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|isbnauthor=1787332098Alastair Humphreys|title=How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World|author=Henry ManceLocal

|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel |summary=''When we do think Alastair Humphreys has walked and cycled all over the world. And then written about animals, we break them down into species it. For this book he walked and groups: cows, dogs, foxes, elephants cycled very close to home and so onthen wrote about it. And we assign them places in society: cows go on plates, dogs on sofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants As he says in zoos, and millions of wild animals stay out therehis introduction, ''somewhere,'' hopefully on the next David Attenborough series.book is an attempt '' to share what I was going to arguehave learnt about some big issues from a year exploring a small map. I meanNature loss, pollution, cows are for cheese (I couldn't consider eating red meat...) land use and I much prefer my elephants in access, agriculture, the wild but then I realised that I was quibbling for food system, rewilding…'' One of the sake joys of it. Essentially the book for me was that quote sums up my attitude to animals - and I consider myself an animal lover. If I had to choose between the company biggest thing he learned about all of humans and the company of animals, I would probably choose the animals. I insisted these things was that I read this book: there are no one was trying to stop me but I was initially reluctant. I eat cheeseeasy answers, eggsno single 'right or wrong', chicken that every upside is likely to have a downside for somebody and fish and I needed to either do so without guilt or change my that there are some hard choicesahead. I suspected that making the decision would not be comfortable.|isbn=1785633678

|isbnauthor=1523092734Edel Rodriguez|title=Worm: A Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van CortCuban American Odyssey|rating=54|genre=Politics and SocietyGraphic Novels|summary=We're in childhood, and we'She brings a hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs re in her lifeCuba. Again The revolution has happened, and again Castro, first thought of as a saviour of the country, has proven himself a Communist, and againnot done nearly enough to create a level playing field for all.'' (Alma Derricks Well, former CMO, Cirque du Soleil RSD) ''To claim space is to live the life those hours-long speeches of his were kind of choosing unapologetically and bravelytaking his time away. It is to live the life youOur narrator've always wanted.s family weren'' Sometimes the reviewing gods are generous: at a time when violence against women is much t in the newshappiest of places here, ''A Women's Guide an uncle refusing to Claiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk. Now - be the good soldier the country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to be clear some minor pro- this book is Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and the father being watched and watched, and not a 'how to disable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual: it's something far more effectiveliked for his successful photography business, but discussion at the moment seems to be about how women can be ''protected''success being frowned upon. I've always thought that women need The mother gets the couple jobs with the party to rise above thisease some of the heat, to be people who don't need protection, people who claim their own space. If all women did but in thissultry island country, those few men who are violent to women would realise that we are not just an easy target to be used to prove that they are big men.it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the kitchen…|isbn=1474616720

|author=Polly BartonSarah Wilson|title=Fifty SoundsThis One Wild and Precious Life: the path back to connection in a fractured world|rating=43.5|genre=Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary= Where My favourite Mary Oliver line is the one in which she asks ''What is it you plan to do I startwith your one wild and precious life? '' I could start with where Barton herself starts, with the question get to love that line so much because my answer is ''Why Japan?This! Precisely this.'' Japan has been on I'm lucky enough to be living my radar for a while one wild and if precious life the world hadn't gone into melt-down way I would have visited by nowwant to. I may get there later this year, but I am not hopeful Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. And like Barton, In her book that takes Oliver's words as her title (though I doncan't know see that she acknowledges the answer source) she pushes us to the question think about whether we really ''why Japan?are'' She explains her feelings in respect of living the question in life we want – the first essay, which best life that we could be living. Her answer is on the sound an unequivocal ''no, we are not'giro' . Don't care what you' – which re doing, she describes as being, among other thingsthinks you (we, I) could be doing more…And she's effing furious about the sound of ''every party where you have to introduce yourself''fact that we are not.|isbn=19130975011785633848

|authorisbn=Stephen Fabes1785633457|title=Signs Charging Around: Exploring the Edges of LifeEngland by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson

|summary= I was brought up on maps and first-person narratives Clive Wilkinson has a history of tales of far away places. I was birth-righted wanderlust and curiositytravelling by unconventional means with a preference for slow travel. Unfortunately, I didn't inherit what Dr. Stephen Fabes clearly had which was As he neared his eightieth birthday the guts to simply go out and do it. I also didn't inherit idea of exploring the kind edges of steady nerve, ability to talk to strangers and basic practicality that would have meant that I would have survived if I had been gifted with the requisite 'bottle'England in an electric car was not totally outrageous. In order words I'm not the sort of person who will get on fact, it should be a bike outside a London hospital pleasant holiday for Clive and not come home for six years. Fabes did precisely that.|isbn=1788161211his wife, Joan, shouldn't it?

