Friday Memes

Friday Memes~ January 2, 2026

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.

and

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: The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald (Translated by Alice Menzies).
First Line:
Dear Sara,
I hope you enjoy Louisa May Alcott’s An Old-Fashioned Girl. It’s a charming little story, though perhaps a touch more overtly moralizing than Little Women.
56:
She hesitated. She was drunk enough that she could think of nothing at all for a few moments, and then, suddenly, she had an idea.
Books!
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:
Which genre are you eager to jump into more next year, and what draws you to it?
My answer:
I think this year I want to read more mystery. I’ve always been a “skim ahead” type person, so mystery has never really held much allure for me in the past. But now that I do most of my reading via audiobooks, I don’t skip ahead any longer. I figure this is probably the best time for me to get into mysteries.