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[[Category:New Reviews|Lifestyle]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1454955546|title=Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock HolmesSugarless|author=Maria KonnikovaNicole M Avena|rating=3.5
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|summary=Psychologist Maria Konnikova seems to have rather ambitious aims regarding her new book, ''Mastermind'This isn' t a diet book. She plans to teach her readers how to think like Sherlock Holmes The last thing anyone needs is another diet book. Anyone who has read the adventures of the world’s most famous detective will have no doubt marvelled at his uncanny powers of analysis and observation. Can a book really unlock the power of the mind and turn average-Joe into a master of deduction?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085786727X</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1635866847|title=The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves Lavender Companion|author=Stephen GroszJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5
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|summary=It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I usually review fictionstarted reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www. For pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that reason alonecake viscerally. (There's a recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I knew that reviewing this particular started reading the book would be a challenge. and I was attracted told to make a mess of it for many reasons; I thought it . Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would give me not be a window into many situations of which problem. I know little or nothing''loved'' this book already.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099549034</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''.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah Wilson|title=How to WinThis One Wild and Precious Life: The Argument, the Pitch, the Job, the Race|author=Dr Rob Yeungpath back to connection in a fractured world
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|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 precious 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.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1394159544
|title=Recycling for Dummies
|author=Sarah Winkler
|rating=5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Looking for a sure-fire way ''Recycling one ton of plastic can save up to intimidate the competition during a job interview? Just sit in the waiting room perusing the oh, so subtly titled 16.3 barrels of oil.''How to Win '', with the book tilted at the optimum angle to allow everyone to see the bold heading on the cover. Of course, if more than Recycling one candidate is reading the same book, difficulties may ensueton of paper can save 17 trees from being cut down...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857084291</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0760378134|title=A Piece of Danish HappinessThe First-Time Gardener: Container Food Gardening|author=Sharmi AlbrechtsenPamela Farley|rating=45|genre=AutobiographyHome and Family|summary=Sharmi Albrechtsen was a true Hindu-American princess. Obsessed with shoes If you've ever thought how good it would be to be able to pop out into the garden and handbags pick some fruit and designer labelsvegetables for a meal – but realised that you wouldn't know where to start, she saw status and wealth as this is the only route to happinessbook you need. But she wasn It't happy enoughs comprehensive: you'll cover everything from why you should grow your own food, no matter how much designer gear she owned. And it wasnwhat you't until 1997, when she married her second husband, a Dane, and relocated re going to Denmarkgrow, that she began to wonder if what you'll grow it was something lacking in herself(both containers and soil), rather than her possessionswhere you'll put these containers, that was at how you'll water and fertilise them and you finish the root main part of her problemsthe book with a handy section on troubleshooting. There's also a good glossary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00EAINZM8</amazonuk> So, is it any good?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rachel Ashwell1398508632|title=Couture Prairie And Flea Market Treasures The Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating=45
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|summary=''Shabby Chic'' has always appealed to me: It had been on the cards for a while but it fits neatly with my views on recyclingwas the week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. The end of November, upcycling and generally refusing particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the best time to replace anything which still looks good start, in a world where the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and has life left in ita pandemic. Rachel Ashwell takes this to Wilde had a whole new level, but few advantages: the area around her most glorious moment must have been when - on her regular yearly visit to the flea markets of Round Top in Texas - she decided on was a whim to buy The Outpost at Cedar Creek and she turned this into The Prairie, known habitat with a group variety of buildings terrains. She had electricity which would house allowed her retail store to run a fridge, freezer and dehydrator. She had a B&B which exhibited some of her most treasured findscar - and fuel. As Most importantly, she said herself, her cowboy boots, jeans and love of poetry in