One of the most wonderful parts of blogging is talking books with others.
It can be hard to connect with other bloggers. It was hard for me at first, when I first began blogging, back in 2008.
Meme
meme n. (mëm): A unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another. From the Greek mimëma, something imitated, from mimeisthai, to imitate. (Definition from Booking Through Thursday.)
meme n. (mëm): A unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another. From the Greek mimëma, something imitated, from mimeisthai, to imitate. (Definition from Booking Through Thursday.)
Memes are linkups of bloggers who post about (basically) the same subject. They are published on a regular basis, and include a linkup of some sort. If a blogger grows weary of a meme, she often passes the meme on to a new blogger.
Really Random Tuesday at Suko’s Notebook. Sporadic. Appearing on random Tuesdays, Really Random Tuesday is a way to post odds and ends–announcements, musings, quotes, photos–any blogging and book-related things you can think of. If you’re inspired by this idea, feel free to copy the button and use it on your own blog. Please leave a link in the comments if you’re participating and you will be added to the original post.
Here’s a list of bookish memes you may like to check out. I've included memes that are currently active as well as those that do not appear to be active now. Perhaps you might like to try to contact the host of an inactive meme and revive it on your own blog.
Weekly
Memes
(Monday)
Weekly
Memes
(Monday)
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? at Book Date. Weekly. Link to your post about what you’ve read recently, are currently reading, and plan on reading next.
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? KidLit at Unleashing Readers and Teach Mentor Texts. Weekly. It is a variation of the meme hosted by Kathryn at The Book Date. Kellee Moye of Unleashing Readers and Jen of Teach Mentor Texts invite all who read and review books in children’s literature – picture books, chapter books, middle grade novels, young adult novels, anything in the world of kidlit – to join them! It is a great way to recap what you read and/or reviewed the previous week and to plan out your reading and reviews for the upcoming week. It’s also a great chance to see what others are reading right now…you just might discover the next “must-read” book! Everyone who participates is encouraged to support the blogging community by visiting at least three of the other book bloggers that link up and leave comments for them. If you tweet about your Monday post, tag the tweet with #IMWAYR.
Mailbox Monday at Mailbox Monday. Weekly. Link to your post about the books you recently received. Every week we will each share two books that caught our eye from that week’s Mailbox Monday.
Bookmark Monday at Guiltless Reading. Weekly. Share your love for bookmarks, whether yours or your dream of making them yours.
Bookish Images Monday at Cindy’s Book Club. Inactive. To participate in Bookish Images Monday, post a bookish image. You do NOT have to post a ton of images–one will be fine if that’s all you want to do! They can just be interesting or pretty book covers if you want. Or just pictures of books, bookcases, libraries or bookstores. Or they can be humorous, or vintage, or related to movies based on books. They just need to be book-related in some way.
Ten Good Things on a Monday at Brush Up on Your Reading. Inactive. 10 Good Things on a Monday is a weekly feature dedicated to every person’s compulsive list-writing. Every Monday we are going to make a list of 10 things that will cheer us up and help tide us over the whole week.
Weekly
Memes
(Tuesday)
Memes
(Tuesday)
Top Ten Tuesday at That Artsy Reader Girl. Weekly. Writing prompts (posted in advance) for “10 Books That …”
Teaser Tuesdays at The Purple Booker. Weekly. To participate, grab your current read, open to a random page, and share two teaser sentences from somewhere on that page, being careful not to include spoilers. Share the title and author, too, so that other TT participants can add to the book to their TBR lists if they like your teasers.
Tell Me Something Tuesday at Rainy Day Ramblings. Weekly. Post about the weekly question on your blog and link up (topics are posted one week in advance).
First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros at I’d Rather Be at the Beach. Weekly. Share the first paragraph (or a few) of a book you’re reading or thinking about reading soon.
Readers' Workouts at Joy’s Book Blog. Weekly. A weekly event where readers share workout stories, goals, successes, and challenges.
