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[[Category:New Reviews|Lifestyle]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish1454955546|title=How To Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will TalkSugarless|author=Nicole M Avena
|rating=5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Many parents, it seems, go through life in ''This isn't a constant state of feuddiet book. Not with each other The last thing anyone needs is another diet book.'' There was a time, necessarilynot that long ago, but when it was thought that sugary food was better for you than food with their childrenhigh-fat content. Their small Fat was the demon food which was going to elevate your cholesterol and cause heart disease. Sugar was a carbohydrate, beloved bundles of joy turn into obstreperous toddlersso good. There's a problem, defiant pre-schoolers, angry schoolchildren or morose teensthough. Parents find themselves caught up Sugar is addictive and can hijack your brain in arguments, advice, failed attempts at consolation..much the same way as drugs like heroin and cocaine. and then may resort to punishment of some kindDoes that sound over the top? Well, it isn't.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848123094</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hilly Janes1635866847|title=Latte or Cappuccino: 125 Decisions That Will Change Your LifeThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5
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|summary=I must admit It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that my immediate reaction when this is the book for you. Before I saw the title started reading ''The Lavender Companion''Latte or Cappuccino?, I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there' was that s a filter coffee would be very pleasant, particularly with picture of a shortbread biscuitslice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. But it(There's not a recipe in the book about coffee but rather about choices we encounter , which could I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a real difference mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to our livesfold down the corners of pages. You see one coffee has 150 calories and the other just 90 and over the weeks and months suspect that decision can mean substantial weight gain - or losssmears of butter would not be a problem. There are 125 of these relatively minor questions which can have real impact, particularly when you add them all upI ''loved'' this book already.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843175584</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel Smith0760381267|title=How to Think Like SherlockVerdura: Improve Your Powers of Observation, Memory and DeductionLiving a Garden Life|author=Perla Sofia Curbelo-Santiago
|rating=3.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Whether you're 'The most important part of a fan of garden is the original Conan Doyle novels, have enjoyed the recent film and television representations of Sherlock Holmes or if, like me, the name always conjures up the image of Basil Rathbone youone who enjoys it'll be impressed by the way that Holmes can reason and deduce. You've probably wished that you were capable of some of the mental acrobatics which he performs. Much of his prowess is down to being a fictional character (of course) but it is possible to improve your powers of observation, memory and deduction by exercising your brain. Daniel Smith has some suggestions to get us started.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843179539</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nick ColemanSarah Wilson|title=The Train This One Wild and Precious Life: the path back to connection in the Night: A Story of Music and Lossa fractured world|rating=43.5|genre=AutobiographyLifestyle|summary=Picture My favourite Mary Oliver line is the scenario. You have always been passionate about music, with a catholic taste one in which embraces classical, soul and heavy rock she asks ''What is it you plan to do with a bit of everything in between, your one wild and your job precious life?'' I get to love that line so much because my answer is that of an arts and music journalist''This! Precisely this. '' In your mid-forties you wake up I'm lucky enough to be living my one morning wild and precious life the way I want to find your whole world changed overnight by Sudden Neursosensory Hearing Loss. It has a devastating effect on your balance when subjected Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. In her book that takes Oliver's words as her title (though I can't see that she acknowledges the source) she pushes us to any kind of sound, think about whether it we really ''are'' living the life we want – the best life that we could be living. Her answer is an aeroplane overheadunequivocal ''no, the roar of the crowd at a football matchwe are not''. Don't care what you're doing, or the music which she thinks you once adored with every fibre of your being. Your head is filled with tinnitus(we, like a very poorly-tuned radio which lacks an off switchI) could be doing more…And she's effing furious about the fact that we are not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224093576</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=Brett Cohen0760378134|title=Stuff Every Dad Should KnowThe First-Time Gardener: Container Food Gardening|author=Pamela Farley|rating=45
