Ep. 34 The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison — The Stacks Book Club (Renée Hicks)
The Stacks
Traci Thomas
4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2018
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
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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| 0:00.0 | Hi and a podcast about books. I'm your host Tracy Thomas and this week for the Stacks |
| 0:14.9 | book club we are discussing Nobel Prize winner Tony Morrison's debut novel |
| 0:19.2 | The Bluest Eye and Renee Hicks founder of Book Girl Magic is back with us again to help |
| 0:25.1 | unpack all the layers of this classic novel. But first I want to say a huge |
| 0:30.7 | thank you to all of you. It's the day before Thanksgiving here in |
| 0:34.2 | America and it would be insane of me not to thank this wonderful community for |
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| 0:43.8 | social media to sending me messages and letting me know what you thought of the |
| 0:47.0 | show I have just loved creating this show and getting to know so many of you so |
| 0:51.4 | thank you thank you thank So thank you, thank you, thank you. Did you read the bluest eye along with us? Do you |
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