I won’t deny it: a book genie would be an intensely handy thing to have around. So if I took a wild excursion to the magical realms* where genies resided and if I maliciously kidnapped** one to grant all my bookish wishes…this is what I’d ask for.
* Where do genies live anyway? Narnia? Hogwarts? Antarctica? I will fight the penguins to get myself a genie.
** I’m kidding. I’d be kind! I’d feed it lemon cakes!
This Week’s Prompt: 10 Wishes I’d Ask The Book Genie To Grant Me
I AM NOT MESSING AROUND, FOLKS. Preferably it’d be a 6 figure book deal for an 8-book series, and then everyone will love it so much afterwards publishers will clamour to buy everything I’ve ever written and I’ll be so monstrously famous I’ll own my own private planet and wear a concise emerald crown and get around by riding on the backs of large penguins whilst sharing my gloriousness with all.
I’m sure everyone has dreams like this.
Because, please. I need The Raven King. (I also need a cover reveal for The Raven King. When is that happening?!) I think Maggie Stiefvater is infinitely amazing to put so much detail and effort and beautiful genius into her books that I don’t even MIND that she’s taking longer with The Raven King. Her books are NEVER a disappointment! BUT. I would like, perhaps, for there to be 9 Stiefvater clones so we could have 9 books per year.
March. 2016. is. too. far. away.
I have, um, run out of shelf space quite severely. BOOK GENIE. HEAR ME! I NEED HELP! There are nearly more books on top of my shelves than in it. And I don’t WANT to stack books in my wardrobe because half of the gloriousness of books is petting them and starting at them and occasionally sniffing them. I can’t hide them away!
I’ve suggested to humans in my household that we could just get rid of all the useless furniture (like tables, chairs, lounges, etc) and put bookshelves EVERYWHERE and have an incredible library. I get rebuffed. Everyone is so unimaginative.
Why don’t book orders come with complimentary pizzas? If I had a genie, I would have him fix this worldwide problem. While we’re at it…complimentary icecream cake and tissues and would be useful.
Peoples, I want a castle. I ALSO WANT A READING NET. I want to be able to climb onto a ceiling and throw myself onto this net, hopefully bounce and then settle down for nine years to just read books. I will probably need to wear a Spiderman costume while I read, but this won’t be a problem as I hear masks are terribly comfortable.
I’m trying to read EVERY BOOK OF EVER. You know how hard this is?!? I can read 30 books a month and still be behind. It’s a losing battle, to be honest, and immortality would help with this rather a lot. Or else publishers could PAUSE for a moment while I catch up. Writers could be wonderfully helpful and pause too! Except George RR Martin. He’s lost all pausing privileges.
Is this cheating?! BUT IT’S A BOOK GENIE SO IT CAN’T BE CHEATING. I love books, okay? I swallow books whole. I like them a lot…and I don’t have very much money to buy them. Says every reader ever, I knooooow. But Australia doesn’t publish half the books that America does. Netgalley dislikes me because I am Australian. And my library is allergic to buying new books. WHAT IS THIS READER TO DO BUT GNASH THEIR TEETH AND WAIL?
So, book genie, I would like all the ARCs of ever, yes please and thank you.
Now you probably know that I’m quite an avid book photographer. And while I have a camera I’m monstrously happy with (Nikon D300) I would absolutely wish my book genie to bring me some props! One of those rustic wooden backdrops would be nice. Also the ingredients to take completely white-backround pictures. (I don’t even know what those ingredients are, but my book genie will.) OH. AND WHILE WE’RE AT IT — my book genie will be a photography genius (har har, genie…genius….) and will teach me how to use my camera on manual mode. I will be the best book photographer of ever.
Whoever said “Adulthood sucks, let’s bring back colouring-in books for humans who can’t art” is a genius and I love them. Also whoever said “let’s turn Game of Thrones into a colouring in book and sell it with only one red crayon” is also a genius and I want one of those colouring books too. (I don’t actually know if they’re only selling it with one red crayon, but they should.) I basically want all the geeky literary adult colouring-in books.
Basically EVERY novel published should come with a complimentary colouring-in book. My book genie, who is also a talented artist, will see that this happens.
I’m so ready to colour Red Rising. I’ll still only need that one red crayon.
