Friday Memes

Friday Memes~ 2/6/2026

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: Shopaholic and Sister by Sophie Kinsella.
First Line:
OK. I can do this. No problem.
56:

I don’t want to spoil the last precious moments of our honeymoon with some stupid argument.

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:
What drives you to read books?
My answer:
Looking at this question broadly, I’m driven to read by a desire to escape into a story, to be transported to a different world, to learn, and to experience different perspectives. Each book is a separate life and experience, and all of them are unique.
Looking at it more narrowly, I’m driven to read individual books for many different reasons. Sometimes the story is similar to my life and I want to read something comfortable and familiar. Sometimes it’s the opposite and the story is very different from my life and I want to experience something new and exciting. Sometimes I want to be moved, sometimes comforted, sometimes challenged. Each book brings something different to my life.