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[[Category:New Reviews|Lifestyle]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tonia Vojtkofsky1454955546|title=Keep Your Brain Stronger for LongerSugarless|author=Nicole M Avena|rating=45

|summary=On the front of the book it says that our brains need a well-rounded workout just like our bodies. A decade or two ago I wouldn't have given very much thought to this - my body ''and'This isn' my brain seemed to get all the workout they needed without me adding to their burdens, but close on the beginning of my eighth decade I've noticed somethingt a diet book. I keep losing words: nothing major, you know, but this morning I couldnThe last thing anyone needs is another diet book.''t remember the name of  There was a flower which I hadn't seen since this time last year - until about half an hour later, not that long ago, when, of course it was no longer relevantthought 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. When youThere're young you don't worry about what you'll suffer from in old ages a problem, though. As you get older you develop dreads Sugar is addictive and one of can hijack your brain in much the biggest for people who are still hale same way as drugs like heroin and hearty is cocaine. Does that theysound over the top? Well, it isn'll develop dementiat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722842</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Margery Allingham and Julia Jones1635866847|title=Beloved Old Age The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and What to Do About it: Margery Allingham's the RelayTerry Barlin Vesci

|summary=I have a favourite cigarette lighter. That sentence may become more It's strange to , the things that make you when ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you consider the fact that I have never smoked. Before I donstarted reading ''The Lavender Companion''t know how but , I got it as a freebie donkeyvisited the author's years ago, [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and I loved its curvy bronzed lines, and the fact that I had to click down on there's a button instead picture of rub against a flint-wheel to light itslice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I optimistically took it with me at uni in case don't eat cakes and desserts - but I found a girl good enough to be with even though she smoked wanted that cake viscerally. (which took almost another twenty years, but thatThere's a different storyrecipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) – therefore Then I started reading the book and I was carrying something so evidently not told to make a match as a potential match-makermess of it. Later, its semi-art deco styling made it perfect for a play I was Notes in once, after which it dried upthe margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. Now it's more or less You suspect that smears of butter would not be a paperweightproblem. But if I can imbue such personal relevance in a bleeding fag lighter, just think what all of culture can do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1501307363</amazonuk>''loved'' this book already.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lydia Pyne0760381267|title=Bookshelf (Object Lessons)Verdura: Living a Garden Life|author=Perla Sofia Curbelo-Santiago|rating=43.5

|summary=Could you imagine a whole book dedicated to a single lump ''The most important part of wood, or a few sections of metal? garden is the one who enjoys it''. I can't assume it would be great – with or without said item being ve 'gardened'an object with physicalin a vague, historical indefinite sort of way for more than half a century. I know (most of) the basics but life has changed and psychological componentsI needed 'projects'rather than a general commitment to gardening. But shove some distorted tree by-products on to said wood or metal, ''Verdura'' with its promise of projects for both indoors and lo and behold you have a bookshelfoutdoors of varying complexity seemed like the answer. Now you're talking – but could you even now imagine a whole book dedicated to So, how did itstack up?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1501307320</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Georgina RodgersSarah Wilson|title=Peace of MindThis One Wild and Precious Life: A Book of Calm for Busy Mums|rating=3|genre=Lifestyle|summary=The promise of a book bringing me calm was too much to resist! There it is, in the title, my job description (busy mum...well, that's just one of my jobs!) and that elusive state that many mums seem path back to be trying to find, peace of mind. I have to say, I was looking forward to some insightful revelations into changing my life. I think the problem, however, was quickly apparent connection in that like a busy mum, who is trying to wear a hundred masks at the same time, and carry out a multitude of roles, this book isn't entirely sure what it's trying to be, with everything from poetry and colouring to mindfulness and recipes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473635519</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Merinda D'Aprano|title= The Essential Guide to Your Prep School Journey (Head Teacher in Your Pocket)fractured world|rating= 43.5

