#TopTenTuesday Bookish Superpowers I Wish I Had #TuesdayBookBlog

Top Ten TuesdayTop Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl.

The rules are simple:

  • Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want.
  • Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to That Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post.
  • Add your name to the Linky widget on that day’s post so that everyone can check out other bloggers’ lists.
  • Or if you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.

This week’s topic is Bookish Superpowers I Wish I Had, a topic suggested by… me! Full disclosure, I used  this idea for the topic Bookish Jobs (Real or Imaginary) I Would Do For Free last year. Unfortunately, I’ve developed no additional superpowers since then, so I’m taking the easy route and just reproducing a slightly revised version here.

SuperpowersThe ability to…

  1. Insert myself on any publisher’s list for proof copies
  2. Create an insightful review of every book I read without any effort at all
  3. Increase my reading speed at will but still recall every word of a book
  4. Detect whether I’m going to enjoy a book purely by looking at it
  5. Automatically create a beautiful Instagram post from an image in my head
  6. Have WordPress automatically share my blog posts to X (it will never catch on…)
  7. Have household tasks completed by an invisible servant while I’m reading
  8. Have books I really, really want to read have 90% off stickers on them (100% would be mean)
  9. Have every book I buy be pre-signed and personally dedicated to me by the author
  10. Never be interrupted while reading

What bookish super powers do you wish you had?

#TopTenTuesday Ten Books for Lovers… of Gardens #TuesdayBookBlog

Top Ten TuesdayTop Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl.

The rules are simple:

  • Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want.
  • Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to That Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post.
  • Add your name to the Linky widget on that day’s post so that everyone can check out other bloggers’ lists.
  • Or if you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.

This week’s topic is a freebie on the theme of love given it’s Valentine’s Day tomorrow. As it happens, today is my wedding anniversary. My husband and I got married in Barbados, in the magical Hunte’s Gardens (well worth a visit if you’re ever fortunate enough to travel to the island) so my list has a botanical theme. 

Links from the title will take you to my review or the book description on Goodreads.

  1. The Fair Botanists by Sara Sheridan
  2. Where the Hornbeam Grows by Beth Lynch
  3. The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
  4. A Single Rose by Muriel Barbery
  5. A Wedding in the Olive Garden by Leah Fleming
  6. The Olive Garden Choir by Leah Fleming
  7. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  8. A Fenland Garden by Francis Pryor
  9. The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
  10. The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton