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[[Category:New Reviews|Lifestyle]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Matousek1454955546|title=When You're Falling, DiveSugarless|author=Nicole M Avena|rating=4.5
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|summary=You never quite know what life is going to serve up next and even the happiest moments or saddest news can be turned around in a heartbeat. For the author Mark Matousek his down was learning he was HIV positive, while his up, a while later, was being informed that it wasn’t quite the death sentence originally imposed and that he had quite ''This isn't a bit of life left. In this diet book he looks at how you can find the good in the bad or, to quote the subtitle, the keys to 'Using your pain to transform your life'. The art of survival last thing anyone needs is an intriguing one. The same scale of trauma affects different people in different ways and this another diet book seeks to draw on the wisdom of those who triumph in the face of adversity to share what they know and inspire the same behaviour in us.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848504926</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Neill1635866847|title=Feel Happy NowThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5
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|summary=It's strange, the things that make you 'Feel Happy Now'immediately' ' feel that this is a dummy’s guide to happiness written by an NLP expert who Paul McKenna has dubbed the book for you. Before I started reading ''The finest success coach in 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 worldhomepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. What makes this (There's a recipe in the book stand out, perhaps, is which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the way the complexity is done away with, book and everything is broken down I was told to an accessible level without being too patronizingmake a mess of it. Its expert concepts presented Notes in layman speak and the result is margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a highly readable and accessible problem. I ''loved'' this book regardless of your belief in the subjectalready.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848504942</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Oxford0760381267|title=Make Yourself Immune to Heart AttackVerdura: Living a Garden Life|author=Perla Sofia Curbelo-Santiago|rating=3.5
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|summary=''The older you get, most important part of a garden is the more likely it is that you will suffer from some form of heart disease or even die from it. Many deaths occur without warning in people one who are apparently healthy - so enjoys it's not something that you can wait to be diagnosed and plan on doing something about at that stage. Whatever your age there's a real possibility that you can make a significant improvement in your health ''and'' improve the quality of your life. I came to read this book because family members of my generation were suffering ''severe'' heart problems and it was a wake-up call that was impossible to ignore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907629319</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Charlotte Watts and Anna MageeSarah Wilson|title=The De-Stress DietThis One Wild and Precious Life: The Revolutionary Lifestyle Plan for the path back to connection in a Calmer, Slimmer Youfractured world|rating=43.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=Most people will recognise My favourite Mary Oliver line is the one in which she asks ''What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?'' I get to love that excessive stress line so much because my answer is not good for you''This! Precisely this. '' ItI's m lucky enough to be living my one wild and precious life the cause of depression, high blood pressure, skin problems and insomnia - way I want to name just a few problems from a very long list. There's also mounting evidence Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. In her book that chronic stress is responsible for excessive weight gain and not just because theretakes Oliver's a tendency words as her title (er, yes, though I can testify to this...'t see that she acknowledges the source) she pushes us to turn to comfort eatingthink about whether we really ''are'' living the life we want – the best life that we could be living. Too many stress hormones in the body encourage fat storage - particularly in that Her answer is an unequivocal ''obviousno, we are not'' and very-hard-to-shift area around the middle. The aim of Don't care what you're doing, she thinks you (we, I) could be doing more…And she's effing furious about the De-Stress Diet is to bring about a slimmer, calmer person with a better quality of lifefact that we are not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848507798</amazonuk>1785633848
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anita Anand, Julian Barnes, Bella Bathurst, Alan Bennett and others1394159544|title=The Library BookRecycling for Dummies|author=Sarah Winkler|rating=4.5
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|summary=I had better begin by saying that I had a vested interest in liking this book since I am a chartered librarian myself and so am wholeheartedly in support of saving our nation's public libraries. But you don't need Recycling one ton of plastic can save up to be a librarian to enjoy this book16.3 barrels of oil. It is rich with anecdotes from some wonderful writers and makes a pleasant read whether you're keen to save libraries or not.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781250057</amazonuk>}}'
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez0760378134|title=The Little Book Of PerfumesFirst-Time Gardener: Container Food Gardening|author=Pamela Farley
