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[[Category:New Reviews|Lifestyle]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Dawson1454955546|title=Pigs in Clover: Or How I Accidentally Fell in Love with the Good LifeSugarless|author=Nicole M Avena|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyLifestyle|summary=Simon Dawson really had no intention of leading ''This isn't a life of self-sufficiency - he accidentally fell into the beginnings of it at a New Yeardiet book. The last thing anyone needs is another diet book.''s Eve party which There was a little too noisy for him to be completely certain what time, not that long ago, when it was he thought that sugary food was agreeing tobetter for you than food with high-fat content. But even then there Fat was no need for it the demon food which was going to go too farelevate your cholesterol and cause heart disease. Sugar was a carbohydrate, so good. After all, this manThere's heart was a problem, though. Sugar is addictive and can hijack your brain in London and he was an estate agent - a member of the profession whose place at the top of much the opprobrium ladder was only made wobbly after a serious PR campaign on behalf of journalists same way as drugs like heroin and politicianscocaine. But his wife was determined Does that she couldnsound over the top? Well, it isn't stand being a property solicitor any longer and so they sold their flat in London and rented a property on Exmoor and Simon began a weekly commute - weekends in Devon and most of the week in London.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780285019</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Naomi Schillinger1635866847|title=Veg Street: Grow Your Own CommunityThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=As a child Naomi Schillinger helped her parents to grow fruit and vegetables in their South London garden and the urge to grow resurfaced when she had her own property. It wasn't just s strange, the things that make you ''growingimmediately'' which she remembered, but feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''sharingThe Lavender Companion'' , I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the produce homepage. I don't eat cakes and sense of community desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in the book, which went I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of it. Soon after starting Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to grow food for herself she was a prime mover in getting whole streets involved in growing fruit and vegetables in their front gardens, making fold down the most corners of pages. You suspect that smears of recycled materials and free seeds and compostbutter would not be a problem. When weI ''re constantly urged to reduce food miles what could be better than growing your food (quite literally) on your own doorstep?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780721129</amazonuk>loved'' 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''.
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=Adele Faber Sarah Wilson|title=This One Wild and Precious Life: the path back to connection in a fractured world|rating=3.5|genre= Lifestyle|summary= My favourite Mary Oliver line is the one in which she asks ''What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?'' I get to love that line so much because my answer is ''This! Precisely this.'' I'm lucky enough to be living my one wild and Elaine Mazlishprecious life the way I want to. Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. In her book that takes Oliver's words as her title (though I can't see that she acknowledges the source) she pushes us to think about whether we really ''are'' living the life we want – the best life that we could be living. Her answer is an unequivocal ''no, we are not''. Don't care what you're doing, she thinks you (we, I) could be doing more…And she's effing furious about the fact that we are not.|isbn=1785633848}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1394159544|title=How To Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will TalkRecycling for Dummies|author=Sarah Winkler
|rating=5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Many parents, it seems, go through life in a constant state ''Recycling one ton of feud. Not with each other, necessarily, but with their children. Their small, beloved bundles of joy turn into obstreperous toddlers, defiant pre-schoolers, angry schoolchildren or morose teens. Parents find themselves caught plastic can save up in arguments, advice, failed attempts at consolation..to 16. and then may resort to punishment 3 barrels of some kindoil.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848123094</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Coleman0760378134|title=The Train in the NightFirst-Time Gardener: A Story of Music and LossContainer Food Gardening|author=Pamela Farley|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyHome and Family|summary=Picture If you've ever thought how good it would be to be able to pop out into the scenario. You have always been passionate about music, with a catholic taste which embraces classical, soul garden and pick some fruit and heavy rock with vegetables for a bit of everything in betweenmeal – but realised that you wouldn't know where to start, and your job this is that of an arts and music journalist. In your mid-forties the book you wake up one morning to find your whole world changed overnight by Sudden Neursosensory Hearing Lossneed. It has a devastating effect on 's comprehensive: you'll cover everything from why you should grow your balance when subjected own food, what you're going to any kind of soundgrow, whether what you'll grow it is an aeroplane overheadin (both containers and soil), where you'll put these containers, how you'll water and fertilise them and you finish the roar main part of the crowd at book with a football match, or the music which you once adored with every fibre of your beinghandy section on troubleshooting. Your head is filled with tinnitus, like There's also a very poorly-tuned radio which lacks an off switchgood glossary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224093576</amazonuk> So, is it any good?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel Coyle1398508632|title=The Little Book of TalentWilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating=45