What if I don’t want to be a “bookworm”??! WHAT IF I WANT TO BE A BOOK DRAGON!? I relate to dragons far more than worms, since dragons they…
- like shiny things (hello shiny book covers)
- horde treasures by sitting on them (I do this all the time with books basically)
- get angry when people steal their treasures (I do not lend books)
- breath fire (I definitely do this when ranting about a book)
- eat annoying people (I do this all the time, except for 3 days of the week which are my designated days to be “nice”)
Basically I propose we ALWAYS use the term “bookdragon” now instead of “bookworm”. The genie will see to this as a world wide change.
if you had a book genie what would you ask for?!! do you like any of mine?! tell me a book publishing next year that you want right now. oh oh! and do you want a reading net?!
I know how to take pictures with completly white backgrounds. Super easy. Very professional.
OMG REALLY!?!? Lucky you. *sighs* Any tips for me?! 😀
You could use a few pieces of paper!?
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Oh, this was a very fabulous list, Cait. I approve of all of these! The reading net and colouring books especially! Colouring is perfect to do when listening to audiobooks. I would ask that every book I ever read would be awesome (though maybe I just need discernment), that my e-reader could highlight (the genie could do it instantly. updating software is something that I’m terrible about) that all my bookish friends could read all the same books I did and live nearby. I need…. so many book. But the raven king is one of them, and so is Shield by Rachael Craw and Garth Nix’s next Old Kingdom book, whenever that get published.
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YES. I have to keep my hands busy when listening to audio books or my mind just wanders. XD omg, but having bookish friends read the same books would be nice. I’d like it if my sister would read some of my favourites. xD OMG BUT WE NEED THE RAVEN KING SO BAD. I didn’t realise it didn’t come out until MARCH next year. I thought it was January. *wails*
I wished for a book deal too. Cool list.
My TTT: https://samwhitehousewriter.wordpress.com/2015/10/20/top-ten-tuesday-top-ten-book-wishes/
We need find ourselves a book genie, right?! XD
ARGH I really want a reading net! How amazing would that be?! I kind of wish we could annotate your posts in our comments as there are always so many things I want to say – mainly “YUP” and “HAHAHAHA” and “YES OH WISE ONE”. In summary… love this post!
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IT WOULD BE JUST THE BEST. *dreams of reading net* I would probably never stop reading though so that could be a problem…(PFFT TOTALLY NOT A PROBLEM. XD)
OMG, I need to get (order online) Tolkien’s World and Game of Thrones colouring-in books! I have never seen geeky literary adult colouring-in books in my bookstore *pouts*.
Also, you can never have enough bookshelves. I always wish for a new one over and over again myself 🙂
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ME NEITHER. Clearly the storeowners are hiding them all so they colour them on break or something. *nods* They’re too fabulous really. XD
In relation to book dragons…Have you seen Christine’s (PolandBananasBOOKS) video where she discusses the degradation that comes with the title “Bookworm”? It’s brilliant 😛
No I haven’t! I shall check that out! XD
Oh my god the adult colouring craze has gotten me bad, my bf laughs everytime but IDEC, the art is so pretty! I wish I was better about actually colouring in though, I am far too lazy to commit to finishing the colouring.
I would want all the ARCs and all the possible books in the world if I had a genie – and TIME to read them all omg, that would be the most important thing. Oh, and for all series to SPONTANEOUSLY SPAWN IN FULL, no waiting for years involved every time I get invested into a new world.
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“Basically EVERY novel published should come with a complimentary colouring-in book.” YES TO THIS! Also that single red crayon works for soooo many books!
Unlimited shelf space and unlimited books/ARCs are definitely on top of my list (and a bit of a book deal, I’m not too fussy 😉 )
Um a book net is Ah-mazing. I agree the totally white background pictures are the best. Complimentary pizza would be amazing. I would opt for complimentary coffee because coffee=power for me. Great wishes!!
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And here’s the post where I can actually make a pun about being the ‘Genie In A Book’ – ha. *sees tumbleweeds rolling past*
ANYWAY. I totally agree with these Cait! I wish I could conjure up more bookshelf space for all my lovelies – *one day* it would be the best to just have a big room dedicated to being a personal library…where complimentary pizza is served too…this could work!
Awesome post as usual, we need to make these things happen 🙂
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These are fabulous wishes, Cait. Absolutely fabulous. I want all the things. ALL OF IT! Also, yes, bookdragons sounds infinitely more awesome than bookworm.
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Wow, awesome post and awesome wishes! I didn’t even know these colouring books exist! My horizon has just been expanded. Thank you!
I NEED ALL OF THESE. Particularly a book deal. (But I suppose I would also have to wish for a finished draft.) And my bookshelf space, which was fairly insignificant to begin with, is failing me. I love the reading net thing, too. And bookdragons. That should absolutely be the new term for bookworms. I suggest we start a campaign.
2016 books….I need the first Trials of Apollo book and also the next Magnus Chase book. And Passenger. Basically all the books.
