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[[Category:New Reviews|Lifestyle]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1454955546|title=The ConversationsSugarless|author=Olivia FaneNicole M Avena
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|summary=I need no encouragement to start talking. Leave me alone with someone and I will find something to talk to them about, in whatever language. I’ve dated people I’ve met by talking to them on aeroplanes, hablaring español with them in evening classes, chatting to them online. I’ve made friends at the gym, on the shop floor, during ''This isn't a day’s IT system training, people I still keep in touch withdiet book. So you might think the The last thing I need anyone needs is a another diet book of conversation starters, and yet in a way that’s what this is.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099581981</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1635866847|title=He Texted: The Ultimate Guide to Decoding GuysLavender Companion|author=Lisa Winning Jessica Dunham and Carrie Henderson-McDermottTerry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5
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|summary=This bookIt's strange, despite the title, things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is about more than textingthe book for you. It is about Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the whole digital world author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and how guys there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and gals interact within it desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (Companies’ House stalkerage aside). From how long to wait to text backThere's a recipe in the book, to how to respond to friend requests and what to do which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the power when you’re unleashed on his Facebook wall, this book promises and I was told to provide hilarious and essential advice on how make a mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to navigate fold down the perplexing world corners of pages. You suspect that is trouser-shapedsmears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780892071</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=William HansonSarah Wilson|title=The BlufferThis One Wild and Precious Life: the path back to connection in a fractured world|rating=3.5|genre= Lifestyle|summary= 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 line so much because my answer is ''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 Guide words as her title (though I can't see that she acknowledges the source) she pushes us to Etiquette think about whether we really ''are'' living the life we want – the best life that we could be living. Her answer is an unequivocal ''no, we are not''. Don't care what you're doing, she thinks you (Blufferwe, I) could be doing more…And she's Guides)effing furious about the fact that we are not.|isbn=1785633848}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1394159544|title=Recycling for Dummies|author=Sarah Winkler
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|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=If you ask people what they fear most in any social situation most will tell you that it's not knowing how 'Recycling one ton of plastic can save up to behave16.3 barrels of oil. They'll be fine about the basics, but it's those little niceties - how to introduce yourself, what to ask for as an aperitif, how to address someone, for instance which ''Recycling one ton of paper can suddenly reveal you as a parvenusave 17 trees from being cut down. William Hanson gives us a quick trip through the essentials in a book which is very readable and - in places - hilariously funny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909937002</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chip Heath and Dan Heath0760378134|title=DecisiveThe First-Time Gardener: How to Make Better Decisions in Life and WorkContainer Food Gardening|author=Pamela Farley
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|genre=Business Home and FinanceFamily|summary=I don't have a problem with making decisions, probably because IIf you've always tended ever thought how good it would be to be able to pop out into the view garden and pick some fruit and vegetables for a meal – but realised that ityou wouldn's better t know where to make a decision and get on with life than haver and waste time in limbostart, this is the book you need. With a few notable exceptions itIt's served me wellcomprehensive: you'll cover everything from why you should grow your own food, but when what you're going to grow, what you'Decisivell grow it in (both containers and soil), where you'll put these containers, how you' appeared on my desk it struck me that there could be advantages to improving ll water and fertilise them and you finish the quality main part of the decisions toobook with a handy section on troubleshooting. The Heath brothers have There's also a good history of collaborating on such subjects and delivering books which open the mindglossary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847940862</amazonuk> So, is it any good?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1398508632|title=The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves Wilderness Cure|author=Stephen GroszMo Wilde
