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[[Category:New Reviews|Lifestyle]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel Smith1454955546|title=How to Think Like Sherlock: Improve Your Powers of Observation, Memory and DeductionSugarless|author=Nicole M Avena|rating=3.5
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|summary=Whether you're 'This isn't a diet book. The last thing anyone needs is another diet book.'' There was a fan of the original Conan Doyle novelstime, have enjoyed the recent film and television representations of Sherlock Holmes or ifnot that long ago, like me, the name always conjures up the image of Basil Rathbone when it was thought that sugary food was better for you'll be impressed by than food with high-fat content. Fat was the way that Holmes can reason demon food which was going to elevate your cholesterol and deducecause heart disease. Sugar was a carbohydrate, so good. YouThere've probably wished that you were capable of some of the mental acrobatics which he performss a problem, though. Much of his prowess Sugar is down to being a fictional character (of course) but it is possible to improve your powers of observation, memory addictive and deduction by exercising can hijack your brainin much the same way as drugs like heroin and cocaine. Daniel Smith has some suggestions to get us startedDoes that sound over the top? Well, it isn't.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843179539</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Gilpin1635866847|title=Mindfulness for Black Dogs The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Blue Days: Finding a Path Through DepressionTerry Barlin Vesci|rating=34.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Richard Gilpin It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is a counsellor, cognitive behavioural psychotherapist and mindfulness instructorthe book for you. HeBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's also suffered from depression since his teens [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and is well aware there's a picture of a slice of just how debilitating it can bechocolate cake on the homepage. In I don'Mindfulness t eat cakes and Black Dogsdesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There' ( s a nod to Churchill who referred to his depression as his black dogrecipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) he shares his own experiences with Then I started reading the illness book and offers insights as I was told to how make a sufferer can find 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 way through the weight which descends upon themproblem. He looks particularly at how I ''mindfulnessloved'' can helpthis book already.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907332928</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0760381267
|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?}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nick ColemanSarah Wilson|title=The Train This One Wild and Precious Life: the path back to connection in the Night: A Story of Music and Lossa fractured world|rating=43.5|genre=AutobiographyLifestyle|summary=Picture My favourite Mary Oliver line is the scenario. You have always been passionate about music, with a catholic taste one in which embraces classical, soul and heavy rock she asks ''What is it you plan to do with a bit of everything in between, your one wild and your job precious life?'' I get to love that line so much because my answer is that of an arts and music journalist''This! Precisely this. '' In your mid-forties you wake up I'm lucky enough to be living my one morning wild and precious life the way I want to find your whole world changed overnight by Sudden Neursosensory Hearing Loss. It has a devastating effect on your balance when subjected 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 any kind of sound, think about whether it we really ''are'' living the life we want – the best life that we could be living. Her answer is an aeroplane overheadunequivocal ''no, the roar of the crowd at a football matchwe are not''. Don't care what you're doing, or the music which she thinks you once adored with every fibre of your being. Your head is filled with tinnitus(we, like a very poorly-tuned radio which lacks an off switchI) could be doing more…And she's effing furious about the fact that we are not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224093576</amazonuk>1785633848
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1394159544
|title=Recycling for Dummies
|author=Sarah Winkler
|rating=5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=''Recycling one ton of plastic can save up to 16.3 barrels of oil.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Brett Cohen0760378134|title=Stuff Every Dad Should KnowThe First-Time Gardener: Container Food Gardening|author=Pamela Farley|rating=45
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=For an object lesson in If you've ever thought how important good it would be to be able to pop out into the little things aregarden and pick some fruit and vegetables for a meal – but realised that you wouldn't know where to start, consider this is the book's titleyou need. This is not one of those collections of trivia or whimsies for fathers to appear cool to their children (ten great variations on tag; 6,000 good records with which to ween your daughter off Justin Bieber), itIt's not that kind of knowledge on offer. Here instead is practical information on rearing comprehensive: you'll cover everything from why you should grow your own little thingfood, and in a quiet way this pocket diary-sized volume has the cojones what you're going to expect to stick around being useful for a generationgrow, as what you'll grow it starts at budgeting for children in the first place(both containers and soil), where you'll put these containers, how you'll water and goes from fertilise them and you finish the main part of the actual birth to marrying them offbook with a handy section on troubleshooting. There's also a good glossary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594745536</amazonuk> So, is it any good?