Episode 309: The Tower Treasure (The Hardy Boys #1) (with Christina Cooke)

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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 309: The Tower Treasure (The Hardy Boys #1) (with Christina Cooke)

The SSR Podcast

59 minutes 27 seconds

10 months ago

Episode 309: The Tower Treasure (The Hardy Boys #1) (with Christina Cooke)

At last, the Hardy Boys get an episode all their own! Episode 309 takes a deep dive into the first book in the series—The Tower Treasure—as well as the bestselling franchise as a whole... and the conversation is juicy! Launched in the 1920s, the Hardy Boys prompts discussion about gendered book marketing, racism, white saviorism, letting boys be boys, virtuous poverty, Nancy Drew, the interchangeability of the Hardy brothers, nepotism, obstruction of justice, portrayals of law enforcement, and depictions of women.

Christina Cooke is the author of Broughtupsy. Follow her on Instagram @christina.j.cooke.

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When the Emperor Was Divine by Julia Otsuka

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MORE READING:

"Book Review: The Tower Treasure (1927) and The Tower Treasure (1959) by Franklin W. Dixon" (Read-At-Home Mom, 2017)

"I read all 190 Hardy Boys books" (Reddit, 2023)

"In Which I Read My First Hardy Boys Mystery" (Pages Unbound, 2022)

"Reading Through the Hardy Boys Mysteries (Books 1-10)" (Pages Unbound, 2023)

"1: The Tower Treasure" (Hardy Boys Book Reviews, 2013)

"The Hardy Boys have not aged well" (Reddit, 2024)

"The Hardy Boys: Comparing Hulu's Show to the Classic Book Series" (Den of Geek, 2020)

"The Knotty Nostalgia of the Hardy Boys Series" (The Atlantic, 2019)

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