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[[Category:New Reviews|Lifestyle]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel Coyle1454955546|title=The Little Book of TalentSugarless|author=Nicole M Avena|rating=45
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|summary=When you want - or need - to master a new skill you'll be told to practice, but there's not always a lot of advice around on ''howThis isn'' to practice. Sometimes it's that hint about how to practice more effectively, how to approach the skill from t a different direction which makes all the difference. Daniel Coyle has fifty two tips - most of which can be applied to just about everything from improving your golf swing to success in the business worlddiet book. The tips are short - all fifty two are covered in about a hundred and twenty pages - easily read and simple to put into practicelast thing anyone needs is another diet book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847946798</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Siri Hustvedt1635866847|title=Living, Thinking, LookingThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5
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|summary=It'Livings strange, Thinkingthe things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', LookingI visited the author' is s [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a collection slice of essays by Siri Hustvedt chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in the book, which, she claims, I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the margins are linked by an abiding curiosity about what it means sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be humana problem. In these essays she examines who we are and how we got that way I ''loved'' this book already.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444732633</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=Brett CohenSarah Wilson|title=Stuff Every Dad Should KnowThis One Wild and Precious Life: the path back to connection in a fractured world|rating=43.5|genre=Home and FamilyLifestyle|summary=For an object lesson My favourite Mary Oliver line is the one in how important 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 little things are, consider this way I want to. Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. In her bookthat takes Oliver's words as her 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 though I can't see that she acknowledges the source) she pushes us to ween your daughter off Justin Bieber), itthink about whether we really ''are''s not living the life we want – the best life that kind of knowledge on offerwe could be living. Here instead Her answer is practical information on rearing your own little thingan unequivocal ''no, and in a quiet way this pocket diary-sized volume has the cojones to expect to stick around being useful for a generationwe are not''. Don't care what you're doing, as it starts at budgeting for children in the first placeshe thinks you (we, and goes from I) could be doing more…And she's effing furious about the actual birth to marrying them offfact that we are not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1594745536</amazonuk>1785633848
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1394159544
|title=Recycling for Dummies
|author=Sarah Winkler
|rating=5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=''Recycling one ton of plastic can save up to 16.3 barrels of oil.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen French0760378134|title=The Hidden Geometry of LifeFirst-Time Gardener: Container Food Gardening|author=Pamela Farley|rating=2.5|genre=Spirituality Home and ReligionFamily|summary=If you''The Hidden Geometry of Life'' aims ve ever thought how good it would be to be able to explore pop out into the esoteric garden and often mystical meanings contained in ''shapes pick some fruit and patterns [vegetables for a meal – but realised that] represent ideas and distil the essence of realityyou wouldn''. This mystical angle was a little bit of a unpleasant surprise for t know where to start, this readeris the book you need. I It's comprehensive: you'll cover everything from why you should have had a better look at Karen Frenchgrow your own food, what you're going to grow, what you's Amazon pages ll grow it in (both containers and previous worksoil), but I was attracted by an exciting-sounding titlewhere you'll put these containers, attractive cover how you'll water and fertilise them and references to authoryou finish the main part of the book with a handy section on troubleshooting. There's artalso a good glossary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780281080</amazonuk> So, is it any good?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Neill1398508632|title=Feel Happy NowThe Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating=45
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|summary=''Feel Happy Now'' is It had been on the cards for a dummy’s guide to happiness written by an NLP expert who Paul McKenna has dubbed 'The finest success coach in while but it was the world'week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. What makes this book stand out The end of November, particularly in Central Scotland was perhapsnot the best time to start, is in a world where the way normal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and a pandemic. Wilde had a few advantages: the complexity is done away area around her was a known habitat witha variety of terrains. She had electricity which allowed her to run a fridge, freezer and everything is broken down to an accessible level without being too patronizingdehydrator. Its expert concepts presented in layman speak She had a car - and the result is fuel. Most importantly, she had shelter: this was not a highly readable and accessible book regardless of your belief in the subjectplan to ''live'' wild just to live off its produce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848504942</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon OxfordBjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankeler, Navid Modiiri and Agnes Bromme (Translator)|title=Make Yourself Immune 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. 