Episode 316: Princess Academy (with London Sperry)

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The SSR Podcast

Alli Hoff Kosik

321 episodes

7 months ago

Each week, freelance writer and lifelong bookworm Alli Hoff Kosik will challenge a guest to reread a literary throwback or to experience for the first time ever a book they may have missed as a kid. After that, they'll be asked to spill all the feels and all the opinions about that book on the air for your podcast-listening pleasure. Every Tuesday, you can find us breaking down an old school read from our tween and teen days on a new episode of the show. We'll cover everything from The Baby-Sitters Club to Holes, Nancy Drew to Harry Potter. This time around, we're a little wiser (yay!), a lot older (ugh.), and of legal age to drink wine... so we'll have a lot to say. Happy Reading!

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Episode 316: Princess Academy (with London Sperry)

The SSR Podcast

55 minutes 59 seconds

8 months ago

Episode 316: Princess Academy (with London Sperry)

Add this to the list of Alli's favorite SSR reads of all-time—and just in time for the show to say goodbye in a couple of weeks! Nearly 20 years after it was published and won a Newbery Honor, Shannon Hale's Princess Academy was a delight to read and discuss. The book inspires conversations on Episode 316 about everything from hometown pride and tropes about female bodies to the value of education and lame princes. Alli's guest also blows her mind with some facts about 2025 slang.

London Sperry's debut novel Passion Project hits shelves on 4/8/25. Follow her on Instagram @londonsperrywrites.

CHECK OUT LONDON'S BOOK HERE!

CHECK OUT LONDON'S BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS:

Wedding Dashers by Heather McBreen

Let's Call a Truce by Amy Buchanan

Unromance by Erin Connor

You Between the Lines by Katie Naymon

But How Are You, Really by Ella Dawson

MORE READING:

"Book Review: Princess Academy by Shannon Hale" (Books: A True Story, 2013)

"Review: Princess Academy" (The Princess Blog, 2018)

"Book Review: Princess Academy by Shannon Hale" (Turn the Page, 2012)

"Shannon Hale Says Her Novels Are Not 'Girl Books'" (Bustle, 2015)

"Q&A with Shannon Hale" (Publishers Weekly, 2015)

"One Things Leads to Another: An Interview with Shannon Hale" (The Hub, 2014)

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