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[[Category:New Reviews|Lifestyle]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview <!-- remove 7/7 -->Frontpage|authorisbn= Veronica M McNally1454955546|title= Cracking the Obesity CrisisSugarless|author=Nicole M Avena|rating= 1.5
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|summary= Any weight-related ''This isn't a diet book. The last thing anyone needs is another diet book.'' There was a time, whether one not that considers issues from a medical or sociological perspectivelong ago, or one when it was thought that provides advice on how sugary food was better for you than food with high-fat content. Fat was the demon food which was going to eat well or lose weightelevate your cholesterol and cause heart disease. Sugar was a carbohydrate, whose opening pages feature so good. There''fat people are basically insecures a problem, unhappy people trapped inside very unattractive bodies'', ''Islamic people however are at an advantage as they do Ramadan and they are not overweight'', ''there though. Sugar is hope for overweight addictive and obese people, but I don’t see a can hijack your brain in much the same way back for the clinically aid [sic] morbidly obese'' and my personal favourite: ''as women’s hands are smooth drugs like heroin and soft in many casescocaine. Does that sound over the top? Well, females would be useful behind soldiers to be there as assistants to men quickly reloading magazines of bullets speedily'it isn', any such book needs to provide an awful lot of valuable content in the pages that follow to have a chance of redeeming itselft.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524662003</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1635866847|title=The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.}}{{Frontpage|isbn= Will Darbyshire0760381267|title=Verdura: Living a Garden Life|author=Perla Sofia Curbelo-Santiago|rating=3.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=''The most important part of a garden is the one who enjoys it''. I've 'gardened' in a vague, indefinite sort of way for more than half a century. I know (most of) the basics but life has changed and I needed 'projects' rather than a general commitment to gardening. ''Verdura'' with its promise of projects for both indoors and outdoors of varying complexity seemed like the answer. So, how did it stack up?}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Wilson|title=This Modern Love One Wild and Precious Life: the path back to connection in a fractured world|rating= 43.5
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|summary= Love My favourite Mary Oliver line is love, but at the same time one in which she asks ''What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?'' I get to love that line so much because my answer is changing, ''This! Precisely this.'' I'm lucky enough to be living my one wild and precious life the way I want to. Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. In her book that takes Oliver's words as her title (though I can't see that she acknowledges the source) she pushes us to think about whether we find it, really ''are'' living the way life we express it, want – the way best life that we walk away from thingscould be living. You can change a Facebook status and tell the entire world the ins and outs of your relationship Her answer is an unequivocal ''no, we are not''. Don't care what you can meet people online're doing, she thinks you can conduct long distance relationships in much more real time than in the past when you had to rely on the postman to deliver your heartfelt(we, handwritten note. This book, a compilation of letters and other contributions, explores what love is in the 21st century. ItI) could be doing more…And she's certainly international – there were 15,000 submissions from over 100 countries – and it's also touching, funny, frustrating and all those other thingseffing furious about the fact that we are not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784755168</amazonuk>1785633848
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laura Williams1394159544|title=Grandpa Diet and DiabetesRecycling for Dummies|author=Sarah Winkler|rating=45|genre=For SharingLifestyle|summary=Nick's Mum is an accident and emergency nurse and life 'Recycling one ton of plastic can get a bit hectic at times, particularly when she has save up to arrange for someone to look after Nick and his twin sister Emma16.3 barrels of oil. One day in the school holidays Grandpa had the pleasure '' ''Recycling one ton of looking after the kids paper can save 17 trees from being cut down.'' If you send an apple core to landfill, it will take between 6 months and Nick thought this was cool2 years to decompose. Grandpa used A glass bottle will take up to be 1 million years. As a bit of just-post-WWII baby, I faced a rocker, you seedilemma: reducing, reusing and recycling is part of my DNA. NEVER throw away anything thatmight ''possibly''s come in handy now or in the sort of music he always has playingfuture. He might have a stick but Nick sure NEVER buy anything if you can cobble together something that he doesnwould serve the purpose. Almost everything can be used one more time and any purchase must pass the test of 'Is this absolutely essential?'t really need it On the other hand, I suspected I was guilty of wishcycling: assuming that something must be recyclable (toothpaste tubes - I'm looking at you) and dropping it's there just in casethe kerbside bin. He does have Yes, I could go searching on the internet - and get conflicting advice - but what I needed was a problem though and Mum explains it by saying that Grandpa has to eat at the right time every day because he has diabetesrecycling bible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524667641</amazonuk>s
