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Here for It

10/12/2019 by Sherring D.

She debated hitting the accept button with the green check or the decline button with the red x. It wasn’t a mandatory meeting. Employees were “strongly encouraged” to attend. Even if it were mandatory, what would they do if she didn’t attend? Fire her? Yeah, right. It’s not like this were high school where she could get detention or demerits for not attending a function. This was work. The place she dragged herself to Monday through Friday so she could […]

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Sherring’s Goodreads: The Proposal

09/07/2019 by Sherring D.

It’s not your typical boy-meets-girl, boy and girl fall in love and live happily ever after type of romance and definitely not the type of romance I went through a phase of reading in high school.

Categories: Goodreads, Uncategorized • Tags: book review, Books, fiction, Goodreads, Library books

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Sherring’s Goodreads: My Sister, the Serial Killer

03/13/2019 by Sherring D.

My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite My rating: 3 of 5 stars My Sister, the Serial Killer. Fiction or nonfiction, how could that title not entice you? Not to mention the book cover. A woman, with a gorgeous dark brown complexion, dazzling white teeth, a head-wrap and round mirrored sunglasses, looking a little off to the side. To be quite honest, until I sat down to write the description of the cover, I had not noticed the reflection […]

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#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 14: Fiction Love Story

08/14/2018 by Sherring D.

#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 14: Fiction Love Story “Magic and myth–fiction as we call it” is how Tiphanie Yanique refers to her novel Land of Love and Drowning in her Author’s Note at the end of the book. The novel is loosely based on her own family’s history in her native land of St. Thomas, one of the U.S. Virgin Islands. The novel begins in the early 1900s when the Danish West Indies become the U.S. Virgin Islands. With the backdrop […]

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Sherring’s Goodreads: The Hate U Give

11/03/2017 by Sherring D.

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas My rating: 3 of 5 stars The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas is a work of fiction, but to borrow from the beloved and long-running NBC show Law & Order: SVU, it’s a story line, or several storylines quite frankly) that’s ripped from the headlines. Starr Carter has suffered the trauma of witnessing the shooting deaths of not one, but two close friends a few years apart. The sixteen year old lives […]

Categories: Goodreads, Uncategorized • Tags: Books, fiction, National Book Awards, reading, The Hate U Give

Sherring’s Goodreads: Small Great Things

03/10/2017 by Sherring D.

Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult My rating: 3 of 5 stars Years ago, I read my first Jodi Picoult novel. My Sister’s Keeper left me so devastated I never picked up any of her dozens of other titles. I stayed glued to my lumpy futon reading into the wee hours of the night. A glutton for punishment, I watched the movie adaptation with the cousin, who, also devastated by the book, suggested I read it. Of course the book […]

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Sherring’s Goodreads: The Girl on the Train

10/16/2016 by Sherring D.

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins My rating: 1 of 5 stars I’ve got to stop giving in to peer pressure. And by peer pressure, I mean best seller lists. Over and over, I read about how The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins was comparable to Gone Girl. So wrong, and so false. Gone Girl was a page turner that made me forsake dinner, my DVR’d shows and sleep to continue reading. The Girl on the […]

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Sherring’s Goodreads: Queen Sugar

09/17/2016 by Sherring D.

Queen Sugar by Natalie Baszile My rating: 5 of 5 stars Queen Sugar hadn’t been anywhere on my radar until I started catching promotions for its television series adaptation on Oprah’s network OWN. As the first season of Greenleaf was winding down, commercials said that if viewers liked Greenleaf they would love Queen Sugar. When I learned Ava DuVernay, director of Middle of Nowhere and Selma, was helming the adaptation, I couldn’t wait for the series to begin. With the […]

Categories: Goodreads, Uncategorized • Tags: Ava DuVernay, book review, Books, family, fiction, Goodreads, mother-daughter, Natalie Baszile, OWN, Queen Sugar, relationships

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Sherring’s Goodreads: God Help the Child

09/15/2016 by Sherring D.

God Help the Child by Toni Morrison My rating: 3 of 5 stars “Take a number” is what some might say when I say that Toni Morrison is one of my favorite writers. I wonder if I stand alone in saying that sometimes aspects of her storylines confuse me. It happened with Song of Solomon. I almost gave up on reading Beloved and I straight up did give up with Tar Baby or was it Paradise? In my defense, I […]

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Here for It

Sherring’s Goodreads: The Proposal

Sherring’s Goodreads: My Sister, the Serial Killer

#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 14: Fiction Love Story

Sherring’s Goodreads: The Hate U Give

Sherring’s Goodreads: Small Great Things

Sherring’s Goodreads: The Girl on the Train

Sherring’s Goodreads: Queen Sugar

Sherring’s Goodreads: God Help the Child