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[[Category:New Reviews|Lifestyle]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1454955546|title=The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves Sugarless|author=Stephen GroszNicole M Avena
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|summary=I usually review fiction''This isn't a diet book. For The last thing anyone needs is another diet book.'' There was a time, not that reason alonelong ago, I knew when it was thought that reviewing this particular book would be a challengesugary food was better for you than food with high-fat content. I Fat was the demon food which was attracted going to elevate your cholesterol and cause heart disease. Sugar was a carbohydrate, so good. There's a problem, though. Sugar is addictive and can hijack your brain in much the same way as drugs like heroin and cocaine. Does that sound over the top? Well, it for many reasons; I thought it would give me a window into many situations of which I know little or nothingisn't.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099549034</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sue Hadfield1635866847|title=Change One ThingThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=34.5
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|summary=On It's strange, the face of it things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the principle is simple: just change one thing book for a better lifeyou. Of course itBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's not that simple[https://www.pinelavenderfarm. Working com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the basis homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in the longest journey starts book, which I'm avoiding with a single step Sue Hadfield looks at some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the disillusionment which is a by-product of our work-driven life book and guides us towards the steps we'll need to take I was told to pull ourselves out of what's not so much a rut as make a pit mess of despair on occasionsit. Changing one thing is just Notes in the beginning, but as she points out, it can be what's needed margins are sanctioned. You get to kick-start fold down the whole process - to a better way corners of pages. You suspect that smears of our current life or butter would not be a whole new lifeproblem. I ''loved'' this book already.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857084607</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=Sarah Wilson|title=How to WinThis One Wild and Precious Life: The Argument, the Pitch, the Job, the Race|author=Dr Rob Yeungpath back to connection in a fractured world
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|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 words as her title (though I can't see that she acknowledges the source) she pushes us to 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 (we, I) could be doing more…And she's effing furious about the fact that we are not.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1394159544
|title=Recycling for Dummies
|author=Sarah Winkler
|rating=5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Looking for a sure-fire way ''Recycling one ton of plastic can save up to intimidate the competition during a job interview? Just sit in the waiting room perusing the oh, so subtly titled 16.3 barrels of oil.''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 Recycling one candidate is reading the same book, difficulties may ensueton of paper can save 17 trees from being cut down...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857084291</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0760378134|title=A Piece of Danish HappinessThe First-Time Gardener: Container Food Gardening|author=Sharmi AlbrechtsenPamela Farley|rating=45|genre=AutobiographyHome and Family|summary=Sharmi Albrechtsen was a true Hindu-American princess. Obsessed with shoes If you've ever thought how good it would be to be able to pop out into the garden and handbags pick some fruit and designer labelsvegetables for a meal – but realised that you wouldn't know where to start, she saw status and wealth as this is the only route to happinessbook you need. But she wasn It't happy enoughs comprehensive: you'll cover everything from why you should grow your own food, no matter how much designer gear she owned. And it wasnwhat you't until 1997, when she married her second husband, a Dane, and relocated re going to Denmarkgrow, that she began to wonder if what you'll grow it was something lacking in herself(both containers and soil), rather than her possessionswhere you'll put these containers, that was at how you'll water and fertilise them and you finish the root main part of her problemsthe book with a handy section on troubleshooting. There's also a good glossary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00EAINZM8</amazonuk> So, is it any good?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rachel Ashwell1398508632|title=Couture Prairie And Flea Market Treasures The Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating=45