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Twigs Way0760378134|title=Allotments (Britain's Heritage Series)The First-Time Gardener: Container Food Gardening|author=Pamela Farley|rating=45|genre=LifestyleHome and Family|summary=Allotments came about originally from If you've ever thought how good it would be to be able to pop out into the enclosure of land, primarily garden and pick some fruit and vegetables for sheep pasture. Fearing a meal – but realised that you wouldn't know where to start, this is the enclosures would leave peasants unable book you need. It's comprehensive: you'll cover everything from why you should grow your own food, what you're going to feed themselvesgrow, what you'll grow it in (both containers and soil), Elizabeth I issued an act requiring all new cottages to have four acres of groundwhere you'll put these containers, something which has been honoured more by history than by Elizabethhow you's contemporariesll water and fertilise them and you finish the main part of the book with a handy section on troubleshooting. It was the first in There's also a long line of legislation with that aim in mind - which largely failed to achieve their aimsgood glossary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445665700</amazonuk> So, is it any good?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicos Nicolaou1398508632|title=The Anxiety-Elimination SystemWilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating=45
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|summary=Nick Nicolau suffered It had been on the cards for a major panic attack and while but it was told by his doctor that he would need medication to control the attacks and that there wasn't much more that he could do week- apart that was, from going home to sleeplong consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. The next morning he end of November, particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the best time to start, in a world where the normal sores had another attack which he could neither stop nor control been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and before long was having panic attacks every day and developed generalised anxiety and phobiasa pandemic. After Wilde had a great deal few advantages: the area around her was a known habitat with a variety of work and research he discovered how terrains. She had electricity which allowed her to control his anxiety - run a fridge, freezer and now he helps others to do the samedehydrator. No one is born with She had a chemical imbalance in the brain car - and genes do fuel. Most importantly, she had shelter: this was not determine behaviour. The proof of the efficacy of his system is that through the course of a particularly challenging life event - his divorce - he didnplan to ''live''t slip back into inappropriate anxietywild just to live off its produce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524667412</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Akon Margaret KaluBjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankeler, Navid Modiiri and Agnes Bromme (Translator)|title=Eat With PleasureI May Be Wrong|rating=35|genre=LifestyleAutobiography|summary=When you the Dalai Lama adds his words to your frontispiece, I'm inclined to think about a certified nutrition coach you probably imagine someone who is going to be very strict with you about what you should or shouldnit doesn't be eatingreally matter how the rest of the world responds to your book. You visualise someone who will insist I know, having read the book in question, that Lindeblad would disagree with that you eat worthy thought. He knows (and probably tastelessat core so do I) food and completely avoid those foods which you really love. Gone will be that it matters very much how the bar rest of chocolate and possibly even the mug of coffee which gets you going in the morning. It was particularly refreshing and something of a relief world responds to encounter Akon Margaret Kalu - certified nutrition coach and food blogger at [http://www.therealakon.co.uk www.therealakon.co.uk]. She's outspoken. She believes that this book, because it tells the occasional treat does you no harm so long truth as you don't make it a regular habit. In fact you're better having a small, occasional, indulgent snack than resisting and finally giving into cravings and ''binging''. In other wordsis, she lives in the real world with the rest of us imperfect beingsearly 21st century.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524676942</amazonuk>1526644827
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ruth Pearson1732898731|title=Say Yes to New Opportunities!The Boy Who Loved Boxes: A Children's Book for Adults|author=Michael Albanese |rating=4.5