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=For an object lesson in If you've ever thought how important good it would be to be able to pop out into the little things aregarden and pick some fruit and vegetables for a meal – but realised that you wouldn't know where to start, consider this is the book's titleyou need. This is not one of those collections of trivia or whimsies for fathers to appear cool to their children (ten great variations on tag; 6,000 good records with which to ween your daughter off Justin Bieber), itIt's not that kind of knowledge on offer. Here instead is practical information on rearing comprehensive: you'll cover everything from why you should grow your own little thingfood, and in a quiet way this pocket diary-sized volume has the cojones what you're going to expect to stick around being useful for a generationgrow, as what you'll grow it starts at budgeting for children in the first place(both containers and soil), where you'll put these containers, how you'll water and goes from fertilise them and you finish the main part of the actual birth to marrying them offbook with a handy section on troubleshooting. There's also a good glossary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594745536</amazonuk> So, is it any good?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary Beard1398508632|title=All in a Don's DayThe Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating=45|genre=AutobiographyLifestyle|summary=Mary Beard's latest collection, 'All in It had been on the cards for a Don's Day', while but it was the week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of her assembled blog pieces from 2009 until the eating only wild food. The end of 2011November, covers similar concerns particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the best time to her previous selectionstart, [[It's A Don's Life in a world where the normal sores had been exacerbated by Mary Beard|It's climate change, Brexit and a Don's Life]]pandemic. Professor Beard is Wilde had a few advantages: the area around her was a known habitat with a fellow variety of Newnham College, Cambridge and became Classics Professor at there in 2004terrains. She is also an expert in Roman laughter, an interest had electricity which she fully indulges in the pages of allowed her TLS blogto run a fridge, freezer and dehydrator. In her latest collection she bemoans the parlous current state of both Education She had a car - and the Academyfuel. Most importantly, and makes witty observations on matters as various as television chefs, what and how she had shelter: this was not a plan to ''live'' wild just to visit in Rome and the art and worth of completing references in an age when only positive things may be said about postgraduate job-seekerslive off its produce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685362</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Olga LevancukaBjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankeler, Navid Modiiri and Agnes Bromme (Translator)|title=How to I May Be Selfish (and Other Uncomfortable Advice)Wrong|rating=3.5|genre=LifestyleAutobiography|summary=ItWhen the Dalai Lama adds his words to your frontispiece, I's strange m inclined to think it doesn't really matter how you come the rest of the world responds to read a particular your book. A couple of days ago I was chatting to a dog-walking friend who retired about a year agoknow, having read the book in question, that Lindeblad would disagree with that thought. He'd been surprised to find knows (and at core so do I) that it matters very much how the rest of the main problem in retirement was one which he hadn't anticipated: all his life he'd had world responds to account for himself to somebody else and now he was struggling to discover what this book, because it tells the truth as it was that ''he'' wanted to do. Then I found myself chatting to Olga Levancuckais, author of ''How To Be Selfish'' - but she seemed like one of in the most unselfish people I'd ever metearly 21st century. There was a book here waiting to be read!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1468115987</amazonuk>1526644827
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Matousek1732898731|title=When YouThe Boy Who Loved Boxes: A Children're Falling, Dives Book for Adults|author=Michael Albanese
|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=You never quite know what life is going to serve up next There was a Boy who loved boxes. He had a box for everything and he was meticulous about storage: his parents probably couldn't believe their luck! It began with art supplies, stuffed toys and even the happiest moments or saddest news can be turned around like: all the things which most children have in a heartbeatabundance. For The Boy's delight was in the author Mark Matousek sense of order in his down was learning room: it made him feel happy. As he was HIV positive, while his grew up, and became a while laterMan, was being informed that it wasn’t quite the death sentence originally imposed his life became more complicated and that he had quite a bit of life leftdealt with this by getting bigger and better boxes. In this book he looks Look carefully at how the pictures and you can find the good in the bad or, to quote the subtitle, the keys to 'Using your pain to transform your life'll see that one of them has a padlock. The art of survival is an intriguing one. The same scale of trauma affects different people in different ways and this book seeks to draw on the wisdom of those who triumph in the face of adversity to share what they know and inspire the same behaviour in us.