Friday Memes

Friday Memes~ 3/13/26

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.

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 Last Star by Rick Yancey.
First Line:
Many years ago, when he was ten, her father had ridden a big yellow bus to the planetarium.
56:

Inside the closet, he kneels beside the heap of clothes piled against one wall. Nobody knows what he hid there, not even Zombie.

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:
Are there genres you read that you feel a little shy about?
My answer:
Not at all. I read a little bit of everything, except maybe Horror, and have no problems with anyone knowing what I’m reading: whether it’s a spicy sapphic romance, a children’s fantasy series featuring dragons, a contemporary YA coming of age, a slap-stick rom-com, a space heist, a scientific study on Autism, or a celebrity memoir. I personally don’t read “monster smut,” but I do read some paranormal romance which includes lots of werewolves, witches, demons, ghosts and the occasional vampire, so I would probably be ok with a monster or two. I feature every book I read in my wrap-ups and have been known to listen to steamy audio while out in public, so yeah, I’m not shy about anything I read.