|summary= As you might have gathered from My favourite Mary Oliver line is the title, one in which she asks ''The Essential Guide What is it you plan to Your Prep School Journeydo with your one wild and precious life?'' I get to love that line so much because my answer is pitched at parents who intend on using the private sector to educate their children''This! Precisely this. And clearly, these are the parents who will benefit most from reading the book. However, there is a great deal of general advice within its pages which will prove helpful even '' I'm lucky enough to parents whose children will be travelling through living my one wild and precious life the state sectorway I want to. So if this Sarah Wilson is you, donequally lucky. In her book that takes Oliver's words as her title (though I can't discount this book immediately. Such advice includes see that she acknowledges the source) she pushes us to think about whether we really ''are''Why living the life we want – the best life that we could be living. Her answer is reading so important?an unequivocal ''no, we are not''How can I promote a brave learner?. Don't care what you' and re doing, she thinks you (we, I) could be doing more…And she''Is s effing furious about the internet safe for my child?'' - you can see fact that these we are universally applicable topics and topics that all parents appreciate advice aboutnot. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0993550304</amazonuk>1785633848

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=A A Milne and E H Shepard1394159544|title=Winnie-the-Pooh's Little Book Of WisdomRecycling for Dummies|author=Sarah Winkler|rating=45

|summary=For a Bear of Very Little Brain Winnie-the-Pooh talks an awful lot ''Recycling one ton of sense and we should be honoured that he's chosen plastic can save up to share with us a few 16.3 barrels of his wise wordsoil. You see, occasionally (well, an awful lot of the time, if we're honest) we look for wisdom in the wrong places and forget about those who have a very simple approach to life and who may well have discovered the secret ' ''Recycling one ton of happinesspaper can save 17 trees from being cut down. Pooh's take on life is very simple and none the worse for that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405281278</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rasmus Hougaard, Jacqueline Carter and Gillian Coutts|title=One Second Ahead: Enhance Your Performance at Work with Mindfulness|rating=4'|genre=Business and Finance|summary=Have you ever worked at a task and found your mind wandering to something else? Do you find yourself breaking off what If you're doing to answer send an email? Do you try apple core to multitasklandfill, thinking that you're being more efficient? it will take between 6 months and 2 years to decompose. Do you have far too much A glass bottle will take up to attend to, to complete and nowhere near enough time to do it all?1 million years.

You doAs a just-post-WWII baby, I faced a dilemma: reducing, reusing and recycling is part of my DNA. NEVER throw away anything that might ''possibly'' come in handy now or in the future. NEVER buy anything if you can cobble together something that would serve the purpose. Almost everything can be used one more time and any purchase must pass the test of 'Is this absolutely essential? ' Me tooOn the other hand, I suspected I was guilty of wishcycling: assuming that something must be recyclable (toothpaste tubes - I'm looking at you) and dropping it in the kerbside bin. You need this bookYes, I could go searching on the internet - and get conflicting advice - but what I needed was a recycling bible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1137551909</amazonuk>s

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Thomas W Hodgkinson and Hubert van den Bergh0760378134|title= How to Sound Cultured The First-Time Gardener: Container Food Gardening|author=Pamela Farley|rating= 45|genre= LifestyleHome and Family|summary= Sometimes If you've ever thought how good it can would be hard to run with be able to pop out into the big dogs, garden and pick some fruit and while I vegetables for a meal – but realised that you wouldn't know the names where to drop in my field of workstart, some wider cultural references can pass me by. This this is especially true for those from before my time and so I was delighted to find icons from all decades and centuries featured in this the bookyou need. Badged as It's comprehensive: you'the 250 names that intellectuals love ll cover everything from why you should grow your own food, what you're going to drop into conversationgrow, what you'll grow it in (both containers and soil), where you'll put these containers, how you' this book features quotes ll water and fertilise them and biographical titbits covering big names from every sector – science, you finish the main part of the artsbook with a handy section on troubleshooting. There's also a good glossary. So, philosophy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848319304</amazonuk>is it any good?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Crabbe1398508632|title=Busy: How to Thrive in a World of Too MuchThe Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde

