Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is Bookish Superpowers I Wish I Had. This is a fun one!
Here are ten powers I’d love:
- Ability to remember every detail from books already read… especially earlier books in series.
- The power to read even when too tired to keep my eyes open.
- The ability to listen (and absorb) audiobooks throughout my day without getting distracted.
- A superpower that makes signed first editions of my favorite books magically appear on my doorstep the second they’re available.
- Teleportation powers that allow me to attend favorite author’s book signings anywhere across the country, with no airplane flights or loss of sleep involved.
- The ability to transport myself into the world of a book for a day (but without having to face any real dangers such as disease, getting lost, etc)
- The power to snap my fingers and have Hollywood decide to adapt all my favorite books (and do them all perfectly)
- A special food-related power that makes any delicious sounding food or drink that I read about in a novel pop into existence in my hands.
- One that sounds magical even if it isn’t: The ability to read as much as I want, wherever and whenever I want, without having to worry about work, money, errands, or anything else real-world-ish.
- Another teleportation/time travel-y one to round out the list: The ability to travel back in time and meet certain favorite authors from the past!
What bookish superpowers would you wish for?
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Bookshelf Fantasies 
To cross over and bring several characters together!
Oh, what a great idea! Like being able to introduce favorite characters from different books to one another? I love that.
Yes, that would be so interesting.
I need the ability to remember details desperately lol.
I have a feeling that’s a very common wish!
Teleportation and book signings is a great one!
That would make me so happy 🙂
#1 is one I need. I would only want #7 if I knew they were going to adapt properly.
For sure — the adaptations would have to be to my standards! 🙂
This is a fun list! 🙌
Thank you! Very silly…
Number 10 would be so awesome. I would love to chat with Jane Austen.
That’s exactly who I was thinking of! Maybe have a dinner party with Jane Austen and Georgette Heyer.
What a fun list! And I’d love all these things too, especially #8, which is something I’ve never thought of but wow, it would be awesome😁
Thanks! Yes, re #8 and having food from books appear… the book I’m reading keeps talking about cupcakes and muffins, and it’s making me have serious cravings 🙂
Great list. One-hundred percent YES to this one – The ability to listen (and absorb) audiobooks throughout my day without getting distracted.
Wouldn’t that be amazing? I can only listen while driving or walking, otherwise, no matter how hard I try, I realize I’ve stopped paying attention and need to go back and re-listen.
Remembering the previous books in a series would make me more willing to try series. I usually avoid them because I remember nothing!
I usually think it’s just me who doesn’t remember what happened in previous books… and then I hear from so many other readers that we all have this problem! It’s nice not to be alone. 🙂
Yes to all of these. Especially the food and drink one, I hate reading about delicious sounding food but not being able to experience it in that moment.
I’m in the middle of a book where two bakers are having a feud, and they keep describing the cakes… mmmmm.
Oh wow – I am so with you on number 8!! I always get the munchies after reading about gorgeous food in books!
Here’s my list: https://thebiblioshelf.com/2024/02/20/top-ten-tuesday-bookish-superpowers-i-wish-i-had/
Yes! I want to try them all!
I think this is one of my favorite lists yet. I didn’t even think about something like #8, but I do always notice particularly good food descriptions in books, and it WOULD be amazing to simply have them served to me on the spot whenever I wanted.
Co-signing #10 as well; you know that novelty book All My Friends Are Dead? That has been me with favorite authors (a large portion of them anyway) even since childhood.
Thanks for commenting! I love All My Friends Are Dead… and yup, I have plenty of favorite authors that would fit!
You’ve absolutely well defined everyone’s bookish wishes here! 💯
Loved the post!