|rating=5
|genre=LifestyleHome and Family|summary=I have always admired people who seem If you've ever thought how good it would be to be able to pop out into the garden and pick some fruit and vegetables for a meal – but realised that you wouldn't know about scentwhere to start, those whose dressing tables are littered with bottles none of which flaunt this is the name of a major (or increasingly, minor) celebritybook you need. Some of the bottles might be works of art in themselves It's comprehensive: you'll cover everything from why you should grow your own food, but the general understanding is that they’ve been bought not for their vesselswhat you're going to grow, nor for their exclusive advertising campaignswhat you'll grow it in (both containers and soil), special offers or celeb endorsementwhere you'll put these containers, but for their evocative scent. Perfumery is clearly an art how you'll water and a science fertilise them and if your skills aren’t as honed as they might be, this is a wonderful little book to sink your teeth into as you’re guided through you finish the field by two people very much in main part of the knowbook with a handy section on troubleshooting. There's also a good glossary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685192</amazonuk> So, is it any good?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Linda M James1398508632|title=How to Write and Sell Great Short StoriesThe Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde
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|summary=Having read any number of books about crafting great stories, I thought I It had had my fill and that there were no more books left that could bolster my enthusiasm and help me to get been on with my writingthe cards for a while but it was the week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. In short The end of November, I thought particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the only thing left that could motivate me wasbest time to start, well, me.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846947162</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tom Ryan|title=Following Atticus: How a little dog led one man on in a journey of rediscovery to the top of the world |rating=4|genre=Pets|summary=Tom Ryan is a middle-aged, stressed journalist, running his own newspaper, where the ''Undertoad'' in Newburyport in America. His life is full of political intrigues and mayoral electionsnormal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, boardroom deals Brexit and subterfuge and his life is full of challengesa pandemic. He doesn't need Wilde had a dog. He doesn't even particularly want few advantages: the area around her was a dog, but when known habitat with a miniature schnauzer enters his life one day, everything changesvariety of terrains.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141048972</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jolyon Fenwick and Marcus Husselby|title=It Could Have Been Yours: The enlightened person's guide She had electricity which allowed her to the year's most desirable things|rating=4|genre=Trivia|summary=In run a world of diamond-encrusted skullsfridge, gold-leafed iPhones freezer and luxury yachts ten a penny, of blingy shit (or should that be shitty bling?) it's dehydrator. She had a relief to know people are still spending money on unique onecar -offs that are more worthwhileand fuel. The records for costliest photoMost importantly, artwork, musical instrument and manuscript have all been broken in the twenty four months leading up she had shelter: this was not a plan to this book's release. Our collators have scoured the press for those and other, similarly noteworthy auctions, and found what other people paid for what you didn't know you would have wanted given the moneylive'' wild just to live off its produce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684900</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David SavageBjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankeler, Navid Modiiri and Agnes Bromme (Translator)|title=Furniture with Soul: Master Woodworkers and Their CraftI May Be Wrong
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|genre=CraftsAutobiography|summary=David Savage is a master furniture maker and one of When the artists featured in the bookDalai Lama adds his words to your frontispiece, so he is not – as he says himself – a neutral observer and nor can he be neutral in choosing who I'm inclined to include in think it doesn't really matter how the rest of the world responds to your book. Having said thatI know, having read the pictures alone will tell you book in question, that Lindeblad would disagree with that he has chosen people who create furniture of great beauty and – often – originalitythought. It's He knows (and at core so do I) that it matters very much how the text that makes rest of the world responds to this book shine, though – as because it seeks not to give a critical appreciation of each man and one woman's work, but to look at what makes them tick, what drives them on and how they have handled tells the good times truth as well as the bad. It it is, if you like, ten in-depth biographies of artists who work in a common medium and ten shorter pieces about those we should look out for in the futureearly 21st century.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>4770031211</amazonuk>1526644827