country music had come homeshelter: this was not a plan to ''live'' wild just to live off its produce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782490434</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Very British Problems: Making Life Awkward for OurselvesBjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankeler, One Rainy Day at a TimeNavid Modiiri and Agnes Bromme (Translator)|authortitle=Rob TempleI May Be Wrong|rating=35|genre=HumourAutobiography|summary=Are you compelled When the Dalai Lama adds his words to apologise multiple times a day – even when you are not at faultyour frontispiece, or even I'm inclined to inanimate objects? Would you subject yourself think it doesn't really matter how the rest of the world responds to great inconvenience rather than confront someone who is sitting in your reserved seat on a train? Have you been known to commit desperate acts 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 search for your next cup rest of tea? If sothe world responds to this book, because it tells the truth as it is, you may be suffering from Very British Problemsin the early 21st century.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751552593</amazonuk>1526644827
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1732898731|title=How to Keep Calm and Carry OnThe Boy Who Loved Boxes: A Children's Book for Adults|author=Daniel Freeman and Jason FreemanMichael Albanese |rating=4.5
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|summary=Heart poundingThere 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, rapid breathing, dry mouth stuffed toys and sweaty palms are just some of the unpleasant symptoms associated with anxiety. Anxiety affects us like: all at one time or another the things which most children have in our lives and occurs abundance. The Boy's delight was in varying degrees the sense of severityorder in his room: it made him feel happy. For example As he grew up and became a Man, a little nervousness is par for his life became more complicated and he dealt with this by getting bigger and better boxes. Look carefully at the course when a performer steps on stage in front pictures and you'll see that one of them has a huge crowd, but on the other end of the spectrum, conditions such as OCD and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder can leave sufferers paralysed with fearpadlock...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0273777750</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1846276772|title=Hospice Voices: Lessons for Living at the The End of LifeBias: How We Change Our Minds|author=Eric LindnerJessica Nordell
|rating=4.5
|genre=AutobiographyPolitics and Society|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 able will come before the disabled. Jobs, promotions, higher salaries are the preserve of the white man. Even when those who wouldn'Hospice Voicest pass the medical become a part of an organisation it's rare that their views are heard, that their concerns are acknowledged. It' tells s personally appalling and degrading for the individuals on the stories receiving end of the last days of some fascinating people while bias but it follows author Eric Lindner through his journey as a hospice volunteer and a crisis in his own daughter's healthnot just the individuals who are negatively impacted. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1442220597</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=Jill StarkRichard Brook|title=High SobrietyUnderstanding Human Nature: My Year Without BoozeA User's Guide to Life
|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=On the first of January 2011 Jill Stark woke up with the hangover from HellI am a firm believer that sometimes we choose books, and sometimes books choose us. She was no stranger to them: at thirty five she'd been binge drinking for more than twenty years and was in the dubious position In my case, this is one of being the health reporter who wrote herself off at weekendslatter. And by Not so very long ago, if I had come across this book I'wrote herself off' I mean being seriously drunk on a very regular basisd have skimmed it, having consumed vast quantities found some of alcohol and having regularly put herself in danger of serious illnessit interesting, unwanted pregnancy and assault. But on that first day but it would not have 'hit home' in January Stark decided the way that she it does now. I believe it came to me not just because I was going likely to do something about give it and a favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's u.s.p. is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a predisposition towards expecting to like the initial decision was book, even if it doesn't always turn out that she would spend three months on the wagonway'' ] – but also because it is a book I needed to read, right now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1922247030</amazonuk>1800461682
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0753558378|title=The Sex DiariesEffortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters|author=Arianne CohenGreg McKeown|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=As far as ‘doing what it says on the tin’ goes, this book is a good one. It’s the diaries, plural, from people, plural, talking about their sex lives. But it’s not just the doing of the deed and the sowing ''The marginal return of the seedworking harder was, it’s also all the stuff that goes with being in a relationship or not being in one. The daydreams. The texts. The efforts made to secure a hook-upfact, if there’s not one waiting for you at homenegative.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091939550</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Blastland and David Spiegelhalter1523092734|title=The Norm Chronicles: Stories and numbers about dangerA Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van Cort
