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[[Category:New Reviews|Lifestyle]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rosie O'Hara1454955546|title=No More Bingo Dresses: Using NLP to cope with breast cancer and other people Sugarless|author=Nicole M Avena|rating=2.5
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|summary=I'd love to meet Rosie O'Hara. She sounds like This isn't a full-on, earthy lady who has more than a few tales to tell about her life to datediet book. Rosie The last thing anyone needs is a professional neuro-linguistic programming trainer in the Highlands of Scotland, and has already published an NLP-based self-help another diet book. At the beginning of 2009, a routine mammogram turned up 'a little breast cancer'. Rosie set out in her very direct and determined way to put the cancer in its rightful place as a challenge in her life rather than a defining disaster and this feisty diary is the result.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908218347</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sue Brayne1635866847|title=Sex, Meaning The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and the MenopauseTerry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5
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|summary=Things change as It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you get older. As men – and particularly women – approach their late forties Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and early fifties they expect that there will be physical changes, some more permanent than others, but they're frequently taken by surprise by s a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the mental changes which occurhomepage. Women expect I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in the menopause will bring book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the end book and I was told to make a mess of menstruation (some looking at this more gratefully than othersit. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages.) but fail to appreciate You suspect that they are moving into smears of butter would not be a different stage of their lifeproblem. Looked at positively this can be the most fulfilling period of womanI ''loved's lifecycle – and I doubt that there's a husband who would object to that!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0826423019</amazonuk>this book already.
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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''.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eleanor BirneSarah Wilson|title=When Will I Sleep Through This One Wild and Precious Life: the Night? An A - Z of Babyhoodpath back to connection in a fractured world|rating=43.5|genre=Home and FamilyLifestyle|summary=When My favourite Mary Oliver line is the one in which she asks ''What is it comes you plan to parenting, do with your one wild and precious life?'' I have discovered get to love that a lot of people lieline so much because my answer is ''This! Precisely this. '' They lie about sleep, about tantrums, about feeding and nappies I'm lucky enough to be living my one wild and precious life the effects of a screaming newborn on your marriageway I want to. There are books galore, and Mummy blogs, and tweeters all happily proclaiming how marvellous it all Sarah Wilson is, first of all being pregnant, then giving birth, and then raising the babyequally lucky. ItIn her book that takes Oliver's all glowing skin and sunshine smiles and meeting friends for coffee. I quickly stopped reading anything baby-related when I was pregnant because I was sick words as a dog for 5 months, her title (though I had an awful labour and can't see that first year with my little girl was almost impossibly difficult and totally consumed with she acknowledges the source) she pushes us to think about whether we really ''are'' living the life we want – the horror of a non-sleeping babybest life that we could be living. Her answer is an unequivocal ''no, we are not''. NowDon't care what you're doing, four and a half years on from giving birth and she thinks you (mostlywe, I) sleeping all night long I felt able to open up this latest baby book, mainly because could be doing more…And she's effing furious about the title roused such familiar feelings in mefact that we are not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846684862</amazonuk>1785633848
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hugh Bowring1394159544|title=Green Living GuideRecycling for Dummies|author=Sarah Winkler|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=The 'Green Living Guide' is a Magbook - so the format is like that Recycling one ton of a magazine - and although it initially seems a little expensive for something that looks just like a magazine you quickly find, on opening, that it contains an enormous amount of interesting and useful informationplastic can save up to 16. Even already determined eco-warriors should find something 3 barrels of interest in this wide-ranging guideoil.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907232060</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Shilling0760378134|title=The Stranger in the MirrorFirst-Time Gardener: A Memoir of Middle AgeContainer Food Gardening|author=Pamela Farley
|rating=5
|genre=AutobiographyHome and Family|summary=Middle-aged women disappearIf you've ever thought how good it would be to be able to pop out into the garden and pick some fruit and vegetables for a meal – but realised that you wouldn't know where to start, this is the book you need. They are not see on televisionIt's comprehensive: you'll cover everything from why you should grow your own food, what you're going to grow, their lives do not appear what you'll grow it in newspapers(both containers and soil), where you'll put these containers, how you'll water and fertilise them and you finish the legions main part of novels that are written each year rarely feature them. At least, that is what the author Jane Shilling believes as she wakes up aged 47 to find the narrative of her contemporaries and their lives which she has been reading about and living in parallel book with since leaving university has vanished. She looks in the mirror and sees a face she does not recognisehandy section on troubleshooting. Even with There's also a punishing regime of early bed, no alcohol and litres of water, it refuses to regain its youthful bloomgood glossary. So she decides to take a magnifying glass to this particular moment in time, this journey between youth and old age.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701181001</amazonuk>is it any good?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jacques Bonnet, James Salter and Sian Reynolds1398508632|title=Phantoms on the BookshelvesThe Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating=3.5