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 rest of the world responds to Heart Attackthis book, because it tells the truth as it is, in the early 21st century.|isbn=1526644827}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1732898731|title=The Boy Who Loved Boxes: A Children's Book for Adults|author=Michael Albanese |rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=The older you get, the more likely it is that you will suffer from some form of heart disease or even die from itThere was a Boy who loved boxes. Many deaths occur without warning in people who are apparently healthy - so itHe had a box for everything and he was meticulous about storage: his parents probably couldn's not something that you can wait to be diagnosed t believe their luck! It began with art supplies, stuffed toys and plan on doing something about at that stagethe like: all the things which most children have in abundance. Whatever your age thereThe Boy's a real possibility that you can make a significant improvement delight was in your health ''and'' improve the quality sense of your order in his room: it made him feel happy. As he grew up and became a Man, his lifebecame more complicated and he dealt with this by getting bigger and better boxes. I came to read this book because family members Look carefully at the pictures and you'll see that one of my generation were suffering ''severe'' heart problems and it was them has a wake-up call that was impossible to ignorepadlock...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907629319</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha1846276772|title=The Start-up End of YouBias: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your CareerHow We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell
|rating=4.5
|genre=LifestylePolitics and Society|summary=In decades gone byAnyone who is not an able, educated workers white man understands bias in many industries could view their careers as an elevator – rising through that they may no longer even recognise the ranks extent to which they suffer from it: it's simply a part of a company everyday life. White men will always come first. The able will come before stepping aside and settling into a comfortable retirementthe disabled. In today's vastly different job market Jobs, with much less loyalty from both employers and employeespromotions, your career is more likely to follow higher salaries are the model preserve of some promotions mixed in with frequent sideways moves to other companies and perhaps even completely different industriesthe white man. Time, then Even when those who wouldn't pass the medical become a part of an organisation it's rare that their views are heard, that their concerns are acknowledged. It's personally appalling and degrading for a new guide to how to handle your employment prospectsthe individuals on the receiving end of the bias but it's not just the individuals who are negatively impacted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184794079X</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=Charlotte Watts and Anna MageeRichard Brook|title=The De-Stress DietUnderstanding Human Nature: The Revolutionary Lifestyle Plan for a Calmer, Slimmer YouA User's Guide to Life|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Most people will recognise I am a firm believer that excessive stress sometimes we choose books, and sometimes books choose us. In my case, this is not good for youone of the latter. ItNot so very long ago, if I had come across this book I's the cause d have skimmed it, found some of depressionit interesting, high blood pressure, skin problems and insomnia - to name just a few problems from a very long list. Therebut it would not have 'hit home's also mounting evidence in the way that chronic stress is responsible for excessive weight gain and it does now. I believe it came to me not just because thereI was likely to give it a favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's a tendency (er, yes, I can testify to thisu.s.p.) is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a predisposition towards expecting to like the book, even if it doesn't always turn to comfort eating. Too many stress hormones in the body encourage fat storage - particularly in out that way''obvious'' and very-hard-to-shift area around the middle. The aim of the De-Stress Diet ] – but also because it is a book I needed to bring about a slimmerread, calmer person with a better quality of liferight now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848507798</amazonuk>1800461682
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anita Anand, Julian Barnes, Bella Bathurst, Alan Bennett and others0753558378|title=The Library BookEffortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters|author=Greg McKeown
|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=I had better begin by saying that I had a vested interest ''The marginal return of working harder was, in liking this book since I am a chartered librarian myself and so am wholeheartedly in support of saving our nationfact, negative.'' That's public librarieswhat happened to Patrick McGinnis. But you donIt't need s no exaggeration to say that he devoted his life to be the company he worked for, struggling through, even when he was ill, only to find that he was working for a librarian to enjoy this bookbankrupt company. His stock had fallen by 97%, he had lost his health and his job had little value. It is rich He made a bargain with anecdotes from God; if he survived, he would make some wonderful writers changes. He did survive and makes came through stronger - and richer. There is, you see, a pleasant read whether youdifferent way: ''re keen to save libraries or great things are notreserved for those who bleed, for those who almost break.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781250057</amazonuk>''
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1523092734
