Friday Memes, Memes

Friday Memes~ 4/5/24

by reinventedreader

Free Green Leaves On Top Of Open Book Near Paint Brush And Green Snake Plant On Pot Stock Photo

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.

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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 Holding Up the Universe by Jennifer Niven.
Beginning:

I’m not a shitty person, but I’m about to do a shitty thing.

56:

He does a sideways look at the boys grouped around him, the ones who hang on his every move all the time, even when he’s just making arm farts and repeating the swear words his brothers taught him.

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:

In elementary school, did you participate in the Book-It! reading program? (submitted by Billy @ Coffee Addicted Writer)

Answer:

I did not, but only because it didn’t exist until I was in junior high and I was too old to participate (It was founded in 1984, a year before I started high school). I was pretty bummed about that.