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|summary=Translated from French this beautifully presented little book takes It had been on the cards for a while but it was the reader week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into homes boasting book collectionsbeginning her year of eating only wild food. The end of November, 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, large Brexit and smalla pandemic. Studded Wilde had a few advantages: the area around her was a known habitat with succinct a variety of terrains. She had electricity which allowed her to run a fridge, freezer and dehydrator. She had a car - and appropriate quotations such as 'there is no better reason for fuel. Most importantly, she had shelter: this was not reading a plan to ''live'' wild just to live off its produce.}}{{Frontpage|author=Bjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankeler, Navid Modiiri and Agnes Bromme (Translator)|title=I May Be Wrong|rating=5|genre= Autobiography|summary= When the Dalai Lama adds his words to your frontispiece, I'm inclined to think it doesn't really matter how the rest of the world responds to your book than . 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' by Anthony Burgessmatters very much how the rest of the world responds to this book, because it tells the truth as it is, in the early 21st century.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906694583</amazonuk>1526644827
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sandy Donaghy1732898731|title=The Longest JourneyBoy Who Loved Boxes: Nine Keys to Health, Wealth and HappinessA Children's Book for Adults|author=Michael Albanese
|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=How many self-help books have you read where the ideas all seem very good, but theyThere was a Boy who loved boxes. He had a box for everything and he was meticulous about storage: his parents probably couldn've not been tested in the fire, so to speak? t believe their luck! The end result seems goodIt began with art supplies, but you suspect that stuffed toys and the starting point wasn't ''like: all'' that disadvantageous and more to the point, the cynic inside you wonders if the motivation for writing the book was financial gainthings which most children have in abundance. Has it made you shy away from such books? Now, I want you to drop the cynicism, because what we have here is a book thatThe Boy's written from delight was in the heart and not the wallet and the only motivation sense of order in writing his room: it was to help peoplemade him feel happy. Unusual? Yup; it is.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1425161065</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Roy Vickery|title=Garlands, Conkers As he grew up and Mother-Die: British and Irish Plant-Lore|rating=5|genre=History|summary=For many centuriesbecame a Man, plants have not only had practical uses as food, remedies, textiles his life became more complicated and dyes, but have also symbolic he dealt with this by getting bigger and folkloric meaning in many different culturesbetter boxes. The term ''plant-lore'' has been coined to describe the profusion of Look carefully at the customs pictures and beliefs associated with plants, and this book gathers together many you'll see that one of the plant-lore traditions of Britain and Irelandthem has a padlock...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1441101950</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cindy M Meston and David Buss1846276772|title=Why Women Have SexThe End of Bias: Understanding Sexual Motivation from Adventure to Revenge (and Everything in Between)How We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell
|rating=4.5
|genre=Popular SciencePolitics and Society|summary=Many many years agoAnyone who is not an able, a white man who was far too young understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the extent to be 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 fustydisabled. Jobs, dusty RE teacher he was shaping to bepromotions, asked my best friend and I why we were each having sex with our girlfriendshigher salaries are the preserve of the white man. Even aged fifteen I thought something along when those who wouldn't pass the lines medical become a part of an organisation it'wells rare that their views are heard, if he doesnthat their concerns are acknowledged. It't know by now, he never will', s personally appalling and listed that it was great fun, a very enjoyable sensation, showed an appetite degrading for the relationship, and that sex proved individuals on the receiving end of the ultimate in bonding - how much closer, to be blunt, could you be to someone than actually inside them? Ibias but it'll come clean now and admit said girlfriend was s not real, but several have been since, and I have had heaps of fun finding out how - and perhaps why - women have sex. I was never to know, until now, there just the individuals who are 237 reasons for itnegatively impacted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546639</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=Barbara WarmsleyRichard Brook|title=Make, Mend, Bake, Save and Shine!Understanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to Life|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=A slimI am a firm believer that sometimes we choose books, and sometimes books choose us. In my case, slither this is one of a the latter. Not so very long ago, if I had come across this book with a big title. I'd have skimmed it, found some of it interesting, but it would not have 'Greenhit home'' is in the mantra on most pages, as well as tips on how way that it does now. I believe it came to me not just because I was likely to waste less - whether give ita favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's food, clothes or water from the tapu. This book has a universal messages. How to waste lessp. There is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a nice introduction by seventysomething Barbara Walmsleypredisposition towards expecting to like the book, aka the charity [http://www.oxfam.org.uk/ Oxfameven if it doesn's] t always turn out that way''Green Granny.'' Certainly catchy ] – but will also because it catch on? When is a book I was delving inside the first couple of pages looking for the writer's name (it's not on the front cover) I discovered the phrase ''Printed And Bound In Chinaneeded to read, right now.'' Defeating the message?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846013674</amazonuk>1800461682