|summary=Serendipity often brings you to It had been on the cards for a while but it was the important booksweek-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. Recently I heard myself say The end of November, particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the best time to start, in a friend: ''I'm far too busy to do some of world where the important stuff''normal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and a pandemic. It pulled me up shortWilde had a few advantages: there the area around her was definitely something wrong here - and then I a known habitat with a variety of terrains. She had the opportunity electricity which allowed her to listen to an audio download of ''Busy'' run a fridge, freezer and I knew that it was something I ''dehydrator. She had'' to do a car - and take notice of if I fuel. Most importantly, she had shelter: this was not a plan to stop going ''backwardslive''wild just to live off its produce. Because that was what I was doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B01727ER84</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rachel Kelly Bjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankeler, Navid Modiiri and Jonathan Pugh Agnes Bromme (Translator)|title=Walking on SunshineI 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 (and 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: 52 Small Steps to HappinessA Children's Book for Adults|author=Michael Albanese |rating=4.5

|summary=How would you like 52 tips on how to be happier? There was a Boy who loved boxes. No this isnHe had a box for everything and he was meticulous about storage: his parents probably couldn't an offer to sign up to a dodgy website - itbelieve their luck! It began with art supplies, stuffed toys and 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. As he grew up and became a small book which you could pop into a bag and which will give you tipsMan, tools and positive idea about how you can make your his life happier, less became more complicated and more fulfillinghe dealt with this by getting bigger and better boxes. Open it Look carefully at randomthe pictures and you'll see that one of them has a padlock...}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1846276772|title=The End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Anyone who is not an able, if white man understands bias in thatthey may no longer even recognise the extent to which they suffer from it: it's what you feel like doingsimply a part of everyday life. White men will always come first. The able will come before the disabled. Jobs, promotions, or work your way through it reading one tip per week - theyhigher salaries are the preserve of the white man. Even when those who wouldn're helpfully divided into t pass the four seasons - and savour just medical become a couple part of pages an organisation it's rare that their views are heard, that their concerns are acknowledged. It's personally appalling and degrading for the individuals on the receiving end of elegant writing which will give you something to think about or something positive to do (or the bias but it's not do - if you see what I mean)just the individuals who are negatively impacted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722524</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ilka HeinemannErling Kagge|title=101 Things to do Instead of Playing on Your PhoneWalking: One Step At A Time|rating= 5

|summary= ThereThose 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's a great joke 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 saw online recentlyhave finished telling you why). One cartoon person says  Erligg Kagge is a Norwegian explorer who has walked to the otherSouth Pole, ''What's your favourite position in bed?'' the North Pole and the other replies summit of Everest. He knows a thing or two about walking. However, this isn''Closest t a travelogue about any of those epic journeys, it is instead a thoughtful exploration of what it means to the plug so I can still use my phone while itwalk. It is a plenitude of unnumbered essays about walking. There is no 's chargingcontents'page and I haven't counted. In small format paperback, each essay is only a few pages long. It's funny because it's truePerhaps then, better thought of as a meditation rather than an essay.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178072246X</amazonuk>0241357705

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Brene BrownRichard Brook|title=Rising StrongUnderstanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to Life|rating=4.5

|summary=This is Brené Brown's fourth bookI am a firm believer that sometimes we choose books, and sometimes books choose us. Like Elizabeth Gilbert In my case, she this is well known for her TED talkone of the latter. As a professor at the University Not so very long ago, if I had come across this book I'd have skimmed it, found some of Houstonit interesting, she has spent but it would not have 'hit home' in the last 13 years working with peopleway that it does now. I believe it came to me not just because I was likely to give it a favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's storiesu.s. Such a qualitative approach, based on anecdote and experiencep. is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is relatively rare in the social sciences but certainly makes her work more accessible a predisposition towards expecting to laymen. Her books fall into like the book, even if it doesn't always turn out that way'self-help' arena, ] – but without any of the negative connotations of that term. Here she makes her research relevant also because it is a book I needed to everyday life by weaving in pop culture references and telling stories from her family and professional liferead, right now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091955033</amazonuk>1800461682

