by Sherring D.
Let’s be clear: no actor can fill the shoes of Chadwick Boseman as Black Panther, but Black Panther did not die. Chadwick Boseman an incredible person with a beautiful soul has left us in the physical form. That is who we mourn. His legacy will be with us forever. Today we should celebrate him on what would have been his 44th birthday.
Categories: Goodwatch, Random Thoughts, Uncategorized • Tags: actor, Black Panther, Chadwick Boseman, Rest in Peace
by Sherring D.
No real self-respecting book lover abuses books. By abuse, I mean crack the spine, mark it up, rip pages on purpose or by accident, toss around carelessly, and most definitely do not dog ear pages. Only monsters do that.
Categories: Back in the Day, Fabulousness, Listicle, Random Thoughts, Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: Book nerd, Book Things, Bookish Things, Bookmarks, Books, reading
by Sherring D.
I usually don’t like second-person narration, but the memoir also doubles as a letter to his mother, almost a love letter even. Even though she was abusive, he loved and loves her still and wishes to tell her all he experienced and went through growing up as a young Black man in America. Southern America. “I looked like a big, dark, black man since I was an eleven-year-old boy.” As a teen and a passenger in his mother’s car, a police officer pulled her over but asked for his ID, assuming he was an adult. Thank goodness his mother had the wherewithal to know her rights and to inform the cops that the passenger was not only her son, but a minor.
Categories: Goodreads, Random Thoughts, Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: Black Stories, book review, Goodreads, memoir, Nonfiction
by Sherring D.
Jasmine Guillory’s The Wedding Date is such a cute romantic novel. Stupid me didn’t realize that it’s actually the first book in the series. Months ago, if not a year ago, I read The Proposal first, my logic being that there must first be a wedding proposal to not only set a wedding date, but need a wedding date, as in a plus one. Nope. If you’re reading this, and also interested in reading the series, The Wedding Date is first. Much to my relief, they don’t have to be read in order. They work as standalone novels you won’t miss anything.
Alexis Monroe and Andrew Nichols’ meet-cute happens when they’re both trapped in a hotel elevator. She’s en route to meet her attorney-sister who’s staying at the Oakland hotel for business, and he’s in town for a wedding.
Categories: Fabulousness, Goodreads, Random Thoughts, Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: book review, Books, fiction, Goodreads, novel
by Sherring D.
At its core, Luster is a novel about a young woman Stumbling and Struggling—note the capital S—to find her way, without the help of a real support system of family or friends. Ironically, it’s after she goes through a major crisis and trauma that she admits to herself and out loud to another person that she’s an artist.
Categories: Goodreads, Random Thoughts, Uncategorized • Tags: book review, Books, fiction, Goodreads
by Sherring D.
It’s no wonder Harris’s soul looks back. Through a romance with Sam, a colleague more than ten years her senior, she ran in the same circles as Sam’s best friend James (Jimmy) Baldwin, Maya Angelou, and Toni Morrison.
Categories: Goodreads, Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: Book Reaction, book review, Books, Goodreads, memoir
by Sherring D.
There There by Tommy Orange My rating: 4 of 5 stars In my attempt to diversify my reading, I reserved an audio copy of There There by Tommy Orange at the New York Public Library via Libby, the app that has saved me so much money. It was a swift breakup with Audible. Last year, or the year before, There There’s beautiful orange cover kept popping up in my feed. I follow a lot of bookstagrammers, publishers, and other pages […]
Categories: Goodreads, Random Thoughts, Uncategorized • Tags: book review, Books, fiction, Goodreads, novel
by Sherring D.
Once this pandemic hit, all that fiscally responsible shit went out the window. I’m sequestering alone. I’m anxious. I’m sad. I’m scared. I’m lonely. Cooking and eating comfort me.
Categories: Random Thoughts, Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: cooking, Coronavirus, food, Kitchen Appliances, loneliness, Therapy
by Sherring D.
I tiptoed into the podcast-listening world. I went from Soundcloud to Google Music to a now-defunct app that let you earn points per minute listened and now I’ve landed at Spotify. It’s not one of the platforms that let’s your rate or leave reviews, like iTunes or Stitcher, but I like it.
Categories: Fabulousness, Random Thoughts, Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: Audiobook, Books, entertainment, International Podcast Day, National Podcast Day, Podcast, Podcasts
