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Sherring’s Goodreads: Love Radio

02/16/2023 by Sherring D.

I’m a reformed book snob, who used to believe adults shouldn’t read YA (young adult). Then I delved into the world of authors Tiffany D. Jackson, Elizabeth Acevedo, Ben Philippe, Dhonielle Clayton, to name a few. These young adult characters experience stress and drama on a level that keeps this grown adult invested in the storylines.

Love Radio is Ebony LaDelle’s debut novel. Not only is it YA, but it’s a love story about teenagers Prince Jones and Danielle (Dani) Ford. I started following LaDelle on Instagram after seeing her speak on a YA panel at the 2019 Well-Read Black Girl festival, which also featured some of the aforementioned writers. Her credentials include book marketing and co-hosting a book club called Why Not YA?

Categories: Goodreads, Random Thoughts, Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: Black Love Books, book review, Books, fiction, Goodreads, love, reading, Sher Date, YA fiction

2022 20 Books by Black Women Reading Challenge

01/07/2023 by Sherring D.

On Twitter and Instagram, @melanatedreader challenged people to read 20 books by Black women in 2022. She collaborated with @danzibooks to create a cute little template to keep track. I readily and easily accepted. I kinda cheated. Memoirs and books written by Black women have a gravitational pull on me. Of the 47 books I completed in 2022, 32 were by Black women.

Categories: Goodreads, Listicle, Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: book challenge, Books, Goodreads, LGBTQ, memoir, reading, science fiction, self help, YA fiction

Sherring’s Goodreads: Angel & Hannah

09/01/2022 by Sherring D.

Angel and Hannah are the epitome of being young and in love and believing themselves to be grown enough to take on the world. Hannah is a first-gen Korean-American from Jamaica Queens, whose parents, no surprise, disapprove of her interracial relationship with Puerto Rican Angel from Brooklyn. Their disapproval would run even deeper if they knew he’s a drug dealing high school drop-out. Nevertheless, Angel shows up at Hannah’s graduation with a $2 rose from the bodega. So sweet. Not long afterwards, Hannah packs her stuff and leaves home as her mother silently hopes that Hannah’s father won’t beat her daughter as he beats her.

Categories: Fabulousness, Goodreads, Uncategorized • Tags: Book Reaction, book review, Books, fiction, Goodreads, love story, YA fiction, Young Love

Sherring’s Goodreads: The Field Guide to the North American Teenager

05/19/2021 by Sherring D.

I loved the adorably awkward Norris Kaplan in Ben Philippe’s The Field Guide to the North American Teenager. The Haitian-Canadian teen is a fish out of water when he moves to Austin, Texas, with his mother. The poor boy is “The New Kid” in high school and is having trouble adjusting to the Texas heat and making friends. At least he’s found a hockey team for some semblance of home.

Categories: Goodreads, Random Thoughts, Uncategorized • Tags: Book recommendations, book review, fiction, Goodreads, Haitian-American, Nonfiction, YA fiction, YA Novel

Sherring’s Goodreads: Allegedly

09/23/2020 by Sherring D.

Convicted at the age of nine for the death of an eight-week-old baby girl Annalise, Mary B. Addison is serving time at a group home for convicted teens. Allowed to have a part-time job at a nursing home and to leave the group home on weekends wearing an ankle bracelet, Mary much rather prefers the group home to what she calls “baby jail,” where she first initially was serving her sentence.

Categories: Goodreads, Random Thoughts, Uncategorized • Tags: book review, Books, fiction, Goodreads, YA fiction, YA Lit, YA Literature

Sherring’s Goodreads: Let Me Hear a Rhyme

09/21/2020 by Sherring D.

Biggie. Tupac. Lauryn Hill. Lil Kim. Hip Hop. Late 90s. Let Me Hear a Rhyme was published in 2019 for today’s youngsters, but it was a trip down memory lane for this child of the 80s and 90s.

Categories: Back in the Day, Goodreads, Uncategorized • Tags: 90s, 90s music, book review, Books, Goodreads, YA fiction, YA Literature

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