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Dawson0753558378|title=The Self-Sufficiency BibleEffortless: Window Boxes Make It Easier to Smallholdings - Hundreds of Ways to Become Self-SufficientDo What Matters|author=Greg McKeown|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=''The recent financial crises have taken people by surprise and instead marginal return of trying to ride the problem out and then get back to our oldworking harder was, profligate ways we've looked at how we can live more sustainably and less expensively. Thrift is the new black and many people are taking pride in not spending moneyfact, negative. I might take issue with whether or not Simon Dawson's book should be called a ''bible'' which suggests a completeness which is doesn't seem to exhibit, but it's an excellent starting point for those wanting to become more self-sufficient. It also has the recipe for a chocolate sponge which takes just five minutes to make – and that takes a lot of beating.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906787689</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Evany Thomas|title=The Secret Language of Sleep: A Couple's Guide to the Thirty-nine Positions|rating=3|genre=Home and Family|summary=This volume takes the premise that the positions in which couples sleep together are an insight into their private mind. Therefore, with the help of the line drawings of 39 (apparently all of THE 39) positions, one might see where one is going wrong. It’s a chicken and egg situation where you might learn you’re with the wrong bed partner, and change either them or your nocturnal habits, or in order to change yourself alter things having reflected on the contents here – with the help as they suggest of a ceiling-mounted camcorder.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1932416471</amazonuk>}}
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1523092734
|title=A Women's Guide to Claiming Space
|author=Eliza Van Cort
|rating=5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=''She brings a hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in her life. Again and again and again.'' (Alma Derricks, former CMO, Cirque du Soleil RSD)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Keith Hern1529109116|title=Bangers and MashCall Me Red: A Shepherd's Journey|author=Hannah Jackson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Home and FamilyLifestyle|summary=Keith Hern found a small lump in his neck and when ''I want the results image of the tests came through he tried a British farmer to put the appointment off as he had something more pressing to do, but the doctor was insistent. He knew then simply be that he had cancer. The lump in his neck was, in fact, of a secondary tumour with the primary being person who is proudly employed in feeding the back of his tonguenation. But for the secondary tumour the discovery of the primary might have been I don't think that is too late for successful treatment. Keith takes us through the discovery of his cancer, his reactions much to the diagnosis, his treatment and the titular meal of bangers and mash – the first solid food which he had attempted for some timeask.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312772</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary Beard1786495902|title=It's A Don's LifeThe Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Isabel Hardman
|rating=5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Professor Mary Beard, feisty Cambridge classics don, keeps an eye open for architectural detail wherever Isabel Hardman suffered a trauma which she goeschooses not to share. Even on holidayShe says that a friend who does know, she notices the changing urban landscape burst into tears and records interesting parallels with ancient cities health-care professionals' jaws have sagged in her sparky blogdisbelief. She is engaged in writing a detailed history of Pompeii and suddenly realises, whilst perambulating Hardman dealt with this at the time by 'keeping going': the backstreets of next day she went to work to cover the Mexican city of Oaxacanbudget, that this is exactly what Pompeii must have been like. She observes next there was the low rise shopsEU referendum, dirt tracks across dusty streets and the close juxtaposition of rich political party leadership contests and poorthen it was party conference season. Impressive portals of grand residential properties tower above humble workshops, One night she had to be sedated and this prompts her into imaginative reconstructionreturned home to begin long-term sick leave. In her blog, from which That was what brought me to this intriguing book is culled, she tells us about just how Oaxacan encourages her to ponder again : 2020 was the curious cart ruts of Pompeii. She even finds walls splashed with political slogans that are just like Roman ''dipinti''. Indeed, here in Mexico, the local library displays an edifying message in Spanish which originates in Cicero's speech in his Pro Archia, ''Science and letters are year when the nourishment of youth and the diversion of old agebins went out more often than I did.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682517</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dr Aaron Carroll and Dr Rachel VreemanLauren Martin|title=Don't Swallow Your GumThe Book of Moods