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary Beard1398508632|title=All in a Don's DayThe Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating=45|genre=AutobiographyLifestyle|summary=Mary Beard's latest collection, 'All in It had been on the cards for a Don's Day', while but it was the week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of her assembled blog pieces from 2009 until the eating only wild food. The end of 2011November, covers similar concerns particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the best time to her previous selectionstart, [[It's A Don's Life in a world where the normal sores had been exacerbated by Mary Beard|It's climate change, Brexit and a Don's Life]]pandemic. Professor Beard is Wilde had a few advantages: the area around her was a known habitat with a fellow variety of Newnham College, Cambridge and became Classics Professor at there in 2004terrains. She is also an expert in Roman laughter, an interest had electricity which she fully indulges in the pages of allowed her TLS blogto run a fridge, freezer and dehydrator. In her latest collection she bemoans the parlous current state of both Education She had a car - and the Academyfuel. Most importantly, and makes witty observations on matters as various as television chefs, what and how she had shelter: this was not a plan to ''live'' wild just to visit in Rome and the art and worth of completing references in an age when only positive things may be said about postgraduate job-seekerslive off its produce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685362</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Olga LevancukaBjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankeler, Navid Modiiri and Agnes Bromme (Translator)|title=How to I May Be Selfish (and Other Uncomfortable Advice)Wrong|rating=3.5|genre=LifestyleAutobiography|summary=ItWhen the Dalai Lama adds his words to your frontispiece, I's strange m inclined to think it doesn't really matter how you come the rest of the world responds to read a particular your book. A couple of days ago I was chatting to a dog-walking friend who retired about a year agoknow, having read the book in question, that Lindeblad would disagree with that thought. He'd been surprised to find knows (and at core so do I) that it matters very much how the rest of the main problem in retirement was one which he hadn't anticipated: all his life he'd had world responds to account for himself to somebody else and now he was struggling to discover what this book, because it tells the truth as it was that ''he'' wanted to do. Then I found myself chatting to Olga Levancuckais, author of ''How To Be Selfish'' - but she seemed like one of in the most unselfish people I'd ever metearly 21st century. There was a book here waiting to be read!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1468115987</amazonuk>1526644827
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Matousek1732898731|title=When YouThe Boy Who Loved Boxes: A Children're Falling, Dives Book for Adults|author=Michael Albanese
|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=You never quite know what life is going to serve up next There was a Boy who loved boxes. He had a box for everything and he was meticulous about storage: his parents probably couldn't believe their luck! It began with art supplies, stuffed toys and even the happiest moments or saddest news can be turned around like: all the things which most children have in a heartbeatabundance. For The Boy's delight was in the author Mark Matousek sense of order in his down was learning room: it made him feel happy. As he was HIV positive, while his grew up, and became a while laterMan, was being informed that it wasn’t quite the death sentence originally imposed his life became more complicated and that he had quite a bit of life leftdealt with this by getting bigger and better boxes. In this book he looks Look carefully at how the pictures and you can find the good in the bad or, to quote the subtitle, the keys to 'Using your pain to transform your life'll see that one of them has a padlock. The art of survival is an intriguing one. The same scale of trauma affects different people in different ways and this 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=Karen French1846276772|title=The Hidden Geometry End of LifeBias: How We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell|rating=24.5|genre=Spirituality Politics and ReligionSociety|summary='Anyone 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 simply a part of everyday life. White men will always come first. The Hidden Geometry able will come before the disabled. Jobs, promotions, higher salaries are the preserve of Life'' aims to explore the esoteric and often mystical meanings contained in 'white man. Even when those who wouldn'shapes and patterns [that] represent ideas and distil t pass the essence medical become a part of realityan organisation it''. This mystical angle was a little bit of a unpleasant surprise for this readers rare that their views are heard, that their concerns are acknowledged. I should have had a better look at Karen FrenchIt's Amazon pages personally appalling and previous work, degrading for the individuals on the receiving end of the bias but I was attracted by an exciting-sounding title, attractive cover and and references to authorit's artnot just the individuals who are negatively impacted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780281080</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=Simon OxfordRichard Brook|title=Make Yourself Immune Understanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to Heart AttackLife|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=The older you getI am a firm believer that sometimes we choose books, and sometimes books choose us. In my case, this is one of the more likely latter. Not so very long ago, if I had come across this book I'd have skimmed it is that you will suffer from , found some form of heart disease or even die from itinteresting, but it would not have 'hit home' in the way that it does now. Many deaths occur without warning in people who are apparently healthy - so I believe it's came to me not something that you can wait just because I was likely to be diagnosed and plan on doing something about at that stage. Whatever your age there's give it a real possibility that you can make a significant improvement in your health favourable review [ ''andfull disclosure The Bookbag'' improve the quality of your lifes u.s.p. I came is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a predisposition towards expecting to read this like the book because family members of my generation were suffering , even if it doesn't always turn out that way'severe'' heart problems and ] – but also because it was is a wake-up call that was impossible book I needed to ignoreread, right now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907629319</amazonuk>1800461682
