Tangents On Cracked Spines
Updating mid-week, this podcast has your host, Frankie, reading public domain books aloud and not editing out the thoughts that spring to their neurodivergent mind. It's like a one-sided book club.
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 35 minutes
- Episodes
- 104
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
The Colour Out of Space part III
Lovecraft lovers! We end this cursed drink of water today and prey for the souls that must drink from the Arkham reservoir. At least now that we know the whole story of the blasted heath. And I rambl…
00:46:58 |
Tue 07 Mar 2023
Feb poems
Apparently, I was in a melancholy mood, or maybe public domain poems by poc authors are. I hope you enjoy them. Bewarned, I botch some Spanish.
00:07:48 |
Wed 01 Mar 2023
The Colour Out of Space part II
More madness from H.P. Lovecraft. This time the Gardners' farm went from being colorful but bitter, to grey and decaying... or rather necrotic. And luminescent. And Ammi had to do and see some terrib…
00:44:30 |
Tue 28 Feb 2023
The Colour Out of Space Part I
More H.P. Lovecraft. So far, not a descent into madness, but madness from outer space?
00:45:26 |
Sun 26 Feb 2023
Mini-sode 2/21
I really went more patriotic than president's day, but that's because I felt closer to it. There's also a lent/Easter poem by Emily Pauline Johnson. Also read were "I hear America Singing" by Walt Wh…
00:11:37 |
Tue 21 Feb 2023
Valentine poems
Today I read aloud a collection of poems for hearts day. From Edgar Allen Poe, Lewis Carroll, and Arthur Macy.
00:07:53 |
Wed 15 Feb 2023
Frankenstein part 1
We begin our first story today, written by the mother of science fiction: Mary W. Shelley. I appologize for the stuttering, I was outside in the wind, trying to hold my phone and my reading material …
00:37:46 |
Tue 14 Feb 2023
The Festival
Join me for another decent into darkness and madness by H.P. Lovecraft. This time Christmas-flavoured.
00:41:30 |
Tue 14 Feb 2023
John Henry
Today I read the folk song of "John Henry" for black history month. And the take away that while being better than the machine may make you famous, it's not worth killing yourself at work. We need mo…
00:08:04 |
Wed 08 Feb 2023
The Nameless City
We start our collection of H.P. Lovecraft stories with The Nameless City. We follow a Nameless narrator as he explores a city only known in lore and quite literally descends into madness. Which, let'…
00:49:22 |
Tue 07 Feb 2023
Imbolc '23
I give a convoluted description of the pagan/celtic holiday and some of its blessings.
00:14:01 |
Wed 01 Feb 2023
The Invisible Man part XII
We finish the Invisible Man today with a chase through town and a rather somber end.
00:35:57 |
Sun 29 Jan 2023
The Invisible Man part XI
Chapter 27. The Invisible Man kills again, plots to "start" his reign of terror with a different death and upgrade to an ax murderer. Hopefully, Kemp can afford to replace all the glass in his house.
00:33:30 |
Wed 25 Jan 2023
Lunar New Year
The race to the jade emperor's palace for a spot in the Chinese zodiac, this year is the year of the rabbit (+ water element), the tortise/hare race between the ox and the rabbit.
00:08:55 |
Mon 23 Jan 2023
The Invisible Man part X
Chapters 24-26. Griffin explains his new plan to start a crime organization, has a brush with the police, actually takes a life, and the town organizes against him. Merch? Www.etsy.com/shop/MamaChatD…
00:39:29 |
Sat 21 Jan 2023
Special: MLK Jr
I read the "We will overcome" speech by Martin Luther King Jr. I should have known it wouldn't be a mini-sode with a 20pg speech. But I tried. I blame my sinus infection for my inability to read his …
00:47:49 |
Wed 18 Jan 2023
Pagan wedding script
Bonus/special request episode! I read the script I created with a couple to officiate a pagan wedding. Note: I am not a Wiccan priestess. I'm an eclectic witch that worships the earth. Contact me/Que…
00:15:46 |
Sat 14 Jan 2023
The Invisible Man part IX
Sorry for the cold-induced darth-vader breathing. Chapter 23 reveals more of Griffin's terrible personality. He actually takes offense for being called a thief, when he quite literally assaulted some…
00:39:35 |
Wed 11 Jan 2023
The Invisible Man Part VIII
We hit the 1/2 way mark with chapters 21 & 22 of The Invisible Man. He continues to recount how he got into his current predicament to Dr. Kemp. It includes streaking around London, being afraid of d…
00:39:43 |
Wed 04 Jan 2023
New years eve special 2022-2023
Happy New Year! Today I read the lyrics to the unofficial Mummers theme song, a poem about how to wish the old year out and the new year in, and a poem on wanting to change in the new year. Merch? Ww…
00:11:29 |
Sun 01 Jan 2023
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