|rating=5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=I'd like you to meet Norm'She brings a hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in her life. Again and again and again. He's an absolutely average kind of guy' (Alma Derricks, thirty one years oldformer CMO, 5Cirque du Soleil RSD) '9”, a touch over thirteen stone and he works a thirty-nine hour week with 'To claim space is to live the occasional treat life of a bar of milk chocolatechoosing unapologetically and bravely. OhIt is to live the life you've always wanted.'' Sometimes the reviewing gods are generous: at a time when violence against women is much in the news, and he''A Women's ambivalent about Marmite Guide to Claiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk. Now - to be clear - couldnthis book is not a 'how to disable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual: it't care one way or s something far more effective, but discussion at the other - moment seems to be about how women can take it or leave it. In be ''protected'The Norm Chronicles'. I' we hear the story of his life and the lives of his friends Prudence (the name tells you what you ve always thought that women need to know) and Kelvinrise above this, to be people whodon's a dare-devilt need protection, hard-living kind of guy. It's the story of the hazards they face - some real and some imagined - in every aspect of people who claim their livesown space. And along with these stories If all women did this, those few men who are violent to women would realise that we are the ''real'' facts about the reality of the risks not just an easy target to be used to prove that they takeare big men.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686202</amazonuk>
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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=Naomi Schillinger1786495902|title=Veg StreetThe Natural Health Service: Grow How Nature Can Mend Your Own CommunityMind|author=Isabel Hardman|rating=4.5
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|summary=As Isabel Hardman suffered a child Naomi Schillinger helped her parents trauma which she chooses not to grow fruit share. She says that a friend who does know, burst into tears and vegetables health-care professionals' jaws have sagged in their South London garden and the urge to grow resurfaced when she had her own propertydisbelief. It wasn't just Hardman dealt with this at the time by 'keeping going'growing'' which : the next day she rememberedwent to work to cover the budget, but next there was the ''sharing'' of EU referendum, the produce political party leadership contests and sense of community which went with then itwas party conference season. Soon after starting One night she had to grow food for herself she was a prime mover in getting whole streets involved in growing fruit be sedated and vegetables in their front gardens, making the most of recycled materials and free seeds and compostreturned home to begin long-term sick leave. When we're constantly urged That was what brought me to reduce food miles what could be better this book: 2020 was the year when the bins went out more often than growing your food (quite literally) on your own doorstep?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780721129</amazonuk>I did.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adele Faber and Elaine MazlishLauren Martin|title=How To Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will TalkThe Book of Moods
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|summary=Many parents, it seems, go through life I was in a constant state great mood when I first learnt of feud. Not with each otherthis book, necessarilyand because sarcasm doesn't always translate well into writing, but imagine the word ''great'' being delivered with their childrenan eye roll and a sigh, through clenched teeth. Their small, beloved bundles I had spent the best part of joy turn into obstreperous toddlersa rainy, defiant pre-schoolerswindy weekend afternoon out on the water at our local sailing club in the rescue rib, angry schoolchildren or morose teenson standby in case anyone who was racing needed support. Parents find themselves caught up in argumentsIt's a volunteer duty we all do during the year, and normally I'm happy to, advicebut that day the weather was miserable and I was miserable, failed attempts at consolationand 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.. and then may resort to punishment of some kindI had never needed this book more.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848123094</amazonuk>1538733625
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hilly Janes0008420386|title=Latte or CappuccinoFailosophy: 125 Decisions That Will Change Your LifeA handbook for when things go wrong|author=Elizabeth Day
|rating=4