|isbn=15043213831529153050|title=Single, Again, and Again, and AgainBritain's Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Louisa PatemanTim Benson|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyHumour|summary=Seeking some light relief from the current political turmoil which is coming to seem more and more like an adrenaline sport, I was nudged towards ''You canBritain't be happy and fulfilled on your own. You are not complete until you find a mans Best Political Cartoons of 2022''. This was what Louisa Pateman was brought up to believe. It wasnSharp eyes will have noted that we't unkindre not yet through the year: it was simply the adults in her life advising her as cartoons run from 4 September 2021 to what they thought would be best for her31 August 2022. 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 Who can live happily ever after. Few girls are lucky enough imagine what there will be to be brought up ''without'' come in 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''.2023 edition?

|authorisbn=Sakinu AhronglongB0B7289HKQ|title=Hunter SchoolConversations Across America: A Father and Son, Alzheimer's, and 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul of America|author=Kari Loya|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyTravel|summary= The flyleaf to this little collection tells us Kari (that it is a work of fiction. That's possibly misleading. I am not sure whether it is "fiction" in the sense that Ahronglong made it all uprhymes with ‘sorry’, or whether it is as by the blurb goes on way) wanted to say ''recollections, folklore spend some time with his father and autobiographical stories''. It feels the period between two jobs seemed like the lattera good time to do it. It feels like The decision was made to ride the stories he tells about his experiences as a childTrans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, as an adolescentVirginia to Astoria, as an adult are real and trueOregon - all 4250 miles of it - in 2015. But memory is They had 73 days to do it - slightly less than the recommended time - but there were factors which pointed this up as more of a fickle thing, and maybe poetic licence has taken over here and there, and maybe calling challenge that it fiction means that its safer and therefore more would be for most people will read who considered taking iton. More people shouldMerv Loya was 75 years old and he was suffering from early-stage Alzheimer's.|isbn=1999791282

|authorisbn=Frederic Gros1739593901|title=A Philosophy of Walking22 Ideas About The Future|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre= Politics and SocietyScience Fiction|summary= ''Our future will be more complex than we expected. Instead of flying cars, we got night-vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma.'' I confess I picked this one up from the library in my pre-lockdown forage 've got a couple of random stuffconfessions to make. Now I have 'm not keen on short stories as I find it easy to go out an buy my own copy so that I can turn down the pages I have marked read a few stories and then forget to return to its varying wisdom when I need the book. There's got to be a very compelling hook tokeep me engaged. Some books draw you in slowly Then there's science fiction: far too often it's the technology which takes centre stage along with the world-building. This one had It's human beings who fascinate me in : the technology and the first world scape are purely incidental. So, what did I think of a book of twenty-two pagesscience fiction short stories? Well, wherein Gros explains why ''walking is not a sport''I loved it.|isbn=1781688370

|author=Lun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane Jane Goodall and Edward Gauvin (translator)Douglas Abrams |title=Tiananmen 1989: Our Shattered HopesThe Book of Hope |rating=4.5|genre=Graphic NovelsPolitics and Society |summary=I never really followed The done thing is to read a book all the events of Tiananmen Square with much attention when way through before you sit down to review it was playing out – someone in the second half of their teens has other priorities. I’m making an exception here, you know. because I certainly didn't know don’t want to lose any of the weeks experience of protests and hunger strikes from the students before the massacre and the birth of the Tank Man imagereading this amazing book, I didn't know how the area had long been a venue for political protest, and I didn't know more than a spit about the people involved on either sidewant to capture it as it hits me. And it is hitting me. This beautiful book is practically flawless in giving a general browser's context for the whole season of protests back has me in 1989tears.|isbn=1684056993024147857X

