Is It Summer Yet Blog Hop: Fun Books. Free stuff. (plus, for the hop duration, DIVINE MOVES is 99cents.)

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Welcome to Ellyn Oaksmith Books. If you go to EllynOaksmith and LIKE my fan page, you’ll be entered to win for ladies: a beach towel, a pack of blue and white paper straws, a summer reading journal, plus lemonaide. For dudes: an autographed paperback of Divine Moves and yes, a black umbrella because 1) I live in Seattle. 2) The book takes place in Seattle. 3) There’s one on the cover. 

Here are my summer reading recommendations:

1) Okay, I’d have to be an idiot not to include my own. 

Yes, very egotistical but read the reviews. They are peppered with things like “Fun!” “Couldn’t put it down!” and “Laugh out loud!” 

If that’s not a summer read then I don’t know anything. Well, according to my teens, I really don’t know anything but I do know about fun summer reads. I’ve written three. (Link to a preview of my third, Fifty Acts of Kindness.)

2) Now for something less self involved:

Ever since I read this book, I have shared it at books clubs when I was a guest author, on Facebook, to friends and basically whenever anyone already knew about my own books — I’d mention this one. It has over 1,500 reviews, mine is somewhere in there and all I can say is — read it.

3) This is a weird recommendation because 1) I haven’t read it. 2) It comes out today — so yes, I’ll get it. 3) The kindle book is priced around $10. Now here’s why it’s something you’d better get. This woman is an incredible writer. Reading her is like a masters degree in family dynamics, comedy and in her later books — history. Starting with her first book I am working my way through everything she’s ever published and she just keeps getting better and better. 

It’s on my list.

Happy reading. Happy summer.