Magic Lamp Sunday 9/23/12

We discovered this meme at Ya-Aholic, where it runs on Fridays. It sounded like a fun addition to our lineup, but fits better here on Sundays. This is based on the basic Magic Lamp = 3 wishes idea. Since there are so many of us, though, we're just taking one each per week. 

If we had a Magic Lamp, we'd wish:
Andrea: I wish I owned a lake house in the Pocono Mountains like Taylor's family does in Second Chance Summer by Morgan Matson. 
Michele B.: I wish I knew how to mix plants and herbs to make healing remedies like Sorcha can in Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier.
Jen: I wish I had the power to know just by touching a book how awesome or awful it is going to be, so I can avoid the ones that make me want to dump them. Inspired by the size of my TBR pile and the length of time it took me to read my last book.
Paula: I wish I knew where I could get a mechanical bird to carry messages for me to the Moon, as happens in The Peculiar by Stefan Bachmann.