|title=A Women's Guide to Claiming Space
|author=Eliza Van Cort
|rating=5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=''She brings a hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in her life. Again and again and again.'' (Alma Derricks, former CMO, Cirque du Soleil RSD)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschappeler1529109116|title=The Question BookCall Me Red: A Shepherd's Journey|author=Hannah Jackson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Most of us have probably made at least one of those end-of-''I want the-year lists image of the best books, albums and parties we have been a British farmer to simply be that of a person who is proudly employed in feeding the previous twelve monthsnation. But can you, with some effort, locate the one you made in 1987? Have you ever constructed a graph of your ups and downs in a given period, and then decided I don't think that is too much to expand it by separating emotional, intellectual, sexual and financial aspects and colour coding them? Have you made a list of all your lovers, bosses or friends and then rated them from 1 to 10 ask.'' The stereotypical farmer was probably born on several dimensions each? Do you have one of the books that list land where ''his''100 things family have farmed for generations. He's probably grown up without giving much thought as to what he really wants to do before you die: he knows that he'll be a farmer. It' or s not always the case though. Hannah Jackson was born and brought up on the Wirral: she'd never set foot on a commercial farm until she was twenty although she'500 books to read in your lifed always had a deep love of animals. Her original intention was that she would become 'Dr Jackson, whale scientist' (and ticked off she was well on her way to achieving this when her life changed on a family holiday to the ones you have done)? Did you ever spend Lake District. She saw a whole evening lamb being born and half of a night filling in dubious , although 'personalityHannah Jackson, farmer' questionnaires on lacked the Internet? Have you ever doodled somethingkudos of her original intention, decided she knew that it beautifully expresses she wanted to be a shepherd. With the deepest essence determination that you'll soon realise is an essential part of your personality and then proceeded to draw such icons for all your friends? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685389</amazonuk>her, she set about achieving her ambition.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez1786495902|title=The Little Book Of PerfumesNatural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Isabel Hardman
|rating=5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=I have always admired people Isabel Hardman suffered a trauma which she chooses not to share. She says that a friend who seem to does know about scent, those whose dressing tables are littered burst into tears and health-care professionals' jaws have sagged in disbelief. Hardman dealt with bottles none of which flaunt this at the time by 'keeping going': the next day she went to work to cover the name of a major (or increasinglybudget, minor) celebrity. Some of next there was the bottles might be works of art in themselvesEU referendum, but the general understanding is that they’ve been bought not for their vessels, nor for their exclusive advertising campaigns, special offers or celeb endorsement, but for their evocative scentpolitical party leadership contests and then it was party conference season. Perfumery is clearly an art One night she had to be sedated and a science and if your skills aren’t as honed as they might be, returned home to begin long-term sick leave. That was what brought me to this is a wonderful little book to sink your teeth into as you’re guided through : 2020 was the field by two people very much in year when the knowbins went out more often than I did.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685192</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Linda M JamesLauren Martin|title=How to Write and Sell Great Short StoriesThe Book of Moods
|rating=5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Having read any number I was in a great mood when I first learnt of books about crafting this book, and because sarcasm doesn't always translate well into writing, imagine the word ''great stories'' being delivered with an eye roll and a sigh, I thought through clenched teeth. I had had my fill spent the best part of a rainy, windy weekend afternoon out on the water at our local sailing club in the rescue rib, on standby in case anyone who was racing needed support. It's a volunteer duty we all do during the year, and normally I'm happy to, but that there were no more books left that could bolster my enthusiasm day the weather was miserable and I was miserable, and help me it all came to get a head that evening when I noticed on with my writingthe website that we had been thanked for our time as "Dave and wife". Wow. In short, I thought the only thing left that could motivate me was, well, mehad never needed this book more.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846947162</amazonuk>1538733625
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Ryan0008420386|title=Following AtticusFailosophy: How a little dog led one man on a journey of rediscovery to the top of the world A handbook for when things go wrong|author=Elizabeth Day
|rating=4
|genre=PetsLifestyle|summary=Tom Ryan is a middleWhat do Malcolm Gladwell, Alain de Botton, Phoebe Waller-agedBridge, stressed journalistLemn Sissay, running his own newspaperNigel Slater, the Emeli Sandé, Meera Syal, Dame Kelly Holmes and Andrew Scott have in common? They've all failed and - more importantly - they'Undertoadve been willing to appear on Elizabeth Day'' in Newburyport in America. His life is full of political intrigues s podcast to discuss their failures and mayoral elections, boardroom deals and subterfuge and his how life is full of challengesworked out for them afterwards. He doesnYou'll find the results of these discussions in ''Failosophy't need a dog. He doesn't even particularly want a dog, but when a miniature schnauzer enters his life one day, everything changes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141048972</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1504321383