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alex Buckley1732898731|title=Ssh! Lose Weight in 20 MinutesThe Boy Who Loved Boxes: A Children's Book for Adults|author=Michael Albanese |rating=34.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=After years of limited exercise combined with There was a love of fine food, Alex Buckley was known to his friends as Fat AlBoy who loved boxes. He followed had a number of diet plans to no effect before coming up box for everything and he was meticulous about storage: his parents probably couldn't believe their luck! It began with his own solutionart supplies, stuffed toys and the like: all the things which is outlined most children have in this bookabundance. His message is basically an extended version The Boy's delight was in the sense of the long standing sound advice that to lose weight you need to eat less order in his room: it made him feel happy. As he grew up and exercise became a Man, his life became morecomplicated and he dealt with this by getting bigger and better boxes. BuckleyLook carefully at the pictures and you's suggestions break this broad truth down into achievable micro steps. He provides tips on ways ll see that one of sustaining weight loss by very gradually changing your behaviourthem has a padlock. The book does not offer detailed recipes or a programme of food exclusion. It is very much about advice on small day to day choices and gradual change, written in a straightforward and easily accessible style.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908218282</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rosie O'Hara1846276772|title=No More Bingo DressesThe End of Bias: Using NLP to cope with breast cancer and other people How We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell|rating=24.5|genre=LifestylePolitics and Society|summary=I'd love Anyone who is not an able, white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the extent to meet Rosie Owhich they suffer from it: it'Hara. She sounds like s simply a full-on, earthy lady who has more than a few tales to tell about her part of everyday life to date. Rosie is a professional neuro-linguistic programming trainer in White men will always come first. The able will come before the Highlands of Scotlanddisabled. Jobs, promotions, and has already published an NLP-based self-help book. At higher salaries are the beginning preserve of 2009, a routine mammogram turned up the white man. Even when those who wouldn't pass the medical become a little breast cancerpart of an organisation it's rare that their views are heard, that their concerns are acknowledged. Rosie set out in her very direct It's personally appalling and determined way to put degrading for the individuals on the receiving end of the cancer in its rightful place as a challenge in her life rather than a defining disaster and this feisty diary is bias but it's not just the resultindividuals who are negatively impacted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908218347</amazonuk>
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{{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 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 (provided it is subtle – I'll allow creased corners, but not scribbles – for the latter we must buy our own copy – which I am about to do as soon as I have finished telling you why).
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sue BrayneRichard Brook|title=Sex, Meaning and the MenopauseUnderstanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to Life|rating=4.5
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|summary=Things change as you get olderI am a firm believer that sometimes we choose books, and sometimes books choose us. As men – and particularly women – approach their late forties and early fifties they expect that there will be physical changes In my case, this is one of the latter. Not so very long ago, if I had come across this book I'd have skimmed it, found some more permanent than othersof it interesting, but theyit would not have 'hit home're frequently taken by surprise by in the mental changes which occurway that it does now. Women expect that the menopause will bring the end of menstruation (some looking at this more gratefully than others I believe it came to me not just because I was likely to give it a favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's u.s.p.) but fail to appreciate is that they are moving into people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a different stage of their life. Looked at positively this can be predisposition towards expecting to like the most fulfilling period of womanbook, even if it doesn's lifecycle – and I doubt t always turn out that thereway''s ] – but also because it is a husband who would object book I needed to that!read, right now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0826423019</amazonuk>1800461682
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Diane Ackerman0753558378|title=One Hundred Names For LoveEffortless: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of HealingMake It Easier to Do What Matters|author=Greg McKeown
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|summary=Diane Ackerman's husband'The marginal return of working harder was, Paul West, had been in hospital for three weeks with a kidney infection and was just rejoicing in the fact that he was to go home the next day. As Diane watched , Paul suffered a massive stroke. The effects were catastrophic, but worst of all, the man who had been a brilliant wordsmith was robbed of his power of speech and lost his extensive vocabularynegative. It's eight years since this happened and the intervening years have been a constant battle to improve Paul's speech and restore some joy to his life. There have been ups – and many downs – but despite a brain scan indicating that Paul might well be a vegetable he has since his stroke written books. His vocabulary will never be back to what it was, but it remains impressive and, strangely enough, many of the words which he finds easiest to use are those which he encountered a number of years ago.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>039307241X</amazonuk>}}
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1523092734
|title=A Women's Guide to Claiming Space
|author=Eliza Van Cort
