Friday Memes

Friday Memes~ 2/23/24

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.

and

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:

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 A Curse so Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer
Beginning:

There is blood under my fingernails. I wonder how many of my people I’ve killed this time.

56:

Without warning, it’s snowing.

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 organize your bookshelves? (submitted by Elizabeth @ Silver’s Review)

Answer:

I change up my organization from time to time, but I always separate my read books from my unread books and my nonfiction books from fiction books. Currently, I have my fiction books further separated by age group, with those geared towards adults on one set of shelves and those for Young Adult and Middle Grade on another. I don’t separate by genre or alphabetize my shelves. I group series together, but not necessarily authors. Other than the broad separations, there is no other method of organization used.