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|summary=''Shabby Chic'' has always appealed to me: It had been on the cards for a while but it fits neatly with my views on recyclingwas the week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. The end of November, upcycling and generally refusing particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the best time to replace anything which still looks good start, in a world where the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and has life left in ita pandemic. Rachel Ashwell takes this to Wilde had a whole new level, but few advantages: the area around her most glorious moment must have been when - on her regular yearly visit to the flea markets of Round Top in Texas - she decided on was a whim to buy The Outpost at Cedar Creek and she turned this into The Prairie, known habitat with a group variety of buildings terrains. She had electricity which would house allowed her retail store to run a fridge, freezer and dehydrator. She had a B&B which exhibited some of her most treasured findscar - and fuel. As Most importantly, she said herself, her cowboy boots, jeans and love of poetry in country music had come homeshelter: this was not a plan to ''live'' wild just to live off its produce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782490434</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Very British Problems: Making Life Awkward for OurselvesBjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankeler, One Rainy Day at a TimeNavid Modiiri and Agnes Bromme (Translator)|authortitle=Rob TempleI May Be Wrong|rating=35|genre=HumourAutobiography|summary=Are you compelled When the Dalai Lama adds his words to apologise multiple times a day – even when you are not at faultyour frontispiece, or even I'm inclined to inanimate objects? Would you subject yourself think it doesn't really matter how the rest of the world responds to great inconvenience rather than confront someone who is sitting in your reserved seat on a train? Have you been known to commit desperate acts book. I know, having read the book in question, that Lindeblad would disagree with that thought. He knows (and at core so do I) that it matters very much how the search for your next cup rest of tea? If sothe world responds to this book, because it tells the truth as it is, you may be suffering from Very British Problemsin the early 21st century.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751552593</amazonuk>1526644827
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1732898731|title=How to Keep Calm and Carry OnThe Boy Who Loved Boxes: A Children's Book for Adults|author=Daniel Freeman and Jason FreemanMichael Albanese |rating=4.5
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|summary=Heart poundingThere 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, rapid breathing, dry mouth stuffed toys and sweaty palms are just some of the unpleasant symptoms associated with anxiety. Anxiety affects us like: all at one time or another the things which most children have in our lives and occurs abundance. The Boy's delight was in varying degrees the sense of severityorder in his room: it made him feel happy. For example As he grew up and became a Man, a little nervousness is par for his life became more complicated and he dealt with this by getting bigger and better boxes. Look carefully at the course when a performer steps on stage in front pictures and you'll see that one of them has a huge crowd, but on the other end of the spectrum, conditions such as OCD and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder can leave sufferers paralysed with fearpadlock...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0273777750</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1846276772|title=Hospice Voices: Lessons for Living at the The End of LifeBias: How We Change Our Minds|author=Eric LindnerJessica Nordell
|rating=4.5
|genre=AutobiographyPolitics and Society|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 able will come before the disabled. Jobs, promotions, higher salaries are the preserve of the white man. Even when those who wouldn'Hospice Voicest pass the medical become a part of an organisation it's rare that their views are heard, that their concerns are acknowledged. It' tells s personally appalling and degrading for the individuals on the stories receiving end of the last days of some fascinating people while bias but it follows author Eric Lindner through his journey as a hospice volunteer and a crisis in his own daughter's healthnot just the individuals who are negatively impacted. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1442220597</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).
