifixion
Apr 09, 2024
Dungeon Meshi by Ryoko Kui
Mar 12, 2024
WE BOUGHT A HOUSE AND FORGOT HOW TO READ
Feb 27, 2024
The Whole Milieu of Frances Hardinge
Feb 05, 2024
Animorphs Part 2: High Stakes Moral Crises for Children
Jan 23, 2024
Translation State by Ann Leckie
Jan 09, 2024
2023 End of Year Wrap Up Lamentation and Vows
Dec 26, 2023
Animorphs Part 1: Baby's First Existential Dread
Dec 12, 2023
The Real Horror is Marriage but the Clones Don't Help
Nov 28, 2023
My Best Friend's Exorcism
Nov 01, 2023
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Sorry, We're Still Obsessed
Oct 23, 2023
In Our Time of Woe
Oct 17, 2023
Wei Wuxian is a Public Menace
Sep 25, 2023
Read More With Less
Sep 11, 2023
Gender Roles and Gender 'Oles
Aug 29, 2023
Must Love Boats
Aug 16, 2023
Conclusively and Without Question, We Have ADHD.
Aug 01, 2023
Gender? I Hardly Know 'Er!
Jul 18, 2023
The Ballad of Bigolas Dickolas
Jul 04, 2023
You Know What They Say About Big Hands (of the Emperor)?
Jun 21, 2023
The Sporekeeper: Thoughts on Fungus
May 31, 2023
The Family Business (Which Is, In This Case, Creepy Puppets)
May 17, 2023
The Scum Villain’s So-Stupid Seduction
May 02, 2023
The Bravest Little Girls in the Forest
Apr 17, 2023
An Approximate Definition of a Haunted House
Apr 03, 2023
The Sanderson-Pixar Carsmere
Mar 21, 2023
War Crimes 4 Kids
Mar 07, 2023
She Who Transed Your Gender
Feb 20, 2023
Schrödinger's P---es
Feb 07, 2023
2023: Believe, Dang It, So Much!
Jan 24, 2023
Kid Lit's Profound Gloom
Nov 28, 2022
Play Me Off With The Death Kazoo
Sep 27, 2022
All Victorians Were Stinky Little Freaks
Sep 13, 2022
Ned Stark's Book Five Plotline Really Slapped
Aug 24, 2022
We Are Both Doing Equally Well With Our Goals, Thanks
Aug 09, 2022
Dense Little Weirdos: Short Story Collections
Jul 19, 2022
Avada Kedavyaknowwhat, we're not doing this
Jul 05, 2022
The Super Duper Ultra Stuffed Lesbian Romance Rant (for Pride!)
Jun 21, 2022
Mary Oliver and Owen Wilson: Gay Poetry For Dummies
Jun 08, 2022
Death to the Living, Rights to the Sperm Whales
May 25, 2022
Hey Wait A Sec, Did The Trojan War Suck?
May 10, 2022
Odyssey Hot Takes: Ten Years Seems Like A Bit Much
Apr 25, 2022
Black Bonnets and Tortured Bystanders
Apr 12, 2022
Coming Full Circe
Mar 29, 2022
Such A Good Anthology, And The Soundtrack To Hell
Mar 14, 2022
Of Mist, and Grass, and Snake, Oh God Wait There's a Snake??
Mar 01, 2022
Book Nostalgia
Feb 15, 2022
Resolutions and Other Unkept Promises
Jan 31, 2022
2021 Revisited
Dec 28, 2021
God Bless Us Every Crumb
Dec 14, 2021
Break Your Book Slump
Nov 30, 2021
Oops! Just a Sloppy Lil Supernatural Episode
Nov 16, 2021
Sometimes Buildings Just Hate You, and Other Insights into Horror
Nov 02, 2021
Venom's Extended Mouth Member
Oct 19, 2021
For A Game Called Disco Elysium, There Really Isn't That Much Disco
Oct 05, 2021
Middle School English Class: Maximum Trauma, Minimum Word Count
Sep 14, 2021
On Novellas, and Variable Equine Stature
Aug 31, 2021
Resident Evil: MILF But The M Stands For Mold
Aug 02, 2021
Read Your Id
Jul 20, 2021
The Sporror!
Jul 06, 2021
We've ALL Read the Necronomicon: or H.P. Lovecraft, The Sex Life of a Gentleman
Jun 22, 2021
POV You Are Two Walls in Love
Jun 07, 2021
Library Book Death Pact
May 24, 2021
The Year of Living Indoorsily
May 10, 2021
Nice Things For Murderbot!
Apr 27, 2021
2020: A Reread
Jan 06, 2021
Love Wins, Allegedly: The Supernatural Story
Dec 05, 2020
The Lifeboat, by Charlotte Rogan
Nov 18, 2019
Island of the Lost by Joan Druett
Nov 05, 2019
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Oct 22, 2019
We did it. We saw Les Mis.
Sep 09, 2019
Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology
Aug 26, 2019
Castlevania's Dracula is the Only Valid Dracula
Aug 13, 2019
No Beast So Fierce, by Dane Huckelbridge
Jul 22, 2019
Good Omens, by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Jul 09, 2019
Good Omens, Bad Accents
Jun 25, 2019
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Jun 01, 2019
Dracula by Bram Stoker
May 15, 2019
Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History by Bill Schutt
Apr 29, 2019
Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
Apr 15, 2019
A Wretched and Precarious Situation by David Welky
Apr 04, 2019
Les Mis, aka Javert Apologism
Feb 26, 2019
We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix
Feb 11, 2019
The Passage by Justin Cronin
Jan 29, 2019
The Ruins by Scott Smith
Jan 11, 2019
The Bad Relative's Guide to Last Minute Gift Giving
Dec 25, 2018
Black Sails pt 1: Another Cursèd Pirate Ship
Nov 28, 2018
Pure. Gay. Drama.
Nov 20, 2018
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Nov 12, 2018
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Nov 03, 2018
The Indifferent Stars Above by Daniel James Brown
Oct 30, 2018
Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident by Donnie Eichar
Oct 16, 2018
The Hunger by Alma Katsu
Oct 01, 2018
Remnant Population by Elizabeth Moon
Sep 17, 2018
Comestopnathus!
Sep 05, 2018
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Aug 22, 2018
Ernest Shackleton Please Love Me
Aug 06, 2018
Ernest Shackleton Did Okay, Considering
Jul 19, 2018
John Carpenter's The Thing
Jul 03, 2018
Who Goes There by John W. Campbell, Jr
Jun 18, 2018
The Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
Jun 04, 2018
The Terror 2: Yet More Terror
May 23, 2018
The Martian by Andy Weir
May 14, 2018
When You Wish Upon A Car
Apr 30, 2018
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
Apr 16, 2018
The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin
Mar 19, 2018
Minisode: Annihilation
Feb 27, 2018
The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
Feb 05, 2018
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Jan 22, 2018
The Fifth Element (Is Mass Extinction)
Jan 08, 2018
President Jimmy Buffet, and Other Nautical Tales
Dec 23, 2017
Panem? I Hardly Know 'Em!
Nov 27, 2017
Minisode: World War Z
Nov 14, 2017
An Study of Brainrot
Nov 07, 2017
Slippery Robert De Niro: The Modern Prometheus
Oct 17, 2017
Canned Beans in the Cracked Cellars of Hell
Oct 17, 2017
Don't Go To The Arctic
Oct 02, 2017