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848504926</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen French1846276772|title=The Hidden Geometry End of LifeBias: How We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell|rating=24.5|genre=Spirituality Politics and ReligionSociety|summary='Anyone who is not an able, white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the extent to which they suffer from it: it's simply a part of everyday life. White men will always come first. The Hidden Geometry able will come before the disabled. Jobs, promotions, higher salaries are the preserve of Life'' aims to explore the esoteric and often mystical meanings contained in 'white man. Even when those who wouldn'shapes and patterns [that] represent ideas and distil t pass the essence medical become a part of realityan organisation it''. This mystical angle was a little bit of a unpleasant surprise for this readers rare that their views are heard, that their concerns are acknowledged. I should have had a better look at Karen FrenchIt's Amazon pages personally appalling and previous work, degrading for the individuals on the receiving end of the bias but I was attracted by an exciting-sounding title, attractive cover and and references to authorit's artnot just the individuals who are negatively impacted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780281080</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=Simon OxfordRichard Brook|title=Make Yourself Immune Understanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to Heart AttackLife|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=The older you getI am a firm believer that sometimes we choose books, and sometimes books choose us. In my case, this is one of the more likely latter. Not so very long ago, if I had come across this book I'd have skimmed it is that you will suffer from , found some form of heart disease or even die from itinteresting, but it would not have 'hit home' in the way that it does now. Many deaths occur without warning in people who are apparently healthy - so I believe it's came to me not something that you can wait just because I was likely to be diagnosed and plan on doing something about at that stage. Whatever your age there's give it a real possibility that you can make a significant improvement in your health favourable review [ ''andfull disclosure The Bookbag'' improve the quality of your lifes u.s.p. I came is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a predisposition towards expecting to read this like the book because family members of my generation were suffering , even if it doesn't always turn out that way'severe'' heart problems and ] – but also because it was is a wake-up call that was impossible book I needed to ignoreread, right now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907629319</amazonuk>1800461682
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha0753558378|title=The Start-up of YouEffortless: Adapt Make It Easier to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your CareerDo What Matters|author=Greg McKeown
|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=In decades gone by''The marginal return of working harder was, educated workers in many industries could view their careers as an elevator – rising fact, negative.'' That's what happened to Patrick McGinnis. It's no exaggeration to say that he devoted his life to the company he worked for, struggling through the ranks of , even when he was ill, only to find that he was working for a bankrupt company before stepping aside . His stock had fallen by 97%, he had lost his health and settling into his job had little value. He made a comfortable retirement. In today's vastly different job market, bargain with much less loyalty from both employers and employeesGod; if he survived, your career is more likely to follow the model of he would make some promotions mixed in with frequent sideways moves to other companies changes. He did survive and came through stronger - and perhaps even completely different industriesricher. Time There is, you see, thena different way: ''great things are not reserved for those who bleed, for a new guide to how to handle your employment prospectsthose who almost break.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184794079X</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)