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=I must admit that my immediate reaction when I saw the title ''Latte or CappuccinoWhat do Malcolm Gladwell, Alain de Botton, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Lemn Sissay, Nigel Slater, Emeli Sandé, Meera Syal, Dame Kelly Holmes and Andrew Scott have in common? They've all failed and - more importantly - they' was that a filter coffee would be very pleasant, particularly with a shortbread biscuit. But itve been willing to appear on Elizabeth Day's not a book about coffee but rather about choices we encounter which could make a real difference podcast to our livesdiscuss their failures and how life worked out for them afterwards. You see one coffee has 150 calories and the other just 90 and over 'll find the weeks and months that decision can mean substantial weight gain - or loss. There are 125 results of these relatively minor questions which can have real impact, particularly when you add them all up.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843175584</amazonuk>discussions in ''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=Daniel Smith1538731738|title=How Simple Abundance: 365 Days to Think Like Sherlock: Improve Your Powers of Observation, Memory a Balanced and DeductionJoyful Life|author= Sarah Ban Breathnach|rating=3.5
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|summary=Whether youSomeone once said: it're a fan of the original Conan Doyle novelss not self-indulgence, 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 youit'll be impressed by the way that Holmes can reason and deduce. s therapy! You've I think they were talking about shopping, but it probably wished that you were capable of some of the mental acrobatics which he performscan be applied to most things. Much of his prowess is down In my case, it applies to being a fictional character (of course) but it is possible writing about things because I want to improve your powers of observation, memory and deduction by exercising your brain. Daniel Smith has some suggestions rather than because I can sell it or because I've got something to get us startedsell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843179539</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard GilpinSharon Blackie|title=Mindfulness for Black Dogs and Blue Days: Finding a Path Through DepressionIf Women Rose Rooted|rating=35|genre=LifestyleBiography|summary=Richard Gilpin is I normally say that you can tell how much a counsellor, cognitive behavioural psychotherapist and mindfulness instructorbook means to me by how many pages have corners turned down. HePerhaps an even greater measure of impact is setting out to buy my own copy before I've finished reading the one I's also suffered from depression since his teens and is well aware of just how debilitating it can beve borrowed. In I want to avoid clichés like 'powerful' 'inspiring' 'Mindfulness and Black Dogslife-changing' ( a nod to Churchill who referred to his depression as his black dog) he shares his own experiences with – although it is definitely the illness first two and offers insights as to how only time will tell about the third – but clichés exist for a sufferer can find a way through the weight which descends upon them. He looks particularly at how ''mindfulness'reason and I' m not sure I can helpsuccinctly put it any better.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907332928</amazonuk>1912836017
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Coleman1543987877|title=The Train in the NightLearn to Love: A Story of Music and LossGuide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life|author=Dr Thomas Jordan
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|genre=AutobiographyLifestyle|summary=Picture the scenario''Learn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life'' is a book about love relationships rather than a book about love. You have always been passionate about music, with a catholic taste which embraces classical, soul The two greatest emotions are love and heavy rock with a bit of everything in between, grief and your job love is that the opposite of an arts and music journalistgrief: ''if you love'', Dr Thomas Jordan tells us, ''you will inevitably grieve''. In your mid-forties Your love relationships begin the moment you're born and end only when you wake up one morning to find your whole world changed overnight by Sudden Neursosensory Hearing Lossdie. It has a devastating effect on your balance when subjected Whilst we all come into the world hoping to any kind of sound, whether it give and receive love there are many people for whom love is an aeroplane overhead, not quite so simple. Some people suffer multiple disappointments - sometimes repeating the roar of same mistakes - and this eventually becomes resignation. For people who are making the crowd at a football matchsame mistakes repeatedly, self-preservation, or in the music which you once adored with every fibre form of your being. Your head resignation is filled with tinnitus, like a very poorly-tuned radio which lacks an off switchnecessity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224093576</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniel CoyleMichael Harris|title=The Little Book Solitude: In Pursuit of Talenta Singular Life in a Crowded World|rating=45
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|summary=When you want - or need This is not the book I was expecting it to be. For some reason I expected it to be another self- help manual on how to master a new skill you'll be told find calm, how to practicestep outside the mainstream, but there's it is not always a lot that at all. Instead of advice around on telling us how, it is more about the ''howwhy'' to practice. Sometimes itHarries examines how we's that hint about how to practice more effectivelyre eroding solitude, how which used to approach the skill from be a different direction which makes all the differencenatural part of our human life, and why that matters. Daniel Coyle Of course he talks about how some people have found solitude and what has fifty two tips - most come of which can be applied to just about everything from improving your golf swing to success that, and eventually in the business world. The tips are short - all fifty two are covered in final chapter he talks about a hundred his own experience of having deliberately sought it out, but mostly he wanders down the alleys and twenty pages by- easily read and simple to put into practiceways that his thinking about this lost art led him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847946798</amazonuk>1847947662