|authorisbn=Sharon Blackie1788360737|title=If Women Rose RootedArtivism: The Battle for Museums in the Era of Postmodernism|author=Alexander Adams|rating=52|genre= BiographyPolitics and Society|summary= I normally say Can art ever be apolitical? All art is political because art is not made in a vacuum. It is made by people. Antonio Gramsci stated that you can tell how much a book means ‘’Every man… contributes to me by how many pages have corners turned downmodifying the social environment in which he develops’’. Perhaps an Therefore, all art must be political, even greater measure implicitly. Alexander Adams in his new book ‘Artivism: The Battle for Museum in the Era of impact Postmodernism’ is adamant that art is setting out freer when it is art for art’s sake. The recent trend of so-called artivism has caused artists to buy my own copy before I've finished reading the one I've borrowedbecome more overtly political (read: left wing). I want to avoid clichés like 'powerful' 'inspiring' 'lifeTheir seemingly grass roots movements have been astroturfed by large “left-changing' – although it is definitely the first two wing” donors and only time will tell about the third – but clichés exist for media elites hoping to create a reason more globalist and I'm not sure I can succinctly put it any betterprogressive regime. Or at least that’s what Alexander Adams believes.|isbn=1912836017

|authorisbn= Linda Scott1398508632|title= The Double X EconomyWilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde

|genre= Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=''Women are economically disadvantaged in every country in It had been on the world''. It's cards for a bold statement for an opening chapter, while but it's far from hyperbole as was the following pages explainweek-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. This book shines a light on what is happening The end of November, particularly in different placesCentral Scotland was perhaps not the best time to start, and in a world where the impact on the local normal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and world economya pandemic. What can be learnt from Wilde had a few advantages: the great strides in gender-equalising legislation in the west? What can be done about the selling area around her was a known habitat with a variety of young women into marriageterrains. She had electricity which allowed her to run a fridge, freezer and what can chimpanzees dehydrator. She had a car - and bonobos teach us about mothering?|isbn=0571353606fuel. Most importantly, she had shelter: this was not a plan to ''live'' wild just to live off its produce.

|authorisbn=Danny Dorling1529149800|title=SlowdownThings You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini Meadows

|genre=Politics Home and SocietyFamily|summary= We are living in begin with a time of rapid change, and we're worried about ittelling story. Dorling tells us that All the birds and animals fled when the latter is normalforest fire took hold and most of them stood and watched, natural and probably good for usunable to think of anything they could do. We are designed The tiny hummingbird flew to worry the river and began taking tiny amounts of water and with flying back to drop them into the current state of fire. The animals laughed: what we're good was that doing in the world we have much to be worried about. However, over ''I'm doing the next three-hundred-and-some pages, if you best I can follow the arguments, it sets out in scientific detail why either we shouldn't be as worried as we are', or in some cases that we're worrying about said the wrong thingshummingbird. Mostly. Because mostlyAnd that, really, things are not changing as rapidly as is the only way that we think they are. In fact, will solve the rate problem of climate change in many things is slowing down and the direction – by each of change will in some cases go into reverseus doing what we can, however small that might be.|isbn=0300243405

|isbn=02414467321638485216|title=Our House is on FireBlack, White, and Gray All Over: Scenes of a Family A Black Man's Odyssey in Life and a Planet in CrisisLaw Enforcement|author=Malena Ernman, Greta Thunberg, Beata Thunberg and Svante ThunbergFrederick Reynolds

|summary=It's easy to forget at times that The Ernman / Thunberg family seemed perfectly normalNaked Don't Fear the Water isn't actually fiction, because it reads very much like a well-paced thriller at times. This is not by any means a criticism, but rather a testament to how well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen who decided to accompany his friend as a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a vast and at times painful journey. Malena Ernman was an opera singer There are tense moments and Svante Thunberg took gripping accounts of border crossings which had me on most of edge the parenting of their two daughters. Then eleven-year-old Greta stopped eating and talking and her sister, Beata, then nine years old, struggled with what was happeningwhole way through. In such circumstances, But it's natural to seek written with a solution close to home, but eventually, it became clear haunting and almost lyrical quality that allows the reader to perfectly envisage the family that they were ''burned-out environments and people on a burned-out planet''. If they were to find a way to live happily again their solution would need to be radicaldescribed.|isbn= B09N9157T6