|rating=5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=I was in a great mood when I first learnt of this book, and because sarcasm doesn't always translate well into writing, imagine the word ''BANGgreat'''. That's the sound of copious urban myths being shot downdelivered with an eye roll and a sigh, through clenched teeth. '''BANG'''. That's I had spent the sound best part of a rainy, windy weekend afternoon out on the old wives slamming water at our local sailing club in the doorrescue rib, as their tales get revealed as baselesson standby in case anyone who was racing needed support. It's a volunteer duty we all do during the year, and normally I''CLICK'''. That's m happy to, but that day the weather was miserable and I was miserable, and it all came to a head that evening when I noticed on the noise lots of ill-informed websites make website that we had been thanked for our time as they get closed down"Dave and wife". All noises come due to Wow. I had never needed this brilliant bookmore.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141043369</amazonuk>1538733625
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez 0008420386|title=PerfumesFailosophy: The A - Z Guidehandbook for when things go wrong|author=Elizabeth Day|rating=54
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=WonderfulWhat do Malcolm Gladwell, wonderfulAlain de Botton, wonderful. The only thing that could be conceivably better than reading 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 - more importantly - they'Perfumesve been willing to appear on Elizabeth Day's podcast to discuss their failures and how life worked out for them afterwards. You' would be to read it while sampling ll find the scents it reviews, but even without the olfactory component, results of these discussions in ''PerfumesFailosophy'' is a delight: Turin (a lyrical scientist) and Sanchez (an analytically enthusiastic collector) not only treat perfume creation as high art, but turn perfume criticism into an art form (or at least a sophisticated genre of writing) too. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846681278</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeremy Clarkson1504321383|title=Driven to DistractionSingle, Again, and Again, and Again|author=Louisa Pateman
|rating=4.5
|genre=EntertainmentAutobiography|summary=Jeremy Clarkson's middle name ought to be ''Marmite'You can't be happy and fulfilled on your own. You really do either love him or hate him. I am in the first camp. I think he is brilliantly funny. He is. He makes me laugh. Out loud. And like many women who watch Top Gear, (well, those that don't watch it because they are strangely – ''bizarrely'' - attracted to James May – I am '''not''' - or because they want to mother The Hamster – I do '''not''') I complete until you find Jeremy Clarkson hilarious. And I don't think you have to like cars to see the appeal either! I mean, the columns within ''Driven To Distraction'' occasionally start ''offa man'' talking about cars, but not always and they quickly move on to the things that get his dander up before tailing neatly back to the cars again. Or not. And what is in between is pure gold dust.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718155548</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James May1538731738|title=Car FeverSimple Abundance: Dispatches From Behind The Wheel365 Days to a Balanced and Joyful Life|author= Sarah Ban Breathnach|rating=45
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=NowSomeone once said: it's not self-indulgence, way back when I was younger, and watched TV a lot, I am sure I remember Top Gear as being a consumer programme. How times change. it's therapy! These days I am sure they destroy more cars than think they reviewwere talking about shopping, and the three main people from the show are approaching superstar status, with their amenable personalities, awkward wardrobe choices and trenchant laddish charmsbut it probably can be applied to most things. They've sprung their media entities from out of the studioIn my case, into other TV programmes, and the world of journalism, with chatty columns in the broadsheets allowing them free rein it applies to witter writing about things because I want to their heart's desire. And here, in one grandiloquent volume, and in time for Christmas, are many of James Mayrather than because I can sell it or because I's desiresve got something to sell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340994533</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard Mabey Sharon Blackie|title=Wild CookingIf Women Rose Rooted|rating=45|genre=CookeryBiography|summary=It's become fashionable now to make do, I normally say that you can tell how much a book means to cut back - even for those who me by how many pages have no need to do socorners turned down. Conspicuous consumption is frowned upon and thriftiness Perhaps an even greater measure of impact is setting out to buy my own copy before I've finished reading the new black, so one I've borrowed. I want to avoid clichés like 'Wild Cookingpowerful'', previously published in hardback as inspiring''The New English Cassoulet'life-changing' – although it is going to appeal to definitely the mood of first two and only time will tell about the moment with its approach of 'busking in the kitchen' third – but clichés exist for a reason and making do. Some of it might seem a little extreme – I really can't imagine that m not sure I will ever slow cook a Peking Duck in front of a fan heater simply because it might as well cook the food whilst can succinctly put it's heating the room – but I love the idea of using a glut to make broad bean hummus, or even of gathering up vegetables which have been left when the field has been harvestedany better.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099522969</amazonuk>1912836017