''To claim space is to live the life of choosing unapologetically and bravely. It is to live the life you've always wanted.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anita Anand, Julian Barnes, Bella Bathurst, Alan Bennett and others1529109116|title=The Library BookCall Me Red: A Shepherd's Journey|author=Hannah Jackson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=''I had better begin by saying want the image of a British farmer to simply be that I had of a vested interest in liking this book since I am a chartered librarian myself and so am wholeheartedly person who is proudly employed in support of saving our feeding the nation's public libraries. But you I don't need think that is too much to ask.'' The stereotypical farmer was probably born on the land where ''his'' family have farmed for generations. He's probably grown up without giving much thought as to what he really wants to do: he knows that he'll be a librarian farmer. It'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'd always had a deep love of animals. Her original intention was that she would become 'Dr Jackson, whale scientist' and she was well on her way to enjoy achieving this bookwhen her life changed on a family holiday to the Lake District. It is rich with anecdotes from some wonderful writers She saw a lamb being born and makes , although 'Hannah Jackson, farmer' lacked the kudos of her original intention, she knew that she wanted to be a pleasant read whether shepherd. With the determination that you're keen to save libraries or notll soon realise is an essential part of her, she set about achieving her ambition.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781250057</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Francesca Beauman1786495902|title=Shapely Ankle Preferr'dThe Natural Health Service: A History of the Lonely Hearts AdvertisementHow Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Isabel Hardman
|rating=5
|genre=HistoryLifestyle|summary=You might think the Lonely Hearts ad Isabel Hardman suffered a trivial mattertrauma which she chooses not to share. You might think it should appear in lower case She says that a friend who does know, burst into tears and not be capitalised, but youhealth-care professionals'd be jaws have sagged in disagreement disbelief. Hardman dealt with Ms Beaumanthis at the time by 'keeping going': the next day she went to work to cover the budget, who gives a big L next there was the EU referendum, the political party leadership contests and a big H to then it every time was party conference season. One night she writes of it in her survey of its historyhad to be sedated and returned home to begin long-term sick leave. What's more, she gets That was what brought me to write about a lot this book: 2020 was the year when the bins went out more often than just the contents of the adverts in this brilliant bookI did.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009951334X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Roman KrznaricLauren Martin|title=The Wonderbox: Curious Histories Book of How to LiveMoods
|rating=5
|genre=HistoryLifestyle|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 ''great'How should we live?' asks author Roman Krznaric. To answer this ancient questionbeing delivered with an eye roll and a sigh, he looks to historythrough clenched teeth. 'I believe that had spent the future best part of a rainy, windy weekend afternoon out on the art of living can be found by gazing into water at our local sailing club in the past'rescue rib, he sayson standby in case anyone who was racing needed support. Creating a book which is as full of curiosities as a Renaissance 'WunderkammerIt', he has s a stab at volunteer duty we all do during the big questions: loveyear, beliefand normally I'm happy to, moneybut that day the weather was miserable and I was miserable, family, deathand it all came to a head that evening when I noticed on the website that we had been thanked for our time as "Dave and wife". Wow. The result is a pot-pourri of delights which left I had never needed this particular reader stimulated and invigoratedbook more.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846683939</amazonuk>1538733625
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschappeler0008420386|title=The Question BookFailosophy: A handbook for when things go wrong|author=Elizabeth Day|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Most of us have probably made at least one of those endWhat do Malcolm Gladwell, Alain de Botton, Phoebe Waller-of-the-year lists of the best booksBridge, albums and parties we have been to in the previous twelve months. But can youLemn Sissay, with some effortNigel Slater, 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 to expand it by separating emotionalEmeli Sandé, intellectualMeera Syal, sexual Dame Kelly Holmes and financial aspects and colour coding themAndrew Scott have in common? Have you made a list of They've all your lovers, bosses or friends failed and then rated them from 1 - more importantly - they've been willing to 10 appear on several dimensions each? Do you have one of the books that list Elizabeth Day''100 things s podcast to do before you die'' or ''500 books to read in your discuss their failures and how lifeworked out for them afterwards. You'' (and ticked off ll find the ones you have done)? Did you ever spend a whole evening and half results of a night filling these discussions in dubious 'personality' questionnaires on the Internet? Have you ever doodled something, decided that it beautifully expresses the deepest essence of your personality and then proceeded to draw such icons for all your friends? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685389</amazonuk>Failosophy''
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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''.