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lee Crutchley0753558378|title=How to Be Happy (or at least less sad)Effortless: A Creative Workbook|rating=4|genre=Lifestyle|summary=I gave up hoping for happiness many years ago and settled instead for enjoying contentment when it arrived and trying Make It Easier to make the most of it. 'Happiness' seemed to be rather like 'privileges' - 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>}}{{newreviewDo What Matters|author=Simon Dawson|title=The Sty's the Limit: When Middle Age Gets MuckyGreg McKeown

|summary=Simon Dawson has met something he cannot beat''The marginal return of working harder was, in fact, negative. He can't come ' That's what happened to terms with it eitherPatrick McGinnis. It's called Getting Older: not no exaggeration to say that he devoted his life to the 'getting older' which we all do day by daycompany he worked for, struggling through, but that moment even when you realise he was ill, only to find that you've moved on to an entirely different stage in your life - and no one actually asked you if you wanted to go on the journeyhe was working for a bankrupt company. For Simon it's Middle Age that's taken him His stock had fallen by surprise: bits of the body have stopped working as they ought to 97%, he had lost his health and he's realised that his job had little value. He made a bargain with God; if he's going to look in the mirrorsurvived, barehe would make some changes. He did survive and came through stronger -chestedand richer. There is, you see, then he shouldna different way: 't do it when he's standing next to a fit teenage boygreat things are not reserved for those who bleed, for those who almost break.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409160858</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth Swados1523092734|title=My Depression : A Picture BookWomen's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van Cort|rating=45|genre=AutobiographyPolitics and Society|summary=If you have ever suffered from depression you'll find it very difficult to explain to other people how you're feelingShe brings a hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in her life. Again and again and again. You're not feeling ''just a little bit down(Alma Derricks, former CMO, Cirque du Soleil RSD) ''To claim space is to live the life of choosing unapologetically and bravely. A treat or a dollop of positive thinking will not miraculously cure It is to live the life you've always wanted. You're definitely not swinging ' Sometimes the reviewing gods are generous: at a time when violence against women is much in the leadnews, but suffering from a legitimate illness which deserves ''A Women's Guide to be recognisedClaiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk. Elizabeth Swados Now - to be clear - this book is not a long-term sufferer from severe depression'how to disable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual: sheit's also a talented storyteller and has told her something far more effective, but discussion at the story of moment seems to be about how depression feels for her - complete with drawingswomen can be ''protected''. I've always thought that women need to rise above this, to be people who don't need protection, people who claim their own space. If all women did this, which fill in those gaps which words can never fill for any sufferer from depressionfew 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>1609806042</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=William Alexander1529109116|title=Flirting With FrenchCall Me Red: A Shepherd's Journey|author=Hannah Jackson

|summary=''I am not want the image of a British farmer to simply be that of a bad linguistperson who is proudly employed in feeding the nation. I don’t tend don't think that is too much to struggle with languages too ask.'' The stereotypical farmer was probably born on the land where ''his'' family have farmed for generations. He's probably grown up without giving much, especially when thought as to what he really wants to do: he knows that he'll be a farmer. It's not always the goal is communicative fluency rather than precise grammatical accuracy, case though. Hannah Jackson was born and I’ve taught English as brought up on the Wirral: she'd never set foot on a foreign language in commercial farm until she was twenty although she'd always had a handful deep love of countries tooanimals. Her original intention was that she would become 'Dr Jackson, so I have some ideas of what does whale scientist' and doesn’t work with language acquisition in adultsshe was well on her way to achieving this when her life changed on a family holiday to the Lake District. William Alexander is She saw a lamb being born and, although 'Hannah Jackson, perhapsfarmer' lacked the kudos of her original intention, not so lucky. An American with a longing she knew that she wanted to be a Frenchman, he shepherd. With the determination that you'll soon realise is devoting himself to learning the lingo and much morean essential part of her, and chronicles his efforts in this bookshe set about achieving her ambition.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649957</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amy Morin1786495902|title=13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't DoThe Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Isabel Hardman

