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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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- Reading Challenge Death Match Check In 2: The World War II Spectrum of Quality · 23 min · Sesong 4 Episode 40We compare books. Hopes are raised and dashed. Determination grows. The stakes have never been higher. Shonen anime intro. Cyrus summons their smuggest expressions. Sarah gets…
- 2026 Reading Death Match - Checkpoint 1 · 16 min · Sesong 4 Episode 39The first month of the reading death match has passed, and your fighters are already at each other's throats. Sarah promises that this time she's really going to do it. Cyrus…
- The $500 Tortoise and Hare Literary Death Match · 1 t 3 minOle Sarah needs a win, and by GOD she is going to get one. Or else she is making that everyone else's problem. In this episode, we hash out the rules for the contest that will…
- Animorphs 43-47: A Tale of Three Vissers · 57 min · Sesong 4 Episode 37We're back on that Animorphs grind, this time covering The Test, The Unexpected, The Revelation, The Deception, and The Resistance. And guys, these books that are meant for…
- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir · 51 min · Sesong 4 Episode 36It doesn't get much zeitgeist-ier than this episode's book, Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, a non-political (press f to doubt) hard sci-fi about overcoming your own pathetic…
- Ol' Sarah Could Really Use A Win (a mid-year TBR check-in) · 54 min · Sesong 4 Episode 35This week, Sarah and Cyrus take a look at back at their lofty goals for 2026 and see how far along they're getting in their TBR piles - as expected, it quickly devolves into a…
- How To Learn Languages Fast But Maybe Not Like. That Fast · 50 min · Sesong 4 Episode 34In this episode, EPIC HIGHS AND LOWS! The heady rush of triumph, the crushing blow of betrayal, the anguish of stealing failure from the jaws of success: all this and more can be…
- Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Endure Domestic Air Travel · 44 min · Sesong 4 Episode 33This week, two idiots discuss a third. We read Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die by Greer Stothers, the story of a craven buffoon and the asshole he's pestering. We saw a lot…
- Cleaning (With The Help of Books) · 1 t 15 min · Sesong 4 Episode 32Want to know a secret? Cleaning sucks. Want to know an even bigger secret? There are books that are supposed to help you deal with how much cleaning sucks! This week, Cyrus and…
- Writers Talking About Writing Books About Writing · 51 min · Sesong 4 Episode 31This week we're talking about the ultimate topic writers love to talk about: writing. God, writers love talking about writing. Cyrus takes a break from cranking out their novel…
- Heated Rivalry (ft. A Proprietary Nootropic Mushroom Blend Inspired By Psychodelics) · 56 min · Sesong 4 Episode 30Hello, 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…
- Taboo Romance and Captive Prince · 1 t 7 min · Sesong 4 Episode 30Dark 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…
- There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm · 50 min · Sesong 4 Episode 29It'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…
- THE PILE: Dissecting Our TBR Lists · 52 min · Sesong 4 Episode 28This 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…
- 2025 ROUND UP: The Milk Chronicles · 49 min · Sesong 4 Episode 27At 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…
- What To Read When You Aren't Reading · 53 min · Sesong 4 Episode 26Hello, 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…
- Animorphs Part 8: You Can't Keep Inventing Gods! · 55 min · Sesong 4 Episode 25Hello 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…
- Heaven Official's Blessing (Part 3 and 4) · 59 min · Sesong 4 Episode 24This 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…
- Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin · 1 t 0 min · Sesong 4 Episode 23This 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…
- Heaven Official's Blessing (Volumes 1 and 2) · 54 min · Sesong 4 Episode 22Welcome 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…