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha0753558378|title=The Start-up of YouEffortless: Adapt Make It Easier to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your CareerDo What Matters|author=Greg McKeown
|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=In decades gone by, educated workers in many industries could view their careers as an elevator – rising through the ranks ''The marginal return of a company before stepping aside and settling into a comfortable retirement. In today's vastly different job market, with much less loyalty from both employers and employeesworking harder was, your career is more likely to follow the model of some promotions mixed in with frequent sideways moves to other companies and perhaps even completely different industries. Time, thenfact, for a new guide to how to handle your employment prospectsnegative.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184794079X</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=Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschappeler1529109116|title=The Question BookCall Me Red: A Shepherd's Journey|author=Hannah Jackson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Most of us have probably made at least one of those end-of-''I want the-year lists image of the best books, albums and parties we have been a British farmer to simply be that of a person who is proudly employed in feeding the previous twelve monthsnation. But can you, with some effort, locate the one you made in 1987? Have you ever constructed a graph of your ups and downs in a given period, and then decided I don't think that is too much to expand it by separating emotional, intellectual, sexual and financial aspects and colour coding them? Have you made a list of all your lovers, bosses or friends and then rated them from 1 to 10 ask.'' The stereotypical farmer was probably born on several dimensions each? Do you have one of the books that list land where ''his''100 things family have farmed for generations. He's probably grown up without giving much thought as to what he really wants to do before you die: he knows that he'll be a farmer. It' or s not always the case though. Hannah Jackson was born and brought up on the Wirral: she'd never set foot on a commercial farm until she was twenty although she'500 books to read in your lifed always had a deep love of animals. Her original intention was that she would become 'Dr Jackson, whale scientist' (and ticked off she was well on her way to achieving this when her life changed on a family holiday to the ones you have done)? Did you ever spend Lake District. She saw a whole evening lamb being born and half of a night filling in dubious , although 'personalityHannah Jackson, farmer' questionnaires on lacked the Internet? Have you ever doodled somethingkudos of her original intention, decided she knew that it beautifully expresses she wanted to be a shepherd. With the deepest essence determination that you'll soon realise is an essential part of your personality and then proceeded to draw such icons for all your friends? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685389</amazonuk>her, she set about achieving her ambition.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez1786495902|title=The Little Book Of PerfumesNatural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Isabel Hardman
|rating=5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=I have always admired people Isabel Hardman suffered a trauma which she chooses not to share. She says that a friend who seem to does know about scent, those whose dressing tables are littered burst into tears and health-care professionals' jaws have sagged in disbelief. Hardman dealt with bottles none of which flaunt this at the time by 'keeping going': the next day she went to work to cover the name of a major (or increasinglybudget, minor) celebrity. Some of next there was the bottles might be works of art in themselvesEU referendum, but the general understanding is that they’ve been bought not for their vessels, nor for their exclusive advertising campaigns, special offers or celeb endorsement, but for their evocative scentpolitical party leadership contests and then it was party conference season. Perfumery is clearly an art One night she had to be sedated and a science and if your skills aren’t as honed as they might be, returned home to begin long-term sick leave. That was what brought me to this is a wonderful little book to sink your teeth into as you’re guided through : 2020 was the field by two people very much in year when the knowbins went out more often than I did.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685192</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Linda M JamesLauren Martin|title=How to Write and Sell Great Short StoriesThe Book of Moods
|rating=5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Having read any number I was in a great mood when I first learnt of books about crafting this book, and because sarcasm doesn't always translate well into writing, imagine the word ''great stories'' being delivered with an eye roll and a sigh, I thought through clenched teeth. I had had my fill spent the best part of a rainy, windy weekend afternoon out on the water at our local sailing club in the rescue rib, on standby in case anyone who was racing needed support. It's a volunteer duty we all do during the year, and normally I'm happy to, but that there were no more books left that could bolster my enthusiasm day the weather was miserable and I was miserable, and help me it all came to get a head that evening when I noticed on with my writingthe website that we had been thanked for our time as "Dave and wife". Wow. In short, I thought the only thing left that could motivate me was, well, mehad never needed this book more.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846947162</amazonuk>1538733625
