Friday Memes

Friday Memes~ 4/24/26

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: You Had Me at Hola by Alexis Daria.
First Line:

DUMPED!

The word glared at Jasmine in bright yellow letters, emblazoned directly beneath a picture of her own face.

56:
Classic middle child that she was, Jasmine had eaten that up with a spoon.
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:
Imagine creating a book-themed board game—what kind of gameplay would it have?
My answer:
I think to be a great game it needs to start with the aesthetics- a leatherbound box to house the game, game pieces are all bookish items (a booklight, a bookend, glasses, a library card, a notebook, a cat, a mug of tea, etc.), the game board itself looks like an old library. As far as gameplay, each player has a bookshelf that they need to fill with books. Books are earned by moving around the board, certain spaces will earn or lose books, the “jail” type space will be a reading nook where you lose a turn because you are absorbed in a book. Each year you will be able to buy an expansion pack with miniatures of the top books from the previous year so that the book selection is always up to date. The winner is the person who fills their bookshelf first.