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Melissa Kite0753553236|title=Real LifeTiny Habits: One Woman's Guide to Love, Men and Other Everyday Disasters|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=We're used to thinking about career women who have it all: the high-flyer who goes home to her husband, children and immaculate house to plan their next holiday and their social life. We might not know these people - but everything seems to tell us that they're ''there''. What, though, of the single woman, no longer in the first flush of youth (that's probably nineteen, these days) who struggles just to keep going? What of the woman who struggles to keep the ''boiler'' going and who is tempted to kidnap the television repairman and tie him to the bed because she's convinced that the television will stop working the moment he goes?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780331916</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewThe Small Changes That Change Everything|author=Siri Hustvedt|title=Living, Thinking, LookingB J Fogg|rating=45
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Go on, admit it - you'Livingre not quite perfect. You still have those odd, Thinkingquirky even loveable (to you) habits which seem to annoy other people. Other people, Looking' is a collection of essays by Siri Hustvedt course, are sorely afflicted with some dreadful flaws whichthey could so easily correct, she claimsif only they would make just a little bit of effort. Or put another way, are linked by an abiding curiosity about I get cross with myself because I forget to do things or do some actions more than I should and no matter how I try to make what it means seem to be humanquite monumental changes I never quite seem to get to grips with the concepts. In these essays she examines who we are I constantly fail and how we got that waythen I get cross with myself for failing. Lack of willpower is another burden to add to the list.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444732633</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Brett Cohen1785785516|title=Stuff Every Dad Should KnowFucking Good Manners|author=Simon Griffin
|rating=4
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Manners maketh man, they say. It's strange 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. Manners are not about how much to tip or how you come should behave if you get an invitation to Buckingham Palace, they have nothing to read a particular book. do with class or financial status: A couple of days ago I was chatting they're about getting the basics right before we try to a dog-walking friend who retired about a year agodeal with more difficult matters. He'd been surprised to find that the main problem in retirement was one which he hadn't anticipated: Of course we all his life hehave more relaxed manners when we'd had to account for himself to somebody else re with family and now he was struggling to discover what friends, but it was that ''he'' wanted s best if we learn to distinguish between our public and private lives and to doact appropriately. Then I found myself chatting to Olga Levancucka, author of ''How To Be SelfishFucking Good Manners'' - but she seemed like one of aims to help us on the most unselfish people I'd ever metway. There was a book here waiting to be read!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1468115987</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Matousek1999811402|title=When You're Falling, DivePainting Snails|author=Stephen John Hartley
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|genre=LifestyleAutobiography|summary=You never quite know It's very difficult to classify ''Painting Snails'': originally I thought that as it's loosely based around a year on an allotment it would be a lifestyle book, but you're not going to get advice on what life is going to serve up next plant when and even where for the happiest moments or saddest news can best results. The answer would be turned around in a heartbeatsomething along the lines of 'try it and see'. For the author Mark Matousek Then I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his down was learning he was HIV positiveA levels, while his updid an engineering apprenticeship, became a while laterbusker, was being informed that it wasn’t quite the death sentence originally imposed finally got into medical school and is now an A&E consultant (part-time). I found out that he had quite there's an awful lot more to what goes on in a bit of life left. In this book he looks at how Major Trauma Centre than you can find 'll ever glean from ''Casualty'', but that isn't really what the good in the bad orbook's about. There's a lot about rock & roll, which seems to quote be the subtitle, the keys to real passion of Hartley'Using your pain to transform your s life, but it didn't actually fit into the entertainment genre either. 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 Did we have a category for 'doing the wisdom of those who triumph in impossible the face of adversity to share what they know and inspire hard way'? Yep - that's the same behaviour in usone. It's an autobiography.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848504926</amazonuk>
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