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[[Category:New Reviews|Lifestyle]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Yuchi Yang1454955546|title=A Food Guide to Lowering Blood Pressure: 6 Simple StepsSugarless|author=Nicole M Avena|rating=45
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|summary=Yuchi Yang has been a registered dietitian for over twenty years and she's allowing us the benefit of her knowledge to help us to reduce our blood pressure 'This isn'withoutt a diet book. The last thing anyone needs is another diet book.'' taking medication There was a time, although she does stress not that if long ago, when it was thought that sugary food was better for you than food with high-fat content. Fat was the demon food which was going to elevate your cholesterol and cause heart disease. Sugar was a carbohydrate, so good. There''are'' taking medication you shouldn't stop doing so without consulting your doctors a problem, though. You Sugar is addictive and can reduce hijack your BP brain in six steps, which are actually a lot simpler than they soundmuch the same way as drugs like heroin and cocaine. Does it workthat sound over the top? Yes Well, it does: Iisn've been eating this way for more than two years and I've gone from having 'very worrying' blood pressure readings to getting a smile when they're taken and being told that my BP is perfectly normal - and that's without taking medication of any sortt.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1539803422</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Long1635866847|title=The Mock OlympianLavender Companion|rating=4|genre=Sport|summaryauthor=It started with an idle conversation just before the 2012 London Olympics: Michael Long's friend Sarah gave him a book as part of his birthday present. It was ''Time Out's'' guide to the history of the Olympics and it covered each of the summer Olympics in chronological order from the inaugural games in Athens in 1896. Sarah's boyfriend James commented that with all the running Michael did, he'd probably have run in most of the Olympic cities. Although Long had done a goodly number of runs, bike rides and triathlons he'd only competed in two of the twenty three cities - London Jessica Dunham and Athens. Now most of us would have left it at that, but that's not the Michael Long you're going to come to know and love. He saw it as a ''challenge'' and what's more he blogged about it and then wrote this book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524662887</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Numba Pinkerton|title=The No Black ProjectTerry Barlin Vesci
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|summary=I donIt't like shopping for clothess strange, but therethe things that make you ''immediately''s no valid reason whyfeel that this is the book for you. Before Istarted reading ''The Lavender Companion''m small, but reasonably slim - a size 10 petite usually fits me perfectly - and Ivisited the author'm lucky to be able to afford to buy whatever clothes I wants [https://www.pinelavenderfarm. The trouble is that I lack the confidence to know what is going to suit me com/ website] and to be honest itthere's very difficult to get excited about a trip which will almost certainly end up with another pair picture of smart black trousers and a matching topslice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I never feel don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that I look particularly good cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in blackthe book, but which I've resorted m avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of it because it can usually take me anywhere and is unlikely . Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to cause offencefold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. So, how did I feel when I was given a copy of ''The No Black Projectloved''? Well, to be honest, I felt a little scaredthis book already...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1533506957</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Short0760381267|title=101 Things To Do When You're Not DrinkingVerdura: Living a Garden Life|author=Perla Sofia Curbelo-Santiago|rating=43.5
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|summary=If you're thinking about giving up alcohol long term, short term or for Dry January then you might be wondering if 'The most important part of a garden is the one who enjoys it's going to leave one helluva hole '. I've 'gardened' in your social lifea vague, indefinite sort of way for more than half a century. You might be thinking about what youI know (most of) the basics but life has changed and I needed 'projects'll do with the time you normally spend out socialising (just having rather than a quick one before you get the train homegeneral commitment to gardening...) as well as the time you spend recovering from having had ''justVerdura'' one too many with its promise of projects for both indoors and outdoors of varying complexity seemed like the night beforeanswer. Sunday mornings will loom large as uncharted and largely unknown territory. Robert Short has a few answers for you - well 101 of them in fact - in a pocket-size book which should give you some inspiration.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722877</amazonuk>So, how did it stack up?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tonia VojtkofskySarah Wilson|title=Keep Your Brain Stronger 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 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.|isbn=1785633848}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1394159544|title=Recycling for LongerDummies|author=Sarah Winkler|rating=45