Erligg Kagge is a Norwegian explorer who has walked to the South Pole, the North Pole and the summit of Everest. He knows a thing or two about walking. However, this isn't a travelogue about any of those epic journeys, it is instead a thoughtful exploration of what it means to walk. It is a plenitude of unnumbered essays about walking. There is no 'contents' page and I haven't counted. In small format paperback, each essay is only a few pages long. Perhaps then, better thought of as a meditation rather than an essay.|isbn=0241357705}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jill StarkRichard Brook|title=High SobrietyUnderstanding Human Nature: My Year Without BoozeA User's Guide to Life
|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=On the first of January 2011 Jill Stark woke up with the hangover from HellI am a firm believer that sometimes we choose books, and sometimes books choose us. She was no stranger to them: at thirty five she'd been binge drinking for more than twenty years and was in the dubious position In my case, this is one of being the health reporter who wrote herself off at weekendslatter. And by Not so very long ago, if I had come across this book I'wrote herself off' I mean being seriously drunk on a very regular basisd have skimmed it, having consumed vast quantities found some of alcohol and having regularly put herself in danger of serious illnessit interesting, unwanted pregnancy and assault. But on that first day but it would not have 'hit home' in January Stark decided the way that she it does now. I believe it came to me not just because I was going likely to do something about give it and a favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's u.s.p. is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a predisposition towards expecting to like the initial decision was book, even if it doesn't always turn out that she would spend three months on the wagonway'' ] – but also because it is a book I needed to read, right now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1922247030</amazonuk>1800461682
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0753558378|title=The Sex DiariesEffortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters|author=Arianne CohenGreg McKeown|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=As far as ‘doing what it says on the tin’ goes, this book is a good one. It’s the diaries, plural, from people, plural, talking about their sex lives. But it’s not just the doing of the deed and the sowing ''The marginal return of the seedworking harder was, it’s also all the stuff that goes with being in a relationship or not being in one. The daydreams. The texts. The efforts made to secure a hook-upfact, if there’s not one waiting for you at homenegative.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091939550</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Blastland and David Spiegelhalter1523092734|title=The Norm Chronicles: Stories and numbers about dangerA Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van Cort
|rating=5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=I'd like you to meet Norm. He's an absolutely average kind of guy, thirty one years old, 5'9”, She brings a touch over thirteen stone and he works a thirtyhug-kick-nine hour week with the occasional treat of a bar of milk chocolatethunderclap that every woman needs in her life. Oh, Again and again and he's ambivalent about Marmite - couldn't care one way or the other - can take it or leave itagain. In ''The Norm Chronicles(Alma Derricks, former CMO, Cirque du Soleil RSD) '' we hear To claim space is to live the story of his life and the lives of his friends Prudence (the name tells you what you need to know) choosing unapologetically and Kelvin, who's a dare-devil, hard-living kind of guybravely. Itis to live the life you's the story of the hazards they face - some real and some imagined - in every aspect of their livesve always wanted. And along with these stories are the ''real'' facts about the reality of the risks they take.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686202</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Naomi Schillinger1529109116|title=Veg StreetCall Me Red: Grow Your Own CommunityA Shepherd's Journey|author=Hannah Jackson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=As ''I want the image of a child Naomi Schillinger helped her parents British farmer to grow fruit and vegetables simply be that of a person who is proudly employed in their South London garden and feeding the urge to grow resurfaced when she had her own propertynation. It wasnI don't just think that is too much to ask.'' The stereotypical farmer was probably born on the land where ''growinghis'' which she remembered, but the family have farmed for generations. He's probably grown up without giving much thought as to what he really wants to do: he knows that he'sharingll be a farmer. It'' of s not always the produce case though. Hannah Jackson was born and sense brought up on the Wirral: she'd never set foot on a commercial farm until she was twenty although she'd always had a deep love of community which went with itanimals. Soon after starting to grow food for herself Her original intention was that she would become 'Dr Jackson, whale scientist' and she was well on her way to achieving this when her life changed on a family holiday to the Lake District. She saw a prime mover in getting whole streets involved in growing fruit lamb being born and vegetables in their front gardens, making although 'Hannah Jackson, farmer' lacked the most kudos of recycled materials and free seeds and composther original intention, she knew that she wanted to be a shepherd. When weWith the determination that you're constantly urged to reduce food miles what could be better than growing your food (quite literally) on your own doorstep?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780721129</amazonuk>ll soon realise is an essential part of her, she set about achieving her ambition.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish1786495902|title=The Natural Health Service: How To Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will TalkNature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Isabel Hardman