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=When you want - or need - to master It had been on the cards for a new skill you'll be told to practice, while but there's not always a lot it was the week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of advice around on ''how'' to practiceeating only wild food. Sometimes it's that hint about how The end of November, particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the best time to practice more effectivelystart, how to approach in a world where the skill from normal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and a different direction which makes all pandemic. Wilde had a few advantages: the differencearea around her was a known habitat with a variety of terrains. Daniel Coyle has fifty two tips - most of She had electricity which can be applied allowed her to just about everything from improving your golf swing to success in the business worldrun a fridge, freezer and dehydrator. The tips are short - all fifty two are covered in about She had a hundred and twenty pages car - easily read and simple fuel. Most importantly, she had shelter: this was not a plan to ''live'' wild just to put into practicelive off its produce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847946798</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melissa KiteBjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankeler, Navid Modiiri and Agnes Bromme (Translator)|title=Real Life: One Woman's Guide to Love, Men and Other Everyday DisastersI May Be Wrong|rating=45|genre=Autobiography|summary=WeWhen the Dalai Lama adds his words to your frontispiece, I're used m inclined to thinking about career women who have think it all: doesn't really matter how the rest of the high-flyer who goes home world responds to her husband, children and immaculate house to plan their next holiday and their social lifeyour book. We might not I know these people - but everything seems to tell us , having read the book in question, that Lindeblad would disagree with that they're ''there''thought. What, though, of the single woman, no longer in the first flush of youth He knows (and at core so do I) that's probably nineteen, these days) who struggles just to keep going? What it matters very much how the rest of the woman who struggles world responds to keep this book, because it tells the ''boiler'' going and who truth as it is tempted to kidnap , in the television repairman and tie him to the bed because she's convinced that the television will stop working the moment he goes?early 21st century.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780331916</amazonuk>1526644827
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Siri Hustvedt1732898731|title=Living, Thinking, LookingThe Boy Who Loved Boxes: A Children's Book for Adults|author=Michael Albanese |rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=There was a Boy who loved boxes. He had a box for everything and he was meticulous about storage: his parents probably couldn'Livingt believe their luck! It began with art supplies, Thinking, Lookingstuffed toys and the like: all the things which most children have in abundance. The Boy' is s delight was in the sense of order in his room: it made him feel happy. As he grew up and became a collection of essays by Siri Hustvedt whichMan, she claims, are linked his life became more complicated and he dealt with this by an abiding curiosity about what it means to be humangetting bigger and better boxes. In these essays she examines who we are Look carefully at the pictures and how we got you'll see that wayone of them has a padlock...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444732633</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Brett Cohen1846276772|title=Stuff Every Dad Should KnowThe End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell|rating=4.5|genre=Home Politics and FamilySociety|summary=For Anyone who is not an object lesson able, white man understands bias in how important that they may no longer even recognise the little things are, consider this bookextent to which they suffer from it: it's titlesimply a part of everyday life. White men will always come first. The able will come before the disabled. This is not one Jobs, promotions, higher salaries are the preserve of the white man. Even when those collections who wouldn't pass the medical become a part 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), an organisation it's not rare that their views are heard, that kind of knowledge on offertheir concerns are acknowledged. Here instead is practical information It's personally appalling and degrading for the individuals on rearing your own little thing, and in a quiet way this pocket diary-sized volume has the cojones to expect to stick around being useful for a generation, as receiving end of the bias but it starts at budgeting for children in 's not just the first place, and goes from the actual birth to marrying them offindividuals who are negatively impacted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594745536</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=Olga LevancukaRichard Brook|title=How Understanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to Be Selfish (and Other Uncomfortable Advice)Life|rating=34.