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|summary=Ruth Pearson There was deputy head of her school and was studying for a Masters degree when she suffered an emotional breakdown as a result of the stresses of the jobBoy who loved boxes. The breakdown He had a box for everything and he was so severe that she was afraid to return to the classroommeticulous about storage: his parents probably couldn't believe their luck! It began with art supplies, but rather than sitting back stuffed toys and letting the circumstances overwhelm her she allowed what had happened to become a catalyst like: all the things which would help her to change her lifemost children have in abundance. In The Boy''Say Yes to New Opportunities'' she shares what she learned from s delight was in the experiencesense of order in his room: it made him feel happy. To come back from this situation requires strength, honesty As he grew up and became a sense of purposeMan, all his life became more complicated and he dealt with this by getting bigger and better boxes. Look carefully at the pictures and you'll see that one of which Pearson demonstrates quite clearly throughout this bookthem has a padlock...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524676616</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1846276772|title=Confessions The End of Modern WomenBias: How We Change Our Minds|author=Spadge WhittakerJessica Nordell
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|genre=LifestylePolitics and Society|summary=SheAnyone who is not an able, white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the extent to which they suffer from it: it's back! Huzzah! Do you remember simply a part of everyday life. White men will always come first. The able will come before the disabled. Jobs, promotions, higher salaries are the preserve of the white man. Even when Spadge Whittaker [[Braver Than Britainthose who wouldn't pass the medical become a part of an organisation it's rare that their views are heard, Occasionally that their concerns are acknowledged. It's personally appalling and degrading for the individuals on the receiving end of the bias but it's not just the individuals who are negatively impacted.}}{{Frontpage|author=Erling Kagge|title=Walking: One Step At A Time|rating=5|genre= Lifestyle|summary= Those who have read my reviews before will know that how much I loved a book is evidenced by Spadge Whittaker|faced her the number of pages with corners turned, so let me start this one with an apology to the Norfolk Library Service: sorry! I forgot it was your book not mine. In my defence, I will say that as a reader of this type of book there is something connective about noting where prior readers were inspired (and provided it is subtle – I'll allow creased corners, but not scribbles – for the latter we must buy ourown copy – which I am about to do as soon as I have finished telling you why) deepest fears]]? We loved the way she did that. EXCEPT FOR THE SPIDERS.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dixe WillsRichard Brook|title=Tiny CampsitesUnderstanding Human Nature: 80 Perfect Little Places A User's Guide to PitchLife
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|genre=TravelLifestyle|summary=I've often been put off the idea am a firm believer that sometimes we choose books, and sometimes books choose us. In my case, this is one of camping by the thought latter. Not so very long ago, if I had come across this book I'd have skimmed it, found some of largeit interesting, soul-less campsites, often populated by people who want to party late into but it would not have 'hit home' in the nightway that it does now. I believe it came to me not just because I much prefer camping was likely to mean something - give it a feeling of being somewhere specialfavourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's u.s.p. is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, of being able so there is a predisposition towards expecting to be at one with nature. But like the trouble is, where do you find these gems? Wellbook, even if it doesn't always turn out that way'Tiny Campsites'' will provide you with eighty perfect little places ] – but also because it is a book I needed to pitch your tentread, right now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749578483</amazonuk>1800461682
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Redress0753558378|title=Dress (with) senseEffortless: The Practical Guide Make It Easier to a Conscious ClosetDo What Matters|author=Greg McKeown
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|summary=Not too long ago I didn't have any problems with clothes'The marginal return of working harder was, in fact, negative. They were just about all black and I wore them until they dropped off my back - and then I used '' That's what I could of the material for other purposeshappened to Patrick McGinnis. I had this lovely little clothes shop in Ilkley (it says It'Oxfam' over s no exaggeration to say that he devoted his life to the door) company he worked for, struggling through, even when I needed he was ill, only to restockfind that he was working for a bankrupt company. Clothes were simple. Then I encountered the lovely [[:Category:Numba Pinkerton|Numba Pinkerton]] His stock had fallen by 97%, he had lost his health and suddenly I his job had colour in my life: not all of it could be had from Oxfamlittle value. Sometimes I might even be buying ''new'' clothesHe made a bargain with God; if he survived, he would make some changes. I needed help He did survive and more advicecame through stronger - and richer. There is, you see, because it really isna different way: 't as simple as just walking into the nearest department store'great things are not reserved for those who bleed, for those who almost break.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500292779</amazonuk>''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr Elizabeth Blackburn and Dr Elissa Epel1523092734|title=The Telomere Effect: A Revolutionary Approach Women's Guide to Living Younger, Healthier, LongerClaiming Space|author=Eliza Van Cort
