Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top 10 Wishes I’d Ask The Book Genie To Grant Me. At first I wasn’t planning to do this week’s topic, one because nothing was initially coming to mind, and two because I try so hard to be content with what I have and where I am in life, but then I started to think on it some and decided to go for it and came up with 8. This week’s list is in no particular order.
If I could I would wish for…
1. An awesome space to store my books.
I mean, what book lover doesn’t want this?
2. The ability to read books a little faster.
I don’t want lightning speed reading ability… I think there’s something special about taking some time to savor what you read, but I wish I could maybe up my reading count a bit without necessarily devoting more time to read (not that I don’t want to read more, but life is busy!).
3. That I can write and publish books that will resonate with people.
It’s not a secret that I want a career as an author. I hope one day to share multiple stories, and I want them all to mean something to someone.
4. That I could stop losing bookmarks.
I have a serious problem with losing bookmarks. I would like for this to stop!
5. More books in the For Darkness Shows the Stars world.
Diana Peterfreund’s For Darkness Shows the Stars and Across a Star-Swept Sea features one of my favorite fictional worlds ever with its exploration of genetic engineering and its consequences, and I want more! With two books it just doesn’t feel complete! Maybe she could do a Little Women retelling next? There are so many possibilities!
6. To meet Marissa Meyer.
I am thinking this will surely happen one day, but I just want to ensure it! She’s one of my favorite authors and I want to get all the books signed by her and just tell her how much I love her characters!
7. To have the full experience at Universal Studios’ Harry Potter World… for free!
This is definitely a trip my husband and I want to take someday, but it’s not cheap, especially if you want to do it and Disney World in the same go! I would love to be able to take this trip without fear of the money spent.
8. To see a book I write get made into a movie.
I’m sure there are downsides to this, but it’s something I’ve always wanted and would love to see happen! I would try to write into my contract that I get to be a co-producer or something for any possible films.
What are your bookish wishes?
Yes to so many of these! But especially the one about Harry Potter World. I’d love to go there, but it is so expensive!
I know, and if it was free I would take full advantage of it!
My fingers are crossed for your #6 gets to happen. That would be awesome. 🙂
Great wishes!
(my wishes – http://foxyblogs.com/ten-wishes-id-ask-the-book-genie-to-grant-me-4/)
I hope so too! I thought I was going to get to a few months ago but it didn’t work out. Hoping she comes back to my area soon!
I hope you get to meet Marissa Meyer in the future! She is awesome! And yes to HP World (obviously for free). I would expand on that wish and just say I want Hogwarts to be real real, with classes I can attend 🙂
Yes to that too! 🙂
i definitely want the Wizarding World of Harry Potter experience, and I love that beautiful home library picture you found! I have the opposite problem with bookmarks — I have too many! You can have some of mine. 😉 (I did actually get some pretty sweet Harry Potter bookmarks from the library where I work that you would probably love!)
If I had awesome Harry Potter bookmarks I would try my best to not lose them! 🙂
Harry Potter World was well worth it. We went before a work trip, so my flight and our hotel was free. Otherwise we likely would not have made it down there. And now I am checking out For Darkness Shows the Stars. It sounds awesome!
I love it and the companion novel!
I had a gift card and immediately bought both after seeing the first one is based on Persuasion!
I want to go to Harry Potter world SO MUCH! I love your wishes! I would have had a difficult time with this topic too so good job!
#6 – that’s me and Leigh Bardugo 🙂
Harry Potter World – yes!! and totally for free. all day with barely anyone else there.
But I think most of all, yes, writing books that resonate with people. I would love that. And it seems like then making it into a movie would be the natural outcome of that 😉
Good call about hardly anyone else being at HP World with you! That would make it even better!