Top 5 Tuesday at Bionic Book Worm. Weekly. Make a list each week and ping back to the original post so that you will be added to the list of participants. Topics are announced at the beginning of each month.
Children’s Book Tuesday at Ginger Mom and Company. Sporadic. This is a linkup for the hashtag #childrensbooktuesday where we share our favorite kidlit books (all the way up to middle grade). We also want to add interviews with kidlit authors, as the meme grows.
Dusty Reads at Xpresso Reads. Inactive. Dusty Reads is a weekly post featuring a book that has been sitting unread on your home shelf for some time. To participate, add your name to the linky below the post and try to visit a few of the others. The posts go up every Tuesday, but you can chose a different day.
Weekly
Memes
(Wednesday)
Memes
(Wednesday)
Wondrous Words Wednesday at Bermuda Onion. Weekly. Share new words that you’ve encountered or spotlight words you love.
What Are You Reading Wednesday at Marissa Writes. Inactive. Share the book/s you are reading with their author, maybe even the cover… and then answer these questions for at least one of them. 1. Why did you decide to pick up this book – cover or content? 2. Who is your favorite character so far, and why? 3. Will you finish this one? 4. Finish the sentence: This book reminds me of… (other books, movies, TV shows…) 5. What type of read is this one? (slow but interesting, cannot put it down,…)
Waiting on Wednesday at Breaking the Spine. Inactive. A weekly event that allows you to spotlight and show off your most anticipating books.
Wishlist Wednesday at Pen to Paper. Inactive. Wishlist Wednesday is a book blog hop where we will post about one book per week that has been on our wishlist for some time, or just added (it’s entirely up to you), that we can’t wait to get off the wishlist and onto our wonderful shelves.
Weekly
Memes
(Thursday)
Memes
(Thursday)
Booknificent Thursday at Mommynificent. Weekly. Please link up any posts you have, past or present, about books, reading, and literacy. This link party is all about sharing how books are impacting you.
Thursday Quotables at Bookshelf Fantasies. Occasional. Share a favorite quote, line, or passage from your reading each week! (Note: Taking a break from weekly posts at the moment, but feel free to go ahead without me. Thursday Quotables is on a spontaneous/whenever schedule right now.)
Down the TBR Hole at Zezee With Books. Inactive. A meme where we decide whether to keep or remove books on our TBR. The rules: Go to your Goodreads to-read shelf. Order on ascending date added. Take the first 5 (or 10 if you’re feeling adventurous) books. Read the synopses of the books. Decide: keep it or should it go?
When I First Saw you at Sailing Through Books. Inactive. When I First Saw You, or WIFSY for short, is a meme that consists of sharing a first impressions of a book in the form of a synopsis, so basically judging a book by its cover, yes.
Before the Blog at YA Litwit. Inactive. You have probably read hundreds, if not thousands of books, before you started blogging. Before the Blog is a place where bloggers can post a review of a book they read and loved BEFORE they started blogging about books, along with the answers to a few questions about their choice: Why did you choose this book? When did you read this book? Who would you recommend this book to?
Booking Through Thursday at Booking Through Thursday. Inactive. Copy the questions, paste them into your blog and answer them. When you’re done, come back here and post a quick comment or trackback letting everyone know so we can read your responses. Be sure to leave a link to your actual post!
Literary Blog Hop at The Blue Bookcase. Inactive. This blog hop is open to blogs that primarily feature book reviews of literary fiction, classic literature, and general literary discussion.
Thankful Thursday Meme at Oasis for YA. Inactive. The surest way to get good things in life is to be thankful for what you already have. So why not encourage a group thankful-fest once a week in which we send out good energy and hope to get some back in return?
The Out the Comfort Zone Blog Hop at Lucybird’s Book Blog. Inactive. The Out of the Comfort Zone Hop is a new blog hop hosted here at Lucybird’s Book Blog which is designed to help you to look at books outside your comfort zone and to get you to look at blogs you wouldn’t normally look at. When you add your link you must visit the two blogs above you, no matter who they are! You can visit other blogs too but should find you are looked at by the two blogs below you.