|rating=5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=''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)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Vatsyayana1529109116|title=Kama SutraCall Me Red: A Shepherd's Journey|author=Hannah Jackson|rating=4.5
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|summary=''Kama Sutra'', then... What could I possibly say want the image of a British farmer to introduce it simply be that you of a person who is proudly employed in feeding the nation. I don't already know or think you know?that is too much to ask.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Shilling1786495902|title=The Stranger in the MirrorNatural Health Service: A Memoir of Middle AgeHow Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Isabel Hardman
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|summary=Translated from French Isabel Hardman suffered a trauma which she chooses not to share. She says that a friend who does know, burst into tears and health-care professionals' jaws have sagged in disbelief. Hardman dealt with this beautifully presented little book takes at the time by 'keeping going': the next day she went to work to cover the budget, next there was the reader into homes boasting book collectionsEU referendum, large the political party leadership contests and smallthen it was party conference season. Studded with succinct One night she had to be sedated and appropriate quotations such as 'there is no better reason for not reading a returned home to begin long-term sick leave. That was what brought me to this book : 2020 was the year when the bins went out more often than having it' by Anthony BurgessI did.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906694583</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sandy DonaghyLauren Martin|title=The Longest Journey: Nine Keys to Health, Wealth and HappinessBook of Moods|rating=4.5
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|summary=How many self-help books have you read where the ideas all seem very goodI was in a great mood when I first learnt of this book, but theyand because sarcasm doesn've not been tested in the firet always translate well into writing, so to speak? The end result seems good, but you suspect that imagine the starting point wasnword 't 'great'all'' that disadvantageous being delivered with an eye roll and more to a sigh, through clenched teeth. I had spent the pointbest part of a rainy, windy weekend afternoon out on the cynic inside you wonders if water at our local sailing club in the motivation for writing the book rescue rib, on standby in case anyone who was financial gainracing needed support. Has it made you shy away from such books? NowIt's a volunteer duty we all do during the year, and normally I want you 'm happy to drop the cynicism, because what we have here is a book but that's written from day the heart weather was miserable and not the wallet I was miserable, and the only motivation in writing it was all came to help peoplea head that evening when I noticed on the website that we had been thanked for our time as "Dave and wife". Unusual? Yup; it isWow. I had never needed this book more.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1425161065</amazonuk>1538733625
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Roy Vickery0008420386|title=Garlands, Conkers and Mother-DieFailosophy: British and Irish Plant-Lore|rating=5|genre=History|summary=For many centuries, plants have not only had practical uses as food, remedies, textiles and dyes, but have also symbolic and folkloric meaning in many different cultures. The term ''plant-lore'' has been coined to describe the profusion of the customs and beliefs associated with plants, and this book gathers together many of the plant-lore traditions of Britain and Ireland.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1441101950</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Cindy M Meston and David Buss|title=Why Women Have Sex: Understanding Sexual Motivation from Adventure to Revenge (and Everything in Between)|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Many many years ago, a man who was far too young to be the fusty, dusty RE teacher he was shaping to be, asked my best friend and I why we were each having sex with our girlfriends. Even aged fifteen I thought something along the lines of 'well, if he doesn't know by now, he never will', and listed that it was great fun, a very enjoyable sensation, showed an appetite A handbook for the relationship, and that sex proved the ultimate in bonding - how much closer, to be blunt, could you be to someone than actually inside them? I'll come clean now and admit said girlfriend was not real, but several have been since, and I have had heaps of fun finding out how - and perhaps why - women have sex. I was never to know, until now, there are 237 reasons for it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546639</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewwhen things go wrong|author=Karen Wilkin|title=Elegant Enigmas: The Art of Edward GoreyElizabeth Day
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|summary=I'm all in favour of Edward Gorey becoming a bigger nameWhat do Malcolm Gladwell, Alain de Botton, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Lemn Sissay, Nigel Slater, Emeli Sandé, especially here in the UKMeera Syal, where his output is certainly less lauded than Dame Kelly Holmes and Andrew Scott have in his native USA. common? ItThey've all failed and - more importantly - they've been willing to appear on Elizabeth Day's evident from the bright, glossy pages here that he was an extraordinary talentpodcast to discuss their failures and how life worked out for them afterwards. Polymath and know-all in real life, in his ink drawings he can show You'll find the complexity results of someone like Dore, while using his draughtsmanship to pen macabre whimsy, like an old-fashioned love-child of Mervyn Peake and Edward Lear.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0764948040</amazonuk>these discussions in ''Failosophy''