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|genre=Popular SciencePolitics and Society|summary=I have lived my ''She brings a hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in her life. Again and again and again.'' (Alma Derricks, former CMO, Cirque du Soleil RSD) ''To claim space is to live the life determined not of choosing unapologetically and bravely. It is to live the life you''ageve always wanted.'' Sometimes the reviewing gods are generous: I see nothing aspirational at a time when violence against women is much in the dependence of old agenews, whether it be on other people, government in all its forms or the NHS''A Women's Guide to Claiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk. INow - to be clear - this book is not a 'm prepared how to put effort into thisdisable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual: it's not the cosmetic image of youth I seeksomething far more effective, but rather discussion at the ability moment seems to do as I do now - running a business, regularly walking for miles in our glorious countryside and enjoying life - for as long as possible. So far itbe about how women can be 's working out, but what else could I do and 'protected'why'. I' does ve always thought that women need to rise above this work for some , to be people who don't need protection, people and who claim their own space. If all women did this, those few men who are violent to women would realise that we are not for others?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297609238</amazonuk>just an easy target to be used to prove that they are big men.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Weatherhogg1529109116|title=Living With Depression|rating=4|genre=Lifestyle|summary=Nick Weatherhogg has been diagnosed as suffering from severe depression. Many of you will be nodding wisely and thinking that you know how he feelsCall Me Red: but there are two points he wants to make here. You ''don't'' know how he feels. This is ''his'' depression and only he knows what it feels like - if he's able to think or express how he's feeling. The other point is that there's a big difference between ''feeling'' depressed and ''being'' depressed - ''fepression'' and ''bepression'' as he terms them. HeA Shepherd's right: I've been there. My feelings, my experience will have been different, but I do know that it was hellish. He describes the experience as ''a mental state in which your brain regularly and consistently lies to you.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524663662</amazonuk>}}{{newreview<!-- remove 12/1 -->Journey|author=Jo Bird|title=Web to SuccessHannah Jackson
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|summary=[[:Category:Jo Bird|Jo Bird]] (illustrator, designer and… errr''I want the image of a British farmer to simply be that of a person who is proudly employed in feeding the nation. I don't think that is too much to ask. .wall tattooist) had a lightbulb moment about positive thinking, self-improvement and success'' The stereotypical farmer was probably born on the land where ''his'' family have farmed for generations. The road He's probably grown up without giving much thought as to what he really wants to an improved self isndo: he knows that he't linear in ll be a farmer. It'change this thing s not always the case though. Hannah Jackson was born and all will be finebrought up on the Wirral: she' way; itd never set foot on a commercial farm until she was twenty although she's d always had a web that connects and intersects several paths and subjects that can be summarised under three headingsdeep love of animals. All successful people (socially as much as professionally) know about self-awarenessHer original intention was that she would become 'Dr Jackson, personal development whale scientist' and emotional awarenessshe was well on her way to achieving this when her life changed on a family holiday to the Lake District. After having She saw a shot at principles of self-improvement herselflamb being born and, although 'Hannah Jackson, Jo shares farmer' lacked the fruit kudos of her experience across original intention, she knew that she wanted to be a wealth shepherd. With the determination that you'll soon realise is an essential part of fields to make one heck of a self-help bookher, she set about achieving her ambition.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>152466622X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary Ellen Guiney1786495902|title=Vietnamese VoicesThe Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Isabel Hardman|rating=3.5
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|summary=Mary Ellen Guiney has been diagnosed at various times with schizophrenia Isabel Hardman suffered a trauma which she chooses not to share. She says that a friend who does know, burst into tears and bihealth-polar disordercare professionals' jaws have sagged in disbelief. The resulting treatment of choice is Hardman dealt with this at the time by 'keeping going': the conventional western medicine approach and drug regimens that brought with them unpleasant side-effects. Determined next day she went to work to find a better way of symptom controlcover the budget, using her biochemical backgroundnext there was the EU referendum, Mary Ellen begins the political party leadership contests and then it was party conference season. One night she had to investigate alternative eastern medicine be sedated and therapies in addition returned home to looking at the effect of nutrition and exercisebegin long-term sick leave. The results are hereThat was what brought me to this book: this is Mary Ellen's story written in her own words2020 was the year when the bins went out more often than I did.