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Sherring’s Goodreads: Nappily Ever After

01/21/2019 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

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#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 16: Interracial Love

08/16/2018 by Sherring D.

#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 16: Interracial Love Despite all the accolades and praise that surrounded Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? prior to its release, I’m somewhat embarrassed to admit I had never heard of Kathleen Collins. An artist of many facets, she was a playwright, filmmaker, and writer. She was one of the first black women to ever direct a major film. Collins died of cancer at the age of 46 in 1988. She left behind a trove of unfinished work. Among […]

Categories: Goodreads, Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: Black Love Books, book challenge, Read Soul Lit, Short Stories, Whatever Happened to Interracial Love

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#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 15: Nonfiction Love Story

08/15/2018 by Sherring D.

#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 15: Nonfiction Love Story History often relegates Coretta Scott King to the background story of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Yes, she was his widow and mother of his four children, but she was also an activist and feminist in her own right. She founded the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, lobbied for Dr. King’s birthday to be declared a national holiday, and helped Nelson Mandela get elected president after being released from prison. From Amazon: Coretta’s […]

Categories: Goodreads, Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: Black Love Books, book challenge, Nonfiction, Read Soul Lit

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#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 13: Mystery

08/13/2018 by Sherring D.

#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 13: Mystery Walter Mosley is well-known for his Easy Rawlins mystery series, but The Man in My Basement is a standalone mystery novel. Thirty-something Charles Dodd-Blakely is a heavy drinker, unemployed and after missing several mortgage payments, is in danger of losing the Long Island, New York, house that he lives in and has been in his family for generations. One day Anniston Bennet, a white man in his late fifties, offers Blakely $50,000 to rent out his […]

Categories: Goodreads, Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: Black Love Books, book challenge, Read Soul Lit, Walter Mosley

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#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 12: LGBTQ

08/12/2018 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

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#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 11: Inspirational

08/11/2018 by Sherring D.

#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 11: Inspirational: a book that encourages you to love I worked at Borders Bookstore during the early 2000s. Back then, among some of the books flying off the shelves were Harry Potter, Oprah Book Club selections, and any author who had been a guest on Oprah’s show, including Dr. Phil and Iyanla Vanzant. Being an ignorant and arrogant 20-something-year old, I didn’t read, nor did I think I needed to read Vanzant’s In the Meantime, One Day […]

Categories: Goodreads, Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: Black Love Books, book challenge, Peace from Broken Pieces, Read Soul Lit

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#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 10: Cover Love

08/10/2018 by Sherring D.

#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 10: Cover Love: Beautiful cover and beautiful love story My rinky dink camera phone doesn’t do it justice, but the jacket cover of Tayari Jones‘ An American Marriage is absolutely stunning and gorgeous. Designed by Jaya Miceli, it has a simple graphic of a many-branched tree with the rich topaz background color that makes the whole thing pop. The matching marketing bookmark that I got months before the book’s release was so beautiful added it to my […]

Categories: Goodreads, Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: An American Marriage, Black Love Books, book challenge, Read Soul Lit, Tayari Jones

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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

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Sherring’s Goodreads: Nappily Ever After

#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 16: Interracial Love

#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 15: Nonfiction Love Story

#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 13: Mystery

#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 12: LGBTQ

#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 11: Inspirational

#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 10: Cover Love

#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 9: Sad Ending

#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 8: #WCW