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|summary=On the front ''Recycling one ton of plastic can save up to 16.3 barrels of the book it says that our brains need a well-rounded workout just like our bodiesoil. A decade or two ago I wouldn't have given very much thought to this - my body ' ''andRecycling one ton of paper can save 17 trees from being cut down.'' my brain seemed If you send an apple core to get all the workout they needed without me adding landfill, it will take between 6 months and 2 years to their burdens, but close on the beginning of my eighth decade I've noticed somethingdecompose. I keep losing words: nothing majorA glass bottle will take up to 1 million years. As a just-post-WWII baby, you know, but this morning I couldn't remember the name of faced a flower which I hadn't seen since this time last year - until about half an hour later, whendilemma: reducing, reusing and recycling is part of course it was no longer relevantmy DNA. When youNEVER throw away anything that might ''re young you donpossibly't worry about what you'll suffer from come in handy now or in old agethe future. As NEVER buy anything if you get older you develop dreads can cobble together something that would serve the purpose. Almost everything can be used one more time and one any purchase must pass the test of 'Is this absolutely essential?' On the biggest for people who are still hale and hearty is other hand, I suspected I was guilty of wishcycling: assuming that theysomething must be recyclable (toothpaste tubes - I'll develop dementiam looking at you) and dropping it in the kerbside bin.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722842</amazonuk> Yes, I could go searching on the internet - and get conflicting advice - but what I needed was a recycling bible.s
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Margery Allingham and Julia Jones0760378134|title=Beloved Old Age and What to Do About itThe First-Time Gardener: Margery Allingham's the RelayContainer Food Gardening|author=Pamela Farley|rating=4.5
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|summary=We remember [[:Category:Margery Allingham|Margery Allingham]] as a novelist from If you've ever thought how good it would be to be able to pop out into the golden age of crime, perhaps not as famous as Agatha Christie or Dorothy L Sayers but certainly well regarded by those who appreciate good writing garden and pick some fruit and excellent plotting. Her last completed book was not vegetables for a novel meal – but realised that you wouldn't know where to start, this is the book you need. It'The Relays comprehensive: you'll cover everything from why you should grow your own food, what you're going to grow, a combined account of caring for three elderly relatives, what you'll grow it in (Em, Maud both containers and Gracesoil) between 1959 , where you'll put these containers, how you'll water and 1961 fertilise them and suggestions as to how other people might achieve you finish the main part of the book with a handy section on troubleshooting. There's also a good old age for their relativesglossary. Margery died in 1966 and ''The Relay'' was never published in the form in which So, is it was written.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1899262296</amazonuk>any good?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jack Pendarvis1398508632|title=Cigarette Lighter (Object Lessons)The Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating=35
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|summary=I have It had been on the cards for a favourite cigarette lighter. That sentence may become more strange to you when you consider while but it was the fact that I have never smokedweek-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. I don't know how but I got it as a freebie donkey's years agoThe end of November, and I loved its curvy bronzed linesparticularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the best time to start, and in a world where the fact that I normal sores had to click down on a button instead of rub against been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and a flint-wheel to light itpandemic. I optimistically took it with me at uni in case I found Wilde had a girl good enough to be with even though she smoked (which took almost another twenty years, but that's a different story) – therefore I few advantages: the area around her was carrying something so evidently not a match as known habitat with a potential match-makervariety of terrains. Later, its semi-art deco styling made it perfect for She had electricity which allowed her to run a play I was in oncefridge, after which it dried upfreezer and dehydrator. Now it's more or less She had a paperweightcar - and fuel. But if I can imbue such personal relevance in Most importantly, she had shelter: this was not a bleeding fag lighter, plan to ''live'' wild just think what all of culture can do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1501307363</amazonuk>to live off its produce.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lydia PyneBjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankeler, Navid Modiiri and Agnes Bromme (Translator)|title=Bookshelf I May Be Wrong|rating=5|genre= Autobiography|summary= When the Dalai Lama adds his words to your frontispiece, I'm inclined to think it doesn't really matter how the rest of the world responds to your book. I know, having read the book in question, that Lindeblad would disagree with that thought. He knows (Object Lessonsand at core so do I)that it matters very much how the rest of the world responds to this book, because it tells the truth as it is, in the early 21st century.|isbn=1526644827}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1732898731|title=The Boy Who Loved Boxes: A Children's Book for Adults|author=Michael Albanese
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|summary=Could you imagine There was a whole book dedicated to Boy who loved boxes. He had a single lump of wood, or a few sections of metal? I canbox for everything and he was meticulous about storage: his parents probably couldn't assume it would be great – believe their luck! It began with or without said item being ''an object with physicalart supplies, historical stuffed toys and psychological components'the like: all the things which most children have in abundance. The Boy's delight was in the sense of order in his room: it made him feel happy. But shove some distorted tree by-products on to said wood or metalAs he grew up and became a Man, his life became more complicated and lo he dealt with this by getting bigger and behold you have a bookshelfbetter boxes. Now Look carefully at the pictures and you're talking – but could you even now imagine ll see that one of them has a whole book dedicated to it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1501307320</amazonuk>padlock...