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. Few girls are lucky enough to be brought up ''without'' the expectation that they will marry and have children. It was a belief and it would be many years before Louisa would conclude that ''a belief is a choice''.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1538731738|title=Luca Turin Simple Abundance: 365 Days to a Balanced and Tania SanchezJoyful Life|titleauthor=The Little Book Of PerfumesSarah Ban Breathnach
|rating=5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Someone once said: it's not self-indulgence, it's therapy! I have always admired people who seem to know think they were talking about scentshopping, those whose dressing tables are littered with bottles none of which flaunt the name of a major (or increasingly, minor) celebritybut it probably can be applied to most things. Some of the bottles might be works of art in themselves In my case, but the general understanding is that they’ve been bought not for their vesselsit applies to writing about things because I want to, nor for their exclusive advertising campaigns, special offers rather than because I can sell it or celeb endorsement, but for their evocative scent. Perfumery is clearly an art and a science and if your skills aren’t as honed as they might be, this is a wonderful little book because I've got something to sink your teeth into as you’re guided through the field by two people very much in the knowsell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685192</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Linda M JamesSharon Blackie|title=How to Write and Sell Great Short StoriesIf Women Rose Rooted
|rating=5
|genre= Biography
|summary= I normally say that you can tell how much a book means to me by how many pages have corners turned down. Perhaps an even greater measure of impact is setting out to buy my own copy before I've finished reading the one I've borrowed. I want to avoid clichés like 'powerful' 'inspiring' 'life-changing' – although it is definitely the first two and only time will tell about the third – but clichés exist for a reason and I'm not sure I can succinctly put it any better.
|isbn=1912836017
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1543987877
|title=Learn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life
|author=Dr Thomas Jordan
|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Having read any number ''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 books about crafting great storiesgrief: ''if you love'', Dr Thomas Jordan tells us, I thought I had had my fill ''you will inevitably grieve''. Your love relationships begin the moment you're born and end only when you die. Whilst we all come into the world hoping to give and that receive love there were no more books left that could bolster my enthusiasm are many people for whom love is not quite so simple. Some people suffer multiple disappointments - sometimes repeating the same mistakes - and help me to get on with my writingthis eventually becomes resignation. In short, I thought For people who are making the only thing left that could motivate me wassame mistakes repeatedly, wellself-preservation, mein the form of resignation is a necessity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846947162</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom RyanMichael Harris|title=Following AtticusSolitude: How a little dog led one man on a journey In Pursuit of rediscovery to the top of the world |rating=4|genre=Pets|summary=Tom Ryan is a middle-aged, stressed journalist, running his own newspaper, the ''Undertoad'' Singular Life in Newburyport in America. His life is full of political intrigues and mayoral elections, boardroom deals and subterfuge and his life is full of challenges. He doesn'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>}} {{newreview|author=Jolyon Fenwick and Marcus Husselby|title=It Could Have Been Yours: The enlightened person's guide to the year's most desirable things|rating=4|genre=Trivia|summary=In a world of diamond-encrusted skulls, gold-leafed iPhones and luxury yachts ten a penny, of blingy shit (or should that be shitty bling?) it's a relief to know people are still spending money on unique one-offs that are more worthwhile. The records for costliest photo, artwork, musical instrument and manuscript have all been broken in the twenty four months leading up to this book's release. Our collators have scoured the press for those and other, similarly noteworthy auctions, and found what other people paid for what you didn't know you would have wanted given the money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684900</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Savage|title=Furniture with Soul: Master Woodworkers and Their CraftCrowded World
|rating=5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=After years of limited exercise combined with a love of fine food, Alex Buckley This is not the book I was known expecting it to his friends as Fat Albe. He followed a number of diet plans For some reason I expected it to be another self-help manual on how to find calm, how to no effect before coming up with his own solutionstep outside the mainstream, which but it is outlined in this booknot that at all. His message Instead of telling us how, it is basically an extended version of more about the long standing sound advice that to lose weight you need to eat less and exercise more''why''. BuckleyHarries examines how we's suggestions break this broad truth down into achievable micro steps. He provides tips on ways re eroding solitude, which used to be a natural part of sustaining weight loss by very gradually changing your behaviourour human life, and why that matters. The book does not offer detailed recipes or a programme of food exclusion. It is very much Of course he talks about advice on small day to day choices how some people have found solitude and gradual changewhat has come of that, written and eventually in a straightforward the final chapter he talks about his own experience of having deliberately sought it out, but mostly he wanders down the alleys and easily accessible styleby-ways that his thinking about this lost art led him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908218282</amazonuk>1847947662