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1504321383
|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=Simon Dawson1538731738|title=The Self-Sufficiency BibleSimple Abundance: Window Boxes 365 Days to Smallholdings - Hundreds of Ways to Become Self-Sufficienta Balanced and Joyful Life|author= Sarah Ban Breathnach|rating=45
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=The recent financial crises have taken people by surprise and instead of trying to ride the problem out and then get back to our oldSomeone once said: it's not self-indulgence, profligate ways weit've looked at how we s therapy! I think they were talking about shopping, but it probably can live more sustainably and less expensively. Thrift is the new black and many people are taking pride in not spending moneybe applied to most things. In my case, it applies to writing about things because I might take issue with whether or not Simon Dawson's book should be called a ''bible'' which suggests a completeness which is doesn't seem want to exhibit, but rather than because I can sell itor because I's an excellent starting point for those wanting to become more self-sufficient. It also has the recipe for a chocolate sponge which takes just five minutes ve got something to make – and that takes a lot of beatingsell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906787689</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Evany ThomasSharon Blackie|title=The Secret Language of Sleep: A Couple's Guide to the Thirty-nine PositionsIf Women Rose Rooted|rating=35|genre=Home and FamilyBiography|summary=This volume takes the premise I normally say that the positions in which couples sleep together are an insight into their private mindyou can tell how much a book means to me by how many pages have corners turned down. Therefore, with the help Perhaps an even greater measure of impact is setting out to buy my own copy before I've finished reading the line drawings of 39 (apparently all of THE 39) positions, one might see where one is going wrongI've borrowed. It’s a chicken and egg situation where you might learn you’re with I want to avoid clichés like 'powerful' 'inspiring' 'life-changing' – although it is definitely the wrong bed partner, first two and change either them or your nocturnal habits, or in order to change yourself alter things having reflected on only time will tell about the contents here third – with the help as they suggest of but clichés exist for a ceiling-mounted camcorderreason and I'm not sure I can succinctly put it any better.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1932416471</amazonuk>1912836017
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Norah Vincent1543987877|title=Voluntary MadnessLearn to Love: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony BinGuide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life|author=Dr Thomas Jordan|rating=34.5
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|summary=''Voluntary MadnessLearn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life'' is journalist Norah Vincent's account of her visits to three mental health facilities in Americaa book about love relationships rather than a book about love. The first two greatest emotions are love and grief and love is an urbanthe opposite of grief: ''if you love'', public hospital that houses mainly homelessDr Thomas Jordan tells us, psychotic patients, many of whom are addicted to drugs''you will inevitably grieve''. In this hospital, Your love relationships begin the doctors are overworked moment you're born and jaded and medication is always the answerend only when you die. Soon, Whilst we all come into the author finds that her latent depression (which led her world hoping to do the book in the first place) give and receive love there are many people for whom love is returningnot quite so simple. The process of being institutionalised breaks her sense of self Some people suffer multiple disappointments - sometimes repeating the same mistakes -worth down astonishingly fastand this eventually becomes resignation. Indeed, she suggests that it is For people who are making the lack of autonomy in institutional lifesame mistakes repeatedly, even for those patients who voluntarily commit themselvesself-preservation, that makes it so hard for them to rebuild independent lives when they finally leave in the institutionform of resignation is a necessity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099513439</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jean Hannah Edelstein Michael Harris|title=Himglish and FemaleseSolitude: Why Women Don't Get Why Men Don't Get ThemIn Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World|rating=45
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Men arenThis is not the book 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 step outside the mainstream, but it is not that at all. Instead of telling us how, it is more about the ''why't Martian and women don't hail from Venus. We Harries examines how we're all Earthlings apparently; eroding solitude, which seems like progress used to be a natural part of a sortour human life, and why that matters. Even so we still Of course he talks about how some people have trouble understanding each other because we speak different languages – Himglish found solitude and what has come of that, and Femalese. Luckily Jean Hannah Edelstein is fluent eventually in both the final chapter he talks about his own experience of having deliberately sought it out, but mostly he wanders down the alleys and has written by-ways that his thinking about this light hearted volume to define the problem and translatelost art led him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848091729</amazonuk>1847947662