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I just snorted in work. Correction, your list just made me snort in work! I had to do some quick thinking to cover up, and ended up telling everyone I has seen a funny looking bird out of the window (just as Pigeon flew past, I mean come on world, couldn’t you have sent me a cool looking bird in my time of need?!), so now my entire office thinks I am weird, but it was worth it because your list is amazing!
So first: WHY have I never heard of a reading net before and WHERE can I get one?!!! I have horrible vision though of me getting my legs stuck in the holes and having to wait hours to be rescued!
All the ARCS ever would be nice, but I think I’d go for a device to stop time rather than immortality, because even if you live forever, there are still going to be even more books released every year so you’re still probably never going to be able to get on top of them all! :O
Also, I really like your Bookworm/Bookdragon wish. That was the one that made me snort 🙂 I’ve always wondered as well how a worm would read as they have no hands to turn the pages! Do they have magical powers that make the pages turn by themselves, or do they just wait for the wind to come along and turn it? Such big questions! So yes, I agree with the Bookdragon, because at least they have arms! 🙂
What I’d want:
I think maybe being able to read books while sleeping would work out pretty nicely in my world.
Oh, and perhaps having books that can stay open on their own and turn pages at exactly the right time would be fantastic, too. That way I’d be able to work with my hands while reading. I know, I know. They call those “audio books” but I’d still rather read it myself. I do read on my iphone kindle while brushing my teeth and doing my hair and walking and sometimes when I’m cooking and making baby blankets but it’s so inconvenient because I have to turn the page so. often.
I could come up with more, but I think I’ll stop there…
And as far as what book I”m looking forward to? I’m so excited because I can actually answer this question! (My reading habits are slightly behind the times and I’m so busy catching up that I hardly ever have time to look forward to new books.) This book is coming out *this* year, but still, I’m going to act like I’m actually answering your question. The book? *The Brontë Plot” by Katherine Reay. I haven’t read anything about it, but I enjoyed the other books by Mrs. Reay so I’m figuring this book will be wonderful, too.
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YES TO ALL OF THESE!!! Especially that Tolkien coloring book OH MY GRAVY I WANT IT. And a reading net??? YES PLEASE.
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I feel like a reading net would be a bit uncomfortable and a bit distracting. Too much fun! All the ARCs ever would be SUCH a daunting yet fun thing. I’d want Hermione’s time turner to stop time so I could do all my homework, blog, and read to my heart’s content without wasting any time 😀
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We could change it to “Bookwyrm”. Wyrm is an really old word for dragon. *nods*
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Bookdragon is waaaayyyyy better than bookworm.
And, a book genie would be nice to have around. XD
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Your posts always crack me up! (Which is a problem when I’m covertly reading them at work…). I’m completely on board with the whole bookdragon change. I mean really would you rather curl up in a dark dirty hole and read, or would you rather be surrounded by awesome bookish treasures in a glorious cavern/castle/other large spacious place?
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Cait! Greetings once again! 😄
Maybe you should suggest to your peeps who live with you to replace your useless furniture such as chairs, tables and beds and etc. With the same kind of furniture that had bookshelves ATTACHED to them?! 💃
And yes to the coloring books. YES TO THE PHOTOGRAPHY. Yes to BOOK DRAGONS 💗
And basically yes to all your points because they are so on point and I wish for all these things too!
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Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant list! I think I’d rather be a bookdragon too…… being a bookworm always made me feel icky!
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Yes to this whole list, but especially the book dragons~
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Well I totally agree with The Raven King and more bookshelves – I would ask to never run out of space for books, too! – but I will have to disagree on the reading net because, well, I have a fear of heights so I don’t think a Net would let me get much reading done. Unless it was like an inch off of the ground. heh 😀
A book deal would be the best thing, but that net looks pretty fun too. You can buy or make a photo studio box, that will allow you to do the white background thing.
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Not sure how I stumbled over here but your list is awesome! lol
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omo Cait, you are hilarious XD I loved the ‘bookdragons’ one XD
AND TOLKIEN AND SHERLOCK COLORING BOOKS???? (cuz maybe i actually regularly color in my ‘My Little Pony’ coloring book and I have a princess coloring book too. it works wonders for relieving stress). CAN I HAS? PLZ? I NEED ALL THE COLORING BOOKS.
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Yes for The Raven King, and the ARCs. And if you get a reading net, can I come and visit you!? Those things look so cool!
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That six-figure book contract sounds mighty tempting. I’d like one myself, please and thankyou, but mine for a seven book series, because seven is the perfect length for series.