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rosie O'Hara0753553236|title=No More Bingo DressesTiny Habits: Using NLP to cope with breast cancer and other people The Small Changes That Change Everything|author=B J Fogg|rating=2.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=IGo on, admit it - you'd love to meet Rosie O'Harare not quite perfect. She sounds like a full-on You still have those odd, earthy lady who has more than a few tales quirky even loveable (to tell about her life you) habits which seem to dateannoy other people. Rosie is a professional neuro-linguistic programming trainer in the Highlands Other people, of Scotlandcourse, and has already published an NLP-based self-help book. At the beginning of 2009are sorely afflicted with some dreadful flaws which they could so easily correct, a routine mammogram turned up 'if only they would make just a little breast cancer'bit of effort. Rosie set out in her very direct Or put another way, I get cross with myself because I forget to do things or do some actions more than I should and determined way no matter how I try to make what seem to be quite monumental changes I never quite seem to get to put grips with the cancer in its rightful place as a challenge in her life rather than a defining disaster concepts. I constantly fail and this feisty diary then I get cross with myself for failing. Lack of willpower is another burden to add to the resultlist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908218347</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anthony T DeBenedet and Lawrence Cohen1785785516|title=The Art of Roughhousing: Fucking Good Old Fashioned Horseplay and Why Every Kid Needs It Manners|author=Simon Griffin
|rating=4
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Things change as you get olderManners maketh man, they say. As men – and particularly women – approach their late forties and early fifties they expect that there will be physical changes It certainly makes life easier if everybody abides by a set of conventions, some more permanent than othersof which are ages old and other which have evolved over time. Manners are not about how much to tip or how you should behave if you get an invitation to Buckingham Palace, but they have nothing to do with class or financial status: they're frequently taken by surprise by about getting the mental changes which occurbasics right before we try to deal with more difficult matters. Women expect that the menopause will bring the end of menstruation (some looking at this Of course we all have more gratefully than others...) relaxed manners when we're with family and friends, but fail it's best if we learn to appreciate that they are moving into a different stage of their lifedistinguish between our public and private lives and to act appropriately. Looked at positively this can be the most fulfilling period of woman's lifecycle – and I doubt that there's a husband who would object Fucking Good Manners'' aims to that!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0826423019</amazonuk>help us on the way.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Diane Ackerman1999811402|title=One Hundred Names For Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of HealingPainting Snails|author=Stephen John Hartley
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|genre=LifestyleAutobiography|summary=Diane AckermanIt's husbandvery 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, Paul West, had been in hospital but you're not going to get advice on what to plant when and where for three weeks with a kidney infection and was just rejoicing in the fact that he was to go home best results. The answer would be something along the next daylines of 'try it and see'. As Diane watched Then I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, did an engineering apprenticeship, Paul suffered became a massive strokebusker, finally got into medical school and is now an A&E consultant (part-time). The effects were catastrophic 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 worst of all, that isn't really what the man who had been a brilliant wordsmith was robbed of his power of speech and lost his extensive vocabularybook's about. It There's eight years since this happened and the intervening years have been a constant battle lot about rock & roll, which seems to improve Paulbe the real passion of Hartley's speech and restore some joy to his life, but it didn't actually fit into the entertainment genre either. There Did we have been ups – and many downs – but despite a brain scan indicating category for 'doing the impossible the hard way'? Yep - that Paul might well be a vegetable he has since his stroke written books's the one. His vocabulary will never be back to what it was, but it remains impressive and, strangely enough, many of the words which he finds easiest to use are those which he encountered a number of years ago It's an autobiography.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>039307241X</amazonuk>
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