Friday Five – Mother’s Day Edition

TGIF! This Sunday, May 14th, is Mother’s Day! This edition of the Friday Five is dedicated to our wonderful moms!

Before we dive into this week’s Friday Five, we want to take a moment to share our latest BookSparks Binges. Every week we will share a few of our current obsessions that we can’t get enough of:

Song – The Best Day by Taylor Swift

Instagram Crush – @mrsmommybooknerd

Movie – Freaky Friday

Here’s this week’s Friday Five with a few of our favorite Mother’s Day themed GIFs…

Seattle Book Review reviewed Calder Lorenz’s new book One Way Down (Or Another).

Publishers Weekly had a Q&A with Chandler Baker about her new book This Is Not The End. 

Jeanne Blasberg, author of Eden, wrote a heartwarming column for Huffington Post sharing her take on Mother’s Day.

All About Romance shared a review of Goodnight from London by Jennifer Robson. Goodnight from London was also featured in BookBub’s May historical fiction book round-up.

ICYMI: Jackie Townsend, author of The Absence of Evelyn, shared her story of hiking with Italian relatives in American Way Magazine.

Our annual Summer Reading Challenge is in full swing! Our May lineup is on fire, check it out!

Into The Water by Paula Hawkins was recently highlighted by Skimm Reads! 

Real Simple selected Into The Water by Paula Hawkins as one of the “Best New Books To Read This Month.”

Epicurious selected Hello, Sunshine by Laura Dave as a highly anticipated summer read!

Did you love The Girl on The Train by Paula Hawkins? Check out this round-up for fans of The Girl on The Train from BookBub which features #SRC2017 books Into The Water (by Paula herself) and Every Last Lie by Mary Kubica.

PopSugar named Hello, Sunshine by Laura Dave, Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang and many more #SRC2017 books as this summer’s “Best New Beach Reads!”

The Associated Press dives into the “art of the beach read” featuring #SRC2017 authors Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo), Kevin Kwan (Rich People Problems) and Paula Hawkins (Into The Water). 

What an incredible week for BookSparks authors!