Um, other wishes – book downloading. Where you can plug a book into your head and just experience it exactly the way the author meant it. That would be awesome, and movies and their terrible adapting skills would no longer be necessary.
That book net is awesome. I need it just so I can jump on it and shake out all my excitement feels.
Book that’s coming out that I seriously cannot wait for: Samara’s Peril, book 3 of the Ilyon Chronicles. Which is an awesome series that I fangirl over, and I don’t fangirl over many books. Usually I have dignity! But Ilyon, nope, I’m a melted puddle on the floor, and so I shall remain until I read book 3 … which will probably only resuscitate me long enough to read the book, and then I’ll be worse than before as I wait for book 4. Ah. #Readerproblems.
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LOL, All of yours are amazing! But I especially like the reading net, the complimentary ice-cream cake, and the six-figure book deal. Also more bookshelves, I /desperately/ need more bookshelves. I now have to pile my poor books on top of each other, and it /just doesn’t look as nice that way./
So yes. I too need a book genie.
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A BOOK NET?! Why am I only just hearing about this now? I definitely want one. They look so cosy, and I’m sure my cat would love getting tangled up in it and looking down on humans in a judgmental manner.
I need to get up to speed with The Raven Cycle. I started the second book earlier in the year, but I was in a reading slump so I didn’t push it in case I ended up spoiling it for myself – mostly that was due to the fear that you’d banish me from your kingdom if I said I didn’t like it.
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I’ve been following your blog for months and months now, and I never realised that you were Australian! I definitely agree on needing more bookshelves… Maybe a house just for my books? Would that be okay?
I need the Raven King in my hands this instant. I just have to know how things work out, although I am not emotionally prepared to face Gansey’s fate at all.
I’m also all for the complimentary pizzas and I’d have the dragons deliver me the pizzas haha.
I have a new appreciation for colouring books so I’m all for them, although I would need an endless supply of colouring pencils as well. Great list.. 😀
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NINE STIEFVATER CLONES?! YES, PLEASE!! I’ll help! 😄
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I’ve never seen a reading net but NOW I want one!! That would be awesome!! I will have to show my husband and see if he can rig something up for me. lol
Great wishes!
(my wish list – http://foxyblogs.com/ten-wishes-id-ask-the-book-genie-to-grant-me-4/)
OH MY WORD CAIT
These are like the best bookish genie wishes ever. Now I know what I’d do if I ever found a genie: I’d just mail him to Australia so that Cait could do the wishes for me. 😀
A BOOK NET. I WANNA HAVE A BOOK NET.
And book I can’t wait for 2016 for? The Beautiful Pretender by Melanie Dickerson BECAUSE IT’S A SEQUEL AND IT’S ABOUT MY FAVORITE CHARACTER IN THE FIRST ONE AND I’M DYING BECAUSE I WANNA READ ALL ABOUT HIIIIM. (Also A Spy’s Devotion, also by Melanie Dickerson because Regency with spies and by Melanie Dickerson. WAAAANTS.)
The Raven King? O_O That makes me think of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. HAVE YOU READ THAT???
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Whaaat! I had zero idea book nets existed! This is definitely on my t0-buy list after I get a home big enough for a massive library of course.
Great list and I enjoy reading your things! You paint vivid pictures in my head! Lol!
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Cait, you’re just perfect. You always make me smile when I come to your page and it always brightens my day. I love all your wishes and hopefully they soon will be granted. I MEAN I WANT COMPLIMENTARY PIZZA 😀
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Whoa, that reading net looks awesome! Now I want one, too!
I hear you about the book deal too. When agents recommend you query each novel to at least 100 agents, I don’t think anyone’s kidding about wanting better luck in finding a deal! 😉
I wanted to do something writing related but decided not to, but I’d love a great book deal as well, and one that sells super well like that! More bookcases is on my list as well!! I HATE always feeling behind when I read. It’s the worst! Especially at this time of year because I ONLY HAVE TWO MONTHS to read every great book of the year for the best, most accurate, Best of 2015 list, dontchaknow! ARCs, yessss….even though it adds to the ALWAYS BEHIND thing. Especially pretty Harper ones. Ahh, but Australians have access to some books I want to read and can’t get, as well. I should have asked for Book Depository to add Australian titles… I just bought my first coloring book b/c it was typography-related, but I feel like it’s a time suck because ALL THE BOOKS. Great choices!
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I WANT A READING NET TOO! Like so so so so much. Someday I guess?
And those coloring books? They. Are. Amazing. I NEED.
Fabulous post. 🙂
Lemon cake, huh? Yet another food reference. i do have a question is the cake for the penguins to let you have the genie or for the genie to come with you and grant the wishes? Or both? Just asking.