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Ryan0008420386|title=Following AtticusFailosophy: How a little dog led one man on a journey of rediscovery to the top of the world A handbook for when things go wrong|author=Elizabeth Day
|rating=4
|genre=PetsLifestyle|summary=Tom Ryan is a middleWhat do Malcolm Gladwell, Alain de Botton, Phoebe Waller-agedBridge, stressed journalistLemn Sissay, running his own newspaperNigel Slater, the Emeli Sandé, Meera Syal, Dame Kelly Holmes and Andrew Scott have in common? They've all failed and - more importantly - they'Undertoadve been willing to appear on Elizabeth Day'' in Newburyport in America. His life is full of political intrigues s podcast to discuss their failures and mayoral elections, boardroom deals and subterfuge and his how life is full of challengesworked out for them afterwards. He doesnYou'll find the results of these discussions in ''Failosophy't need a dog. He doesn't even particularly want a dog, but when a miniature schnauzer enters his life one day, everything changes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141048972</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1504321383
|title=Single, Again, and Again, and Again
|author=Louisa Pateman
|rating=4.5
|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=David Savage1538731738|title=Furniture with SoulSimple Abundance: Master Woodworkers 365 Days to a Balanced and Their CraftJoyful Life|author= Sarah Ban Breathnach
|rating=5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=After years of limited exercise combined with a love of fine foodSomeone once said: it's not self-indulgence, Alex Buckley was known to his friends as Fat Al. He followed a number of diet plans to no effect before coming up with his own solution, which is outlined in this book. His message is basically an extended version of the long standing sound advice that to lose weight you need to eat less and exercise more. Buckleyit's suggestions break this broad truth down into achievable micro steps. therapy! He provides tips on ways of sustaining weight loss by very gradually changing your behaviour. The book does not offer detailed recipes or a programme of food exclusionI think they were talking about shopping, but it probably can be applied to most things. It is very much In my case, it applies to writing about advice on small day things because I want to day choices and gradual change, written in a straightforward and easily accessible stylerather than because I can sell it or because I've got something to sell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908218282</amazonuk>
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|rating=5
|genre=LifestyleBiography|summary=Things change as I normally say that you get oldercan tell how much a book means to me by how many pages have corners turned down. As men – and particularly women – approach their late forties and early fifties they expect that there will be physical changes, some more permanent than others, but they Perhaps an even greater measure of impact is setting out to buy my own copy before I're frequently taken by surprise by ve finished reading the mental changes which occurone I've borrowed. Women expect that I want to avoid clichés like 'powerful' 'inspiring' 'life-changing' – although it is definitely the menopause first two and only time will bring tell about the end of menstruation (some looking at this more gratefully than others...) third – but fail to appreciate that they are moving into clichés exist for a different stage of their life. Looked at positively this can be the most fulfilling period of woman's lifecycle – reason and I doubt that there's a husband who would object to that!m not sure I can succinctly put it any better.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0826423019</amazonuk>1912836017
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Diane Ackerman1543987877|title=One Hundred Names For Learn to Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Guide to HealingYour Disappointing Love Life|author=Dr Thomas Jordan
|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Diane Ackerman's husband, Paul West, had been in hospital for three weeks with 'Learn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life'' is a kidney infection and was just rejoicing in the fact that he was to go home the next day. As Diane watched , Paul suffered book about love relationships rather than a massive strokebook about love. The effects were catastrophictwo greatest emotions are love and grief and love is the opposite of grief: ''if you love'', but worst of allDr Thomas Jordan tells us, ''you will inevitably grieve''. Your love relationships begin the man who had been a brilliant wordsmith was robbed of his power of speech moment you're born and lost his extensive vocabularyend only when you die. It's eight years since this happened and Whilst we all come into the intervening years have been a constant battle world hoping to improve Paul's speech give and restore some joy to his lifereceive love there are many people for whom love is not quite so simple. There have been ups – Some people suffer multiple disappointments - sometimes repeating the same mistakes - and many downs – but despite a brain scan indicating that Paul might well be a vegetable he has since his stroke written booksthis eventually becomes resignation. His vocabulary will never be back to what it was, but it remains impressive and For people who are making the same mistakes repeatedly, strangely enoughself-preservation, many in the form of the words which he finds easiest to use are those which he encountered resignation is a number of years agonecessity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>039307241X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eleanor BirneMichael Harris|title=When Will I Sleep Through the Night? An A - Z Solitude: In Pursuit of Babyhood|rating=4.5|genre=Home and Family|summary=When it comes to parenting, I have discovered that a lot of people lie. They lie about sleep, about tantrums, about feeding and nappies and the effects of Singular Life in a screaming newborn on your marriage. There are books galore, and Mummy blogs, and tweeters all happily proclaiming how marvellous it all is, first of all being pregnant, then giving birth, and then raising the baby. It's all glowing skin and sunshine smiles and meeting friends for coffee. I quickly stopped reading anything baby-related when I was pregnant because I was sick as a dog for 5 months, I had an awful labour and that first year with my little girl was almost impossibly difficult and totally consumed with the horror of a non-sleeping baby. Now, four and a half years on from giving birth and (mostly) sleeping all night long I felt able to open up this latest baby book, mainly because the title roused such familiar feelings in me.