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=It's strange how you come to read I am a particular bookfirm believer that sometimes we choose books, and sometimes books choose us. A couple In my case, this is one of days the latter. Not so very long ago , if I had come across this book I was chatting to a dog-walking friend who retired about a year ago. He'd been surprised to find that the main problem in retirement was one which he hadnhave skimmed it, found some of it interesting, but it would not have 't anticipated: all his life hehit home'd had in the way that it does now. I believe it came to account for himself to somebody else and now he me not just because I was struggling likely to discover what give it was that a favourable review [ ''hefull disclosure The Bookbag'' wanted to dos u.s.p. Then I found myself chatting is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a predisposition towards expecting to Olga Levancuckalike the book, author of even if it doesn''How To Be Selfisht always turn out that way'' - ] – but she seemed like one of the most unselfish people I'd ever met. There was also because it is a book here waiting I needed to be read!, right now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1468115987</amazonuk>1800461682
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Matousek0753558378|title=When You're Falling, DiveEffortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters|author=Greg McKeown
|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=You never quite know ''The marginal return of working harder was, in fact, negative.'' That's what happened to Patrick McGinnis. It's no exaggeration to say that he devoted his life is going to serve up next and the company he worked for, struggling through, even the happiest moments or saddest news can be turned around in a heartbeat. For the author Mark Matousek his down when he was learning ill, only to find that he was HIV positiveworking for a bankrupt company. His stock had fallen by 97%, while he had lost his up, health and his job had little value. He made a while laterbargain with God; if he survived, was being informed that it wasn’t quite the death sentence originally imposed he would make some changes. He did survive and came through stronger - and that he had quite a bit of life leftricher. In this book he looks at how There is, you can find the good in the bad orsee, to quote the subtitle, the keys to a different way: 'Using your pain to transform your life'. The art of survival is an intriguing one. The same scale of trauma affects different people in different ways and this book seeks to draw on the wisdom of great things are not reserved for those who bleed, for those who triumph in the face of adversity to share what they know and inspire the same behaviour in usalmost break.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848504926</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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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529109116
|title=Call Me Red: A Shepherd's Journey
|author=Hannah Jackson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=''I want the image of a British farmer to simply be that of a person who is proudly employed in feeding the nation. I don't think that is too much to ask.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Oxford1786495902|title=Make Yourself Immune to Heart AttackThe Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Isabel Hardman|rating=45
|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 it. Many deaths occur without warning in people who are apparently healthy - so it's Isabel Hardman suffered a trauma which she chooses not something that you can wait to be diagnosed and plan on doing something about at that stageshare. Whatever your age there's a real possibility She says that you can make a significant improvement in your friend who does know, burst into tears and health -care professionals'jaws have sagged in disbelief. Hardman dealt with this at the time by 'and'keeping going' improve : the quality of your life. I came next day she went to work to read this book because family members of my generation were suffering ''severe'' heart problems cover the budget, next there was the EU referendum, the political party leadership contests and then it was a wakeparty conference season. One night she had to be sedated and returned home to begin long-up call that term sick leave. That was impossible what brought me to ignorethis book: 2020 was the year when the bins went out more often than I did.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907629319</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Reid Hoffman and Ben CasnochaLauren Martin|title=The Start-up Book of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your CareerMoods|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=In decades gone byI was in a great mood when I first learnt of this book, and because sarcasm doesn't always translate well into writing, educated workers in many industries could view their careers as imagine the word ''great'' being delivered with an elevator – rising eye roll and a sigh, through clenched teeth. I had spent the ranks best part of a company before stepping aside and settling into a comfortable retirementrainy, 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. In todayIt's vastly different job marketa volunteer duty we all do during the year, with much less loyalty from both employers and employeesnormally I'm happy to, but that day the weather was miserable and I was miserable, your career is more likely and it all came to follow a head that evening when I noticed on the model of some promotions mixed in with frequent sideways moves to other companies website that we had been thanked for our time as "Dave and perhaps even completely different industrieswife". Time, then, for a new guide to how to handle your employment prospectsWow. I had never needed this book more.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184794079X</amazonuk>1538733625
