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[[Category:New Reviews|Lifestyle]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Redress1454955546|title=Dress (with) sense: The Practical Guide to a Conscious Closet|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=Not too long ago I didn't have any problems with clothes. They were just about all black and I wore them until they dropped off my back - and then I used what I could of the material for other purposes. I had this lovely little clothes shop in Ilkley (it says 'Oxfam' over the door) when I needed to restock. Clothes were simple. Then I encountered the lovely [[:Category:Numba Pinkerton|Numba Pinkerton]] and suddenly I had colour in my life: not all of it could be had from Oxfam. Sometimes I might even be buying ''new'' clothes. I needed help and more advice, because it really isn't as simple as just walking into the nearest department store.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500292779</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSugarless|author=Dr Elizabeth Blackburn and Dr Elissa Epel|title=The Telomere Effect: A Revolutionary Approach to Living Younger, Healthier, LongerNicole M Avena

|summary=Nick Weatherhogg has been diagnosed as suffering from severe depression. Many of you will be nodding wisely and thinking that you know how he feels: but there are two points he wants to make here. You ''donThis isn't'' know how he feelsa diet book. This The last thing anyone needs is another diet book.''his'' depression and only he knows what  There was a time, not that long ago, when it feels like was thought that sugary food was better for you than food with high- if he's able fat content. Fat was the demon food which was going to think or express how heelevate your cholesterol and cause heart disease. Sugar was a carbohydrate, so good. There's feelinga problem, though. The other point Sugar is that there's a big difference between ''feeling'' depressed addictive and ''being'' depressed - ''fepression'' can hijack your brain in much the same way as drugs like heroin and ''bepression'' as he terms themcocaine. He's right: I've been there. Does that sound over the top? My feelingsWell, my experience will have been different, but I do know that it was hellish. He describes the experience as isn''a mental state in which your brain regularly and consistently lies to yout.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524663662</amazonuk>

{{newreview<!-- remove 12/1 -->Frontpage|authorisbn=Jo Bird1635866847|title=Web to SuccessThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|summary=[[:Category:Jo Bird|Jo Bird]] (illustratorIt's strange, designer and… errr.. .wall tattooist) had a lightbulb moment about positive thinking, self-improvement and successthe things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The road to an improved self isnLavender Companion''t linear in a , I visited the author'change this thing s [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and all will be fine' way; itthere's a web that connects picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and intersects several paths and subjects desserts - but I wanted that can be summarised under three headingscake viscerally. All successful people (socially as much as professionallyThere's a recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) know about self-awareness, personal development Then I started reading the book and emotional awarenessI was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. After having a shot at principles of self-improvement herself, Jo shares You get to fold down the fruit corners of her experience across a wealth of fields to make one heck pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a self-help problem. I ''loved'' this bookalready.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>152466622X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary Ellen Guiney0760381267|title=Vietnamese VoicesVerdura: Living a Garden Life|author=Perla Sofia Curbelo-Santiago

|summary=Mary Ellen Guiney has been diagnosed at various times with schizophrenia and bi-polar disorder. ''The resulting treatment most important part of choice a garden is the conventional western medicine approach and drug regimens that brought with them unpleasant side-effectsone who enjoys it''. Determined to find  I've 'gardened' in a better vague, indefinite sort of way for more than half a century. I know (most of symptom control, using her biochemical background, Mary Ellen begins to investigate alternative eastern medicine ) the basics but life has changed and therapies in addition I needed 'projects' rather than a general commitment to looking at the effect gardening. ''Verdura'' with its promise of nutrition projects for both indoors and exerciseoutdoors of varying complexity seemed like the answer. The results are here: this is Mary Ellen's story written in her own words.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524663123</amazonuk>So, how did it stack up?

