Friday Memes

Friday Memes~ 2/13/26

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: My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, & Jodi Meadows.
First Line:
You may think you know the story.
56:
“I can’t get married tomorrow,” she burst out. “You’ve got to call it off.”

 

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:
How do you feel about the current state of romance novels?
My answer:
I’m honestly not sure what “current state” this question references, since Romance has always been characters falling in love and living happily ever after. This has not changed, nor has the fact that Romance is the top selling genre in publishing. Now if the question is referring to the surge in more diverse romance, especially LGBTQIA+ romance, then I am 100% in support of it and am glad that these stories are moving more into the spotlight. Romance gets a bad rap and people like to look down on it, but I think it’s a powerful medium and think most people would be surprised if they read them.