If wishes were horses, poor men would ride

I love that expression. It speaks to the need to actually do something rather than just wishing for it to happen. Last week’s MM was about wish-lists, and after reading all the MM comments I have done something by developing my own wish-list...pay attention family...

Saved on my c drive – there for all my family to read – is a new folder called 'Mum's wish-list'. In this folder I'm saving pics of books I come across whilst blog-lurking & bookshop/library travelling. One idea I got from reading last week's MM responses was to add notes referring me to how/where I found any book that goes into my wish-list (eg Matt led me to Rose Variations by Marisha Chamberlain through a FF comment).

I have an idea for a master spreadsheet fermenting in the cooking pot of my mind. It would bring my ‘TBR’, and my TBP (To be purchased) together. If I add my ‘have read’, ‘reviewed’, ‘TB reviewed’ I’ll have everything all in the one place – it has potential doesn’t it…

I started this blog with the idea of keeping track of what I’ve read and what I want to read and now I have a list purpose-built for taking to the bookshop/attaching to the fridge come present time too (I’m not so naive as to think my family will actually check my c drive!). Blogging is unexpectedly helping me to get one area of my life under control and, in the chaos that is my life, some measure of control is very satisfying.