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[[Category:New Reviews|Spirituality and Religion]]
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|author=Matt Woodcock
|title=Becoming Reverend: A diary
|rating=4.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=[[:Category:Matt Woodcock|Matt Woodcock]] is enjoying life: successful journalist, happily married and a new dream home bought and heavily mortgaged. The only cloud on the horizon is their struggle to have children but they have faith in the IVF treatment as it's early days yet. Then comes the funny turn Matt has on the way to a story one day. This takes him by surprise but the resulting clergy collar comes as a total shock. He's a normal bloke who always thought of himself as more pint than piety believing in a God who's happy for him to remain in the pews. Errrrm… whoops!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781400105</amazonuk>
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|author= Kurt Vonnegut and Ivan Chermayeff
|summary='How should we live?' asks author Roman Krznaric. To answer this ancient question, he looks to history. 'I believe that the future of the art of living can be found by gazing into the past', he says. Creating a book which is as full of curiosities as a Renaissance 'Wunderkammer', he has a stab at the big questions: love, belief, money, family, death. The result is a pot-pourri of delights which left this particular reader stimulated and invigorated.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683939</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=David Malouf
|title=The Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World
|rating=4
|genre=Popular Science
|summary=There's something quite uplifting about the physical brevity of David Malouf's 'The Happy Life' which is subtitled 'The Search for Contentment in the Modern World'. It suggests that it is easy to find, when of course, the whole point of the book is that despite, or perhaps because of, scientific and technological advances that have taken away many of the causes of true unhappiness in the world, it remains elusive for most. Who can say that they are truly happy? The book runs to less than 100 pages if you take out the Notes section, and the typeface is large. It is, by any reckoning a slim offering.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701187115</amazonuk>
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