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patrick MbayaSarah Wilson|title= My Brain Is Out Of ControlThis One Wild and Precious Life: the path back to connection in a fractured world|rating= 43.5|genre= Home and FamilyLifestyle|summary=Dr Patrick Mbaya was enjoying 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 as a consultant psychiatrist, husband and father?'' I get to love that line so much because my answer is ''This! Precisely this. His career was going well '' I'm lucky enough to be living my one wild and he enjoyed making ill people better. His marriage was solid and fulfilling and his two children were exploring their potential, often through precious life the uplifting power of musicway I want to. Life was good Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. But then 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.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524636649</amazonuk>1785633848

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan S Lee1394159544|title=Lean GainsRecycling for Dummies|author=Sarah Winkler|rating=45|genre=SportLifestyle|summary=I don't often begin a book by telling 'Recycling one ton of plastic can save up to 16.3 barrels of oil.'' ''Recycling one ton of paper can save 17 trees from being cut down.'' If you what send an apple core to landfill, it will take between 6 months and 2 years to decompose. A glass bottle will take up to 1 million years. As a just-post-WWII baby, I faced a dilemma: reducing, reusing and recycling is part of my DNA. NEVER throw away anything that might ''isnpossibly't'come in handy now or in the future. NEVER buy anything if you can cobble together something that would serve the purpose. Almost everything can be used one more time and any purchase must pass the test of ' but in Is this case absolutely essential?' On the other hand, I suspected I was guilty of wishcycling: assuming that something must be recyclable (toothpaste tubes - I think 'm looking at you) and dropping it's importantin the kerbside bin. Yes, I could go searching on the internet - and get conflicting advice - but what I needed was a recycling bible.s}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0760378134|title=The First-Time Gardener: Container Food Gardening|author=Pamela Farley|rating=5|genre=Home and Family|summary=If you're a fairly sedentary person or a casual sportsman or woman looking ve ever thought how good it would be to be able to shed pop out into the garden and pick some fruit and vegetables for a few pounds then meal – but realised that you wonwouldn't get know where to start, this is the best out of this bookyou need. YouIt's comprehensive: you'll find some good advice about dietcover everything from why you should grow your own food, but Iwhat you'm afraid that much of it is re going to go over your head. Of course grow, what you could always take up a sport seriously... On the other hand'll grow it in (both containers and soil), if where you ''are'' a serious sportsman then ll put these containers, how you could find that the advice in ''Lean Gains'' could lift ll water and fertilise them and you up to finish the next level main part of performancethe book with a handy section on troubleshooting.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>152463493X</amazonuk> There's also a good glossary. So, is it any good?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laura Slater1398508632|title=Hollywood Beauty: Vintage SecretsThe Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating=45

|summary=I have vivid memories from my youth of seeing the Hollywood beauties It had been on the television or at cards for a while but it was the cinema and wishing that ''I'' could look like that and week- long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of course, no matter how I tried, I never couldeating only wild food. The look end of Marilyn MonroeNovember, Rita Hayworthparticularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the best time to start, Audrey Hepburn, Brigitte Bardotin a world where the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Ava Gardner Brexit and Sofia Loren always eluded mea pandemic. To begin Wilde had a few advantages: the area around her was a known habitat witha variety of terrains. She had electricity which allowed her to run a fridge, I lacked knowledgefreezer and dehydrator. She had a car - and fuel. Despite being reasonably petite my oblong face Most importantly, she had shelter: this was never going not a plan to look anything like Audrey Hepburn's. I lacked quite a few of Brigitte Bardot's attributes toolive'' wild just to live off its produce. }}{{Frontpage|author=Bjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankeler, Navid Modiiri and Gradually, Agnes Bromme (Translator)|title=I realised that developing my own style was May Be Wrong|rating=5|genre= Autobiography|summary= When the best way Dalai Lama adds his words to goyour frontispiece, but I'll confess that there are still ''elements'm inclined to think it doesn' t really matter how the rest of the stars' looks which world responds to your book. I'd love to copyknow, having read the book in question, that Lindeblad would disagree with that thought. That's where ''Vintage Secrets: Hollywood Beauty'' comes He knows (and at core so do I) that it matters very much how the rest of the world responds to this book, because it tells the truth as it is, inthe early 21st century.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0859655083</amazonuk>1526644827