|title=Single, Again, and Again, and Again
|author=Louisa Pateman
|rating=4.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=''You can't be happy and fulfilled on your own. You are not complete until you find a man''.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Savage1538731738|title=Furniture with SoulSimple Abundance: Master Woodworkers 365 Days to a Balanced and Their CraftJoyful Life|author= Sarah Ban Breathnach
|rating=5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Someone once said: it's not self-indulgence, it's therapy! I'd love think they were talking about shopping, but it probably can be applied to meet Rosie O'Haramost things. She sounds like a full-on In my case, earthy lady who has more than a few tales it applies to tell writing about her life things because I want to date. Rosie is a professional neuro-linguistic programming trainer in the Highlands of Scotland, and has already published an NLP-based self-help book. At the beginning of 2009, a routine mammogram turned up 'a little breast cancerrather than because I can sell it or because I'. Rosie set out in her very direct and determined way ve got something 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 resultsell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908218347</amazonuk>
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|rating=5
|genre=LifestyleBiography|summary=Things change as I normally say that you get oldercan tell how much a book means to me by how many pages have corners turned down. As men – and particularly women – approach their late forties and early fifties they expect that there will be physical changes, some more permanent than others, but they Perhaps an even greater measure of impact is setting out to buy my own copy before I're frequently taken by surprise by ve finished reading the mental changes which occurone I've borrowed. Women expect that I want to avoid clichés like 'powerful' 'inspiring' 'life-changing' – although it is definitely the menopause first two and only time will bring tell about the end of menstruation (some looking at this more gratefully than others...) third – but fail to appreciate that they are moving into clichés exist for a different stage of their life. Looked at positively this can be the most fulfilling period of woman's lifecycle – reason and I doubt that there's a husband who would object to that!m not sure I can succinctly put it any better.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0826423019</amazonuk>1912836017
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Diane Ackerman1543987877|title=One Hundred Names For Learn to Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Guide to HealingYour Disappointing Love Life|author=Dr Thomas Jordan
|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Diane Ackerman's husband, Paul West, had been in hospital for three weeks with 'Learn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life'' is a kidney infection and was just rejoicing in the fact that he was to go home the next day. As Diane watched , Paul suffered book about love relationships rather than a massive strokebook about love. The effects were catastrophictwo greatest emotions are love and grief and love is the opposite of grief: ''if you love'', but worst of allDr Thomas Jordan tells us, ''you will inevitably grieve''. Your love relationships begin the man who had been a brilliant wordsmith was robbed of his power of speech moment you're born and lost his extensive vocabularyend only when you die. It's eight years since this happened and Whilst we all come into the intervening years have been a constant battle world hoping to improve Paul's speech give and restore some joy to his lifereceive love there are many people for whom love is not quite so simple. There have been ups – Some people suffer multiple disappointments - sometimes repeating the same mistakes - and many downs – but despite a brain scan indicating that Paul might well be a vegetable he has since his stroke written booksthis eventually becomes resignation. His vocabulary will never be back to what it was, but it remains impressive and For people who are making the same mistakes repeatedly, strangely enoughself-preservation, many in the form of the words which he finds easiest to use are those which he encountered resignation is a number of years agonecessity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>039307241X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eleanor BirneMichael Harris|title=When Will I Sleep Through the Night? An A - Z Solitude: In Pursuit of Babyhood|rating=4.5|genre=Home and Family|summary=When it comes to parenting, I have discovered that a lot of people lie. They lie about sleep, about tantrums, about feeding and nappies and the effects of Singular Life in a screaming newborn on your marriage. There are books galore, and Mummy blogs, and tweeters all happily proclaiming how marvellous it all is, first of all being pregnant, then giving birth, and then raising the baby. It's all glowing skin and sunshine smiles and meeting friends for coffee. I quickly stopped reading anything baby-related when I was pregnant because I was sick as a dog for 5 months, I had an awful labour and that first year with my little girl was almost impossibly difficult and totally consumed with the horror of a non-sleeping baby. Now, four and a half years on from giving birth and (mostly) sleeping all night long I felt able to open up this latest baby book, mainly because the title roused such familiar feelings in me.