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.
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.
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
by Sherring D.
Convicted at the age of nine for the death of an eight-week-old baby girl Annalise, Mary B. Addison is serving time at a group home for convicted teens. Allowed to have a part-time job at a nursing home and to leave the group home on weekends wearing an ankle bracelet, Mary much rather prefers the group home to what she calls “baby jail,” where she first initially was serving her sentence.
Categories: Goodreads, Random Thoughts, Uncategorized • Tags: book review, Books, fiction, Goodreads, YA fiction, YA Lit, YA Literature
by Sherring D.
Biggie. Tupac. Lauryn Hill. Lil Kim. Hip Hop. Late 90s. Let Me Hear a Rhyme was published in 2019 for today’s youngsters, but it was a trip down memory lane for this child of the 80s and 90s.
Categories: Back in the Day, Goodreads, Uncategorized • Tags: 90s, 90s music, book review, Books, Goodreads, YA fiction, YA Literature
by Sherring D.
Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D. JacksonMy rating: 3 of 5 stars This book wrecked me in such a way that I’m a fan and want to read Tiffany D. Jackson’s other books. That could be my full review, but I’ll keep going. I wasn’t ready for the story I embarked on even though I should have been with Easter eggs, like the multiple references to Flowers in the Attic by VC Andrews. Monday Charles, a black teen, has gone […]
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