|isbn=06486848061785633074|title=Clara Colby: The International SuffragistStaggering Hubris|author=John HollidayJosh Berry|rating=4.5|genre=BiographyHumour|summary=The path Members of Clara Dorothy BewickParliament like us to believe that the country is run by politicians, headed by the Prime minister - the ''primus inter pares'' (that's life for those of you who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but the reality is that the ''prime'' movers are the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the government. We are in the privileged position of having access to the memoirs of Rafe Hubris, the man who was behind the skilful control of the Covid crisis which was probably determined when her family emigrated to completely contained by the USAend of 2020. At You might not know the time she was just three-years-old name now but because he will certainly be the man to watch.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1846276772|title=The End of some childhood ailment, she wasn't allowed to sail with her parents Bias: How We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and three brothers. InsteadSociety|summary=Anyone who is not an able, she remained with her grandparents, who doted on her and saw white man understands bias in that she received they may no longer even recognise the extent to which they suffer from it: it's simply a good education, both in and out part of schooleveryday life. She was White men will always come first. The able will come before the only child in the household and her childhood was gloriousdisabled. By contrastJobs, her family had become pioneer farmers in promotions, higher salaries are the mid-west preserve of the United States and life was hard, as Clara was to find out white man. Even when she and her grandparents eventually went to join those who wouldn't pass the family. Clara would only know her mother for medical become a few months: she was married for fifteen yearspart of an organisation it's rare that their views are heard, had ten pregnancies, seven surviving children and died in childbirth not long after Clara arrivedthat their concerns are acknowledged. As It's personally appalling and degrading for the eldest girl, a heavy burden would fall individuals on Clara and Wisconsin was a rude awakeningthe receiving end of the bias but it's not just the individuals who are negatively impacted.

|isbn=183895015X1529148251|title=Misfits: A Bit of a Stretch: The Diaries of a PrisonerPersonal Manifesto|author=Chris AtkinsMichaela Coel

|summary=Documentary filmmakers don't usually get 'How am I able to be so transparent on paper about rape, malpractice and poverty, yet still compartmentalise? It's as though I were telling the run truth whilst simultaneously running away from it.'' Before you start reading ''Misfits'' you need to be in a certain frame of establishments mind. You're not going to read a book of essays or a self-help book. You're going to read writing which was inspired by Michaela Coel's 2018 MacTaggart Lecture to professionals within the Mountbatten-Windsor Hotel Group, television industry at the Edinburgh TV Festival. You might be ''reading'' the book but after getting involved you need to ''listen'' to the words as though you're in an illegal tax scheme to fund his latest film, Chris Atkins was invited for a five-year staythe lecture theatre. The first nine months were spent in HMP Wandsworth, which is probably the oldest, largest disjointedness will fade away and most dysfunctional prison in Europeyou'll be carried on a cloud of exquisite writing.

|authorisbn=Michael Harris0008350388|title=Solitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded WorldWe Need to Talk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba

|summary= This I am a firm believer that sometimes we choose books, and sometimes books choose us. In my case, this is not one of the latter. Not so very long ago, if I had come across this book I was expecting 'd have skimmed it, found some of it interesting, but it would not have 'hit home' in the way that it to bedoes now. For some reason I expected believe it came to be another self-help manual on how me not just because I was likely to find calmgive it a favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's u.s.p. is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, how so there is a predisposition towards expecting to step outside like the mainstreambook, even if it doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – but also because it is not that at alla book I needed to read, right now.|isbn=1800461682}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787332098|title=How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World|author=Henry Mance|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=''When we do think about animals, we break them down into species and groups: cows, dogs, foxes, elephants and so on. Instead And we assign them places in society: cows go on plates, dogs on sofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, and millions of telling us how it is more about the wild animals stay out there, ''whysomewhere,''hopefully on the next David Attenborough series. Harries examines how we're eroding solitude, which used ' I was going to be a natural part of our human lifeargue. I mean, cows are for cheese (I couldn't consider eating red meat...) and why I much prefer my elephants in the wild but then I realised that mattersI was quibbling for the sake of it. Of course, he talks about how some people have found solitude Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to animals - and what has come I consider myself an animal lover. If I had to choose between the company of that, humans and eventually in the final chapter he talks about his own experience company of having deliberately sought it outanimals, I would probably choose the animals. I insisted that I read this book: no one was trying to stop me but mostly he wanders down the alleys I was initially reluctant. I eat cheese, eggs, chicken and fish and by-ways I needed to either do so without guilt or change my choices. I suspected that his thinking about this lost art led himmaking the decision would not be comfortable.|isbn=1847947662