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|summary=I usually review fictionIt had been on the 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. For that reason alone The end of November, I knew that reviewing this particular book would be particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the best time to start, in a world where the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and a challengepandemic. I Wilde had a few advantages: the area around her was attracted to it for many reasons; I thought it would give me a window into many situations known habitat with a variety of terrains. She had electricity which I know little or nothingallowed her to run a fridge, freezer and dehydrator. She had a car - and fuel. Most importantly, she had shelter: this was not a plan to ''live'' wild just to live off its produce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099549034</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sue HadfieldBjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankeler, Navid Modiiri and Agnes Bromme (Translator)|title=Change One ThingI May Be Wrong|rating=35|genre=LifestyleAutobiography|summary=On When the Dalai Lama adds his words to your frontispiece, I'm inclined to think it doesn't really matter how the face rest of it the principle is simple: just change one thing for a better lifeworld responds to your book. Of course it's not I know, having read the book in question, that Lindeblad would disagree with that simplethought. Working on the basis He knows (and at core so do I) that it matters very much how the longest journey starts with a single step Sue Hadfield looks at the disillusionment which is a by-product rest of our work-driven life and guides us towards the steps we'll need world responds to take to pull ourselves out of what's not so much a rut this book, because it tells the truth as a pit of despair on occasions. Changing one thing it is just the beginning, but as she points out, it can be what's needed to kick-start in the whole process - to a better way of our current life or a whole new lifeearly 21st century.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857084607</amazonuk>1526644827
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{{newreview|title=How to Win: The Argument, the Pitch, the Job, the Race|author=Dr Rob Yeung|rating=3.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=Looking for a sure-fire way to intimidate the competition during a job interview? Just sit in the waiting room perusing the oh, so subtly titled ''How to Win'', with the book tilted at the optimum angle to allow everyone to see the bold heading on the cover. Of course, if more than one candidate is reading the same book, difficulties may ensue...Frontpage|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857084291</amazonuk>}} {{newreview1732898731|title=The Mistress ContractBoy Who Loved Boxes: A Children's Book for Adults|author=She and HeMichael Albanese |rating=34.5
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|summary='Women feel There was a Boy who loved boxes. He had a reluctance to talk box for everything and he was meticulous about those things which should be mysterious.storage: his parents probably couldn' t believe their luck! WellIt began with art supplies, not stuffed toys and the like: all of themthe things which most children have in abundance. This line – and I wonThe Boy't say who says it – is a quote from a large audio archive of s delight was in the thoughts sense of a most unusual coupleorder in his room: it made him feel happy. College friends, they split apart then got back together, As he grew up and ended up having an affair. Until she decided to formalise it in became a momentary flash ofMan, well, something, saying she would cede all to his every sexual life became more complicated and housework wishes if he would cater for her financially dealt with this by getting bigger and with a place to livebetter boxes. Nowhere did Look carefully at the pictures and you'll see that small contract say that they would open up themselves to public scrutiny with recordings one of their conversations, over them has a restaurant table or in bed or a car having a tete-a-tete, but they soon did – and these small pages are the resulting bookpadlock...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846689430</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1846276772|title=Dedicated to...The End of Bias: The Forgotten Friendships, Hidden Stories and Lost Loves found in Second-hand BooksHow We Change Our Minds|author=W B GooderhamJessica Nordell
|rating=4.5
|genre=EntertainmentPolitics and Society|summary=I have found many strange and unusual things Anyone who is not an able, white man understands bias in second-hand bookshops. I have done one or two strange and unusual things in them as well, but thatthey may no longer even recognise the extent to which they suffer from it: it's simply a different storypart of everyday life. Twice now I have managed to find a second-hand book, completely signed and dedicated by White men will always come first. The able will come before the authordisabled. Jobs, yet discarded by the recipientpromotions, and have been able to present higher salaries are the author with preserve of the edition at hand and get it re-dedicatedwhite man. (If IEven when those who wouldn'm not mistaken, t pass the discarders were medical become a neighbouring