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524663123</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patrick MbayaLauren Martin|title= My Brain Is Out Of Control|rating= 4|genre= Home and Family|summary=Dr Patrick Mbaya was enjoying life as a consultant psychiatrist, husband and father. His career was going well and he enjoyed making ill people better. His marriage was solid and fulfilling and his two children were exploring their potential, often through the uplifting power The Book of music. Life was good. But then...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524636649</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jonathan S Lee|title=Lean Gains|rating=4|genre=Sport|summary=I don't often begin a book by telling you what it ''isn't'' but in this case I think it's important. If you're a fairly sedentary person or a casual sportsman or woman looking to shed a few pounds then you won't get the best out of this book. You'll find some good advice about diet, but I'm afraid that much of it is going to go over your head. Of course you could always take up a sport seriously... On the other hand, if you ''are'' a serious sportsman then you could find that the advice in ''Lean Gains'' could lift you up to the next level of performance.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>152463493X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Laura Slater|title=Hollywood Beauty: Vintage SecretsMoods|rating=45
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|summary=I have vivid memories from my youth was in a great mood when I first learnt of seeing the Hollywood beauties on the television or at this book, and because sarcasm doesn't always translate well into writing, imagine the cinema and wishing that word ''Igreat'' could look like that being delivered with an eye roll and - of coursea sigh, no matter how through clenched teeth. I tried, I never could. The look had spent the best part of Marilyn Monroea rainy, Rita Hayworthwindy weekend afternoon out on the water at our local sailing club in the rescue rib, Audrey Hepburn, Brigitte Bardot, Ava Gardner and Sofia Loren always eluded meon standby in case anyone who was racing needed support. To begin with, I lacked knowledge. Despite being reasonably petite my oblong face was never going to look anything like Audrey HepburnIt's. I lacked quite a few of Brigitte Bardot's attributes too. Graduallyvolunteer duty we all do during the year, and normally I realised that developing my own style was the best way 'm happy to go, but I'll confess that there are still ''elements'' of day the stars' looks which weather was miserable and I'd love was miserable, and it all came to copya head that evening when I noticed on the website that we had been thanked for our time as "Dave and wife". That's where ''Vintage Secrets: Hollywood Beauty'' comes inWow. I had never needed this book more.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0859655083</amazonuk>1538733625
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Yuchi Yang0008420386|title=Failosophy: A Food Guide to Lowering Blood Pressure: 6 Simple Stepshandbook for when things go wrong|author=Elizabeth Day
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|summary=Yuchi Yang has been a registered dietitian for over twenty years What do Malcolm Gladwell, Alain de Botton, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Lemn Sissay, Nigel Slater, Emeli Sandé, Meera Syal, Dame Kelly Holmes and she's allowing us the benefit of her knowledge to help us to reduce our blood pressure ''without'' taking medication, although she does stress that if you ''are'' taking medication you shouldn't stop doing so without consulting your doctor. You can reduce your BP Andrew Scott have in six steps, which are actually a lot simpler than they sound. common? Does it work? Yes, it does: IThey've been eating this way for all failed and - more than two years and Iimportantly - they've gone from having 'very worrying' blood pressure readings been willing to getting a smile when they're taken and being told that my BP is perfectly normal - and that's without taking medication of any sort.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1539803422</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Michael Long|title=The Mock Olympian|rating=4|genre=Sport|summary=It started with an idle conversation just before the 2012 London Olympics: Michael Long's friend Sarah gave him a book as part of his birthday present. It was ''Time Outappear on Elizabeth Day's'' guide podcast to the history of the Olympics discuss their failures and it covered each of the summer Olympics in chronological order from the inaugural games in Athens in 1896how life worked out for them afterwards. SarahYou's boyfriend James commented that with all ll find the running Michael did, he'd probably have run in most results of the Olympic cities. Although Long had done a goodly number of runs, bike rides and triathlons he'd only competed these discussions in two of the twenty three cities - London and Athens. Now most of us would have left it at that, but that's not the Michael Long you're going to come to know and love. He saw it as a ''challenge'Failosophy' and what's more he blogged about it and then wrote this book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524662887</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
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|title=Single, Again, and Again, and Again