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Yuchi Yang1732898731|title=The Boy Who Loved Boxes: A Food Guide to Lowering Blood Pressure: 6 Simple StepsChildren's Book for Adults|author=Michael Albanese |rating=4.5

|summary=Yuchi Yang has been There was a Boy who loved boxes. He had a registered dietitian box for over twenty years everything and she's allowing us the benefit of her knowledge to help us to reduce our blood pressure ''without'' taking medication, although she does stress that if you ''are'' taking medication you shouldnhe was meticulous about storage: his parents probably couldn't stop doing so without consulting your doctor. believe their luck! You can reduce your BP in six stepsIt began with art supplies, stuffed toys and the like: all the things which are actually a lot simpler than they soundmost children have in abundance. Does The Boy's delight was in the sense of order in his room: it work? Yesmade him feel happy. As he grew up and became a Man, it does: I've been eating this way for his life became more than two years complicated and I've gone from having 'very worrying' blood pressure readings to he dealt with this by getting a smile when they're taken bigger and being told that my BP is perfectly normal - better boxes. Look carefully at the pictures and you'll see that's without taking medication one of any sortthem has a padlock...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1539803422</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Long1846276772|title=The Mock OlympianEnd of Bias: How We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell|rating=4.5|genre=SportPolitics and Society|summary=It started with Anyone who is not an idle conversation just before able, white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the 2012 London Olympicsextent to which they suffer from it: Michael Longit's friend Sarah gave him simply a book as part of his birthday presenteveryday life. White men will always come first. It was ''Time Out's'' guide to the history of the Olympics and it covered each of the summer Olympics in chronological order from The able will come before the inaugural games in Athens in 1896disabled. Sarah's boyfriend James commented that with all Jobs, promotions, higher salaries are the running Michael did, he'd probably have run in most preserve of the Olympic citieswhite man. Although Long had done a goodly number of runs, bike rides and triathlons heEven when those who wouldn'd only competed in two of t pass the twenty three cities - London and Athens. Now most medical become a part of us would have left an organisation it at 's rare thattheir views are heard, but thattheir concerns are acknowledged. It's not personally appalling and degrading for the individuals on the receiving end of the Michael Long you're going to come to know and love. He saw bias but it as a ''challenge'' and what's more he blogged about it and then wrote this booknot just the individuals who are negatively impacted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524662887</amazonuk>

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=Numba PinkertonRichard Brook|title=The No Black ProjectUnderstanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to Life

|summary=I don't like shopping for clothesam a firm believer that sometimes we choose books, but there's no valid reason whyand sometimes books choose us. In my case, this is one of the latter. Not so very long ago, if I had come across this book I'm smalld have skimmed it, found some of it interesting, but reasonably slim - a size 10 petite usually fits me perfectly - and Iit would not have 'hit home'm lucky to be able to afford to buy whatever clothes I wantin the way that it does now. The trouble is that I lack the confidence believe it came to know what is going to suit me and not just because I was likely to be honest give ita favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's very difficult to get excited about a trip which will almost certainly end up with another pair of smart black trousers and a matching topu.s.p. I never feel is that I look particularly good in blackpeople chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, but I've resorted so there is a predisposition towards expecting to like the book, even if it doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – but also because it can usually take me anywhere and is unlikely to cause offence. So, how did I feel when a book I was given a copy of ''The No Black Project''? Well, needed to be honestread, I felt a little scared..right now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1533506957</amazonuk>1800461682

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Short0753558378|title=101 Things To Effortless: Make It Easier to Do When You're Not DrinkingWhat Matters|author=Greg McKeown|rating=4.5

