Episode 303: The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (with Sarai Johnson)

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The SSR Podcast

Alli Hoff Kosik

321 episodes

8 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 303: The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (with Sarai Johnson)

The SSR Podcast

55 minutes 8 seconds

11 months ago

Episode 303: The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (with Sarai Johnson)

It's our first-ever holiday episode! No matter what you celebrate at this time of year, Episode 303 will get your wheels turning as we unpack The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson. Alli and her guest chat about the surprisingly religious bent of the book, among other things: the unruly children trope, nativity plays, the book's new adaptation, fatphobia, and disappearing narrators.

Sarai Johnson is the author of Grown Women. Follow her on Instagram @sarajwrites.

CHECK OUT SARAI'S BOOK HERE!

CHECK OUT SARAI'S BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS:

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me by Glory Edim

MORE READING:

"The Best Christmas Pageant Ever Early Review" (Love Thy Nerd, 2024)

"Review: The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson" (The Story Sanctuary, 2020)

"Book Review: The Best Christmas Pageant Ever" (A Journey of Words, 2022)

"The Best Christmas Pageant Ever—Book Review" (Simply Learning Together, 2022)

"The Best Christmas Pageant Ever" (Bookology, 2019)

"The Best Christmas Pageant Ever in Public School?" (Reddit, 2022)

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