002 - "Their Eyes Were Watching God" Discussion

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Welcome to Checking Out, where Rachel & Hannah check in about what they’re checking out. We talk about our reading since the last episode, and then have a discussion about our book of the month, "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston Instagram: @checkingoutpod Facebook: fb.me/checkingoutpod Classics Book Club: https://www.facebook.com/groups/548140582641762/ Voice Message Link: http://anchor.fm/checkingout/message Zora Festival: https://zorafestival.org/ Books mentioned on this episode: "Metamorphoses" by Ovid "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy "The Lord of the Rings Series" by JRR Tolkien "Katherine of Aragón" by Alison Wier "The Innocent Man" by John Grisham "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black "The Au Pair" by Emma Rous "The Next Pandemic" by Ali Kahn "Becoming" by Michelle Obama "Truly Devious Trilogy" by Maureen Johnson "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman "Unwind" by Neal Shusterman "Working in the Shadows" by Gabriel Thompson "Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver" by Mary Oliver "Aimless Love" by Billy Collins "Vanishing Girls" by Lauren Oliver "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman "The Goldfinch" by Donna Tartt "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles "Body Positive Power" by Megan Jayne Crabbe "My Brilliant Friend" by Elena Ferrante "The Only Plane in the Sky" by Garrett M. Graff "World War Z" by Max Brooks "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston "The Diary of Anne Frank: The Play" by Frances Goodrich "Royals" by Rachel Hawkins "Sammy Keyes and the Kiss Goodbye" by Wendelin Van Draanen "A Blade So Black" by L.L. McKinney "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll "Peter Pan" by JM Barrie "A Dream So Dark" by L.L. McKinney "North and South" by Elizabeth Gaskell "Year of Yes" by Shonda Rhimes "Unearthed" by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner "Sky Without Stars" by Jessica Brody and Joanne Rendell "Les Miserables" by Victor Hugo "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" by Victor Hugo "The Plays of Georgia Douglas Johnson" by Georgia Douglas Johnson "Beloved" by Toni Morrison "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald "Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance" by Zora Neale Hurston "Parable of the Sower" by Octavia Butler "Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet Volume 1" by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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This episode was published on March 1, 2020.

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