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#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 7: To Be Read

08/07/2018 by Sherring D.

#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day7: To Be Read: a book you’ve been waiting to read As of now, my Goodreads account says I have 404 To Be Read books. I’m sure I have more titles scribbled on random pieces of paper, emails and texts I sent to myself. What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons received lots of publicity and positive reviews when it was released in June 2017. Considering the aforementioned out-of-control To Be Read list, and my struggle to save money […]

Categories: Goodreads, Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: Black Love Books, Instagram, Mother-Daughter Relationships, Read Soul Lit, To Be Read, What We Lose

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#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 6: #MCM

08/06/2018 by Sherring D.

#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 6: #MCM: a male partner, husband or love interest I’m taking a bit of liberty with this one. Instead of writing about a character, I’m writing about an author. I can’t remember who I discovered first back in high school: Eric Jerome Dickey or Omar Tyree. I do remember a time when it seemed like I was always reading one of their books or one by Carl Weber or Michael Baisden. Friends and Lovers is one of […]

Categories: Goodreads, Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: Black Love Books, book challenge, Eric Jerome Dickey, Instagram, MCM, Read Soul Lit

#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 5: Tough

08/05/2018 by Sherring D.

#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 5: Tough: a relationship that endured tough times Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is one of those novels that seems to appear on every “Best Of” list. Honors for the novel include National Book Critics Circle Award and being voted one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by the New York Times Book Review in 2013. In 2017, it beat out four other titles to win One Book, One New York, which was kind of […]

Categories: Goodreads, Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: Americanah, Black Love Books, book challenge, Instagram, Read Soul Lit

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#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 4: Fantasy

08/04/2018 by Sherring D.

#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 4: Fantasy: a fantasy-based novel with a love connection. Now I will admit that fantasy is not my thing at all. I can watch fantasy/sci-fi movies and TV shows for hours on end, (I’m looking at you Game of Thrones and Lost; not you Lord of the Rings), but reading the genre feels like a chore, or even punishment. I picked up a copy of A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle almost as soon as […]

Categories: Goodreads, Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: A Wrinkle In Time, Black Love Books, book challenge, Instagram, love, read

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#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 3: Relationship Goals

08/03/2018 by Sherring D.

#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 3: Relationship Goals: a couple with an ideal relationship “Couple” and “love” do not always have to have romantic connotations. I chose the memoir Sing To Me: My Story of Making Music, Finding Magic, and Searching for Who’s Next by singer-songwriter-music-exec L.A. Reid, which I read as an audiobook. In it, Reid talks about his decades-long friendship and business partnership with the legendary Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds. I think it’s beautiful that he talks about the ups and downs of his relationship […]

Categories: Goodreads, Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: Black Love Books, book challenge, Bromance, music, read, Read Soul Lit

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#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 2: Favorite Couple

08/02/2018 by Sherring D.

#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 2: Favorite Couple: your favorite couple in a book How could you not love Janie & Tea Cake in Zora Neal Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God? They didn’t give a damn about people’s opinions about their “unconventional relationship.” Tea Cake was younger than Janie by more than a decade, he was her third husband, but he was the love of her life. Janie was just sixteen when her grandmother arranged for her to marry first husband […]

Categories: Goodreads, Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: Black Love Books, book challenge, read, Soul Lit

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#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 1: YA Love

08/01/2018 by Sherring D.

#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 1: YA Love: a young adult book on love I keep saying that I’m going to expand my reading horizons and incorporate more YA novels into the mix. Back in my bookstore working days, I didn’t understand grown adults purchasing young adult novels, which to me were barely different from kids’ books. After all, they were shelved in the same section. Even after leaving the bookstore, I continued to be baffled by my grown office co-workers reading […]

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#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 7: To Be Read

#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 6: #MCM

#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 5: Tough

#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 4: Fantasy

#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 3: Relationship Goals

#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 2: Favorite Couple

#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 1: YA Love