Ep. 34 The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison -- The Stacks Book Club (Renée Hicks)
The Bluest Eye is the first novel of Nobel Laureate, Toni Morrison, it is also The Stacks Book Club pick this week. We dissect this American classic and discuss its many themes including race, beauty, love and abuse with Renée Hicks, founder of Book Girl Magic. Our conversation covers the entire book, which means there are a lot of spoilers. Go read the book and then come back and listen.
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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Pride by Ibi Zoboi
Beloved by Toni Morrison
"Why America's Black Mothers and Babies Are in a Life-or-Death Crisis" (Linda Villarosa, New York Times)
"Black Women Face More Trauma During Childbirth" (Catherine Pearson, The Huffington Post)
Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington
"The Surgeon Who Experimented on Slaves" (Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic)
"Serena Williams: What my life-threatening experience taught me about giving birth" (Serena Williams, CNN.com)
Top Ten Most Challenged Books List (American Library Association)
Native Son by Richard Wright
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
"Ep. 20 The Stacks Book Club – Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates" (The Stacks)
"Lana Del Rey Stepped into Kanye West's Instagram Comments to Call Him a Narcissist" (Mehera Bonner, Cosmopolitan)
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
The Color Purple (Film)
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