Top Ten Tuesday - Bookish Super Powers

Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. This week's topic is...

Bookish Super Powers!

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This week, we are challenged with sharing some book related super powers. These are things we wish we could do or make happen with respect to the bookish world. I don't know about you, but I found this to be both run and challenging. 

1. Read faster - When you want to read ALL the books, a faster reading rate would be really useful. I found that my reading slowed down by ten pages per hour during the pandemic. I am not sure if it's because I got used to the slower pace of life, or that I began reading less young adult and more adult books. Either way, It takes me longer to get through my five a week. 
2. Remember more - I can remember big ideas, but I wish I could recall more details. I seem to commit to memory the way I felt as I read, but specifics that others can recall are lost in my head. 
3. Control the library wait list - The library wait lists can be soooo long, and then when my loans come through, they come all at once. It's frustrating. When I select "deliver later", I end up waiting weeks, sometimes months, longer for the book. 
4. Change the ending - I have read some books that I enjoyed but hated the ending. There are several I wanted to throw out the window. For those, I write a new ending in my head, so that I can rest easy. 
5. Save all the dogs - Seriously, they need to stop killing the pets in books. 
6. Create silence - I find a lot of noise distracting when I read. There's white noise which blends, but people yammering on phones on the train or the chatter from the TV slow me down when I read. I wish I was better at blocking it all out. 
7. Make a book appear - I don't mean any book here, kids, I mean those next installments for series which are unfinished. This is one of the major reasons I stopped reading series. It's really disappointed to read and love a book with an unfinished story to discover I will never know how it ends. 
8. Slow down time - I want to be able to slow down time all around me while I move at normal speed. Why? So that I have more time to read, of course. 
9. Perfect story selection - So many books, so little time, so picking the right book is really important. It pains me when I have to DNF or end up reading a meh book. Though I am pretty good at knowing what I like, I can sometimes pick a lemon. I would love to avoid that. 
10. Jump into the pages - I have so much wanderlust, but alas, I am poor. It would be amazing to be able to jump into the book a la Mary Poppins. Talk about an immersive experience

What bookish super powers do you want?
Let us know in the comments!