|summary=If you're thinking about giving up alcohol long term'The marginal return of working harder was, in fact, short term or for Dry January then you might be wondering if itnegative.'' That's going what happened to leave one helluva hole in your social lifePatrick McGinnis. You might be thinking about what youIt'll do with s no exaggeration to say that he devoted his life to the time you normally spend out socialising (just having company he worked for, struggling through, even when he was ill, only to find that he was working for a quick one before you get the train homebankrupt company. His stock had fallen by 97%, he had lost his health and his job had little value..) as well as the time you spend recovering from having had ''just'' one too many the night before He made a bargain with God; if he survived, he would make some changes. Sunday mornings will loom large as uncharted He did survive and largely unknown territorycame through stronger - and richer. Robert Short has There is, you see, a few answers different way: ''great things are not reserved for those who bleed, for you - well 101 of them in fact - in a pocket-size book which should give you some inspirationthose who almost break.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722877</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tonia Vojtkofsky1523092734|title=Keep Your Brain Stronger for LongerA Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van Cort|rating=45|genre=LifestylePolitics and Society|summary=On the front of the book it says that our brains need ''She brings a wellhug-rounded workout just like our bodieskick-thunderclap that every woman needs in her life. Again and again and again. A decade or two ago I wouldn't have given very much thought to this - my body '(Alma Derricks, former CMO, Cirque du Soleil RSD) 'and'' my brain seemed To claim space is to get all live the workout they needed without me adding life of choosing unapologetically and bravely. It is to their burdens, but close on live the beginning of my eighth decade Ilife you've noticed somethingalways wanted. I keep losing words: nothing major, you know, but this morning I couldn't remember ' Sometimes the name of reviewing gods are generous: at a flower which I hadn't seen since this time last year - until about half an hour later, whenviolence against women is much in the news, of course ''A Women's Guide to Claiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk. Now - to be clear - this book is not a 'how to disable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual: it was no longer relevant's something far more effective, but discussion at the moment seems to be about how women can be ''protected''. When youI're young you ve always thought that women need to rise above this, to be people who don't worry about what you'll suffer from in old ageneed protection, people who claim their own space. As you get older you develop dreads and one of the biggest for people If all women did this, those few men who are still hale and hearty is violent to women would realise that we are not just an easy target to be used to prove that they'll develop dementiaare big men.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722842</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Margery Allingham and Julia Jones1529109116|title=Beloved Old Age and What to Do About itCall Me Red: Margery AllinghamA Shepherd's the RelayJourney|author=Hannah Jackson

|summary=''I have want the image of a British farmer to simply be that of a favourite cigarette lighterperson who is proudly employed in feeding the nation. That sentence may become more strange I don't think that is too much to you when you consider ask.'' The stereotypical farmer was probably born on the fact that I land where ''his'' family have never smokedfarmed for generations. I donHe't know how but I got it s probably grown up without giving much thought as to what he really wants to do: he knows that he'll be a freebie donkeyfarmer. It's years ago, and I loved its curvy bronzed lines, not always the case though. Hannah Jackson was born and brought up on the fact that I Wirral: she'd never set foot on a commercial farm until she was twenty although she'd always had to click down on a button instead deep love of rub against a flint-wheel to light itanimals. I optimistically took it with me at uni in case I found a girl good enough to be with even though Her original intention was that she smoked (which took almost another twenty yearswould become 'Dr Jackson, but thatwhale scientist's a different story) – therefore I and she was carrying something so evidently not well on her way to achieving this when her life changed on a match as a potential match-makerfamily holiday to the Lake District. LaterShe saw a lamb being born and, its semi-art deco styling made it perfect for a play I was in oncealthough 'Hannah Jackson, after which it dried up. Now itfarmer's more or less lacked the kudos of her original intention, she knew that she wanted to be a paperweightshepherd. But if I can imbue such personal relevance in a bleeding fag lighterWith the determination that you'll soon realise is an essential part of her, just think what all of culture can do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1501307363</amazonuk>she set about achieving her ambition.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lydia Pyne1786495902|title=Bookshelf (Object Lessons)The Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Isabel Hardman|rating=4.5

|summary=Could you imagine Isabel Hardman suffered a whole book dedicated trauma which she chooses not to share. She says that a single lump of woodfriend who does know, or a few sections of metal? I canburst into tears and health-care professionals't assume it would be great – jaws have sagged in disbelief. Hardman dealt with or without said item being this at the time by 'keeping going'an object with physical: the next day she went to work to cover the budget, next there was the EU referendum, historical the political party leadership contests and psychological components''then it was party conference season. But shove some distorted tree by-products on One night she had to said wood or metal, be sedated and lo and behold you have a bookshelfreturned home to begin long-term sick leave. Now you're talking – but could you even now imagine a whole That was what brought me to this book dedicated to it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1501307320</amazonuk>: 2020 was the year when the bins went out more often than I did.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Georgina RodgersLauren Martin|title=Peace of Mind: A The Book of Calm for Busy MumsMoods|rating=35