Theme Thursdays at Reading between Pages. Inactive. Theme Thursdays is a fun weekly event that will be open from one Thursday to the next. Anyone can participate in it. The rules are simple:
• A theme will be posted each week (on Thursdays)
• Select a conversation/snippet/sentence from the current book you are reading
• Mention the author and the title of the book along with your post
• It is important that the theme is conveyed in the sentence (you don’t necessarily need to have the word).
Thursday Tea at Birdbrain(ed) Book Blog. Inactive. To play along, all you need is some tea, a book, and the answers to these questions: what tea are you drinking (and do you like it)? What book are you reading (and do you like it)? Tell us a little about your tea and your book, and whether or not the two go together.
Weekly
Memes
(Friday)
Memes
(Friday)
British Isles Friday at Joy’s Book Blog. Weekly. Join us each Friday to discover British & Irish themed content around the Web and to add your own.
First Impression Friday at J. W. Martin. Weekly. First Impression Friday is a meme where you talk about a book that you JUST STARTED. Maybe you’re only a chapter or two in, maybe a little farther. Based on this sampling of your current read, give a few impressions and predict what you’ll think by the end. Did you think you’d love and ended up hating it? Or did you think you’d hate it and wound up loving it? Or were you exactly right? Later on, link back to it from your review to say, “Look at how wrong I was!” OR “See? I knew it all along!”
50/50 Friday at Blue Eye Books and The Butterfly Reads. Weekly. It focuses on the opposite sides of books (best/worst, differing opinions, etc). Every week there is a new topic. Check out the master list to plan ahead and individual posts for the post link ups.
F is for Friday at Nomadic Worlds. Sporadic. Close out the workweek and get ready for the weekend by answering four questions: F – Feature your latest book obsession (it doesn’t have to be your current read); I – Indicate which book/s you are looking forward to reading this weekend; F – Favorite quote of the week/day; F – Five things you’re happy or grateful for this week.
Friday Finds at Should Be Reading. Inactive. What great books did you hear about/discover this past week? Share with us your FRIDAY FINDS!
Weekly
Memes
(Saturday)
Memes
(Saturday)
Saturday Snapshot, at West Metro Mommy Reads. Weekly. post a photo that you (or a friend or family member) have taken then leave a direct link to your post in the Mister Linky below. Photos can be old or new, and be of any subject as long as they are clean and appropriate for all eyes to see. How much detail you give in the caption is entirely up to you. Please don’t post random photos that you find online.
Saturday Situation at Pure Imagination. Weekly. Link up your giveaways and posts you want to promote – that you posted during the week.
Stacking the Shelves at Reading Reality. Weekly. A link-up of the books you are adding to your shelves, be it physical or virtual.
Quote It Saturday, at Freda's Voice. Inactive. Add as many quotes as you wish, from whomever you wish.
Weekly Geeks at Weekly Geeks. Inactive. Every week there’ll be a different theme. One week might be “catch up on your library books” week and the next might be “redecorate your blog week” or “organize your challenges” week or “catch up on your reviews” week. It’ll be fairly bookblogocentric, but not exclusively.
Saturday Review of Books at Semicolon. Inactive. Link to a book review you’ve written during the past week.
Weekly
Memes
(Sunday)
Memes
(Sunday)
The Sunday Salon at The Sunday Salon. Weekly. Imagine some university library's vast reading room. It's filled with people--students and faculty and strangers who've wandered in. They're seated at great oaken desks, books piled all around them, and they're all feverishly reading and jotting notes in their leather-bound journals as they go. Later they'll mill around the open dictionaries and compare their thoughts on the afternoon's literary intake....That's what happens at the Sunday Salon, except it's all virtual. Every Sunday the bloggers participating in that week's Salon get together--at their separate desks, in their own particular time zones--and read. And blog about their reading. And comment on one another's blogs. Think of it as an informal, weekly, mini read-a-thon, an excuse to put aside one's earthly responsibilities and fall into a good book.
