I changed my name to Shaun Berry Winters in 2025 to align more with who I am as a human being on this planet. I am ancient, OMG. 44 is so old! Right? But it is where I am on this journey of life. Most days I don’t mind it though. It is beautiful to be alive, right?
When I was a young one, FOREVER AGO I KNOW, I loved reading. I enjoyed book series like “Fear Street”, “Sweet Valley High” and “The Baby-sitters Club”. I stopped reading when life happened for many years and I keep coming back to that old friend when I am able. Recently, I found myself returning to books and reminding myself that we are allowed to read what we enjoy in life. We are allowed to love the books we love. We do not have to read everything, we have to read what we enjoy and embrace who we are at our cores. If that is a mystery book lover, BE IT. If that is a classic book lover, BE IT. If you want to read everything under the sun, BE IT. Be the reader that you want to be and I am embracing that. You don’t have to read 500 books in a year to be a reader and I am embracing that. I read what I can when I can.
Some favorite books: The Selection by Kiera Cass, The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin, the “Fear Street” series by R.L. Stine, and so many more. I am hoping on this journey that I find some other favorites.
This site will include more than just books. It will include opinions about the world, if I am writing, reviews for movies and television that I am watching, and pretty much anything that I want it to be. The name of the site is BERRY WINTERS after all. So I will try to make sure to use tags and if you like only certain posts, you can filter that way, but the beauty of “ABOUT BERRY” is this site is ABOUT ME. I can post what I feel from day to day.
I work in my day to day life as a social worker in a library system! It is a weird and interesting job. I get to be around books all day, but also help people to find resources in the community that I live in. Who knew that you could mix the two together? I surely didn’t when I became a social worker. I love getting to feel like I spend all day in a forest of books.