|summary=The promise I was in a great mood when I first learnt of a this book bringing me calm was too much to resist! There it is, in the title, my job description (busy mum...and because sarcasm doesn't always translate wellinto writing, thatimagine the word ''great''s just one of my jobs!) being delivered with an eye roll and that elusive state that many mums seem to be trying to finda sigh, peace of mindthrough clenched teeth. I have to sayhad spent the best part of a rainy, I was looking forward to some insightful revelations into changing my life. I think windy weekend afternoon out on the water at our local sailing club in the problemrescue rib, however, was quickly apparent on standby in that like a busy mum, case anyone who is trying to wear was racing needed support. It's a hundred masks at volunteer duty we all do during the same timeyear, and carry out a multitude of roles, this book isnnormally I't entirely sure what it's trying m happy to be, with everything from poetry but that day the weather was miserable and colouring to mindfulness I was miserable, and recipes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473635519</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Merinda D'Aprano|title= The Essential Guide it all came to Your Prep School Journey (Head Teacher in Your Pocket)|rating= 4.5|genre= Lifestyle|summary= As you might have gathered from the title, ''The Essential Guide to Your Prep School Journey'' is pitched at parents who intend a head that evening when I noticed on using the private sector to educate their childrenwebsite that we had been thanked for our time as "Dave and wife". And clearly, these are the parents who will benefit most from reading the bookWow. However, there is a great deal of general advice within its pages which will prove helpful even to parents whose children will be travelling through the state sector. So if this is you, don't discount I had never needed this book immediately. Such advice includes ''Why is reading so important?'', ''How can I promote a brave learner?'' and ''Is the internet safe for my child?'' - you can see that these are universally applicable topics and topics that all parents appreciate advice aboutmore. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0993550304</amazonuk>1538733625

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=0008420386|title=Failosophy: A A Milne and E H Shepardhandbook for when things go wrong|titleauthor=Winnie-the-Pooh's Little Book Of WisdomElizabeth Day

|summary=For a Bear of Very Little Brain WinnieWhat do Malcolm Gladwell, Alain de Botton, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Lemn Sissay, Nigel Slater, Emeli Sandé, Meera Syal, Dame Kelly Holmes and Andrew Scott have in common? They've all failed and -themore importantly -Pooh talks an awful lot of sense and we should be honoured that hethey've been willing to appear on Elizabeth Day's chosen podcast to share with us a few of his wise wordsdiscuss their failures and how life worked out for them afterwards. You see, occasionally (well, an awful lot of the time, if we're honest) we look for wisdom in the wrong places and forget about those who have a very simple approach to life and who may well have discovered ll find the secret results of happiness. Poohthese discussions in ''Failosophy''s take on life is very simple and none the worse for that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405281278</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1504321383|title=Rasmus HougaardSingle, Again, and Again, Jacqueline Carter and Gillian CouttsAgain|titleauthor=One Second Ahead: Enhance Your Performance at Work with MindfulnessLouisa Pateman|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceAutobiography|summary=Have you ever worked at a task ''You can't be happy and found fulfilled on your mind wandering to something else? own. Do You are not complete until you find yourself breaking off what youa man're doing to answer an email? Do you try to multitask, thinking that you're being more efficient? Do you have far too much to attend to, to complete and nowhere near enough time to do it all?.

You do? This was what Louisa Pateman was brought up to believe. It wasn't unkind: it was simply the adults in her life advising her as to 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 rescued by the handsome prince who then marries her so that they can live happily ever after. Me tooFew girls are lucky enough to be brought up ''without'' the expectation that they will marry and have children. You need this bookIt was a belief and it would be many years before Louisa would conclude that ''a belief is a choice''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1137551909</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Thomas W Hodgkinson and Hubert van den Bergh1538731738|title= How Simple Abundance: 365 Days to Sound Cultured a Balanced and Joyful Life|author= Sarah Ban Breathnach|rating= 45|genre= Lifestyle|summary= Sometimes Someone once said: it 's not self-indulgence, it's therapy! I think they were talking about shopping, but it probably can be hard applied to run with the big dogsmost things. In my case, and while it applies to writing about things because I know the names want to drop in my field of work, some wider cultural references rather than because I can pass me by. This is especially true for those from before my time and so sell it or because I was delighted to find icons from all decades and centuries featured in this book. Badged as ''the 250 names that intellectuals love ve got something to drop into conversation'' this book features quotes and biographical titbits covering big names from every sector – science, the arts, philosophysell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848319304</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tony CrabbeSharon Blackie|title=Busy: How to Thrive in a World of Too MuchIf Women Rose Rooted