Know Your Book Blogger at Book Nerd. Inactive. Each Sunday (Australian time!) I will be posting a random question – thanks to Plinky and I’ll answer it here. If you want to answer it as well, simply link back to us here and answer the question on your blog. Leave your link here too and then visit others who have participated! It’s a quick way to make new blogger friends!
Monthly
Memes
The Monthly Wrap-Up Round-Up at Feed Your Fiction Addiction. End of the month. Every month, at the end of the month, there’s a monthly wrap-up link-up post where everyone can link up their month end posts. There are no specific requirements for what needs to be in your post, as long as you have a book blog and your wrap-up summarizes your month in some way.
State of the ARC at Avalinah’s Books. End of the Month. State of the ARC is a monthly meme at Avalinah’s Books meant to motivate you to finish up all your long overdue ARCs (Advanced or Early Reader Copies). You can track your reading progress and link up with your own post. Most commonly it comes out on the 30th of every month.
Monthly Wrap-Up at Bookidote. End of the Month. Share a summary of your entire month's work on your blog!
Task it Tuesday at Because Reading. Inactive. List a task or tasks that you would like to accomplish on your blog or in Real Life before next Tuesday. It can be big or small but the goal is to get something done that will make your blog/reading life/challenges run smoother, faster, or more efficient and/or get those simple or complex tasks done in your real life.
What’s On Your Nightstand at 5 Minutes for Books. Inactive. On the fourth Tuesday of each month, share the books you’ve been reading and/or plan to read.
3, 2, 1, Go! at The Three Rs Book Blog. Inactive. This is a monthly round-up post. The idea is to blog about:
3 books you have enjoyed,
2 great blog posts by other bloggers,
1 book you are looking forward to reading.
Go! = encourage others to do the same.
3 books you have enjoyed,
2 great blog posts by other bloggers,
1 book you are looking forward to reading.
Go! = encourage others to do the same.
Bi-Yearly
Memes
Dewey's 24-Hour Readathon at Dewey's 24-Hour Readathon. April and October. For 24 hours, we read books, post to our blogs, Twitters, Instagrams, Litsy, Facebook, Goodreads and MORE about our reading, and visit other readers’ homes online. We also participate in mini-challenges throughout the day. It happens twice a year, in April and in October.
Yearly
Memes
A big thank you to:
The Master List of Book Blogging Memes from Girl XOXO
Book Blog Meme Directory from Bookshelf Fantasies
A Meme Directory for Book Bloggers from Perspective of a Writer
The Ultimate Book Blog Memes Master List from The Reading Life
Memes from Suko's Notebook
Thanks for including Wondrous Words Wednesday!
ReplyDeleteWondrous Words is a favorite of mine.
ReplyDeleteawesome, thanks. I knew another list, but yours seems longer
ReplyDeleteFantastic List! Thank you so much for posting this. Now I just have to decide which ones to do....
ReplyDeleteLOVE this! I can't imagine how long it must have taken you to put together. But I'm really glad you did, because I'm going to pore over it and get some inspiration to push me back on board with blogging regularly.
ReplyDeleteWOW!! What a fantastic list! I've participated in several of these memes over the years, but not on a regular basis. Maybe after I get caught up on all my book reviews for 2018, I'll have a little more time to join in on all the fun. While not an official meme, I do try to post a "Looking Back" post every Friday. I begin each post with the following:
ReplyDelete"Looking Back... In an effort to transfer my book journal entries over to this blog, I'm going to attempt to post (in chronological order) an entry every Friday. I may or may not add extra commentary to what I jotted down in these journals."
It's been fun seeing what books I read 20 years ago, some of which I've been inspired to read again.
Fabulous list! Thank you so much for putting it together for us.
ReplyDeleteI am definitely retiring (for the final time) in May and plan to make blogging a bigger part of my life after that. This list will help fine tune my own blogging routine.
OMGGGGGG thank you for putting together this list!!!!! I attempted to put one together once and didn't get very far. LOL
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