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Georgina Rodgers1846276772|title=Peace The End of MindBias: A Book of Calm for Busy MumsHow We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell|rating=34.5|genre=LifestylePolitics and Society|summary=The promise of a book bringing me calm was too much to resist! There it Anyone who isnot an able, white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the title, my job description (busy mum...well, thatextent to which they suffer from it: it's just one simply a part of my jobs!) and that elusive state that many mums seem to be trying to find, peace of mindeveryday life. I have to say, I was looking forward to some insightful revelations into changing my lifeWhite men will always come first. I think The able will come before the problemdisabled. Jobs, however, was quickly apparent in that like a busy mumpromotions, higher salaries are the preserve of the white man. Even when those who is trying to wear a hundred masks at wouldn't pass the same time, and carry out medical become a multitude part of rolesan organisation it's rare that their views are heard, this book isnthat their concerns are acknowledged. It't entirely sure what s personally appalling and degrading for the individuals on the receiving end of the bias but it's trying to be, with everything from poetry and colouring to mindfulness and recipesnot just the individuals who are negatively impacted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473635519</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Merinda D'ApranoErling Kagge|title= The Essential Guide to Your Prep School Journey (Head Teacher in Your Pocket)Walking: One Step At A Time|rating= 4.5
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|summary= As you might Those who have gathered from read my reviews before will know that how much I loved a book is evidenced by the titlenumber 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''The Essential Guide ll allow creased corners, but not scribbles – for the latter we must buy our own copy – which I am about to Your Prep School Journey'' do as soon as I have finished telling you why). Erligg Kagge is pitched at parents a Norwegian explorer who intend on using has walked to the private sector to educate their children. And clearlySouth Pole, these are the parents who will benefit most from reading North Pole and the booksummit of Everest. He knows a thing or two about walking. However, there this isn't a travelogue about any of those epic journeys, it is instead a great deal thoughtful exploration of general advice within its pages which will prove helpful even what it means to parents whose children will be travelling through the state sectorwalk. It is a plenitude of unnumbered essays about walking. So if this There is you, donno 'contents' page and I haven't discount this book immediatelycounted. Such advice includes ''Why In small format paperback, each essay is reading so important?''only a few pages long. Perhaps then, ''How can I promote better thought of as a brave learner?'' and ''Is the internet safe for my child?'' - you can see that these are universally applicable topics and topics that all parents appreciate advice aboutmeditation rather than an essay. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0993550304</amazonuk>0241357705
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=A A Milne and E H ShepardRichard Brook|title=Winnie-the-PoohUnderstanding Human Nature: A User's Little Book Of WisdomGuide to Life|rating=4.5
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|summary=For I am a Bear of Very Little Brain Winnie-the-Pooh talks an awful lot of sense firm believer that sometimes we choose books, and we should be honoured that he's chosen to share with sometimes books choose us a few of his wise words. You seeIn my case, occasionally (well, an awful lot this is one of the timelatter. Not so very long ago, if weI had come across this book I're honest) we look for wisdom in the wrong places and forget about those who d have a very simple approach to life and who may well skimmed it, found some of it interesting, but it would not have discovered 'hit home' in the secret of happinessway that it does now. Pooh I believe it came to me not just because I was likely to give it a favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's take on life u.s.p. is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is very simple and none a predisposition towards expecting to like the worse for book, even if it doesn't always turn out thatway'' ] – but also because it is a book I needed to read, right now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405281278</amazonuk>1800461682
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rasmus Hougaard, Jacqueline Carter and Gillian Coutts0753558378|title=One Second AheadEffortless: Enhance Your Performance at Work with MindfulnessMake It Easier to Do What Matters|author=Greg McKeown|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceLifestyle|summary=Have you ever worked at a task and found your mind wandering to something else? Do you find yourself breaking off what you're doing to answer an email? Do you try to multitask'The marginal return of working harder was, in fact, thinking that younegative.''re being more efficient? Do you have far too much to attend to, to complete and nowhere near enough time to do it all?