|rating=5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Many parents, it seems, go through life in Isabel Hardman suffered a constant state of feudtrauma which she chooses not to share. Not with each other, necessarily, but with their children. Their smallShe says that a friend who does know, beloved bundles of joy turn burst into obstreperous toddlers, defiant pretears and health-schoolers, angry schoolchildren or morose teenscare professionals' jaws have sagged in disbelief. Parents find themselves caught up in argumentsHardman dealt with this at the time by 'keeping going': the next day she went to work to cover the budget, advicenext there was the EU referendum, failed attempts at consolationthe political party leadership contests and then it was party conference season.One night she had to be sedated and returned home to begin long-term sick leave.. and then may resort That was what brought me to punishment of some kindthis book: 2020 was the year when the bins went out more often than I did.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848123094</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hilly JanesLauren Martin|title=Latte or Cappuccino: 125 Decisions That Will Change Your LifeThe Book of Moods|rating=45
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|summary=I must admit that my immediate reaction was in a great mood when I saw first learnt of this book, and because sarcasm doesn't always translate well into writing, imagine the title word ''Latte or Cappuccino?great'' was that being delivered with an eye roll and a filter coffee would be very pleasantsigh, particularly with through clenched teeth. I had spent the best part of a shortbread biscuitrainy, 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. But itIt's not a book about coffee but rather about choices volunteer duty we encounter which could make a real difference all do during the year, and normally I'm happy to our lives. You see one coffee has 150 calories , but that day the weather was miserable and the other just 90 I was miserable, and over it all came to a head that evening when I noticed on the weeks website that we had been thanked for our time as "Dave and months that decision can mean substantial weight gain - or losswife". Wow. There are 125 of these relatively minor questions which can have real impact, particularly when you add them all upI had never needed this book more.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1843175584</amazonuk>1538733625
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel Smith0008420386|title=How to Think Like SherlockFailosophy: Improve Your Powers of Observation, Memory and DeductionA handbook for when things go wrong|author=Elizabeth Day|rating=3.54
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Whether you're a fan of the original Conan Doyle novelsWhat do Malcolm Gladwell, Alain de Botton, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Lemn Sissay, Nigel Slater, have enjoyed the recent film and television representations of Sherlock Holmes or ifEmeli Sandé, like meMeera Syal, the name always conjures up the image of Basil Rathbone you'll be impressed by the way that Dame Kelly Holmes can reason and deduce. Andrew Scott have in common? YouThey've all failed and - more importantly - they've probably wished that you were capable of some of the mental acrobatics which he performs. Much of his prowess is down been willing to being a fictional character (of course) but it is possible appear on Elizabeth Day's podcast to improve your powers of observation, memory discuss their failures and deduction by exercising your brainhow life worked out for them afterwards. Daniel Smith has some suggestions to get us started.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843179539</amazonuk>You'll find the results of these discussions in ''Failosophy''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Gilpin1504321383|title=Mindfulness for Black Dogs Single, Again, and Blue Days: Finding a Path Through Depression|rating=3|genre=Lifestyle|summary=Richard Gilpin is a counsellorAgain, cognitive behavioural psychotherapist and mindfulness instructor. He's also suffered from depression since his teens and is well aware of just how debilitating it can be. In 'Mindfulness and Black Dogs' ( a nod to Churchill who referred to his depression as his black dog) he shares his own experiences with the illness and offers insights as to how a sufferer can find a way through the weight which descends upon them. He looks particularly at how ''mindfulness'' can help.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907332928</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewAgain|author=Nick Coleman|title=The Train in the Night: A Story of Music and LossLouisa Pateman
|rating=4.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Picture the scenario. ''You have always been passionate about music, with a catholic taste which embraces classical, soul and heavy rock with a bit of everything in between, can't be happy and fulfilled on your job is that of an arts and music journalistown. In your mid-forties You are not complete until you wake find a man''. This was what Louisa Pateman was brought up one morning to find your whole world changed overnight by Sudden Neursosensory Hearing Lossbelieve. It has a devastating effect on your balance when subjected wasn't unkind: it was simply the adults in her life advising her as to any kind of sound, whether it what they thought would be best for her. It was reinforced by all those fairy tales where the girl (she's usually fairly young) is an aeroplane overhead, rescued by the roar of 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 crowd at a football match, or the music which you once adored with every fibre of your beingexpectation that they will marry and have children. Your head It was a belief and it would be many years before Louisa would conclude that ''a belief is filled with tinnitus, like a very poorly-tuned radio which lacks an off switchchoice''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224093576</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel Coyle1538731738|title=The Little Book of TalentSimple Abundance: 365 Days to a Balanced and Joyful Life|author= Sarah Ban Breathnach|rating=45