And also… riding a penguin after stealing their genie? Maybe not the best idea. And i think they are especially comfortable to ride on. Not that i have much riding experience.
I am with you on the book prices and the NetGalley stuff. It sometimes is a bit hard to get specific books if you are not in the USA or UK.
The bookshelf idea is also fantastic. I haven’t gotten the people i live with to agree to sleep and sit on bookcases yet either. For some strange reason apparently putting bookshelves in places that other stuff should be in is not very practical. What do they know? And i feel you with putting books into closets. Some of my books had to suffer through the book closet time as well.
Basically i take your wishes over and would be more then happy. You don’t mind do you?
Fantastic post as always. You just brighten my day when ever i read them.
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Ahh what would I ask for,…more time in the day to read, someone to write all my reivews for me, and yes to all the ARCS for the top books I want. Love the book net idea.
ABOUT BOOK DRAGONS– Have you ever heard of Seraphina by Rachel Hartman? IT HAS BOOK DRAGONS. One specifically, but he hordes books and sits on them and things and is basically awesome. There are also a few other things like decapitations and music and sarcasm, so I highly recommend it. (Because you know, my opinion is so professional and valuable.)
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I’d totally take my book with some complimentary ice cream cake…or a coloring book! I need the Sherlock one!! And there is a Harry Potter one I want too!!
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Great list!! I didn’t even think of a book deal, but it seems so obvious now! I think the reading net would terrify me though, I’m afraid of even being in see-through elevators. I very much agree with you on the shelf space, I put it on my own list. Also I may have given you a tiny shout-out because I wouldn’t even know about Top Ten Tuesdays otherwise, it’s so fun!
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I definitely want The Raven King right now. Or yesterday. That net looks like fun! Besides having the ability to read ALL THE BOOKS, what I want most is a cure for my book amnesia.
OMG. That is one of my greatest fears you know… to not be alive long enough to read all the amazing books out there D: *KNOCKS ON WOOD* I would love to have immortality just so I could continue reading the written word. That would be such an amazing thing, like, ever ever ever ever. I never have to worry about reading a bad book (life is too short to stay with bad books!) because I know I will have all the time in the world.
Now I feel depressed that I will never live long enough to read ALL THE BOOKS. *cries*
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IT WOULD BE TRAGIC TO DIE YOUNG BASICALLY. But at this stage, I’m going to die old and still have an enormous pile of books on my bedside table. *sighs* I need 9 more eyeballs.
Great list, I can get on the book pizza campaign!
It needs happen!! IMMEDIATELY!!
OHMAGAHD LOVE THIS IS AMAZING HOW DO YOU DO THIS I AM CRACKING UP RIGHT NOW. So yeah. Now that I decided to be, you know, mature in this conversation, I loved your post it is so hilarious you are hilarious and amazing and you are a freaking goddess ooooookay?? I LOVE YOUR BLOG, if it wasn’t obvious already. Thanks for writing such great posts and having a beautiful blog. YOU MAKE ME LAUGH WITH EVERY POST.
LOTS OF LOVE AND DRAGONS AND HUMONGOUS LIBRARIES,
Veda
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OH PFFT WHO CARES ABOUT MATURITY. I just suddenly decided that I need my book net to be bouncy. So when I take reading breaks — I CAN BOUNCE. I am a child.
aFDKLSADJKL I LOVE YOUR COMMENTS, OMG THANK YOU FOR SAYING ALL THESE NICE THINGS. I’m just gonna take a moment and flail basically. :’)
So many fun picks. A book deal- definitely. I’ll just be an author from now on, thank you very much. 🙂 More bookshelves- need. Pizza? Great one- free pizza all the time? Or even occasionally? Pizza and books- is there anything better?
And how about a pet dragon? A little one, with colorful wings like a faery type dragon. Hopefully it wouldn’t kill the cats or get as big as my house. Just stay little. Anyway great list… !
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NOTHING IS BETTER THAN PIZZA + BOOKS. Although, I probably shouldn’t tamper with both simultaneously because I always end up getting pizza stains on pages and then it looks like I’m trying to murder someone. So I shall consume pizza…THEN eat books. And a cat-sized dragon would be eepic though. omg, it could sit on one’s shoulder!!
Instead of a book deal I would like a few more customers and have my business Lola’s Blog Tours be a bit more well known. And yes to more bookshelves, I really need a new one soon as I started stacking books in front of other, which isn’t good.
Pizza!
