Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday, a weekly bookish meme hosted by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl that features a different bookish topic every week.
Today’s topic is Bookish Superpowers I Wish I Had
I had a lot of fun coming up with ideas for this topic and asked some of my bookish friends this question for fun. I ended up liking some of their answers more than my own, so I’ve stolen their ideas and added them here!
Top Ten Bookish Superpowers I Wish I Had
My own ideas:
- Books on my library waitlist always come at exactly the right time, staggered, and not all at once!
- Invincibility to FOMO
- Books I want to buy always just happen to be on sale when I want to buy them
- Ability to stop time while I savor reading
- Ability to remember every single detail of books I read – unless I want to reread, in which case, I forget everything except the fact I loved it, and get surprised all over again!
- Automatically forget any accidental spoilers so books never get ruined for me
Ideas I stole:
- Ability to read in every language
- Always picking up the exact books with the exact tropes you want in the moment
- Ability to know if you’ll like a book once you pick it up, so you don’t waste your time on books you wouldn’t like
- The artistic prowess for bookbinding and fore-edge painting so all my books look unique and beautiful!
Oh, how I wish some of these were real and actual superpowers I could have! What bookish superpowers would you wish for?
Invincibility to FOMO is a great one! And I love the idea of stopping time for reading. Or at least slowing it for a bit. So many creative ideas. 🙂
Same! I really wish I could actually stop time when reading!
I have FOMO on superpower 2!
LOL! Yes!
A great list. I love all the sprayed edges – some people are so talented!!
Have a great week!
Emily @ Budget Tales Book Blog
My post:
https://budgettalesblog.wordpress.com/2024/02/20/top-ten-tuesday-bookish-superpowers/
They are so talented! I love seeing videos of people doing those beautiful paintings!
Same! I like how everything comes together at the end!
Why do library holds seem to come in all at once? I have never understood that! Thankfully my library offers the chance to put a hold on a book, but to save it for later. That way, you don’t feel pressured to read the book now, and others can still enjoy it.
Pam @ Read! Bake! Create!
https://readbakecreate.com/favorite-historical-fiction-reads-from-2023/
A bookish superpower come true thanks to your library!
The edge-painting power sounds amazing! You could beautify all your books!!
That would be wonderful!
If only library books really did arrive like that!
Here is my Top Ten Tuesday post.
Fingers crossed!
I wouldn’t mind that sale thing one bit!
Same!
Ooh, yes. Invincibility to FOMO. I would want that please 😂 I also would love the artistic prowess ability. That would be beyond amazing. Great list!
Heck yeah! Thanks!
That library one would be awesome! My holds always come at the same time. Then my phone is beeping all day with library notifications for 100 books. 🙂 I can’t read all those!
Lol! If you also had the ability to stop time while reading, you could!
I would love it if the books I wanted were always on sale
100%!
Great list! I love the FOMO one, and forgetting accidental spoilers! And, yes, wouldn’t it be great if books were on sale! Especially since the price continues to go up!
I know right! I need all my books on sale!
#2 would be awesome. I have gotten better at ignoring FOMO, but it’s not easy.
It gets better with practice! But first I have to practice it! Lol!
Ooh, the ability to forget accidental spoilers would be a great power! And I had to laugh at your library hold one. I’m currently stressing out because all of my holds came in at once and I won’t have a chance to read them all before they’re due!
Here’s my TTT for the week: https://bookwyrmknits.com/2024/02/20/top-ten-tuesday-bookish-superpowers-i-wish-i-had/
Oh no! You’re just going to have to stop time to read all of them!
The library holds stress is real!
Those are great superpower ideas. Forgetting spoilers is a good one. The library one is also fantastic – I either get my holds in all at once or spread out too much.
We’ve got a few similar ones!
Ah, the library waitlist is such a good one! Why do they always only come at the same time?! I also liked the original language idea that I’ve seen on a few lists! The bookbinding one is cool too–I hadn’t seen that yet.
The bookbinding one is a real life superpower some people already have that I’m so jealous of!
Ahh, #1 would be perfect. It always drove me mad trying to juggle my library holds, haha.
My TTT.
Yes! And then I get so stressed trying to decide which one to read first!
Haze – this is such a good list, and I love that you asked your friends for input and took those into the blog post. I would gladly take any of these as a superpower, although having that flexible ability to remember every detail of a book that I read, yet also be able to forget it and have a reread be like a first read!
Lol yes! There are several books I know I’d love to read again for the first time!
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