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Thomas W Hodgkinson and Hubert van den Bergh1523092734|title= How A Women's Guide to Sound Cultured Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van Cort|rating= 45|genre= LifestylePolitics and Society|summary= Sometimes it can be hard ''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 run with live the big dogs, life of choosing unapologetically and while I know bravely. It is to live the life you've always wanted.'' Sometimes the names to drop reviewing gods are generous: at a time when violence against women is much in my field of workthe news, some wider cultural references can pass me ''A Women's Guide to Claiming Space'' byEliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk. This is especially true for those from before my time and so I was delighted Now - to find icons from all decades and centuries featured in be clear - this book. Badged as is not a 'how to disable your attacker with two simple jabs'manual: it's something far more effective, but discussion at the 250 names that intellectuals love moment seems to drop into conversationbe about how women can be '' protected''. I've always thought that women need to rise above this book features quotes and biographical titbits covering big names from every sector – science, the artsto be people who don't need protection, people who claim their own space. If all women did this, philosophythose 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848319304</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Crabbe1529109116|title=BusyCall Me Red: How to Thrive in a World of Too MuchA Shepherd's Journey|author=Hannah Jackson|rating=4.5
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|summary=Serendipity often brings you ''I want the image of a British farmer to simply be that of a person who is proudly employed in feeding the important booksnation. Recently I heard myself say don't think that is too much to a friend: ask.'' The stereotypical farmer was probably born on the land where ''his''Ifamily have farmed for generations. He'm far too busy s probably grown up without giving much thought as to what he really wants to do some of the important stuff: he knows that he'll be a farmer. It's not always the case though. It pulled me up short: there Hannah Jackson was definitely something wrong here - born and then I had brought up on the opportunity to listen to an audio download of Wirral: she''Busy'' and I knew that it d never set foot on a commercial farm until she was something I 'twenty although she'd always hada deep love of animals. Her original intention was that she would become 'Dr Jackson, whale scientist' to do and take notice of if I she was well on her way to achieving this when her life changed on a family holiday to stop going ''backwardsthe Lake District. She saw a lamb being born and, although 'Hannah Jackson, farmer'lacked the kudos of her original intention, she knew that she wanted to be a shepherd. Because With the determination that was what I was doingyou'll soon realise is an essential part of her, she set about achieving her ambition.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B01727ER84</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rachel Kelly and Jonathan Pugh1786495902|title=Walking on SunshineThe Natural Health Service: 52 Small Steps to HappinessHow Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Isabel Hardman|rating=45
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|summary=How would you like 52 tips on how to be happier? No this isn't an offer to sign up to Isabel Hardman suffered a dodgy website - it's a small book trauma which you could pop into she chooses not to share. She says that a bag and which will give you tipsfriend who does know, tools burst into tears and positive idea about how you can make your life happier, less complicated and more fulfillinghealth-care professionals' jaws have sagged in disbelief. Open it Hardman dealt with this at randomthe time by 'keeping going': the next day she went to work to cover the budget, if that's what you feel like doingnext there was the EU referendum, or work your way through it reading one tip per week - they're helpfully divided into the four seasons - political party leadership contests and savour just a couple of pages of elegant writing which will give you something then it was party conference season. One night she had to think about or something positive be sedated and returned home to do (or not do begin long- if you see term sick leave. That was what brought me to this book: 2020 was the year when the bins went out more often than I mean)did.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722524</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ilka HeinemannLauren Martin|title=101 Things to do Instead The Book of Playing on Your PhoneMoods|rating= 5|genre= Lifestyle|summary= There's a great joke I saw online recently. One cartoon person says to the other, ''What's your favourite position in bed?'' and the other replies ''Closest to the plug so I can still use my phone while it's charging''. It's funny because it's true.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178072246X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Brene Brown|title=Rising Strong|rating=4
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|summary=This is Brené Brown's fourth I was in a great mood when I first learnt of this book. Like Elizabeth Gilbert, she is and because sarcasm doesn't always translate well known for her TED talkinto writing, imagine the word ''great'' being delivered with an eye roll and a sigh, through clenched teeth. As I had spent the best part of a professor rainy, windy weekend afternoon out on the water at our local sailing club in the University of Houstonrescue rib, she has spent the last 13 years working with peopleon standby in case anyone who was racing needed support. It's stories. Such a qualitative approachvolunteer duty we all do during the year, based on anecdote and experiencenormally I'm happy to, is relatively rare in the social sciences but certainly makes her work more accessible to laymen. Her books fall into that day the 'self-help' arenaweather was miserable and I was miserable, but without any of and it all came to a head that evening when I noticed on the negative connotations of website that termwe had been thanked for our time as "Dave and wife". Wow. Here she makes her research relevant to everyday life by weaving in pop culture references and telling stories from her family and professional lifeI had never needed this book more.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091955033</amazonuk>1538733625
