Friday Memes

Friday Memes~ 7/17/26

by Michelle

I’m jumping back into memes this year, because I always had a lot of fun with them before I tried to get all serious. Each Friday I will be linking up with a few different memes. Here we go:

 

First up is Book Beginnings on Fridays, hosted by Rose City Reader and First Line Friday hosted by Reading is My Superpower 

How it works:  Share the first sentence (or so) of the book you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about the sentence, impressions of the book, or anything else the opener inspires. Please remember to include the title of the book and the author’s name.

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The Friday 56 was started by Freda @ Freda’s Voice, and is now hosted by Anne @ My Head is Full of Books.

How it works:

Grab a book, any book
*Turn to Page 56 or 56% in your Ereader
(If you want to improvise, go ahead!)
*Find a snippet, but no spoilers!
I will be using the same book each week for both of these prompts. This week’s book is: A Girl Like That by Tanaz Bhathena.

First Line:

The wails Masi let out were so heartwrenching, you would think I was her only daughter lying dead before her instead of the parasite from her sister’s womb, as she had once called me.

56:

Over the years, I learned to deal with my nightmares by focusing on my surroundings.

Next up is Book Blogger Hop hosted by Billy @ Coffee Addicted Writer.
About Book Blogger Hop:
The first iteration of the Book Blogger Hop, which was started in March 2010 by Jennifer @ Crazy-For-Books, ended on December 31, 2012. On February 15, 2013, Billy reintroduced the hop with Jennifer’s approval. The hop will begin on a Friday of each week and end on a Thursday of the following week. Every week, there will be a prompt with a book-related query. The aim of the blog hop is to provide bloggers with an opportunity to follow other blogs, discover new books, make friends with other bloggers, and gain new followers for their own sites.
This week’s prompt:

Do you read one book at a time, or juggle a few at once?

My answer:

I always laugh when I see this question because I read so many books at the same time. I’ve tried to just read one book and I can’t do it. I don’t even just have one book per format that I read (though right now I am reading almost audio. I average at least 5 books at one time, though its usually closer to 7-10. And sometimes I have more books than that on the go. I have a short attention span and AuDHD, so there are days that I can be all over the place, other days I might hyperfocus on one or two books. I do usually have one “focus” book that gets more attention than the others, but never just one book going.