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684862</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Hugh Bowring|title=Green Living GuideCrowded World|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=The 'Green Living Guide' This is a Magbook not the book I was expecting it to be. For some reason I expected it to be another self- so help manual on how to find calm, how to step outside the format mainstream, but it is like not that at all. Instead of telling us how, it is more about the ''why''. Harries examines how we're eroding solitude, which used to be a magazine - natural part of our human life, and why that matters. Of course he talks about how some people have found solitude and although it initially seems a little expensive for something what has come of that looks just like a magazine you quickly find, on openingand eventually in the final chapter he talks about his own experience of having deliberately sought it out, that it contains an enormous amount of interesting but mostly he wanders down the alleys and useful information. Even already determined ecoby-warriors should find something of interest in ways that his thinking about this wide-ranging guidelost art led him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907232060</amazonuk>1847947662
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Arianne Cohen0753553236|title=Tiny Habits: The Sex Diaries ProjectSmall Changes That Change Everything|author=B J Fogg|rating=45
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=It's often said 'there's nowt so queer as folkGo on, admit it - you're not quite perfect. Surely this should be qualified as 'there's nowt so queer as folks' sex lives'You still have those odd, quirky even loveable (to you) habits which seem to annoy other people. Arianne Cohen has made a major online database of testimony from Other people about their thoughts regarding sex - having it, not having itof course, having it are sorely afflicted with whom some dreadful flaws which they could so easily correct, if only they're would make just a little bit of effort. Or put another way, I get cross with, having it myself because I forget to do things or do some actions more than I should and no matter how I try to make what seem to be quite monumental changes I never quite seem to get to grips with those whom they're not the concepts. I constantly fail and then I get cross withmyself for failing. And in every sense, Lack of willpower is another burden to add to the results can be exceedingly queerlist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091939356</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Vatsyayana1785785516|title=Kama SutraFucking Good Manners|author=Simon Griffin
|rating=4
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=''Kama Sutra''Manners maketh man, thenthey say. It certainly makes life easier if everybody abides by a set of conventions, some of which are ages old and other which have evolved over time.. What could I possibly say Manners are not about how much to introduce it that tip or how you don't already know or think should behave if you know? For all that Kama Sutra isget an invitation to Buckingham Palace, itthey have nothing to do with class or financial status: they's no longer a guide re about getting the basics right before we try to the art of pleasuredeal with more difficult matters. It Of course we all have more relaxed manners when we's a fascinating historical document, re with family and undoubtedly influentialfriends, but it's very much of its time best if we learn to distinguish between our public and private lives and of its societyto act appropriately. Try to follow all its suggestions and at best you 'd never get laid again; at worst, you'll be up on a rape charge within a week. (Fucking Good Manners''After sending aims to help us on the nurse's daughter away, he takes the girl's maidenhead while she is alone, asleep and out of her senses..way.'') |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846141095</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Shilling1999811402|title=The Stranger in the Mirror: A Memoir of Middle AgePainting Snails|author=Stephen John Hartley|rating=4.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Middle-aged women disappear. They are not see It's very difficult to classify ''Painting Snails'': originally I thought that as it's loosely based around a year on televisionan allotment it would be a lifestyle book, their lives do but you're not appear in newspapers, going to get advice on what to plant when and where for the legions of novels that are written each year rarely feature thembest results. At least, that is what The answer would be something along the author Jane Shilling believes as she wakes up aged 47 to find the narrative lines of her contemporaries 'try it and their lives which she has been reading about see'. Then I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, did an engineering apprenticeship, became a busker, finally got into medical school and living in parallel with since leaving university has vanishedis now an A&E consultant (part-time). She looks I found out that there's an awful lot more to what goes on in a Major Trauma Centre than you'll ever glean from ''Casualty'', but that isn't really what the mirror and sees a face she does not recognisebook's about. Even with There's a punishing regime of early bedlot about rock & roll, no alcohol and litres which seems to be the real passion of waterHartley's life, but it refuses to regain its youthful bloomdidn't actually fit into the entertainment genre either. So she decides to take Did we have a magnifying glass to this particular moment in time, this journey between youth and old age.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701181001</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jacques Bonnet, James Salter and Sian Reynolds|title=Phantoms on category for 'doing the impossible the Bookshelves|rating=3.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=Translated from French this beautifully presented little book takes hard way'? Yep - that's the reader into homes boasting book collections, large and smallone. Studded with succinct and appropriate quotations such as 'there is no better reason for not reading a book than having itIt' by Anthony Burgesss an autobiography.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906694583</amazonuk>
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