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#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 9: Sad Ending

08/09/2018 by Sherring D.

#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 9: Sad Ending: a relationship with an unfortunate ending Loving Donovan by Bernice McFadden left me a little disturbed, but in a good way, kinda like the movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button starring Brad Pitt and Taraji P. Henson did. I read it years ago, and loved it, but I was so unsettled I couldn’t write a review or summary on Goodreads. How does one write about it without giving away the story and robbing people […]

Categories: Goodreads, Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: Bernice McFadden, Black Love Books, book challenge, Loving Donovan, Read Soul Lit

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#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 8: #WCW

08/08/2018 by Sherring D.

#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 8: #WCW Three words: Waiting. To. Exhale. That was my introduction to Terry McMillan. I loved the book, the movie, and the soundtrack. I had absolutely no business reading McMillan’s novel about four grown women’s romantic issues while I was just a high school student. Thank goodness my father never monitored my reading. I couldn’t relate to Savannah, Bernadine, Robin and Gloria’s love lives, but I became engulfed by their stories all the same. I even wondered […]

Categories: Goodreads, Goodwatch, Uncategorized • Tags: Black Love Books, book challenge, Read Soul Lit, Terry McMillan, WCW

#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

#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 […]

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

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#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 9: Sad Ending

#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 8: #WCW

#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