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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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#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 […]

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#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 4: Fantasy

08/04/2018 by Sherring D.

#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 4: Fantasy: a fantasy-based novel with a love connection. Now I will admit that fantasy is not my thing at all. I can watch fantasy/sci-fi movies and TV shows for hours on end, (I’m looking at you Game of Thrones and Lost; not you Lord of the Rings), but reading the genre feels like a chore, or even punishment. I picked up a copy of A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle almost as soon as […]

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#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 3: Relationship Goals

08/03/2018 by Sherring D.

#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 3: Relationship Goals: a couple with an ideal relationship “Couple” and “love” do not always have to have romantic connotations. I chose the memoir Sing To Me: My Story of Making Music, Finding Magic, and Searching for Who’s Next by singer-songwriter-music-exec L.A. Reid, which I read as an audiobook. In it, Reid talks about his decades-long friendship and business partnership with the legendary Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds. I think it’s beautiful that he talks about the ups and downs of his relationship […]

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#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 2: Favorite Couple

08/02/2018 by Sherring D.

#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 2: Favorite Couple: your favorite couple in a book How could you not love Janie & Tea Cake in Zora Neal Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God? They didn’t give a damn about people’s opinions about their “unconventional relationship.” Tea Cake was younger than Janie by more than a decade, he was her third husband, but he was the love of her life. Janie was just sixteen when her grandmother arranged for her to marry first husband […]

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#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 1: YA Love

08/01/2018 by Sherring D.

#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 1: YA Love: a young adult book on love I keep saying that I’m going to expand my reading horizons and incorporate more YA novels into the mix. Back in my bookstore working days, I didn’t understand grown adults purchasing young adult novels, which to me were barely different from kids’ books. After all, they were shelved in the same section. Even after leaving the bookstore, I continued to be baffled by my grown office co-workers reading […]

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Last One, Then I’m Going to Bed

11/20/2013 by Sherring D.

For the second straight week, I feel like a zombie from The Walking Dead. The other times I was this tired I was writing my thesis for grad school, pulling all-nighters as an undergrad to study for finals, or binge watching the latest craze in excellent TV that I couldn’t go to bed until I finished…one…more…episode…ok the season. Although I referenced The Walking Dead, I can’t watch that show. The moment the first zombie girl came across the screen less […]

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#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 14: Fiction Love Story

#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 12: LGBTQ

#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 4: Fantasy

#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 3: Relationship Goals

#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 2: Favorite Couple

#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 1: YA Love

Last One, Then I’m Going to Bed