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Sherring’s Goodreads: Handbook for an Unpredictable Life

10/22/2016 by Sherring D.

Handbook for an Unpredictable Life: How I Survived Sister Renata and My Crazy Mother, and Still Came Out Smiling by Rosie Pérez My rating: 4 of 5 stars I was completely in shock and awe throughout Rosie Perez’s memoir Handbook for an Unpredictable Life: How I Survived Sister Renata and My Crazy Mother, and Still Came Out Smiling (with Great Hair). I knew Perez as a sassy Nuyorican dancer, choreographer and actress, and was not prepared for what she shared […]

Categories: Goodreads, Uncategorized • Tags: book review, Books, family, Hollywood, memoir, mother-daughter, relationships, Rosie Perez

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