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jaki Scarcello0753553236|title=Fifty and FabulousTiny Habits: The Best Years of a Woman's LifeSmall Changes That Change Everything|author=B J Fogg|rating=3.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=When Go on, admit it - you open a package and find a bright pink book which proudly proclaims 'Fifty and Fabulous: the best years of a woman's life' re not quite perfect. You still have those odd, quirky even loveable (to you can be forgiven for wondering if this is going ) habits which seem to be another annoy other people. Other people, of those books course, are sorely afflicted with some dreadful flaws which recommends strenuous exercise regimesthey could so easily correct, strict diets and if only they would make just a little nip and tuck under the chinbit of effort. PersonallyOr put another way, my heart sank I get cross with myself because, er, well, I'm forget to do things or do some actions more than I should and no longer fifty. Were my fabulous years behind me?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906787603</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Keith Hern|title=Bangers and Mash|rating=4.5|genre=Home and Family|summary=Keith Hern found a small lump in his neck and when the results of the tests came through he tried matter how I try to make what seem to be quite monumental changes I never quite seem to put the appointment off as he had something more pressing get to do, but grips with the doctor was insistentconcepts. He knew I constantly fail and then that he had cancer. The lump in his neck was, in fact, a secondary tumour I get cross with the primary being in the back of his tongue. But myself for the secondary tumour the discovery of the primary might have been too late for successful treatmentfailing. Keith takes us through the discovery Lack of his cancer, his reactions willpower is another burden to add to the diagnosis, his treatment and the titular meal of bangers and mash – the first solid food which he had attempted for some timelist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312772</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susan Ostler1785785516|title=Flirt Diva - For Women Who Want to be Bold and Sassy and have a Fabulous Life!Fucking Good Manners|author=Simon Griffin
|rating=4
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=There are lots of timetabled books on the marketManners maketh man, that promise to transform everything from your employability to the size of your thighs in they say. It certainly makes life easier if everybody abides by a certain number set of weeksconventions, some of 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 commit get an invitation to their programmeBuckingham Palace, and this book is really just another one they have nothing to add do with class or financial status: they're about getting the basics right before we try to the 'scheduled self-improvement' piledeal with more difficult matters. Except Of course we all have more relaxed manners when we're not talking here about dropping a dress size in time for Christmaswith family and friends, or sailing through that oh-so-important interview but it's best if we learn to distinguish between our public and private lives and to land the job of your dreams.act appropriately..for this book is a 6 week guide to ''Getting Loved UpFucking Good Manners'' that promises aims to put its participants (and as you'll learn, you're more than a mere reader with this title) help us on the fast track to romance. Goshway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312799</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary Beard1999811402|title=It's A Don's LifePainting Snails|author=Stephen John Hartley|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleAutobiography|summary=Professor Mary BeardIt'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 lifestyle book, feisty Cambridge classics don, keeps an eye open for architectural detail wherever she goes. Even but you're not going to get advice on holiday, she notices the changing urban landscape what to plant when and records interesting parallels with ancient cities in her sparky blog. She is engaged in writing a detailed history of Pompeii and suddenly realises, whilst perambulating where for the backstreets of the Mexican city of Oaxacan, that this is exactly what Pompeii must have been likebest results. She observes The answer would be something along the low rise shops, dirt tracks across dusty streets and the close juxtaposition lines of rich 'try it and poorsee'. Impressive portals of grand residential properties tower above humble workshops Then I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, did an engineering apprenticeship, became a busker, finally got into medical school and this prompts her into imaginative reconstruction. In her blog, from which this intriguing book is culled, she tells us about just how Oaxacan encourages her to ponder again the curious cart ruts of Pompeiinow an A&E consultant (part-time). She even finds walls splashed with political slogans I found out that are just like Roman there's an awful lot more to what goes on in a Major Trauma Centre than you'll ever glean from 'dipinti'Casualty'', but that isn't really what the book's about. Indeed, here in Mexico There's a lot about rock & roll, which seems to be the local library displays an edifying message in Spanish which originates in Ciceroreal passion of Hartley's speech in his Pro Archialife, but it didn't actually fit into the entertainment genre either. Did we have a category for 'Science and letters are doing the impossible the nourishment of youth and hard way'? Yep - that's the diversion of old ageone. It''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682517</amazonuk>s an autobiography.
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