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lee Crutchley0008420386|title=How to Be Happy (or at least less sad)Failosophy: A Creative Workbookhandbook for when things go wrong|author=Elizabeth Day
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|summary=I gave up hoping for happiness many years ago What do Malcolm Gladwell, Alain de Botton, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Lemn Sissay, Nigel Slater, Emeli Sandé, Meera Syal, Dame Kelly Holmes and settled instead for enjoying contentment when it arrived Andrew Scott have in common? They've all failed and trying - more importantly - they've been willing to make the most of itappear on Elizabeth Day's podcast to discuss their failures and how life worked out for them afterwards. You'Happinessll find the results of these discussions in ' seemed to be rather like 'privilegesFailosophy' - something which you shouldn't expect as of right. Most of the time it works well, but just occasionally an extra boost - a new approach - is needed. Lee Crutchley has suffered from depression and he knows that this book is not going to help when you're clinically depressed, but those of us who have been down that road know that there are certain laybys where you stop and possibly turn around.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241201950</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Dawson1504321383|title=The Sty's the Limit: When Middle Age Gets MuckySingle, Again, and Again, and Again|author=Louisa Pateman
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|summary=If you have ever suffered from depression you'll find it very difficult to explain to other people how you're feelingYou can't be happy and fulfilled on your own. You're are not feeling ''just complete until you find a little bit downman''. A treat or a dollop of positive thinking will not miraculously cure you This was what Louisa Pateman was brought up to believe. YouIt wasn're definitely not swinging t unkind: it was simply the lead, but suffering from a legitimate illness which deserves adults in her life advising her as to what they thought would be recognisedbest for her. Elizabeth Swados is a long-term sufferer from severe depression: It was reinforced by all those fairy tales where the girl (she's also a talented storyteller and has told her usually fairly young) is rescued by the story of how depression feels for handsome prince who then marries her - complete with drawings, which fill in those gaps which words so that they can never fill for any sufferer from depressionlive 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''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609806042</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=William Alexander1538731738|title=Flirting With FrenchSimple Abundance: 365 Days to a Balanced and Joyful Life|author= Sarah Ban Breathnach|rating=4.5
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|summary=Someone once said: it's not self-indulgence, it's therapy! I am not a bad linguistthink they were talking about shopping, but it probably can be applied to most things. In my case, it applies to writing about things because I don’t tend want to struggle with languages too much, especially when the goal is communicative fluency rather than precise grammatical accuracy, and I’ve taught English as a foreign language in a handful of countries too, so because I can sell it or because I have some ideas of what does and doesn’t work with language acquisition in adults. William Alexander is, perhaps, not so lucky. An American with a longing 've got something to be a Frenchman, he is devoting himself to learning the lingo and much more, and chronicles his efforts in this booksell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649957</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amy MorinSharon Blackie|title=13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't DoIf Women Rose Rooted
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|genre=Popular ScienceBiography|summary=When Amy Morin was just 26 and working as a psychologist and therapist her husband died suddenly, but even whilst she was reeling from the shock she realised I normally say that there were things which she must ''not'' do. She knew that she must not develop you can tell how much a sense of entitlement, feel resentment or succumb book means to self-pityme by how many pages have corners turned down. That was ten years ago: since then Morin has remarried and worked with numerous patients using the principles which she applied Perhaps an even greater measure of impact is setting out to herself. Shebuy my own copy before I's found 13 common habits which hold us back in life and developed strategies to combat them. But ve finished reading the best thing which she makes clear is that mental strength is not about acting tough - for instance, if youone I've suffered a bereavement, you need to grieve - borrowed. it's about having the mental wherewithal I want to overcome lifeavoid clichés like 's challenges.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008105936</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=John Kemp|title=Caring for Shirley|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=John Kemp's wife, Shirley, suffered from dementia and loss of coordination and for eight years he was her full-time carer as she was unable to walk unaided (well, she powerful''couldinspiring'' life- but changing' – although it was likely to result in a serious fall) is definitely the first two and took care of all her most personal needs. Probably only time will tell about the most heart-breaking part of this is that Shirley didn't recognise John as her husband - apart from 'give us third – but clichés exist for a kissreason and I', the question 'where's John?' was usually the first which sprang to her lips in m not sure I can succinctly put it any situation. Although she could often have quite an affable disposition she was capable of kicking and biting when she was being 'encouraged' to do something which she didn't want to dobetter.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1479374245</amazonuk>1912836017