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=When you want - or need - to master a new skill you'll be told to practice, but thereSomeone once said: it's not always a lot of advice around on ''how'' to practice. Sometimes self-indulgence, it's that hint therapy! I think they were talking about how to practice more effectivelyshopping, how to approach the skill from a different direction which makes all the difference. Daniel Coyle has fifty two tips - most of which but it probably can be applied to just about everything from improving your golf swing to success in the business worldmost things. The tips are short - all fifty two are covered in In my case, it applies to writing about a hundred and twenty pages - easily read and simple things because I want to, rather than because I can sell it or because I've got something to put into practicesell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847946798</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melissa KiteSharon Blackie|title=Real Life: One Woman's Guide to Love, Men and Other Everyday DisastersIf Women Rose Rooted|rating=45|genre=AutobiographyBiography|summary=We're used I normally say that you can tell how much a book means to thinking about career women who me by how many pages have it all: the high-flyer who goes home to her husband, children and immaculate house to plan their next holiday and their social lifecorners turned down. We might not know these people - but everything seems Perhaps an even greater measure of impact is setting out to tell us that they're ''therebuy my own copy before I've finished reading the one I've borrowed. What, though, of the single woman, no longer in the first flush of youth (thatI want to avoid clichés like 'powerful's probably nineteen, these days) who struggles just to keep going? What of the woman who struggles to keep the 'inspiring'boiler'life-changing' going and who – although it is tempted to kidnap definitely the television repairman first two and tie him to only time will tell about the bed because shethird – but clichés exist for a reason and I's convinced that the television will stop working the moment he goes?m not sure I can succinctly put it any better.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780331916</amazonuk>1912836017
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Siri Hustvedt1543987877|title=Living, Thinking, LookingLearn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life|author=Dr Thomas Jordan|rating=4.5
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|summary='Living, Thinking, Looking'Learn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life'' is a collection book about love relationships rather than a book about love. The two greatest emotions are love and grief and love is the opposite of essays by Siri Hustvedt whichgrief: ''if you love'', she claimsDr Thomas Jordan tells us, ''you will inevitably grieve''. Your love relationships begin the moment you're born and end only when you die. Whilst we all come into the world hoping to give and receive love there are linked by an abiding curiosity about what it means to be humanmany people for whom love is not quite so simple. Some people suffer multiple disappointments - sometimes repeating the same mistakes - and this eventually becomes resignation. In these essays she examines For people who we are and how we got that waymaking the same mistakes repeatedly, self-preservation, in the form of resignation is a necessity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444732633</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Brett CohenMichael Harris|title=Stuff Every Dad Should Know|rating=4|genre=Home and Family|summary=For an object lesson in how important the little things are, consider this book's title. 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), it's not that kind Solitude: In Pursuit of knowledge on offer. Here instead is practical information on rearing your own little thing, and in a quiet way this pocket diary-sized volume has the cojones to expect to stick around being useful for a generation, as it starts at budgeting for children in the first place, and goes from the actual birth to marrying them off.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594745536</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mary Beard|title=All Singular Life in a Don's Day|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=Mary Beard's latest collection, 'All in a Don's Day', of her assembled blog pieces from 2009 until the end of 2011, covers similar concerns to her previous selection, [[It's A Don's Life by Mary Beard|It's a Don's Life]]. Professor Beard is a fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge and became Classics Professor at there in 2004. She is also an expert in Roman laughter, an interest which she fully indulges in the pages of her TLS blog. In her latest collection she bemoans the parlous current state of both Education and the Academy, and makes witty observations on matters as various as television chefs, what and how 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-seekers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685362</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Olga Levancuka|title=How to Be Selfish (and Other Uncomfortable Advice)Crowded World|rating=3.5