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charlotte Watts and Anna Magee0008420386|title=The De-Stress DietFailosophy: The Revolutionary Lifestyle Plan A handbook for a Calmer, Slimmer Youwhen things go wrong|author=Elizabeth Day
|rating=4
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Most people will recognise that excessive stress is not good for you. It's the cause of depressionWhat do Malcolm Gladwell, Alain de Botton, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Lemn Sissay, Nigel Slater, Emeli Sandé, high blood pressureMeera Syal, skin problems Dame Kelly Holmes and insomnia - to name just a few problems from a very long list. Andrew Scott have in common? ThereThey's also mounting evidence that chronic stress is responsible for excessive weight gain ve all failed and not just because there- more importantly - they've been willing to appear on Elizabeth Day's a tendency (er, yes, I can testify podcast to this...) to turn to comfort eatingdiscuss their failures and how life worked out for them afterwards. Too many stress hormones in You'll find the body encourage fat storage - particularly results of these discussions in that ''obviousFailosophy'' and very-hard-to-shift area around the middle. The aim of the De-Stress Diet is to bring about a slimmer, calmer person with a better quality of life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848507798</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=Francesca Beauman1538731738|title=Shapely Ankle Preferr'dSimple Abundance: A History of the Lonely Hearts Advertisement365 Days to a Balanced and Joyful Life|author= Sarah Ban Breathnach
|rating=5
|genre=HistoryLifestyle|summary=You might think the Lonely Hearts ad a trivial matter. Someone once said: it's not self-indulgence, it's therapy! You might I think it should appear in lower case and not be capitalisedthey were talking about shopping, but you'd it probably can be in disagreement with Ms Beauman, who gives a big L and a big H applied to it every time she writes of it in her survey of its historymost things. What's moreIn my case, she gets it applies to write writing about a lot more things because I want to, rather than just the contents of the adverts in this brilliant bookbecause I can sell it or because I've got something to sell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009951334X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Roman KrznaricSharon Blackie|title=The Wonderbox: Curious Histories of How to LiveIf Women Rose Rooted
|rating=5
|genre=HistoryBiography|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'How should we live?ve finished reading the one I' asks author Roman Krznaricve borrowed. To answer this ancient question, he looks I want to history. avoid clichés like 'powerful' 'I believe that the future of the art of living can be found by gazing into the pastinspiring', he says. Creating a book which is as full of curiosities as a Renaissance 'Wunderkammerlife-changing', he has a stab at – although it is definitely the first two and only time will tell about the big questions: love, belief, money, family, death. The result is third – but clichés exist for a pot-pourri of delights which left this particular reader stimulated reason and invigoratedI'm not sure I can succinctly put it any better.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846683939</amazonuk>1912836017
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschappeler1543987877|title=The Question BookLearn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life|author=Dr Thomas Jordan
|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Most of us have probably made at least one of those end-of-the-year lists of the best books, albums and parties we have been ''Learn to Love: Guide to in the previous twelve months. But can you, with some effort, locate the one you made in 1987? Have you ever constructed Healing Your Disappointing Love Life'' is a graph of your ups and downs in book about love relationships rather than a given period, and then decided to expand it by separating emotional, intellectual, sexual book about love. The two greatest emotions are love and financial aspects grief and colour coding them? Have you made a list of all your lovers, bosses or friends and then rated them from 1 to 10 on several dimensions each? Do you have one love is the opposite of the books that list grief: ''100 things to do before if you dielove'' or , Dr Thomas Jordan tells us, ''500 books to read in your lifeyou will inevitably grieve'' (and ticked off . Your love relationships begin the ones moment you have done)? Did 're born and end only when you ever spend a whole evening die. Whilst we all come into the 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 - and half of a night filling in dubious 'personality' questionnaires on this eventually becomes resignation. For people who are making the Internet? Have you ever doodled somethingsame mistakes repeatedly, self-preservation, decided that it beautifully expresses in the deepest essence form of your personality and then proceeded to draw such icons for all your friends? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685389</amazonuk>resignation is a necessity.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Luca Turin and Tania SanchezMichael Harris|title=The Little Book Of PerfumesSolitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World