I could use a new camera and some props too, my recipe pictures always look like an amateur made them, which I guess is true ofcourse. While all thsoe food blogs I follow manage to make their food look so beautifull I almost wouldn’t dare eat it.
That reading net looks pretty awesome! I wonder if it’s as comfy as it looks. i probably woudl cover it with some blankets, so I can’t look down though. Oh and all the books by my favourite authors as soon as they release would be ncie too. And more time. It sure is fun to dream about all those possibilities.
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ALWAYS MORE BOOKSHELVES. I think it’s an avid book collector’s perpetual cry, right?!?! 😛 I have no where to put one though. XD Omg but I hear ya with the photography. Like somedays I feel really professional, but others I feel like such a squid because I don’t even use manual and sometimes the light is blah and whhhhh. I just want to be a really good photographer!!
*nods* YEP, it’s official… I need a book net. I didn’t realize there was such a monster & that I needed one, but that just changed! 😍
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And I suddenly realised I want my book net to be bouncy. So when I need a reading break I can like bounce…because I am a child…
If I had a book genie, all i would want is more time. i used to be able to finish a book in two days. now i’m bogged down with too many things and it takes me at least ONE WEEK!!!!!!!SOMEGENIE QUICK, I NEED A TIME MACHINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!) oh, i also need Sophie quire and the last story guard by Jonathan Auxier right about…NOW!
also, all my book friends use the term bookdragon because who wants to be a worm these days when you can be a massive flying reptile with style (and books obviously).
OKAY I TOTALLY KNOW THAT PAIN. Although I do have a lot of time to read right now, so I’m lucky. XDXD But gahhh. I had a month where I nearly read 2 books per day and now I’m still squeezing in reading time before I collapse unconscious. xD
OH GOOD. If your bookfriends are already doing it, then we just need to get the world in the habit and we’ll be right. *nods*
COMPLIMENTARY PIZZA. HOW COULD YOU BETRAY CAKE IN THIS WAY. YOU MONSTER… MY TTT.
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I WAS JUST SHAKING THINGS UP A BIT, GRACE. Do not fear. Pizza has not got my heart like cake does.
Yes I WOULD ALSO NEED THE RAVEN KING ASAP. I just hate the fact that I do not even know if that release date is set in stone. I would also like A Gathering of Shadows ASAP. And the sequel to the Mediator Series by Meg Cabot, Remembrance. They all need to come out right now. I also need a book dragon too. AND ALL THE ARCS BECAUSE WHY NOT.
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I knooooow. Like I thought it was January?? But then I saw on Goodreads it’s MARCH. So now I’m just gonna be dying. I need a cover too…whyyy can’t they at least stop tormenting us that much?!??!
That reading net looks like so much fun! Now I want one too…
Tenae | Strawberry Moon Books recently posted…Top Ten Tuesday: Ten Wishes I’d Like the Book Genie to Grant!
I basically want to dive into it everyday. XD I WANT IT TO BE BOUNCY LIKE A TRAMPOLINE TOO.
Yes, be a book dragon because I am a book lion! Grrr… I agree, every book should come with a pizza voucher, a coloring book, and the ebook and audiobook. Also, with every 50 books we buy we should get a gift card for a free bookshelf! I loved these. If you do get a reading net, please swear that it will only be four feet or less from the floor. 😉
La La in the Library recently posted…TELL ME TUESDAY #65
OKAY. YOU BE A BOOK LION. But I can fly. *flexes scaly wings* And I need be a dragon since I am Slytherin and all. XD And YES. Buying a book should just come with all these extra accessories. It should be just normal and mandatory. *nods*
Mmmm . . . complimentary pizza. That would be wonderfully delicious. Love the book deal one. I think I will be writing my first ever book for NANOWRIMO. I am incredibly intimidated, mostly because I am afraid it will be no good. A guaranteed book deal would go a long way towards helping with that.
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EEEEEP. I shall be cheering your NaNo efforts on!! WE SHALL ENCOURAGE EACH OTHER!! And send virtual helpful chocolate. *nods* (haha, unless the book deal made MORE pressure, right?!!? ;P)
Haha! I love you wish for immortality. xD AND NOW I NEED THAT SHERLOCK COLORING BOOK. <3
Jamie recently posted…Top Ten Tuesdays || 10 Wishes to Ask The Book Genie
I didn’t even know the Sherlock book existed until today!! I NEED IT. XD
I think we should do that. All of us who’ve read this post should start calling it bookdragon instead of worm and see if it catches on. Dragons are DEFINITELY cooler than worms 😉
I would wish for my room to be a library labyrinth. If I ever have the money, I’m totally building my own, but a genie would get the job done with just a snap of its fingers. Also, the power to decide what’s on my reading list. Ooh! And for manga books to be released at the same time as they are in America…no! Europe. No! Japan.