|genre=Popular ScienceLifestyle|summary=When Amy Morin was just 26 and working as Isabel Hardman suffered a psychologist and therapist her husband died suddenly, but even whilst she was reeling from the shock she realised that there were things trauma which she must ''chooses not'' doto share. She knew says that she must not develop a sense of entitlementfriend who does know, feel resentment or succumb to selfburst into tears and health-pitycare professionals' jaws have sagged in disbelief. That was ten years agoHardman dealt with this at the time by 'keeping going': since then Morin has remarried and worked with numerous patients using the principles which next day she applied went to herself. She's found 13 common habits which hold us back in life and developed strategies work to combat them. But cover the best thing which she makes clear is that mental strength is not about acting tough - for instancebudget, if you've suffered a bereavementnext there was the EU referendum, you need the political party leadership contests and then it was party conference season. One night she had to grieve be sedated and returned home to begin long- it's about having term sick leave. That was what brought me to this book: 2020 was the year when the mental wherewithal to overcome life's challengesbins went out more often than I did.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008105936</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John KempLauren Martin|title=Caring for ShirleyThe Book of Moods|rating=45|genre=AutobiographyLifestyle|summary=John Kemp's wife, ShirleyI was in a great mood when I first learnt of this book, suffered from dementia and loss of coordination and for eight years he was her full-time carer as she was unable to walk unaided (because sarcasm doesn't always translate wellinto writing, she imagine the word ''couldgreat'' - but it was likely to result in being delivered with an eye roll and a serious fall) and took care of all her most personal needssigh, through clenched teeth. Probably I had spent the most heart-breaking best part of this is that Shirley didn't recognise John as her husband - apart from 'give us a kiss'rainy, windy weekend afternoon out on the question 'wherewater at our local sailing club in the rescue rib, on standby in case anyone who was racing needed support. It's John?a volunteer duty we all do during the year, and normally I' was usually m happy to, but that day the first which sprang to her lips in any situation. Although she could often have quite an affable disposition she weather was capable of kicking miserable and biting when she I was being 'encouraged' miserable, and it all came to do something which she didn't want to doa head that evening when I noticed on the website that we had been thanked for our time as "Dave and wife". Wow. I had never needed this book more.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1479374245</amazonuk>1538733625

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr William Davis0008420386|title=Wheat BellyFailosophy: The effortless health and weight-loss solution - no exercise, no calorie counting, no denialA handbook for when things go wrong|author=Elizabeth Day

|summary=Dr William Davis poses an interesting question: why is it that people who are leading an active life What do Malcolm Gladwell, Alain de Botton, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Lemn Sissay, Nigel Slater, Emeli Sandé, Meera Syal, Dame Kelly Holmes and eating a healthy diet are putting on weight despite all their best effortsAndrew Scott have in common? He has a simple They've all failed and worrying answer: wheat, which he argues increases blood sugar - more than table sugar. The problem isnimportantly - they't restricted ve been willing to weight gain, either: thereappear on Elizabeth Day's evidence podcast to suggest that wheat affects psychosis discuss their failures and autism toohow life worked out for them afterwards. In fact - the more that you read, the more youYou'll wonder if there's an organ find the results of these discussions in the body which ''isn'tFailosophy'' adversely affected by wheat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008118922</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1504321383|title=Holly Baxter Single, Again, and Rhiannon Lucy CosslettAgain, and Again|titleauthor=The Vagenda: A Zero Tolerance Guide to the MediaLouisa Pateman|rating=34.5|genre=LifestyleAutobiography|summary=I love magazines more than is socially acceptable, ''You can't be happy and I invariably read the women’s ones, or the fitness ones, but yes, mainly those ones for females which insist fulfilled on telling me how your own. You are not complete until you find a man''. This was what Louisa Pateman was brought up to dress and act, how to style hair in some areas and remove believe. It wasn't unkind: it was simply the adults in others, how her life advising her as to have it all but still let men open doors what they thought would be best for meher. I don’t really object to any of this – 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 all, I choose . Few girls are lucky enough to keep subscribing – but I be brought up ''without'' the expectation that they will marry and have children. It was still keen to read this book. And not just to check I hadn’t been indoctrinated into forgetting a belief and it was all would be many years before Louisa would conclude that ''a belief is a ruse to make me buy stuffchoice''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784700436</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Madsen Pirie1538731738|title=How Simple Abundance: 365 Days to Win Every Argumenta Balanced and Joyful Life|author= Sarah Ban Breathnach|rating=4.5

