Friday Memes

Friday Memes~ 4/17/26

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: Force of Nature by Suzanne Brockmann.
First Line:
It was a hot, humid night.
56:
Annie didn’t understand much of what was going on inside this limousine, but she did learn one thing pretty fast: Speaking would get them hit.
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:
Do you have any bookish habits or quirks you catch yourself doing again and again?
My answer:
Yeah, I’m neurodivergent, so my entire life is repeated habits and quirks. I follow the same routine every day, which includes cycling through my 5-10 books that are currently in progress. I have a minimum of 5 books in progress at any time, but that number flexes a lot. I’ve always read in chapters, however with my current vision problems, sight reading is now done in page breaks. My library cards are maxed out so that I have the full selection of books available at any given time and I work through them in an order that changes every week on a rotation (percent completed, chapters left, time/pages/percentage left, due date, date added, category). Once a book is completed, it is logged into my spreadsheets and updated on GR, I then check out the next book in the series or the next book on my TBR. I have multiple reading spreadsheets in use: my current reads (separated by format), my 2026 reading (separated by month), my 2026 reading goals (separated by goal), my 1000 books project (separated by 100s), my series tracker, and my review tracker. I also have 3 separate TBRs based on format availability (priority is audio, then physical if I own it, then eBook, though I should probably switch the last two for vision reasons). I have stuff that I do when I purchase new physical books too, but since I haven’t been able to purchase books for a couple of years now, I haven’t done them in a while.