babysitter, and a teacher part of the authoran organisation it's childrenrare that their views are heard, that their concerns are acknowledged.) I'll admit thatIt's rarefied, however, personally appalling and degrading for the individuals on the whole receiving end of the scribble you find in second-hand books is from the person who bought bias but it, and gave it as a gift, 's not just the person individuals who wrote it. But even so, the dedication of the donor can be immensely fascinating and open to all kinds of interpretation, as these examples show perfectly clearare negatively impacted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593072847</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=Rachel AshwellRichard Brook|title=Couture Prairie And Flea Market Treasures Understanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to Life|rating=4.5
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|summary=''Shabby Chic'' has always appealed to me: it fits neatly with my views on recyclingI am a firm believer that sometimes we choose books, upcycling and generally refusing to replace anything which still looks good and has life left in itsometimes books choose us. Rachel Ashwell takes In my case, this is one of the latter. Not so very long ago, if I had come across this to a whole new levelbook I'd have skimmed it, found some of it interesting, but her most glorious moment must it would not have been when - on her regular yearly visit 'hit home' in the way that it does now. I believe it came to the flea markets of Round Top in Texas - she decided on me not just because I was likely to give it a whim to buy favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Outpost at Cedar Creek and she turned this into The PrairieBookbag's u.s.p. is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a group of buildings which would house her retail store and predisposition towards expecting to like the book, even if it doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – but also because it is a B&B which exhibited some of her most treasured finds. As she said herselfbook I needed to read, her cowboy boots, jeans and love of poetry in country music had come homeright now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782490434</amazonuk>1800461682
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0753558378
|title=Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters
|author=Greg McKeown
|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=''The marginal return of working harder was, in fact, negative.''
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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=Jill Stark1529109116|title=High SobrietyCall Me Red: My Year Without BoozeA Shepherd's Journey|author=Hannah Jackson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=On ''I want the first image of a British farmer to simply be that of January 2011 Jill Stark woke a person who is proudly employed in feeding the nation. I don't think that is too much to ask.'' The stereotypical farmer was probably born on the land where ''his'' family have farmed for generations. He's probably grown up with without giving much thought as to what he really wants to do: he knows that he'll be a farmer. It's not always the hangover from Hellcase though. She Hannah Jackson was no stranger to themborn and brought up on the Wirral: at thirty five she'd been binge drinking for more than never set foot on a commercial farm until she was twenty years and was in the dubious position although she'd always had a deep love of being the health reporter who wrote herself off at weekendsanimals. And by Her original intention was that she would become 'wrote herself offDr Jackson, whale scientist' I mean being seriously drunk and she was well on her way to achieving this when her life changed on a very regular basisfamily holiday to the Lake District. She saw a lamb being born and, having consumed vast quantities although 'Hannah Jackson, farmer' lacked the kudos of alcohol and having regularly put herself in danger of serious illnessher original intention, unwanted pregnancy and assault. But on that first day in January Stark decided she knew that she was going wanted to do something about it and be a shepherd. With the initial decision was determination that you'll soon realise is an essential part of her, she would spend three months on the wagonset about achieving her ambition.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1922247030</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1786495902|title=The Sex DiariesNatural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Arianne CohenIsabel Hardman
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|summary=As far as ‘doing what it Isabel Hardman suffered a trauma which she chooses not to share. She says on the tin’ goes, this book is that a good one. It’s the diariesfriend who does know, plural, from people, plural, talking about their sex livesburst into tears and health-care professionals' jaws have sagged in disbelief. But it’s not just Hardman dealt with this at the doing of time by 'keeping going': the deed and next day she went to work to cover the sowing of budget, next there was the seedEU referendum, it’s also all the stuff that goes with being in a relationship or not being in onepolitical party leadership contests and then it was party conference season. The daydreamsOne night she had to be sedated and returned home to begin long-term sick leave. The texts. The efforts made That was what brought me to secure a hook-up, if there’s not one waiting for you at homethis book: 2020 was the year when the bins went out more often than I did.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091939550</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris WardLauren Martin|title=Out The Book of Office: Work Where You Like and Achieve MoreMoods|rating=35