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Deirdre Bounds1543987877|title=FulfilledLearn to Love: A Personal Revolution in Seven Steps Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life|author=Dr Thomas Jordan|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Dierdre Bounds' life was at rock bottom when she was introduced 'Learn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life'' is a book about love relationships rather than a book about love. 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 Twelve Step Plan used by Alcoholics Anonymous moment you're born and within a matter of years she had built an internet business end only when you die. Whilst we all come into an awardthe world hoping to give and receive love there are many people for whom love is not quite so simple. Some people suffer multiple disappointments - sometimes repeating the same mistakes -winning organisation and sold it to a FTSE 100 companythis eventually becomes resignation. She's adapted For people who are making the twelve steps to produce her personal revolution same mistakes repeatedly, self-preservation, in seven stepsthe form of resignation is a necessity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0273725521</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth Ford and Daniela DrakeMichael Harris|title=Smart Girls Marry MoneySolitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World|rating=3.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=If your friend told you that she'd fallen for a gorgeous man – they were deeply in love and getting married as soon as possible – This is not the probability is that you'd book I was expecting it to be delighted for her. On the other hand if she said that she'd met a man whom she thought was the best she was likely For some reason I expected it to meet and be another self-help manual on how to find calm, how to step outside the basis mainstream, but it is not that he was wealthy she was planning to marry himat all. Instead of telling us how, what would you think? Does it is more about the word ''gold-diggerwhy'' spring to mind? . Are you horrified? WellHarries examines how we're eroding solitude, think again as it just might which used to be a natural part of our human life, and why that matters. Of course he talks about how some people have found solitude and what has come of that , and eventually in the second solution could be final chapter he talks about his own experience of having deliberately sought it out, but mostly he wanders down the one alleys and by-ways that leaves your friend in the best positionhis thinking about this lost art led him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0762435178</amazonuk>1847947662
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tracey Whitmore 0753553236|title=How to Write an Impressive CV and Cover LetterTiny Habits: A Comprehensive Guide for the UK Job Seeker|rating=1.5|genre=Business and Finance The Small Changes That Change Everything|summary=Back home in the UK after a stint abroad, and job hunting for the first time in years, this book is a rather timely addition to my shelves. Having spent the last year and a bit teaching English, I also like to think I know a little about grammar and general language use. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the author of this book, and while it's all very well advising readers that ''first impressions really do count'', this carries less weight than it should when you notice the dubious grammar in the first line of the introduction, and in virtually every chapter which follows.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845283651</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jane Haynes|title=Who Is It That Can Tell Me Who I Am?B J Fogg|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=This is a remarkable bookGo on, admit it - you're not quite perfect. You still have those odd, quirky even loveable (to you) habits which seem to annoy other people. It gives an insight into the process Other people, of psychotherapycourse, are sorely afflicted with some dreadful flaws which they could so easily correct, both from the theoretical point if only they would make just a little bit of view andeffort. Or put another way, I get cross with myself because I forget to do things or do some actions more significantly, from actual conversations than I should and sessions 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 consulting roomconcepts. Jane Haynes takes us through her own development as a client (although she doesn't like that word) in her own self-discovery and therapy sessions, I constantly fail and then into some of her consulting sessions after she qualifies as a therapistI get cross with myself for failing. I've always thought Lack of this kind of thing as very American, but this book willpower is entirely Britishanother burden to add to the list.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845299728</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Denise Cullington 1785785516|title=Breaking Up BluesFucking Good Manners|author=Simon Griffin
|rating=4
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Whether you're married or singleManners maketh man, the dumpeé or the dumperthey say. It certainly makes life easier if everybody abides by a set of conventions, at one some of which are ages old and other which have evolved over time . Manners are not about how much to tip or anotherhow 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've all had try to deal with the trials 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 tribulations of to act appropriately. ''Fucking Good Manners'' aims to help us on the dreaded break upway.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1999811402|title=Painting Snails|author=Stephen John Hartley|rating=4. Whether 5|genre=Autobiography|summary=It's very difficult to classify ''Painting Snails'': originally I thought that as it's loosely based around a year on an allotment it would be a lifestyle book, but you're thinking not going to get advice on what to plant when and where for the best results. The answer would be something along the lines of leaving'try it and see'. Then I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, have just ended did an engineering apprenticeship, became a relationshipbusker, or are still trying finally got into medical school and is now an A&E consultant (part-time). I found out that there's an awful lot more to recover what goes on in a Major Trauma Centre than you'll ever glean from the one that got away, Denise Cullington's 'Casualty'', but that isn'Breaking Up Bluest really what the book's about. There' is s a self-help guide lot about rock & roll, which seems to coping with be the bitterness and ragereal passion of Hartley's life, emotional emptiness and endless depression 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 can come along with it's the one. It's an autobiography. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0415455472</amazonuk>
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