Friday Five – Emoji Edition

It’s our favorite day of the week, FRIDAY! Monday, July 17 is World Emoji Day and this week’s Friday Five features just a few of our favorite emojis. Have a great weekend bookworms! ?☀️? ??❤️

Song – “Summertime Romance” by Johnnyswim

Instagram Crush – @mwladieswholit

Movie – Blue Crush

USA Today revealed an exclusive excerpt from The Lake Effect by Erin McCahan, available now! ??

Buzzfeed has 8 books to add to your shelf featuring Fitness Junkie by Lucy Sykes and Jo Piazza, The Guineveres by Sarah Domet, Slipsliding by the Bay by Barbara McDonald and more! ? ? ?

PopSugar shared the best 2017 summer reads to dive into, featuring Fitness Junkie by Lucy Sykes and Jo Piazza and #SRC2017 books Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang, Every Last Lie by Mary Kubica and more! ⭐️ ? ✨

PopSugar also listed 18 books every mom needs in her beach bag this summer including Lying To Children by Alex Shahla and Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty. ????‍♀️

Hazel Gaynor, author of The Cottingley Secret, wrote a guest blog for Writer’s Digest where she shares her advice for getting published. The Cottingley Secret was also featured in BookBub’s list of historical fiction books to read with your book club. ? ?

Annette Gendler, author of Jumping Over Shadows, wrote a piece for Jewish Journal on what to do when family members boycott your wedding. Jumping Over Shadows also received a great review from Washington Independent Review, which called the book “An exquisitely written conversion story which expounds upon personal and collective identity.” You can read the full review here.??

Our Summer Reading Challenge is on ?FIRE?! Our July lineup is amazing, take a look at our July books.

The Wall Street Journal picked Goodnight from London by Jennifer Robson as a July book of the month! ???

US Weekly selected 3 of our #SRC2017 books as “Sizzling Summer Titles,” including Hello, Sunshine by Laura Dave, The People We Hate At The Wedding by Grant Ginder and Every Last Lie by Mary Kubica! ? ? ?

Model and actress Molly Sims picked 3 of our #SRC2017 books for her summer reading list: Into The Water by Paula Hawkins, Rich People Problems by Kevin Kwan and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid! ? ? ?

PureWow revealed an excerpt from one of our July books: Hello, Sunshine by Laura Dave! ? ☀️

ChickLitCentral is hosting a giveaway in honor of Hello, Sunshine by Laura Dave, click here to enter. ? ☀️

 Blogger Jordan D’Amico featured tons of #SRC2017 books in his essential beach reads list, including The Best of Adam Sharp by Graeme Simsion, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid and more! ? ???

What an incredible week for BookSparks authors!