The Princess Diaries and a Prince's Memoir
Dolls of Our Lives
Allison Horrocks and Mary Mahoney
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
The Princess Diaries is a novel about an ordinary teen, Mia Thermopolis, who discovers she is actually heir to a throne in a distant country few people have even heard of. In addition to the challenges of math class, Mia has to decide if she would like to be the ruler (someday) of this small, fictional foreign nation. We discuss this classic coming-of-age story and the enduring allure (or fear) of being a princess. Since this is also the same month that Prince Harry's memoir debuted, we also got into the connections between these two royals. What does it mean to take charge of your own story?
Next up: We'll cover Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It by Kaitlyn Tiffany.
Original air date: January 28, 2023
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everyone to all of our lives. This is the podcast where we're reliving the American Girl series book by book, |
| 0:17.0 | September and Patreon or we're doing whatever we want or you tell us that you want. I'm Mary. I'm Allison. I am also an official at |
| 0:26.0 | tache to Genovia. What a huge honor to have an international member of |
| 0:31.8 | diplomacy with us. Are you prepared to kick things off by |
| 0:35.3 | singing the Genovian National Anthem? I could I will not so you know this role kind of came as a surprise to me after I was crowned at the Cultural Diversity Dance but |
| 0:55.0 | that Patricia Cabot told me that this is my life now so... Not the Cultural Diversity Dance. |
| 1:01.6 | Oh my God, so much. |
| 1:04.3 | There's like, there's so much with, |
| 1:06.5 | we should say before we go further, |
| 1:07.8 | we're here to discuss, make habits, the Princess Diaries. |
| 1:11.6 | But we have also watched the movie. |
| 1:13.8 | With all of you, some of you. |
| 1:16.0 | With a lot of you, it was wonderful. |
| 1:17.9 | We had a watch along and we're kind of getting into a fun groove |
| 1:22.2 | with a lot of people. had some really good feedback when we ask people like what do you want how do you want to participate in this community and for some people discord is everything some people are not on discord so it's like people are |
| 1:34.7 | interacting in different ways but we love that all of you tune in to listen and hear us either talk about the book or you know |
| 1:41.8 | do whatever it is that makes sense for you as a patron |
| 1:44.8 | exactly and should we give a preview of what's coming up over the next few months? |
| 1:49.9 | Yeah I would love to so we're talking today about the Princess Diaries, |
| 1:53.6 | and if you're listening to this, sadly, |
| 1:55.8 | our group watch of that happened in the past. |
| 1:58.8 | But we're moving on at break next speed |
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