Hello lovelies! It’s time for another Top Ten Tuesday! This week’s topic is:
Top Ten Things Books Have Made Me Want To Do or Learn About After Reading Them.
Top 10 Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and The Bookish. Here is the link if you would like to know more about it/take part!
Books, books, books – as well as teaching me things, they also make me want to learn things. The issue is that I’m usually too lazy/clumsy/untalented to pick up these new skills or it’s actually impossible to. Sigh. I can dream though, right? Hence my list:
- Archery – various Fantasy books.
- Alchemy – Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series by Michael Scott
- How to be an Animagus – Harry Potter. Being a bird would be cool, except for the part where I’m scared of heights and flying. Maybe a fox would be better actually…
- Paint – The Muse by Jessie Burton. I have zero artistic skills, but I’d love to have some.
- Horse riding – The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater.
- How to drive – The Raven Cycle series by Maggie Stiefvater.
- Mythology – various fantasy books.
- How to sail – Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo. Ahoy there!
- Cartography (map-making) – The Girl of Ink and Stars by Kiran Millwood Hargrave.
- How to play a musical instrument – Seraphina by Rachel Hartman.
So how about you? Any matches? Any other cool talents I should know about? Please let me know!
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I had being able to use a wand from Harry Potter but being animagus would be pretty cool as well! 🙂
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Archery is SO popular with YA fantasy protagonists, haha. I feel like so many of them can shoot an arrow – maybe it’s just a cool thing to do, I dunno. I’d like to learn, though. 🙂
And I’ve never heard of The Girl of Ink and Stars but you mentioning cartography makes me want to read it! Seems like a pretty interesting skill to learn.
Here’s my TTT.
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I know, they all seem to be into archery. And The Girl of Ink and Stars was really good – the book itself is so pretty. Thanks for commenting! 🙂
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Being an animagus would be awesome. I’m scared of heights too, but birds are definitely a good choice. They’re inconspicuous enough and can fly anywhere. I’ll have to conquer my fear though.
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Thanks for commenting! I’d have to get over my fear of heights too – otherwise I’d be flightless. Like a penguin. Which kind of ruins the whole being inconspicuous thing. 🙂
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Maybe kiwi would still be inconspicuous, but being flightless kinda takes the fun out of it.
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I want to learn archery (and horseback riding and sailing and cartography), too!! There was an archery class at my college that I wanted to take but it just never worked out.
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That’s too bad… I just feel like it’d be really cool to learn. Although I’d probably be more of a hazard than a help armed with a bow and arrow… 🙂
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Haha I feel that. If you’ve seen Princess Diaries 2, I feel like I’d be like Mia when she’s learning archery…
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Hahaha, I feel like that’d be me too! I used to be obsessed with the Princess Diaries when I was younger – I just related to Mia so much (except for the being a princess part) 🙂
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Same! Okay let’s be real: I’m still obsessed haha. 😉
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I totally blame books for my interest in archery – so many awesome characters are good with a bow!
I love that you included sailing. That should have been on my list (with a nod to Arthur Ransome – I grew up reading Swallows and Amazons books 🙂
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I love being on boats, so it’s something I’ve picked up from that as well as reading. It would just be a lot of fun I think. And there are a disproportionate number of protagonists running around and being badass at archery, right? It’s inevitable all of us book worms are going to want to learn it! 🙂
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I didn’t even think about archery when I was making my list, but you’re right that so many books feature characters who do it and it seems really cool.
Great list! 🙂
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Thank you!! 🙂
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Archery is definitely one I’d love to try! If you ever decide to try out any of these, I’d love to find out how you get on!
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I’d probably maim someone or myself by accident if I ever actually pursued the archery thing, so I think that’s off the table! 🙂 Thanks for commenting!
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