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr William Davis1543987877|title=Wheat Belly: The effortless health and weight-loss solution - no exercise, no calorie counting, no denial|rating=4|genre=Lifestyle|summary=Dr William Davis poses an interesting question: why is it that people who are leading an active life and eating a healthy diet are putting on weight despite all their best efforts? He has a simple and worrying answer: wheat, which he argues increases blood sugar more than table sugar. The problem isn't restricted Learn to weight gain, either: there's evidence to suggest that wheat affects psychosis and autism too. In fact - the more that you read, the more you'll wonder if there's an organ in the body which ''isn't'' adversely affected by wheat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008118922</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Holly Baxter and Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett|title=The VagendaLove: A Zero Tolerance Guide to the Media|rating=3|genre=Lifestyle|summary=I love magazines more than is socially acceptable, and I invariably read the women’s ones, or the fitness ones, but yes, mainly those ones for females which insist on telling me how to dress and act, how to style hair in some areas and remove it in others, how to have it all but still let men open doors for me. I don’t really object to any of this – after all, I choose to keep subscribing – but I was still keen to read this book. And not just to check I hadn’t been indoctrinated into forgetting it was all a ruse to make me buy stuff.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784700436</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewHealing Your Disappointing Love Life|author=Madsen Pirie|title=How to Win Every ArgumentDr Thomas Jordan
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|summary=When ''Learn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life'' is a book makes about love relationships rather than a promise on its coverbook about love. The two greatest emotions are love and grief and love is the opposite of grief: ''if you love'', Dr Thomas Jordan tells us, call me old fashioned but I’m kinda expecting it to deliver on this. So ''How to Win Every Argumentyou will inevitably grieve'' has me thinking that I would read it . Your love relationships begin the moment you're born and become an expert in proving I’m right end only when you die. Whilst we all come into the time (even when I’m world hoping to give and receive love there are many people for whom love is not)quite so simple. I was expecting Some people suffer multiple disappointments - sometimes repeating the sort of hints same mistakes - and tips one could use to argue successfully that this eventually becomes resignation. For people who are making the Earth is flatsame mistakes repeatedly, self-preservation, chocolate in the form of resignation is a vegetable (cocoa is a plant) and Cheerleaders should rule the world. Simplesnecessity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147252912X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dr Gareth MooreMichael Harris|title=Clever CommuterSolitude: Puzzles, Tests and Problems to Solve on Your Journey|rating=3.5|genre=Entertainment|summary=The week before I reviewed this book I saw a newspaper article that said that so-called brain-training apps are a waste of time, that they merely replace what we should be doing anyway to keep our grey cells active (multi-tasking, observing, REAL LIFE etc). This is the puzzle book version In Pursuit of a brain training app, and so with all those electronic titles on the market it already had opposition, even before that news came Singular Life in. But let's face it – who on earth would risk the science being wrong on this occasion? Surely this kind of book should be an inherently essential purchase?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782433953</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Amelia Freer|title=Eat. Nourish. Glow.: 10 easy steps for losing weight, looking younger and feeling healthiera Crowded World|rating=45
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Amelia Freer had struggled with her own health for a while and This is not the book I was expecting it to be. For some reason I expected it reached a stage where she was waking up feeling tired and groggy, relying to be another self-help manual on ten cups a day of sugary tea how to perk her up and her food was mainly processed convenience foods. At the time she was working as a PA find calm, how to Prince Charles and loved step outside the job mainstream, but her busy life meant it is not that she made automatic food choices without consideration at all. Instead of what they were doing to her healthtelling us how, it is more about the ''why''. It wasnHarries examines how we't until she went re eroding solitude, which used to see be a nutritionist natural part of our human life, and why that she realised matters. Of course he talks about how some people have found solitude and what she had been doing has come of that, and made eventually in the decision not only to change her dietfinal chapter he talks about his own experience of having deliberately sought it out, but to train to be a nutritionist. The result is a busy practice mostly he wanders down the alleys and by- and ways that his thinking about this booklost art led him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>000757990X</amazonuk>1847947662
