For this week’s Top Ten Tuesday, we are looking at bookish wishes. I am taking it rather literally, about bad bargains, perilous wishes and the hazards of ambition. Here’s a quick list:
1 | Shakespeare’s Macbeth – Prophecies, anyone?
2 | Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine – This heroine has been given the gift of obedience!
3 | Half Magic by Edward Eager – Only half of what these kids wish for comes true
4 | Five Children and It by Edith Nesbit – These kids’ wishes will expire promptly at sunset.
5 | Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll – Tall or short, please can she make up her mind?
6 | The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde – He wished all of his aging on a portrait.
7 | Death Note by Tsugumi Ohba – Writing down criminals’ names in a magical death book is not so heroic.
8 | The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien – You get a ring of invisibility but just makes Sauron see you more clearly.
9 | Faust by Goethe – This guy though success on earth is worth selling his soul away.
10 | The Fairy Bargains of Prospect Hill by Rowenna Miller – Experimenting with fairy contracts? Oops!
What do you think? Do you have any books to add to this dangerous booklist on worst bookish wishes ever?
16 replies on “Bookish Wishes: Careful What You Wish For!”
I love your take on this topic. Very clever!
This is such a fun list. Yeah, wishes don’t always turn out the way we hope.
Here is my Top Ten Tuesday post.
Ah awesome twist. Alice always was a bit fickle haha.
Fun twist!
Oh, very fun and creative! 🙂
I am enjoying this take on this week’s meme
Great list!
What a fun twist on this week’s TTT! These characters did make some very bad wishes that’s for sure. 😀
Love your take on this theme!
This is so fun! I love how you changed it up but still fit with the topic. It’s been years but I did read Ella Enchanted a long time ago. As I remember it was fun. 🙂 Thanks so much for visiting my website today. Appreciate this.
I’ve read six of these, all great choices! To these I might add Desirable by Frank Cotterell-Boyce, and another Nesbit tale, the underratedThe Enchanted Castle. I also recall that Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury is partly inspired and influenced by the Shakes peare play.
Oh what a fun and clever take on this week’s theme!
My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2023/06/13/top-ten-tuesday-424/
Fun twist on the topic! Sometimes you do really need to be careful what you wish for.
Super fun twist on the topic! I love it.
Happy TTT!
Susan
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I like how you did this. Nice one the Hobbit.
What a clever spin on this week’s prompt! I love the idea of this, even if it makes me realize how few books I’ve read that focus on magical bargains.
My list is also something similar to yours (a little more directly literal as far as wishes are concerned!!) and so of course love your take and love the books on your list as well.. I have read many of the books on your list and loved them all.. Watched The Hobbit, and also the Death Note anime show with my son…
https://www.ladyinreadwrites.com/if-wishes-were-books-and-granted-wonderful-indeed/