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684862</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Hugh Bowring|title=Green Living GuideCrowded World|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=The 'Green Living Guide' This is a Magbook not the book I was expecting it to be. For some reason I expected it to be another self- so help manual on how to find calm, how to step outside the format mainstream, but it is like not that at all. Instead of telling us how, it is more about the ''why''. Harries examines how we're eroding solitude, which used to be a magazine - natural part of our human life, and why that matters. Of course he talks about how some people have found solitude and although it initially seems a little expensive for something what has come of that looks just like a magazine you quickly find, on openingand eventually in the final chapter he talks about his own experience of having deliberately sought it out, that it contains an enormous amount of interesting but mostly he wanders down the alleys and useful information. Even already determined ecoby-warriors should find something of interest in ways that his thinking about this wide-ranging guidelost art led him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907232060</amazonuk>1847947662
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Arianne Cohen0753553236|title=Tiny Habits: The Sex Diaries ProjectSmall Changes That Change Everything|author=B J Fogg|rating=45
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=It's often said 'there's nowt so queer as folkGo on, admit it - you're not quite perfect. Surely this should be qualified as 'there's nowt so queer as folks' sex lives'You still have those odd, quirky even loveable (to you) habits which seem to annoy other people. Arianne Cohen has made a major online database of testimony from Other people about their thoughts regarding sex - having it, not having itof course, having it are sorely afflicted with whom some dreadful flaws which they could so easily correct, if only they're would make just a little bit of effort. Or put another way, I get cross with, having it myself because I forget to do things or do some actions more than I should and no matter how I try to make what seem to be quite monumental changes I never quite seem to get to grips with those whom they're not the concepts. I constantly fail and then I get cross withmyself for failing. And in every sense, Lack of willpower is another burden to add to the results can be exceedingly queerlist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091939356</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Vatsyayana1785785516|title=Kama SutraFucking Good Manners|author=Simon Griffin
|rating=4
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=''Kama Sutra''Manners maketh man, thenthey say. It certainly makes life easier if everybody abides by a set of conventions, some of which are ages old and other which have evolved over time.. What could I possibly say Manners are not about how much to introduce it that tip or how you don't already know or think should behave if you know? For all that Kama Sutra isget an invitation to Buckingham Palace, itthey have nothing to do with class or financial status: they's no longer a guide re about getting the basics right before we try to the art of pleasuredeal with more difficult matters. It Of course we all have more relaxed manners when we's a fascinating historical document, re with family and undoubtedly influentialfriends, but it's very much of its time best if we learn to distinguish between our public and private lives and of its societyto act appropriately. Try to follow all its suggestions and at best you 'd never get laid again; at worst, you'll be up on a rape charge within a week. (Fucking Good Manners''After sending aims to help us on the nurse's daughter away, he takes the girl's maidenhead while she is alone, asleep and out of her senses..way.'') |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846141095</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Shilling1999811402|title=The Stranger in the Mirror: A Memoir of Middle AgePainting Snails|author=Stephen John Hartley|rating=4.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Middle-aged women disappear. They are not see It's very difficult to classify ''Painting Snails'': originally I thought that as it's loosely based around a year on televisionan allotment it would be a lifestyle book, their lives do but you're not appear in newspapers, going to get advice on what to plant when and where for the legions of novels that are written each year rarely feature thembest results. At least, that is what the author Jane Shilling believes as she wakes up aged 47 to find The answer would be something along the narrative lines of her contemporaries 'try it and their lives which she has been reading about see'. 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 living in parallel with since leaving university has vanishedis now an A&E consultant (part-time). She looks I found out that there's an awful lot more to what goes on in a Major Trauma Centre than you'll ever glean from ''Casualty'', but that isn't really what the mirror and sees a face she does not recognisebook's about. Even with There's a punishing regime of early bedlot about rock & roll, no alcohol and litres which seems to be the real passion of waterHartley's life, but it refuses to regain its youthful bloomdidn't actually fit into the entertainment genre either. So she decides to take Did we have a magnifying glass to this particular moment in time, this journey between youth and old agecategory for 'doing the impossible the hard way'? Yep - that's the one. It's an autobiography.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701181001</amazonuk>
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