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschappeler0753553236|title=Tiny Habits: The Test Book: 64 Tools to Lead You to SuccessSmall Changes That Change Everything|author=B J Fogg|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=The title of the book intrigued me: Go on, admit it - you''The Test Book'' and the offer of sixty four tools re not quite perfect. You still have those odd, quirky even loveable (to you) habits which would lead me seem to successannoy other people. I'm happy Other people, of course, are sorely afflicted with where my life is but it struck me that some dreadful flaws which they could so easily correct, if only they would make just a fool doesn't see room for improvement - and besideslittle bit of effort. Or put another way, it's a slim book, ideal for popping into a bag I get cross with myself because I forget to do things or pocket for those waiting room moments. It was only the reputation of the authors - do some actions more than I should and the value of their earlier books - which made me realise that this wasn't going no matter how I try to make what seem to be a light-hearted series of 'tests' such as those favoured by some magazines quite monumental changes I never quite seem to get to grips with the concepts. I constantly fail and newspapersthen I get cross with myself for failing. For Lack of willpower is another burden to add to the most part these are serious, well-established tests used by professionalslist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178125320X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1785785516|title=Digital InfernoFucking Good Manners|author=Paul LevySimon Griffin
|rating=4
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=You know how it goesManners maketh man, they say. You have It certainly makes life easier if everybody abides by a pressing job that requires your immediate attentionset of conventions, but decide to treat yourself to a five minute tea break surfing the internetsome of which are ages old and other which have evolved over time. One link leads Manners are not about how much to another and before tip or how you know it, your short tea break has swallowed up a whole hour. Or maybe should behave if you are at get an important meeting and you feel invitation to Buckingham Palace, they have nothing to do with class or financial status: they're about getting the phone vibrate in your pocket, signalling an incoming textbasics right before we try to deal with more difficult matters. Is it rude to check your messages Of course we all have more relaxed manners when your full attention should really be elsewhere? If you feel that meaningful communication we're with the family has been replaced with a glut of hastily-typed xand friends, but it's, LOLs best if we learn to distinguish between our public and private lives and emoticons, this book may be just what you needto act appropriately. ''Digital InfernoFucking Good Manners'' aims to help its readers reclaim their place in us on the digital world and gain mastery over all of those pieces of tech that seem to demand so much of usway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905570740</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1999811402|title=The Making of HomePainting Snails|author=Judith FlandersStephen John Hartley
|rating=4.5
|genre=LifestyleAutobiography|summary=In 1900 It's very difficult to classify ''Painting Snails'': originally I thought that as it's loosely based around a young girl in year on an allotment it would be a strange land told the people around her that she had decided she no longer wanted to live in their lovely countrylifestyle book, but would much rather return you're not going to get advice on what to plant when and where for the ‘dry, grey’ place she had come from, because there was ‘no place like home’best results. The girl was Dorothy, while the people around her were answer would be something along the citizens lines of Oz – 'try it andsee'. Then I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, yesdid an engineering apprenticeship, it was all fictionbecame a busker, the creation of author L. Frank Baumfinally got into medical school and is now an A&E consultant (part-time). Nevertheless he had put into words something which many people deeply felt 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 had not yet expressedthat isn't really what the book's about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848877986</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Bookshop Book|author=Jen Campbell|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=I love There's a good bookshop. The smelllot about rock & roll, which seems to be the feel real passion of an old bookshopHartley's life, and but it didn't actually fit into the wonderful feeling when you chance upon a book that appeals to youentertainment genre either. They may be Did we have a dying breed in some places, but Jen Campbell has written a fantastic book category for 'doing the impossible the hard way'? Yep - that celebrates 's the bookshop and those who love themone. It's an autobiography.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472116666</amazonuk>
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