|rating=5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=This is not the book I have always admired people who seem was expecting it to be. For some reason I expected it to be another self-help manual on how to know about scentfind calm, those whose dressing tables are littered with bottles none of which flaunt how to step outside the name of a major (or increasinglymainstream, minor) celebritybut it is not that at all. Some Instead of telling us how, it is more about the bottles might ''why''. Harries examines how we're eroding solitude, which used to be works a natural part of art in themselvesour human life, but the general understanding is and why that they’ve been bought not for their vessels, nor for their exclusive advertising campaigns, special offers or celeb endorsement, but for their evocative scentmatters. Perfumery is clearly an art Of course he talks about how some people have found solitude and a science what has come of that, and if your skills aren’t as honed as they might beeventually in the final chapter he talks about his own experience of having deliberately sought it out, this is a wonderful little book to sink your teeth into as you’re guided through but mostly he wanders down the field alleys and by two people very much in the know-ways that his thinking about this lost art led him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846685192</amazonuk>1847947662
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Linda M James0753553236|title=How to Write and Sell Great Short StoriesTiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything|author=B J Fogg
|rating=5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Having read any number of books about crafting great storiesGo on, admit it - you're not quite perfect. You still have those odd, I thought I had had my fill and that there were no more books left that could bolster my enthusiasm and help me quirky even loveable (to you) habits which seem to get on with my writingannoy other people. In short Other people, I thought the only thing left that of course, are sorely afflicted with some dreadful flaws which they could motivate me wasso easily correct, well, me.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846947162</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tom Ryan|title=Following Atticus: How if only they would make just a little dog led one man on a journey of rediscovery to the top bit of the world |rating=4|genre=Pets|summary=Tom Ryan is a middle-aged, stressed journalist, running his own newspaper, the ''Undertoad'' in Newburyport in Americaeffort. His life is full of political intrigues and mayoral electionsOr put another way, boardroom deals I get cross with myself because I forget to do things or do some actions more than I should and subterfuge and his life is full of challengesno matter how I try to make what seem to be quite monumental changes I never quite seem to get to grips with the concepts. He doesn't need a dogI constantly fail and then I get cross with myself for failing. He doesn't even particularly want a dog, but when a miniature schnauzer enters his life one day, everything changesLack of willpower is another burden to add to the list.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141048972</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jolyon Fenwick and Marcus Husselby1785785516|title=It Could Have Been Yours: The enlightened person's guide to the year's most desirable thingsFucking Good Manners|author=Simon Griffin
|rating=4
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=After years of limited exercise combined with a love of fine foodManners maketh man, Alex Buckley was known to his friends as Fat Althey say. He followed It certainly makes life easier if everybody abides by a number set of diet plans to no effect before coming up with his own solutionconventions, some of which is outlined in this bookare ages old and other which have evolved over time. His message is basically Manners are not about how much to tip or how you should behave if you get an extended version of invitation to Buckingham Palace, they have nothing to do with class or financial status: they're about getting the long standing sound advice that basics right before we try to lose weight you need to eat less and exercise deal with moredifficult matters. BuckleyOf course we all have more relaxed manners when we're with family and friends, but it's suggestions break this broad truth down into achievable micro stepsbest if we learn to distinguish between our public and private lives and to act appropriately. He provides tips ''Fucking Good Manners'' aims to help us on ways of sustaining weight loss by very gradually changing your behaviour. The book does not offer detailed recipes or a programme of food exclusion. It is very much about advice on small day to day choices and gradual change, written in a straightforward and easily accessible stylethe way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908218282</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rosie O'Hara1999811402|title=No More Bingo Dresses: Using NLP to cope with breast cancer and other people Painting Snails|author=Stephen John Hartley|rating=24.5|genre=LifestyleAutobiography|summary=IIt'd love s very difficult to meet Rosie Oclassify ''Painting Snails''Hara. She sounds like : originally I thought that as it's loosely based around a full-year onan allotment it would be a lifestyle book, earthy lady who has more than a few tales but you're not going to tell about her life get advice on what to dateplant when and where for the best results. Rosie is a professional neuro-linguistic programming trainer in The answer would be something along the Highlands lines of Scotland'try it and 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 has already published is now an NLPA&E consultant (part-based self-help time). 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 book's about. At There's a lot about rock & roll, which seems to be the beginning real passion of 2009Hartley's life, a routine mammogram turned up but it didn't actually fit into the entertainment genre either. Did we have a little breast cancercategory for '. Rosie set out in her very direct and determined doing the impossible the hard way to put '? Yep - that's the cancer in its rightful place as a challenge in her life rather than a defining disaster and this feisty diary is the resultone. It's an autobiography.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908218347</amazonuk>
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