|summary=Serendipity often brings you to the important books. Recently I heard myself say ''Learn to a friendLove: ''I'm far too busy Guide to do some of the important stuffHealing Your Disappointing Love Life''is a book about love relationships rather than a book about love. It pulled me up short: there was definitely something wrong here - The two greatest emotions are love and grief and then I had love is the opportunity to listen to an audio download opposite of grief: ''Busyif you love'' and I knew that it was something I , Dr Thomas Jordan tells us, ''hadyou 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 do give and take notice of if I was to stop going ''backwards''receive love there are many people for whom love is not quite so simple. Some people suffer multiple disappointments - sometimes repeating the same mistakes - and this eventually becomes resignation. Because that was what I was doingFor people who are making the same mistakes repeatedly, self-preservation, in the form of resignation is a necessity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B01727ER84</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rachel Kelly and Jonathan PughMichael Harris|title=Walking on SunshineSolitude: 52 Small Steps to HappinessIn Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World|rating=45

|summary=How would you like 52 tips This is not the book I was expecting it to be. For some reason I expected it to be another self-help manual on how to be happier? find calm, how to step outside the mainstream, but it is not that at all. No this isnInstead of telling us how, it is more about the ''why''t an offer to sign up to a dodgy website - it. Harries examines how we's a small book re eroding solitude, which you could pop into used to be a bag and which will give you tipsnatural part of our human life, tools and positive idea why that matters. Of course he talks about how you can make your life happiersome people have found solitude and what has come of that, less complicated and more fulfilling. Open eventually in the final chapter he talks about his own experience of having deliberately sought it at random, if that's what you feel like doingout, or work your way through it reading one tip per week - they're helpfully divided into but mostly he wanders down the four seasons alleys and by- and savour just a couple of pages of elegant writing which will give you something to think ways that his thinking about or something positive to do (or not do - if you see what I mean)this lost art led him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780722524</amazonuk>1847947662

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ilka Heinemann0753553236|title=101 Things to do Instead of Playing on Your Phone|rating= 5|genre= Lifestyle|summary= There's a great joke I saw online recently. One cartoon person says to the other, ''What's your favourite position in bed?'' and the other replies ''Closest to the plug so I can still use my phone while it's charging''. It's funny because it's true.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178072246X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewTiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything|author=Brene Brown|title=Rising StrongB J Fogg|rating=45

|summary=This is Brené BrownGo on, admit it - you's fourth bookre not quite perfect. Like Elizabeth Gilbert You still have those odd, she is well known for her TED talkquirky even loveable (to you) habits which seem to annoy other people. As a professor at the University Other people, of Houstoncourse, she has spent the last 13 years working are sorely afflicted with people's storiessome dreadful flaws which they could so easily correct, if only they would make just a little bit of effort. Such a qualitative approach Or put another way, based on anecdote I get cross with myself because I forget to do things or do some actions more than I should and experience, is relatively rare in no matter how I try to make what seem to be quite monumental changes I never quite seem to get to grips with the social sciences but certainly makes her work more accessible to laymenconcepts. I constantly fail and then I get cross with myself for failing. Her books fall into the 'self-help' arena, but without any Lack of willpower is another burden to add to the negative connotations of that term. Here she makes her research relevant to everyday life by weaving in pop culture references and telling stories from her family and professional lifelist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091955033</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lee Crutchley1785785516|title=How to Be Happy (or at least less sad): A Creative WorkbookFucking Good Manners|author=Simon Griffin

|summary=I gave up hoping for happiness many years ago 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 settled instead for enjoying contentment when it arrived and trying to make the most of itother which have evolved over time. 'Happiness' seemed Manners are not about how much to be rather like 'privileges' - something which tip or how you should behave if you shouldnget an invitation to Buckingham Palace, they have nothing to do with class or financial status: they't expect as of re about getting the basics rightbefore we try to deal with more difficult matters. Most of the time it works wellOf course we all have more relaxed manners when we're with family and friends, but just occasionally an extra boost - a new approach - is neededit's best if we learn to distinguish between our public and private lives and to act appropriately. Lee Crutchley has suffered from depression and he knows that this book is not going ''Fucking Good Manners'' aims to help when you're clinically depressed, but those of us who have been down that road know that there are certain laybys where you stop and possibly turn aroundon the way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241201950</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Dawson1999811402|title=The Sty's the Limit: When Middle Age Gets MuckyPainting Snails|author=Stephen John Hartley

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