24: How the West Was Fun: Changes for Kirsten

Dolls of Our Lives

Allison Horrocks and Mary Mahoney

Society & Culture, History

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2020

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Riffing on Janet Shaw, the wise songstress Sheryl Crow once said: "a change would do you good." As we read the sixth Kirsten book, we heeded these wise words and phoned a friend. For our discussion of Changes for Kirsten, we are joined by NY Times television critic Margaret Lyons. Working together, we try to find Shonda Rhimes and reason in the plot twists of this book. This proved challenging in a dense volume that includes a raccoon abduction, a house fire, and Kirsten’s discovery of a dead man in a cave. With Margaret’s guidance, however, we came to a new appreciation of our eponymous yellow -haired heroine. We also stepped outside the text to offer a dramatic reading of the Janet Shaw original "Miss Winston's Reply," a play designed for 4-6 adolescents.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to
0:02.0	Albe's the answer.
0:03.0	Which supermarket is both which, cheapest supermarket
0:06.0	2022, and good housekeeping reader's favorite
0:09.0	supermarket, 2023.
0:11.0	spoiler alert, it ain't asder
0:13.0	yes ALD is the answer shop at ALD and see if you could save your family fortunes Hello and welcome to American Girls, the podcast where we're reliving the American
0:37.7	Girl series book by book. I'm Mary and I'm just going to take this opportunity
0:42.0	to quickly introduce the episode you're about to hear.
0:45.6	We are so so excited for the fact that we had Margaret Lyons, New York Times, television critic.
0:52.2	Join us on our last episode covering the Kirsten books.
0:55.8	On this episode, we talk about changes for Kirsten.
0:59.2	She very graciously came on the show
1:01.2	and really had so many amazing insights to share. I also feel like I
1:06.1	need to thank her publicly again for participating in a play that we acted out
1:11.2	on this episode called Miss Winston's reply.
1:14.0	I found this play among Honest Collection of American Girl materials
1:18.0	and it was just too bizarre not for us to engage in some way and the fact that it had far more
1:25.2	parts than players didn't stop us maybe it should have I guess you'll be the
1:31.2	judge Allison does a phenomenal job.
1:33.6	Margaret and I really roll with it. I try to keep up with everyone else. I don't have a
1:37.5	lot of talent for acting, but you know we certainly threw everything we had
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