|author=Louisa Pateman
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|genre=Autobiography
|summary=''You can't be happy and fulfilled on your own. You are not complete until you find a man''.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Short1538731738|title=101 Things To Do When You're Not DrinkingSimple Abundance: 365 Days to a Balanced and Joyful Life|author= Sarah Ban Breathnach|rating=45
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|summary=If youSomeone once said: it're thinking about giving up alcohol long terms not self-indulgence, short term or for Dry January then you might be wondering if it's going therapy! I think they were talking about shopping, but it probably can be applied to leave one helluva hole in your social lifemost things. You might be thinking In my case, it applies to writing about what youthings because I want to, rather than because I can sell it or because I'll do with the time you normally spend out socialising (just having a quick one before you get the train home...) as well as the time you spend recovering from having had ''just'' one too many the night before. Sunday mornings will loom large as uncharted and largely unknown territory. Robert Short has a few answers for you - well 101 of them in fact - in a pocket-size book which should give you some inspirationve got something to sell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722877</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tonia VojtkofskySharon Blackie|title=Keep Your Brain Stronger for LongerIf Women Rose Rooted|rating=45|genre=LifestyleBiography|summary=On the front of the book it says I normally say that our brains need you can tell how much a well-rounded workout just like our bodiesbook means to me by how many pages have corners turned down. A decade or two ago I wouldn't have given very much thought Perhaps an even greater measure of impact is setting out to this - buy my body own copy before I''and'' my brain seemed to get all ve finished reading the workout they needed without me adding to their burdens, but close on the beginning of my eighth decade one I've noticed somethingborrowed. I keep losing words: nothing major, you know, but this morning I couldnwant to avoid clichés like 'powerful't remember the name of a flower which I hadn't seen since this time last year - until about half an hour later, when, of course it was no longer relevant. When youinspiring're young you don't worry about what youlife-changing'll suffer from in old age. As you get older you develop dreads – although it is definitely the first two and one of only time will tell about the biggest third – but clichés exist for people who are still hale a reason and hearty is that theyI'll develop dementiam not sure I can succinctly put it any better.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780722842</amazonuk>1912836017
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Margery Allingham and Julia Jones1543987877|title=Beloved Old Age and What Learn to Do About itLove: Margery Allingham's the RelayGuide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life|author=Dr Thomas Jordan
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|summary=I have ''Learn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life'' is a favourite cigarette lighterbook about love relationships rather than a book about love. That sentence may become more strange to The two greatest emotions are love and grief and love is the opposite of grief: ''if you when love'', Dr Thomas Jordan tells us, ''you consider the fact that I have never smokedwill inevitably grieve''. I donYour love relationships begin the moment you't know how but I got it as a freebie donkey's years ago, and I loved its curvy bronzed lines, re born and end only when you die. Whilst we all come into the fact that I had world hoping to click down on a button instead of rub against a flint-wheel to light itgive and receive love there are many people for whom love is not quite so simple. I optimistically took it with me at uni in case I found a girl good enough to be with even though she smoked (which took almost another twenty years, but that's a different story) – therefore I was carrying something so evidently not a match as a potential matchSome people suffer multiple disappointments - sometimes repeating the same mistakes -makerand this eventually becomes resignation. LaterFor people who are making the same mistakes repeatedly, its semiself-art deco styling made it perfect for a play I was preservation, in once, after which it dried up. Now it's more or less the form of resignation is a paperweightnecessity. But if I can imbue such personal relevance in a bleeding fag lighter, just think what all of culture can do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1501307363</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lydia PyneMichael Harris|title=Bookshelf (Object Lessons)Solitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World|rating=4.5
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|summary=Could you imagine a whole This is not the book dedicated I was expecting it to be. For some reason I expected it to be another self-help manual on how to find calm, how to a single lump step outside the mainstream, but it is not that at all. Instead of woodtelling us how, or a few sections of metal? I can't assume it would be great – with or without said item being is more about the ''an object with physical, historical and psychological componentswhy''. But shove some distorted tree by-products on Harries examines how we're eroding solitude, which used to said wood or metalbe a natural part of our human life, and lo why that matters. Of course he talks about how some people have found solitude and what has come of that, and behold you have a bookshelfeventually in the final chapter he talks about his own experience of having deliberately sought it out, but mostly he wanders down the alleys and by-ways that his thinking about this lost art led him. Now you're talking – but could you even now imagine a whole book dedicated to it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1501307320</amazonuk>1847947662
