120: Music in My Heart: Our Journey with Melody

Dolls of Our Lives

Allison Horrocks and Mary Mahoney

Society & Culture, History

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

People say that music has the power to take us anywhere. American Girl took that literally with the third Melody book, Music in My Heart. In this choose-your-own adventure novel, we follow a protagonist as she goes back in time and navigates Melody's world. This forces us to decide whether we'd rather make music with Melody's brother or learn about the Civil Rights movement alongside her sister. With more than a dozen options for read-throughs, this book has something for everyone, including a Rosa Parks cameo. We discuss this genre of book, the choices we made in our journey with Melody, and our viewings of the Barbie movie.

Resources we reference:

Leslie Jamison. “The Enduring Allure of Choose Your Own Adventure Books.” The New Yorker. The New Yorker, September 12, 2022. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/09/19/the-enduring-allure-of-choose-your-own-adventure-books.
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‌Beyonce's Assistant Choose-Your-Own Adventure Game by Landon: https://twitter.com/CORNYASSBITCH/status/1142592498730061824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1142592498730061824%7Ctwgr%5Eefe00af6e1d134b64b50971351d4c8d6ced087d9%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fjunkee.com%2Fbeyonce-assistant-choose-adventure-game%2F210734

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, this is Mary and before we get into the episode, I just wanted to take a quick
0:04.1	minute and remind you that you can pre-order our book, Dolls of Our Lives, while we can't
0:08.8	quit American Girl. At any bookseller of your choice, you can go to bookshop.org,
0:14.2	where you'll find our own store with a link to buy it from any independent bookseller.
0:19.0	You can also go to our website, DollsOfOurLivesPod.com, with another link to again,
0:23.7	buy it anywhere you want to buy your favorite books. We so appreciate all of you supporting our
0:28.5	show, and we're so excited to share our book with you. We'll also be recording and releasing
0:33.5	an audio book, version of the book, and we look forward to sharing that information with you soon.
0:38.6	Thanks again, everyone. We really so, so appreciate all of you.
0:51.2	Welcome everyone to Dolls of Our Lives. This is the podcast where we're reliving the American
0:55.8	Girl series book by book. I'm Mary. I'm still Allison. Neither one of us is Barbie. No, or Barbara.
1:03.9	Or Barbara. Or Ruth. Or Ken. Hi Barbie. Hi Ken. Hi Barbie. Hi Barbie. Hi Barbie. Hi Barbie. Hi Barbie.
1:12.0	Hi Barbie. Hi Barbie. Hi Barbie. But we're both a hashtag Kineph. Perhaps? I don't know.
1:17.3	I think I'm Kineph if I needed to be. How has the Barbie movie changed your life?
1:24.8	Wow. I mean, I've been I think the greatest compliment you can give anything in pop culture is like
1:30.3	I've been thinking about it a lot. Yes. And like I've been thinking about it a lot. I did realize going
1:35.2	to see it that I don't own anything pink, which I think there was like a call to action like
1:40.8	dress, pink, or Barbie style. I wasn't able to do that, but I did have fun seeing everybody's
1:47.2	outfits and things like that. It was the first time I'd been to a movie theater in like years.
1:51.7	Like years and years since before the pandemic actually. So it was like a big moment for me
1:56.9	on all levels by a lot of thoughts and feelings about it. But how do you feel about it? I separate my
2:02.1	clothes by color like a cartoon character. So I went to the pink section of my closet and I made a
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