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|summary=It's strange how you come This is not the book I was expecting it to read a particular bookbe. A couple of days ago For some reason I was chatting expected it to a dogbe another self-walking friend who retired about a year ago. He'd been surprised 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 main problem in retirement was one which he hadn't anticipated: all his life he'd had to account for himself to somebody else and now he was struggling to discover what it was that why''he. Harries examines how we'' wanted re eroding solitude, which used to dobe a natural part of our human life, and why that matters. Then I Of course he talks about how some people have found myself chatting to Olga Levancuckasolitude and what has come of that, author and eventually in the final chapter he talks about his own experience of ''How To Be Selfish'' - having deliberately sought it out, but she seemed like one of mostly he wanders down the most unselfish people I'd ever metalleys and by-ways that his thinking about this lost art led him. There was a book here waiting to be read!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1468115987</amazonuk>1847947662
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Matousek0753553236|title=When You're Falling, DiveTiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything|author=B J Fogg|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Go on, admit it - you're not quite perfect. You never quite know what life is going still have those odd, quirky even loveable (to you) habits which seem to serve up next and even the happiest moments or saddest news can be turned around in a heartbeatannoy other people. For the author Mark Matousek his down was learning he was HIV positive Other people, while his upof course, a while laterare sorely afflicted with some dreadful flaws which they could so easily correct, was being informed that it wasn’t quite the death sentence originally imposed and that he had quite if only they would make just a little bit of life lefteffort. In this book he looks at how you can find the good in the bad or Or put another way, I get cross with myself because I forget to quote the subtitle, the keys do things or do some actions more than I should and no matter how I try to 'Using your pain make what seem to transform your life'. The art of survival is an intriguing one. The same scale of trauma affects different people in different ways and this book seeks be quite monumental changes I never quite seem to draw on the wisdom of those who triumph in the face of adversity get to share what they know and inspire grips with the same behaviour in usconcepts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848504926</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Karen French|title=The Hidden Geometry of Life|rating=2.5|genre=Spirituality I constantly fail and Religion|summary=''The Hidden Geometry of Life'' aims to explore the esoteric and often mystical meanings contained in ''shapes and patterns [that] represent ideas and distil the essence of reality''. This mystical angle was a little bit of a unpleasant surprise then I get cross with myself for this readerfailing. I should have had a better look at Karen French's Amazon pages and previous work, but I was attracted by an exciting-sounding title, attractive cover and and references Lack of willpower is another burden to add to author's artthe list.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780281080</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Neill1785785516|title=Feel Happy NowFucking Good Manners|author=Simon Griffin
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|summary=Manners maketh man, they 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. Manners are not about how much to tip or how you should behave if you get an invitation to Buckingham Palace, they have nothing to do with class or financial status: they're about getting the basics right before we try to deal with more difficult matters. Of course we all have more relaxed manners when we're with family and friends, but it's best if we learn to distinguish between our public and private lives and to act appropriately. ''Fucking Good Manners''Feel Happy Nowaims to help us on the way.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1999811402|title=Painting Snails|author=Stephen John Hartley|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=It's very difficult to classify ''Painting Snails'': originally I thought that as it' is s loosely based around a dummy’s guide to happiness written by year on an NLP expert who Paul McKenna has dubbed allotment it would be a lifestyle book, but you're not going to get advice on what to plant when and where for the best results. The finest success coach in answer would be something along the worldlines of 'try it and see'. What makes this book stand out Then I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, perhapsdid an engineering apprenticeship, is the way the complexity is done away withbecame a busker, finally got into medical school and everything is broken down to now an accessible level without being too patronizingA&E consultant (part-time). Its expert concepts presented I found out that there's an awful lot more to what goes on in layman speak and a Major Trauma Centre than you'll ever glean from ''Casualty'', but that isn't really what the result is book's about. There's a highly readable and accessible book regardless lot about rock & roll, which seems to be the real passion of your belief in Hartley's life, but it didn't actually fit into the entertainment genre either. Did we have a category for 'doing the impossible the hard way'? Yep - that's the subjectone. It's an autobiography.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848504942</amazonuk>
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