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|summary='Imbibe coffee I was in a great mood when I first learnt of this book, and become imbued with an entrepreneurial spiritbecause sarcasm doesn' would be an apt summary of t always translate well into writing, imagine the gist of word ''great'Out of Office' by Chris Wardbeing delivered with an eye roll and a sigh, through clenched teeth. If you choose to read I had spent the bookbest part of a rainy, be prepared to receive inspiration rather than practical instruction windy weekend afternoon out on how to build an empirethe water at our local sailing club in the rescue rib, if anythingon standby in case anyone who was racing needed support. This is not to discredit It's a volunteer duty we all do during the book; it is attractively designedyear, full of fundraising event photos and company founder portraitsnormally I'm happy to, motivational quotes but that day the weather was miserable and brief enthusiastic testimonies of the interviewees featured. But in terms of contentI was miserable, and it doesn’t offer substantial advice on how all came to make a head that leap from evening when I noticed on the office cubicle – a context quite heavily vilified by Ward – to the existence of the creatively liberated mover website that we had been thanked for our time as "Dave and shakerwife". Wow. I had never needed this book more.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0957612303</amazonuk>1538733625
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Blastland and David Spiegelhalter0008420386|title=The Norm ChroniclesFailosophy: Stories and numbers about dangerA handbook for when things go wrong|author=Elizabeth Day|rating=54|genre=Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=I'd like you to meet Norm. He's an absolutely average kind of guyWhat do Malcolm Gladwell, Alain de Botton, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Lemn Sissay, Nigel Slater, thirty one years oldEmeli Sandé, 5'9”Meera Syal, a touch over thirteen stone Dame Kelly Holmes and he works a thirty-nine hour week with the occasional treat of a bar of milk chocolate. Andrew Scott have in common? Oh, They've all failed and he's ambivalent about Marmite - couldn't care one way or the other more importantly - can take it or leave it. In they've been willing to appear on Elizabeth Day'The Norm Chronicles'' we hear the story of his life and the lives of his friends Prudence (the name tells you what you need s podcast to know) discuss their failures and Kelvin, who's a dare-devil, hard-living kind of guyhow life worked out for them afterwards. ItYou's ll find the story results of the hazards they face - some real and some imagined - these discussions in every aspect of their lives. And along with these stories are the ''realFailosophy'' facts about the reality of the risks they take.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686202</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Dawson1504321383|title=Pigs in Clover: Or How I Accidentally Fell in Love with the Good LifeSingle, Again, and Again, and Again|author=Louisa Pateman
|rating=4.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Simon Dawson really had no intention of leading ''You can't be happy and fulfilled on your own. You are not complete until you find a life of self-sufficiency - he accidentally fell into the beginnings of it at a New Yearman''s Eve party which . This was a little too noisy for him to be completely certain what it Louisa Pateman was he was agreeing brought up tobelieve. But even then there It wasn't unkind: it was no need simply the adults in her life advising her as to what they thought would be best for it to go too farher. After It was reinforced by all, this manthose fairy tales where the girl (she's heart was in London and he was an estate agent - a member of usually fairly young) is rescued by the profession whose place at handsome prince who then marries her so that they can live happily ever after. Few girls are lucky enough to be brought up ''without'' the top of the opprobrium ladder was only made wobbly after a serious PR campaign on behalf of journalists expectation that they will marry and politicianshave children. But his wife It was determined a belief and it would be many years before Louisa would conclude that she couldn't stand being a property solicitor any longer and so they sold their flat in London and rented 'a property on Exmoor and Simon began belief is a weekly commute - weekends in Devon and most of the week in Londonchoice''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780285019</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Naomi Schillinger1538731738|title=Veg StreetSimple Abundance: Grow Your Own Community365 Days to a Balanced and Joyful Life|author= Sarah Ban Breathnach|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=As a child Naomi Schillinger helped her parents to grow fruit and vegetables in their