Hello Friday! Another week has passed and this weekend I’m spending with an old friend of a book.
First Line Friday
rules:
Grab the book nearest to you (or one you want to read) and leave a comment with the first line.
First Line Friday was started by Reading is my Superpower.
first line:
There is one mirror in my house. It is behind a sliding panel in the hallway upstairs.
The announcement of The Sixth Faction made me curious what adult-me would think about Divergent, since teenager-me was the only one that read it. So I picked it up again and was immediately hit with so many memories from reading the excerpt over and over again, before deciding to buy it and then re-reading the book constantly for pretty much a year (or until I could afford book two and three). That first paragraph is pretty much seared into my brain, I love how effortlessly it builds a society estranged from our own but still feeling familiar.
Divergent was my introduction to dystopian fiction, it was the first book that made me obsessed with the concept and had an digestible world building (to teenager-me). I read The Hunger Games before but was more horrified than intrigued by that book, but once I got used to the rather depressing scenarios that are home to dystopian books, I fell in love with the genre. I can’t deny that Divergent did that for me (and probably a lot of other kids as well).
Friday 56
rules:
– Grab a book, any book
– Turn to page 56 or 56% in your e-reader (If you want to improvise, go ahead!)
– Find a snippet, but no spoilers!
– Post it to your blog and add your url to the Linky. If you do not add the specific url for your post, we may miss it!
– Visit other blogs and leave comments about their snippets. Expand the community. Please leave a comment for me, too!
Friday56 was started by My Head Is Full Of Books.
page 56:
I tell myself, as sternly as possible, that is how things work here. We do dangerous things and people die. People die, and we move on to the next dangerous thing.
I picked this quote because – apart from being the relatively interesting thing on page 56 – it is also a time where Tris goes against her instinct, against her empathy, where she tries to condition herself to the values her faction demands. She desperately wants to fit in, to belong – something that is relatable to a lot of teens and adults in my experience – and compartmentalizes like crazy to do that. I’m excited to follow her on her journey again!
synopsis
Veronica Roth
Divergent
512 pages
April 21 2026
HarperCollins
One choice can transform you.
Beatrice Prior’s society is divided into five factions:
Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). Beatrice must choose between staying with her Abnegation family and transferring factions. Her choice will shock her community and herself. But the newly christened Tris also has a secret, one she’s determined to keep hidden—because in this world, what makes you different makes you dangerous.
