Friday Memes~ 8/7/26

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.
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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:

First Line:
It happened every year, was almost a ritual.
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.
Do you see yourself more as an editor, a writer, or just a reader?
My Answer:
While I would like to consider myself a writer, I haven’t written anything other than blog posts in years. So I think, essentially, I am a reader. And I am happy as a reader. I love books and getting to talk about them and share them and read them as much as I want.

I agree—being a reader is a pretty great place to be! I also think blogging shows how much the three can overlap; even when we think of ourselves as readers, writing about books makes us look at stories a little differently. Happy Reading!
I read this book a long time ago and enjoyed it.
I see myself as more of a reader.
Have a great weekend!
Emily @ Budget Tales Book Blog
My post:
https://budgettalesblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/07/book-blogger-hop-do-you-see-yourself-more-as-an-editor-a-writer-or-just-a-reader/
Even though I’ve done some professional editor, I definitely consider myself more of a reader too! We definitely need writing/editing skills to run blogs… but I wouldn’t call myself that, if that make sense. And being a reader is great, as you say!
Here’s my Book Blogger Hop post: https://breathesbooks.com/2026/08/07/book-blogger-hop-writer-reader-editor/
I read this book so long ago that the story has mostly faded but I do remember being quite captivated by it.