South London garden and the urge to grow resurfaced when she had her own property. It wasnSomeone once said: it't just the s not self-indulgence, it''growing'' which she remembereds therapy! I think they were talking about shopping, but the ''sharing'' of the produce and sense of community which went with itprobably can be applied to most things. Soon after starting In my case, it applies to writing about things because I want to grow food for herself she was a prime mover in getting whole streets involved in growing fruit and vegetables in their front gardens, making the most of recycled materials and free seeds and compost. When werather than because I can sell it or because I're constantly urged ve got something to reduce food miles what could be better than growing your food (quite literally) on your own doorstep?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780721129</amazonuk>sell.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adele Faber and Elaine MazlishSharon Blackie|title=How To Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will TalkIf Women Rose Rooted
|rating=5
|genre=LifestyleBiography|summary=Many parents, it seems, go through life in I normally say that you can tell how much a constant state of feudbook means to me by how many pages have corners turned down. Not with each other, necessarily, but with their children. Their small, beloved bundles Perhaps an even greater measure of joy turn into obstreperous toddlers, defiant pre-schoolers, angry schoolchildren or morose teens. Parents find themselves caught up in arguments, advice, failed attempts at consolation..impact is setting out to buy my own copy before I've finished reading the one I've borrowed. I want to avoid clichés like 'powerful' 'inspiring' 'life-changing' – although it is definitely the first two and then may resort to punishment of some kindonly time will tell about the third – but clichés exist for a reason and I'm not sure I can succinctly put it any better.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848123094</amazonuk>1912836017
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hilly Janes1543987877|title=Latte or CappuccinoLearn to Love: 125 Decisions That Will Change Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life|author=Dr Thomas Jordan|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=I must admit that my immediate reaction when I saw the title ''Latte or Cappuccino?Learn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life'' was that a filter coffee would be very pleasant, particularly with a shortbread biscuit. But it's not is a book about coffee but love relationships rather than a book about choices we encounter which could make a real difference to our liveslove. You see one coffee has 150 calories The two greatest emotions are love and grief and love is the opposite of grief: ''if you love'', Dr Thomas Jordan tells us, ''you will inevitably grieve''. Your love relationships begin the other just 90 moment you're born and over end only when you die. Whilst we all come into the weeks world hoping to give and months that decision can mean substantial weight gain receive love there are many people for whom love is not quite so simple. Some people suffer multiple disappointments - sometimes repeating the same mistakes - or lossand this eventually becomes resignation. There For people who are 125 making the same mistakes repeatedly, self-preservation, in the form of these relatively minor questions which can have real impact, particularly when you add them all upresignation is a necessity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843175584</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniel SmithMichael Harris|title=How to Think Like SherlockSolitude: Improve Your Powers In Pursuit of Observation, Memory and Deductiona Singular Life in a Crowded World|rating=3.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Whether you're a fan of This is not the original Conan Doyle novelsbook I was expecting it to be. For some reason I expected it to be another self-help manual on how to find calm, have enjoyed how to step outside the recent film and television representations mainstream, but it is not that at all. Instead of Sherlock Holmes or if, like metelling us how, it is more about the name always conjures up the image of Basil Rathbone you'll be impressed by the way that Holmes can reason and deduce'why''. YouHarries examines how we've probably wished re eroding solitude, which used to be a natural part of our human life, and why that you were capable of matters. Of course he talks about how some people have found solitude and what has come of that, and eventually in the mental acrobatics which final chapter he performs. Much of talks about his prowess is down to being a fictional character (own experience of course) but having deliberately sought it is possible to improve your powers of observationout, memory but mostly he wanders down the alleys and deduction by exercising your brain. Daniel Smith has some suggestions to get us started-ways that his thinking about this lost art led him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1843179539</amazonuk>1847947662
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Gilpin0753553236|title=Mindfulness for Black Dogs and Blue DaysTiny Habits: Finding a Path Through DepressionThe Small Changes That Change Everything|author=B J Fogg|rating=35
