SSR Podcast

SSR Podcast

Hosted ByAlli Hoff Kosik

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 11: Goosebumps // Welcome to Dead House

August 28, 2018 SSR Podcast 00:55:44 Comments Off on Episode 11: Goosebumps // Welcome to Dead House

Twenty years too late, Alli is finally joining the Cool Kids Club and reading Goosebumps for the first time! In Episode 11 of The SSR Podcast, we discuss the...

Episode 10: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe

August 21, 2018 SSR Podcast 01:09:49 Comments Off on Episode 10: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe

On Episode 10, Good Christian Fun podcast co-host Caroline Ely joins us to discuss the third — but best known — book in C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia series,...

Episode 09: Little House on the Prairie

August 14, 2018 SSR Podcast 01:00:08 Comments Off on Episode 09: Little House on the Prairie

With the help of elementary education pro and super-reader Drew Gannon, we’re talking all things Little House on the Prairie and Laura Ingalls Wilder on Episode 9. We’ll dig...

Episode 08: Animal Farm

August 7, 2018 SSR Podcast 00:50:35 Comments Off on Episode 08: Animal Farm

It’s time for a little required reading! On Episode 8 of The SSR Podcast, we talk with film and TV writer Meredith Dawson about George Orwell’s political allegory Animal...

Episode 07: The Baby-Sitters Club // Kristy’s Great Idea

July 31, 2018 SSR Podcast 00:53:11 Comments Off on Episode 07: The Baby-Sitters Club // Kristy’s Great Idea

Say hello to your friends! The Baby-Sitters Club by Ann M. Martin is quite possibly the most iconic book series of the 80s and 90s… and we’re breaking it...

Episode 06: Sloppy Firsts

July 24, 2018 SSR Podcast 01:03:28 Comments Off on Episode 06: Sloppy Firsts

On this episode of The SSR Podcast, we break down Megan McCafferty’s 2001 novel Sloppy Firsts, the first book in the bestselling Jessica Darling series. We dive into every...

Episode 05: Nancy Drew // The Secret of the Old Clock

July 17, 2018 SSR Podcast 00:53:55 Comments Off on Episode 05: Nancy Drew // The Secret of the Old Clock

Nancy Drew devotees, beware! On this episode of The SSR Podcast, Alli and her guest — Brooklyn-based writer Kase Wickman — take a deep dive into the question of...

Episode 04: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

July 10, 2018 SSR Podcast 00:47:56 Comments Off on Episode 04: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

On this episode of The SSR Podcast, Alli has — refreshingly! — almost nothing bad to say about E.L. Konigsburg’s 1967 book From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil...

Episode 03: Matilda

July 3, 2018 SSR Podcast 00:44:20 Comments Off on Episode 03: Matilda

On this episode of The SSR Podcast, Alli and Alexandra Fishwick (@alexandra_fish) — who is the assistant director of a childcare facility by day, but a writer and the...

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