I talked about doing more memes again, and here we go! There are several Friday memes floating around the book blogosphere and I have decided to join back in with most of them.

First up is Book Beginnings on Fridays, hosted by Gilion @ Rose City Reader

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. Freda is currently taking a break from hosting, so in the interim it is being hosted by Anne @ My Head is Full of Books.

How it works:

“Hold still and stop fighting me,” his father said, and slapped him hard enough to leave a mark.

She no longer had a smile, confident or otherwise, as she disappeared back into the circle.

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.

• Do you post Happy Publication Day posts for books you read? (submitted by Elizabeth @ Silver’s Review)

Answer:

Most of the books I read are backlist books, so no, I don’t post Happy Publication Day posts. I am not opposed to doing so in the future, though it would probably be a social media post rather than something on the blog.