The Raven King is MARCH now?!? It gets later… but, at the same time, I kinda don’t want it to end so… I’m also looking forward to See How They Run (All Fall Down #2) which gets EARLIER. I think it’s Decemeber of this year now?!
YES. It should become just the world-national-reader-term because, gee, who even picked worm? they need to be fired.
Basically I think all books ALL over the world should be released at the same time. *nods* It’s soo frustrating when it’s not.
YEAH I READ ON GOODREADS THAT IT WAS MARCH. *cries* Omg but at least Ally Carter isn’t taunting us. XDXD
That book net is the most amazingly incredible thing ever – and the fact that it actually exists makes me want to cry with happiness!!
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I knooow, right?! Ever since I saw those pictures I was like “I NEED IT” I’ve never needed something as much as I need a book net.
Book Dragon. YES!! Coloring books. YES!! Reading net. YES!!!! This entire post! YESSSS!!!!!
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YAYYYY!YY!!Y *sprinkles glitter and dances in it*
I’m with you. Let’s be book dragons!
hUZZAH! BOOK DRAGONING FOR THE WIN!
Adult coloring books are FABULOUS! I have two and they’re awesome. 😀 Also, I agree that we should all start using the term bookdragon. I will start using it. ASAP. Aaaaaaand… I think I’d ask the book genie to grant me Kristin Cashore’s next book because I’m dying for another epic fantasy from her!!!! (It’s unknown what year she’ll ever have another book published, but I just want one NOOOOOOW. Is that too much to ask?!) 😀
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I have the Enchanted Forest one and I LOVE IT…but I have no time to actually sit down and colour. XD Ahhh, life. GAh. Ahem. And yes yes I will be lining up behind your book genie when he gets another Cashore fantasy. CAN I READ IT NEXT?!?! 😛
Complimentary pizza? Immortality? More bookshelves? Dragons?
Yes, yes, yes, and yes!
Your choices are absolutely amazing Cait. Thanks for sharing and, as always, hilarious post! ♥
The complimentary pizza just needs to happen. WHY HASN’T IT HAPPENED YET, ZOE? WHAT IS THIS LIFE.
YES I would like all these things please and thank you 🙂 I’m also a fan of the new colouring in craze, I think it’s snazzy. I’ve bought myself a few colouring in books and I’m very impressed with them 🙂
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I bought the Enchanted Forest one AND I LOVE IT but I like have no time to colour it. xD LIFE IS UNFAIR. XDXD
Book dragons are a thing that needs to happen. Also if I could ask the book genie for something it would also be for more shelf space. My shelf is about to burst with books and I’m going to have to find new places to keep them (probably my closet and that is not a pretty book adequate space). Coloring books are a blessing to us all, truly.
Great list of wishes! If only the book genie actually existed *sighs*
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These wishes. All of them. I needs them! Especially the Raven King, because Maggie Stiefvater. (I’m still blaming you for my obsession with this series. It is just so GOOD.) And complimentary pizza should just be a thing. Because pizza. Because food. Because why not? (Because Imogen can’t words good today apparently). I LOVE the look of that reading net though. I never heard of one before, but now I wants one. *nods*
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Hello fellow dragon lover, I do believe you are very fabulous. I was wondering though, were you thinking of nightfury when you re-named you blog? Sorry I’m a major Toothless fan, if you look closely you’ll find him hidden in my social media buttons. Anyway, *looks around* Where may I find my self one of these book genies?
PS: What font do you use for your post it’s gorgeous
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What is this “reading net” you speak of, and why have I never heard of it before?!?! I must have one of those in my life. Definitely.
Lisa @ Lost in Literature recently posted…Lost in Our Thoughts | ARC Envy… the Good, the Bad and the Ugly!
Oooh yes I want a book genie! That reading net is probably the best thing! I’d ask for snacks for reading, a homework robot (so I could read while it does my stuff), endless holidays, also a cat to snuggle with while reading. (I want another cat. My family doesn’t. We were offered a cat that GOES TO THE TOILET and could also kill mice. They declined. *le sigh*) . Anyway, where are all the book genies when you need them? Honestly!
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Um YEAH I want a reading net!? Why do we not all have these already!? It sounds fabulous.
I hate to break it to you, but you are already in charge of a planet of minions, remember? The book deal is just icing on the cake. OH, and lots of money, of course. Because of all the fame and movies and jewels. And I think this goes hand in hand, but if you say we need to call it being a bookdragon… well, that is probably now a thing. My spellcheck didn’t like it, so I said “spellcheck, you aren’t the boss of me, Cait is”, and now my spellcheck understands what is up.