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Richard Gilpin is a counsellorGo on, cognitive behavioural psychotherapist and mindfulness instructor. Headmit it - you's also suffered from depression since his teens and is well aware of just how debilitating it can bere not quite perfect. In 'Mindfulness and Black Dogs' You still have those odd, quirky even loveable ( a nod to Churchill who referred to his depression as his black dogyou) he shares his own experiences with the illness and offers insights as habits which seem to how a sufferer can find a way through the weight which descends upon themannoy other people. He looks particularly at how ''mindfulness'' can help.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907332928</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nick Coleman|title=The Train in the Night: A Story Other people, of Music and Loss|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=Picture the scenario. You have always been passionate about musiccourse, are sorely afflicted with a catholic taste some dreadful flaws which embraces classicalthey could so easily correct, soul and heavy rock with if only they would make just a little bit of everything in betweeneffort. Or put another way, I get cross with myself because I forget to do things or do some actions more than I should and your job is that of an arts and music journalistno matter how I try to make what seem to be quite monumental changes I never quite seem to get to grips with the concepts. In your mid-forties you wake up one morning to find your whole world changed overnight by Sudden Neursosensory Hearing LossI constantly fail and then I get cross with myself for failing. It has a devastating effect on your balance when subjected to any kind Lack of sound, whether it willpower is an aeroplane overhead, another burden to add to the roar of the crowd at a football match, or the music which you once adored with every fibre of your being. Your head is filled with tinnitus, like a very poorly-tuned radio which lacks an off switchlist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224093576</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel Coyle1785785516|title=The Little Book of TalentFucking Good Manners|author=Simon Griffin
|rating=4
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=When you want - or need - to master Manners maketh man, they say. It certainly makes life easier if everybody abides by a new skill you'll be told to practiceset of conventions, but there's not always a lot some of advice around on ''how'' to practicewhich are ages old and other which have evolved over time. Sometimes it's that hint Manners are not about how much to practice more effectivelytip or how you should behave if you get an invitation to Buckingham Palace, how they have nothing to approach the skill from a different direction which makes all the difference. do with class or financial status: Daniel Coyle has fifty two tips - most of which can be applied to just they're about everything from improving your golf swing getting the basics right before we try to success in the business worlddeal with more difficult matters. The tips are short - Of course we all fifty two are covered in about a hundred have more relaxed manners when we're with family and friends, but it's best if we learn to distinguish between our public and twenty pages - easily read private lives and simple to put into practiceact appropriately. ''Fucking Good Manners'' aims to help us on the way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847946798</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Melissa Kite1999811402|title=Real Life: One Woman's Guide to Love, Men and Other Everyday DisastersPainting Snails|author=Stephen John Hartley|rating=4.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=WeIt're used s very difficult to thinking about career women who have classify ''Painting Snails'': originally I thought that as it's loosely based around a year on an allotment it all: the high-flyer who goes home would be a lifestyle book, but you're not going to her husband, children and immaculate house get advice on what to plan their next holiday plant when and their social lifewhere for the best results. We might not know these people - but everything seems to tell us that they're ''thereThe answer would be something along the lines of 'try it and see'. WhatThen I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, thoughdid an engineering apprenticeship, of the single womanbecame a busker, no longer in the first flush of youth finally got into medical school and is now an A&E consultant (part-time). I found out thatthere's probably nineteen, these days) who struggles just an awful lot more to keep going? What of the woman who struggles to keep the what goes on in a Major Trauma Centre than you'll ever glean from ''Casualty'boiler', but that isn' going and who is tempted to kidnap t really what the television repairman and tie him book's about. There's a lot about rock & roll, which seems to be the bed because shereal passion of Hartley's convinced that life, but it didn't actually fit into the entertainment genre either. Did we have a category for 'doing the television will stop working impossible the moment he goeshard way'?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780331916</amazonuk> Yep - that's the one. It's an autobiography.
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