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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

Stuck in a Rut

01/18/2019 by Sherring D.

After MONTHS of not writing and barely even reading (missed my Goodreads goal again), I clawed myself out of the rut I somehow found myself stuck in. Well, no, not somehow. There’s always an ebb and flow to the motivation that sparks me to pursue my creative outlets of reading and writing. Blame it on the weather. Blame it on my dissatisfaction with my career. Blame it on a lackluster social and love life. Blame it on the lure of […]

Categories: Random Thoughts, Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: depression, reading, self care, writing

Up For a Challenge

07/25/2018 by Sherring D.

Helen of Troy’s face launched a thousand ships, and Kiki’s love inspired a song that launched an internet dance challenge craze started by @theshiggyshow. Long before I finally heard the full length of Drake’s In My Feelings, the same seconds-long clip played as people jumped out of cars making hearts with their hands and criss-crossing their legs in the same choreography Kiki, do you love me? Are you riding? Say you’ll never ever leave from beside me ‘Cause I want […]

Categories: Goodreads, Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: Black Love, Bookstagram, challenge, Drake, reading

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

I Failed the Goodreads Challenge and It’s OK

01/05/2017 by Sherring D.

I stopped setting New Year’s resolutions. Not only is it cliché to set new goals at the start of a new year, but it’s too much self-imposed pressure. Besides, I don’t think I should wait for a new calendar year to eat better, exercise more or be a better me. That didn’t stop me from joining the Goodreads reading challenge. I set my goal to fully read 36 books in 2016. It seemed reasonable. As a book nerd, I leave […]

Categories: Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: Books, challenge, Goodreads, reading

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 […]

Categories: Goodreads, Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: book review, fiction, God Help the Child, novel, reading, Toni Morrison

Turn the Page?

03/19/2016 by Sherring D.

I’ve wanted to read Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates for months. I read about it in magazines and online, spotted fellow commuters reading it and saw it listed as a National Book Award finalist. I remember seeing a paparazzi shot of Jill Scott carrying it outside of an airport. I figured I’d read it in due time. Translation: when it’s in paperback. I prefer to buy paperback over hardcover because of price and portability. I concede and […]

Categories: Goodreads, Random Thoughts, Uncategorized • Tags: African-American, America, Books, discrimination, memoir, mood, motivation, racism, reading, TV

Posts, Likes and What I Read

03/09/2016 by Sherring D.

I’m feeling like a rock star. Well, not really, but I am feeling kinda special. Two of my Facebook and Instagram posts garnered a lot (for me) of “likes” and comments. I even got a text from an out-of-state cousin’s girlfriend. Last night I went to an author event at the Barnes and Noble located in Union Square. The author was Padma Lakshmi for her new memoir Love, Loss, and What We Ate. I know of Lakshmi and I like […]

Categories: Goodreads, Random Thoughts, Uncategorized • Tags: author event, Barnes and Noble, book signing, Books, eating, loss, love, Love Loss & What We Ate, memoir, reading

Check, Please!

02/27/2016 by Sherring D.

I didn’t join a book club because I love to read, although I do. I joined because I love to eat. The problem is I don’t like to eat alone in public. I don’t mean fast food restaurants like Wendy’s and McDonald’s, or other chains like Pret and Au Bon Pain. You’ll catch me eating at those places if I’m trying to kill time for something else, like a movie. In that case, I’d read a book or magazine to […]

Categories: Goodreads, Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: book club, Books, Brooklyn, eating, food, Goodreads, Harlem, Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, reading, restaurants

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