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
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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by Sherring D.
The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother’s Life in the Detroit Numbers by Bridgett M. Davis My rating: 4 of 5 stars As I was reading the last pages of The World According to Fannie Davis, the palm of my right hand began to itch. I smiled. In Haitian culture, an itchy hand means that you’re getting money. It can also mean that you’re losing money, depending on the hand. I can never remember which, so I called my […]
Categories: Goodreads, Uncategorized • Tags: Goodreads, Lottery, memoir, Mother-Daughter Relationships, Numbers, review
by Sherring D.
Nappily Ever After by Trisha R. Thomas My rating: 2 of 5 stars Nappily Ever After has been on my TBR list for over ten years, spanning back to my days of working at Borders Bookstore. There were talks of then “It Girl” Halle Berry adapting it into a film. For whatever reason, not only was the movie not produced, but I never got around to reading the novel. It faded from memory and sunk to oblivion in my TBR […]
Categories: Goodreads, Goodwatch, Uncategorized • Tags: #BlackLove, book review, book-to-movie, Goodreads, Nappily Ever After, Read Soul Lit, reading, Soul Lit
by Sherring D.
#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 12: LGBTQ: a book written by or about LGBTQ community I can’t say much about I Can’t Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race and Other Reasons I’ve Put My Faith in Beyoncé. It’s a recent purchase and still on my TBR list. I kept hearing good things about it, so I had to get it. With such an interesting title, I know the book is bound to be humorous. It’s compared to Phoebe Johnson’s You Can’t Touch My […]
Categories: Goodreads, Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: Black Love Books, book challenge, Goodreads, Humor, I Can't Date Jesus, memoir, read, Read Soul Lit
by Sherring D.
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead My rating: 3 of 5 stars This is going to sound ridiculous, but I don’t care: Oprah bullied me into reading Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad. Do I know Oprah? Of course not. Have I ever met her? She’s on my vision board, so we’ll see. How did she bully me? you ask. Because up until I saw the white, round sticker with a capital O, the telltale sign of a book being declared […]
Categories: Goodreads, Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: book review, Goodreads, Oprah Book Club, Underground Railroad
by Sherring D.
Too bad I don’t have Amazon Prime Video. If I did, I’d watch Z: The Beginning of Everything when the series airs Friday, January 27, 2017. The trailer has been airing on TV, but I paid it no mind. I don’t subscribe to the streaming service, but Wednesday, through my membership with the New York chapter of the Women’s National Book Association, I scored a screening pass at the SVA Theatre in midtown to view two episodes. Security scurrying me […]
Categories: Fabulousness, Goodreads, Goodwatch, Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: Christina Ricci, free screening, Goodreads, Goodwatch, premiere, red carpet, review, Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald, Z: The Beginning of Everything, Zelda Fitizgerald
by Sherring D.
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi My rating: 4 of 5 stars Paul Kalanithi could have easily become a writer, but felt a stronger calling to become a neurosurgeon instead. After he was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer, he focused his time to draft his beautifully written memoir When Breath Becomes Air. The son and brother of doctors was at first deterred by the medical profession which he attributed to his father’s absence from many childhood memories; however, […]
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by Sherring D.
Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person by Shonda Rhimes My rating: 4 of 5 stars Shonda Rhimes is a liar. Her word, not mine. She calls herself this because she likes to make up stuff, all the time. Lucky for her it’s paid off. The highly successful ABC shows Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal, How to Get Away with Murder, and Private Practice (no longer on air) are spawns of what […]
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