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Georgina Rodgers0753553236|title=Peace of MindTiny Habits: A Book of Calm for Busy MumsThe Small Changes That Change Everything|author=B J Fogg|rating=35
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|summary=The promise of a book bringing me calm was too much to resist! Go on, admit it - you're not quite perfect. There it isYou still have those odd, in the title, my job description quirky even loveable (busy mumto you) habits which seem to annoy other people...well Other people, that's just one of my jobs!) and that elusive state that many mums seem to be trying to findcourse, are sorely afflicted with some dreadful flaws which they could so easily correct, peace if only they would make just a little bit of mindeffort. Or put another way, I have to say, get cross with myself because I was looking forward forget to do things or do some insightful revelations into changing my life. actions more than I should and no matter how I think the problem, however, was quickly apparent in that like a busy mum, who is trying try to wear a hundred masks at the same time, and carry out a multitude of roles, this book isn't entirely sure make what it's trying seem to be, with everything from poetry and colouring quite monumental changes I never quite seem to mindfulness and recipes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473635519</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Merinda D'Aprano|title= The Essential Guide get to Your Prep School Journey (Head Teacher in Your Pocket)|rating= 4.5|genre= Lifestyle|summary= As you might have gathered from the title, ''The Essential Guide to Your Prep School Journey'' is pitched at parents who intend on using grips with the private sector to educate their childrenconcepts. And clearly, these are the parents who will benefit most from reading the book I constantly fail and then I get cross with myself for failing. However, there Lack of willpower is a great deal of general advice within its pages which will prove helpful even another burden to add to parents whose children will be travelling through the state sector. So if this is you, don't discount this book immediately. Such advice includes ''Why is reading so important?'', ''How can I promote a brave learner?'' and ''Is the internet safe for my child?'' - you can see that these are universally applicable topics and topics that all parents appreciate advice aboutlist. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993550304</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=A A Milne and E H Shepard1785785516|title=Winnie-the-Pooh's Little Book Of WisdomFucking Good Manners|author=Simon Griffin
|rating=4
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|summary=For Manners maketh man, they say. It certainly makes life easier if everybody abides by a Bear set of Very Little Brain Winnie-the-Pooh talks an awful lot conventions, some of sense which are ages old and other which have evolved over time. Manners are not about how much to tip or how you should behave if you get an invitation to Buckingham Palace, they have nothing to do with class or financial status: they're about getting the basics right before we should be honoured that hetry to deal with more difficult matters. Of course we all have more relaxed manners when we're with family and friends, but it's chosen best if we learn to distinguish between our public and private lives and to share with act appropriately. ''Fucking Good Manners'' aims to help us on the way.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1999811402|title=Painting Snails|author=Stephen John Hartley|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=It's very difficult to classify ''Painting Snails'': originally I thought that as it's loosely based around a year on an allotment it would be a few lifestyle book, but you're not going to get advice on what to plant when and where for the best results. The answer would be something along the lines of his wise words'try it and see'. You seeThen I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, did an engineering apprenticeship, became a busker, occasionally finally got into medical school and is now an A&E consultant (well, part-time). I found out that there's an awful lot of the timemore to what goes on in a Major Trauma Centre than you'll ever glean from ''Casualty'', if webut that isn're honest) we look for wisdom in t really what the wrong places and forget book's about those who have . There's a very simple approach lot about rock & roll, which seems to life and who may well have discovered be the secret real passion of happiness. PoohHartley's take on life is very simple and none , but it didn't actually fit into the worse entertainment genre either. Did we have a category for 'doing the impossible the hard way'? Yep - that's the one. It's an autobiography.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405281278</amazonuk>
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