Uhh I lost my train of thought. OH pizza and shelves. Yes and yes. I am going to disagree with The Raven King- HEAR ME OUT! I want to catch up so I am not accidentally spoiled by stuff- meaning, I can cover my ears and read it as soon as it arrives, and not go NEAR Twitter or Goodreads. But a cover reveal WOULD be fabulous.
I really should have asked for immortality. But I DID ask for time, so maybe I can convince my genie that immortality is what I really meant? She’d kind of have to accept that, right? I don’t want to die. And I DO want to read all the books, so… yeah. And COLORING BOOKS. Coloring is so therapeutic, I think we should be mandated to color. And what better to color than all the gore and murder and nakedness of GoT? I think? I haven’t read OR watched it. One of these days.
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Yes to more book shelves and complementary pizza! I’m totally loving all the colouring books, haha.
Dragons ♥ Awesome list, Cait!
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I love this so much Cait! Definitely the colouring books, immortality and perfect white backgrounds thanks. If I had a book Genie I think I would wish for all the bookish snacks in the world XD
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All of these–I approve. I too want all the ARCs of ever, and it’s about time we start calling ourselves bookdragons. Worms are boring–although, if we want to take our cues from Dune, we could be Bookwyrms, which wouldn’t be an awful compromise in my opinion.
I would ask the genie to make days twice as long, so I could have extra time to read. (I would also ask him to make me need less sleep, for the same reason). I would ask him to make GRR Martin write faster. And I would ask for heaps of money so I could buy even more books and maybe a large mansion to hold my books. *nods*
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YES–Book dragons and THE RAVEN KING. I don’t think I can stay sane until that book comes out. I NEED TO KNOW ALL THE THINGS. The worst part about reading is waiting for the next book to come out.
I would need immortality to, so that I could read all the books. Or for the book genie to make me rich enough that I didn’t need to work, so I could read all the books. Could the book genie give me all the bookish and writing knowledge in the world, so I could finally write that book that has been in my head for the last two years and WON’T LEAVE ME ALONE!!! WAH!!! I’m sorry wonderful characters, I know you want your story told but I am lacking!!! >.<
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Book dragon sounds so much better than bookworm! I mean, why are we WORMS?! Have people seen worms?! Do we book lovers look like WORMS?! I don’t think so. BOOK DRAGON IT IS.
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I love all these especially that part about that book deal and those ARCs! I’m not a booktuber nor a bookblogger so I have to wait for books to published and THEN buy them. Plus here in the Philippines books get pretty delayed in being released. I have been waiting for FOREVER for Life and Death (I’m a HUGE Twihard and I’m not ashamed of it.) after I heard it was getting published this year and it only got published this month! Sob. And I’m out of book money. T.T
Anyway, if I had a book genie, I would wish for sequels in a series to be published in a span of 6 months instead of a year or 2 or even 3 years.. Let’s be honest. WAITING SUCKS. It’s PURE AGONY, especially if that book was AMAZING! LIKE I WANT IT NOWWWW! (I’m looking at you The Rose and The Dagger). At least, I think, with 6 months in between you have a LOT of time to read the previous book and be hungover about it, but not wait for TOO LONG for the next one to finally be on sale.
Also, UNLIMITED BOOK MONEY SO I CAN BUY ALL THE BOOKS I WANT and stop asking my Mom for cash. She has a lot of bills to pay already without my asking.
So yes Book Genie if you’re out there PLEASE, PLEASE grant these wishes of mine! I IMPLORE YOU! T.T
Gah, waiting on books is SO SO HARD. I totally agree!! And, I mean, Australia doesn’t have half the delays that the Philippines has, I bet, but our books are always so so much more expensive than the Americans. *heavy sigh* It really puts a damper on book buying habits, doesn’t it?
Zomg, and YES. Plus all the waiting between sequels means you forget waht was in the first books by the time you get to the rest! IT’S HARD. We live a difficult life for sure.
Really? Wow I didn’t know that books there are sold at a much higher price! That must really suck especially if you have to rely on a very measly allowance for your book buying habits. If I lived there with my allowance now I would probably just be able to buy 1 book per month. Sigh.
Whoa you’re right again about forgetting about what happened in the first book after finally getting the second book.! Thanks for pointing that out. I forgot about that. That would mean rereading the first book again to understand what’s happening in the sequel and it would take a longer time for you to finish the series. WAITING REALLY IS HARD. We sure have it rough. 🙁