|isbn=17837843501523092734|title=This Golden Fleece: A Journey Through BritainWomen's Knitted HistoryGuide to Claiming Space|author=Esther RutterEliza Van Cort

|genre=HistoryPolitics and Society|summary=It was December and Esther Rutter was stuck ''She brings a hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in her office joblife. Again and again and again.'' (Alma Derricks, former CMO, writing Cirque du Soleil RSD) ''To claim space is to people she'd never met live the life of choosing unapologetically and preparing spreadsheetsbravely. The job frustrated her and even her knitting did not soothe her mindIt is to live the life you've always wanted. January was going to be '' Sometimes the reviewing gods are generous: at a time for making changes and she decided that she would travel when violence against women is much in the length and breadth of the British Isles with occasional forays abroadnews, discovering and telling the story of wool''A Women's history and Guide to Claiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk. Now - to be clear - this book is not a 'how to disable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual: it had made and changed 's something far more effective, but discussion at the landscape. Shemoment seems to be about how women can be 'd grown up on a sheep farm in Suffolk - 'protected' a free-range child on the farm'. I' - and learned ve always thought that women need to spinrise above this, knit and weave from her mother and her motherto be people who don's friendt need protection, people who claim their own space. This was in her bloodIf all women did this, those few men who are violent to women would realise that we are not just an easy target to be used to prove that they are big men.

|isbnauthor=0008294011Polly Barton|title=How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship|author=Ece TemelkuranFifty Sounds

|genre=AutobiographyPolitics and Society|summary=A little Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with the question ''Why Japan?'' Japan has been on my radar for a while ago a friend asked me and if the world hadn't gone into melt-down I thought that we were living through what in years to come would be discussed have visited by A level history students when faced with now. I may get there later this year, but I am not hopeful. And like Barton, I don't know the answer to the question ''Discuss why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect of the factors question in the first essay, which led is on the sound ''giro' '' – which she describes as being, among other things, the sound of ''every party where you have to...introduce yourself'' .|isbn=1913097501}}{{Frontpage|author=Stephen Fabes|title=Signs of Life|rating=5|genre=Travel|summary= I agreed that she was right brought up on maps and wasn't certain whether it first-person narratives of tales of far away places. I was a good or bad thing that we birth-righted wanderlust and curiosity. Unfortunately, I didn't know inherit what all 'this' Dr. Stephen Fabes clearly had which was leading the guts to. I think now that I simply go out and do knowit. We are in danger of losing democracy and whilst it's a flawed system I canalso didn't think inherit the kind of a better onesteady nerve, particularly as ability to talk to strangers and basic practicality that would have meant that I would have survived if I had been gifted with the requisite 'benevolent dictatorbottle' is as rare as hen. In order words I's teethm not the sort of person who will get on a bike outside a London hospital and not come home for six years. Fabes did precisely that.|isbn=1788161211

|isbn=17868934521504321383|title=The Ungrateful RefugeeSingle, Again, and Again, and Again|author=Dina NayeriLouisa Pateman

|genre=BiographyAutobiography|summary=Here in the West, we see news reports about immigrants ''You can't be happy and fulfilled on your own. You are not complete until you find a regular basis – some media welcoming them, some scaremongering about themman''. 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. But It was reinforced by all of those stories are written fairy tales where the girl (she's usually fairly young) is rescued by journalists – almost always western, and almost always, no matter how deep the investigative journalism handsome prince who then marries her so that they carry out, outsiders can live happily ever after. Few girls are lucky enough to be brought up ''without'' the world expectation that they will marry and the situations that refugees find themselves inhave children. It's rare that we find out the journeys from the refugees themselves – was a belief and this is a rare opportunity to do it would be many years before Louisa would conclude that, in this intelligent, powerful and moving work by Dina Nayeri -someone who was born in the middle of ''a revolution in Iran, fleeing to America as belief is a ten-year-oldchoice''.