Hey Bibliofriends,

Happy Tuesday! How is your week going so far? This week’s Top Ten Tuesday prompt is Top Ten Bookish Superpowers I Wish I Had. This suggestion was by Cathy @WhatCathyReadNext and it is brilliant! I must say, I had so much fun putting this post together and thinking of lots of different bookish powers. Once I’d thought of a few, others just kept popping into my head and it was eventually quite tricky to narrow it down to just 10! I wish some of these powers existed in real life!! If you don’t already know, Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly, list-themed book prompt hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl.

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Word Apparition

So I kind of had a thought, and then coined it ‘word apparition‘… hear me out! You know when you’re listening to an audiobook and all of a sudden the narrator will read a character name or a place in the world and you have no idea how it would be spelled or what it would look like on a page? Well with the bookish superpower ‘word apparition’, the word that you’re puzzled over would magically appear in front of your eyes, like a little purple cloud so that you’d know what it actually looks like on the page. This would be really helpful to me currently as I am listening to Rin Chupeco’s The Bone Witch and I can guarantee that my ingrained English spelling rules would be butchering some of the amazing place and character names in Chupeco’s world! 🙈

Knowledge Absorption

I read The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean last year and although it’s not particularly a unique concept, the idea to absorb knowledge by eating a book is really appealing to me. To start with, I’d be ingesting some of my cookbooks so I could remember my favourite recipes by heart. Also, imagine how much of an asset you would be on a pub quiz team if you could pretty much ingest all of the knowledge and facts that you want!!

Floating / Weightless Physical Books

Sometimes I really wish that the book I’m reading could just float around in the air in front of me so that I could read and have both hands free to be doing a job or task at the same time. Also, if my book is weightless and floating, my nose won’t be so bruised from constantly dropping books on my face when I’m falling to sleep reading.

Automatic e-book and audiobook editions

I really wish that when you buy a book from the bookshop, there’s a code inside so that you could download it as an e-book and an audio edition as well, rather than having to pay for all three format separately – that way I have all the access I need to my current read whatever I’m doing and wherever I am!

Astral Projection Reading Self

One of me could go to work, socialise, do adulting things… the astral projection part of me can stay at home reading! All. Day. Long! 💜

The Honey I Shrunk The Kids Ray Gun

Too many books and not enough shelf space…? With the shrink ray gun from Honey I Shrunk The Kids, bookish storage problems be solved! I’d shrink down my entire book collection into a cute range of miniatures for my shelves, and then blow them back up to normal size when I wanted to read them.

A Faster Reading Speed

Sometimes, I really wish I could read quicker, but without losing the enjoyment and understanding of the book. I can skim when I need to, but sometimes I don’t feel like I’ve really retained what I’ve actually read and other times, I’m so engrossed and loving my book that I want to savour every word.

Mary Poppins’ Carpet Bag OR Hermione’s weightless extension charm

One of my beloved English teachers always told me to carry a book with you. Therefore, I am always guilty of carrying a physical book around with me everywhere I go, regardless of its size (Crescent City was a mission to haul around!). Imagine all the books you could take away on holiday or carry around with you if you had Mary Poppins’ Carpet Bag or that amazing beaded bag Hermione has in the Deathly Hallows with the weightless extension charm on it – I would never have a capacity or weightlifting problem ever again!

A Portal to my own never-ending library

I was totally thinking of the Library in Beauty and Beast when I was writing this. Unfortunately, I don’t live in a magical castle with said library, however if I had a portal to take me to my own never-ending library which didn’t actually occupy any physical square footage in my house, that would make my heart sing with joy!

The Ability to Read Every Book Ever Written

I had this idea when I was younger (and obviously, so incredibly naive!), that I could read every book that had ever been published since time began! And yes, whilst some of those books may be incredibly boring and totally mundane – I imagine that there will be some absolute masterpieces along the way which I never would have discovered otherwise! Also, imagine the bragging rights if you’d read every book that ever existed! 😂

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That’s it! My Top Ten Bookish Superpowers That I Wish I Had. Would you want any of these skills? What bookish superpowers would make it onto your own list? Feel free to leave your own Top Ten Tuesday posts below so I can visit. As always, drop me a comment to chat!

T xx