|summary=When a book makes a promise on its coverSomeone once said: it's not self-indulgence, it's therapy! I think they were talking about shopping, call me old fashioned but I’m kinda expecting it probably can be applied to deliver on thismost things. So ''How In my case, it applies to writing about things because I want to Win Every Argument'' has me thinking that , rather than because I would read can sell it and become an expert in proving I’m right all the time (even when I’m not). or because I was expecting the sort of hints and tips one could use 've got something to argue successfully that the Earth is flat, chocolate is a vegetable (cocoa is a plant) and Cheerleaders should rule the world. Simplessell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147252912X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dr Gareth MooreSharon Blackie|title=Clever Commuter: Puzzles, Tests and Problems to Solve on Your JourneyIf Women Rose Rooted|rating=3.5|genre=EntertainmentBiography|summary=The week before I reviewed this book I saw a newspaper article that said normally say that so-called brain-training apps are you can tell how much a waste book means to me by how many pages have corners turned down. Perhaps an even greater measure of time, that they merely replace what we should be doing anyway impact is setting out to buy my own copy before I've finished reading the one I've borrowed. I want to keep our grey cells active (multiavoid clichés like 'powerful' 'inspiring' 'life-tasking, observing, REAL LIFE etc). This changing' – although it is definitely the first two and only time will tell about the puzzle book version of third – but clichés exist for a brain training app, reason and so with all those electronic titles on the market I'm not sure I can succinctly put it already had opposition, even before that news came inany better. 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?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782433953</amazonuk>1912836017

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amelia Freer1543987877|title=Eat. Nourish. Glow.Learn to Love: 10 easy steps for losing weight, looking younger and feeling healthier|rating=4|genre=Lifestyle|summary=Amelia Freer had struggled with her own health for a while and it reached a stage where she was waking up feeling tired and groggy, relying on ten cups a day of sugary tea Guide to perk her up and her food was mainly processed convenience foods. At the time she was working as a PA to Prince Charles and loved the job but her busy life meant that she made automatic food choices without consideration of what they were doing to her health. It wasn't until she went to see a nutritionist that she realised what she had been doing and made the decision not only to change her diet, but to train to be a nutritionist. The result is a busy practice - and this book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000757990X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewHealing Your Disappointing Love Life|author=Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschappeler|title=The Test Book: 64 Tools to Lead You to SuccessDr Thomas Jordan

|summary=''Learn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life'' is a book about love relationships rather than a book about love. The title two greatest emotions are love and grief and love is the opposite of the book intrigued megrief: ''The Test Bookif you love'', Dr Thomas Jordan tells us, ''you will inevitably grieve'' and the offer of sixty four tools which would lead me to success. IYour love relationships begin the moment you'm happy with where my life is but it struck me that re born and end only a fool doesn't see room for improvement - when you die. Whilst we all come into the world hoping to give and besides, it's a slim book, ideal receive love there are many people for popping into a bag or pocket for those waiting room momentswhom love is not quite so simple. It was only the reputation of Some people suffer multiple disappointments - sometimes repeating the authors same mistakes - and the value of their earlier books - which made me realise that this wasn't going to be a light-hearted series of 'tests' such as those favoured by some magazines and newspaperseventually becomes resignation. For people who are making the most part these are serioussame mistakes repeatedly, wellself-established tests used by professionalspreservation, in the form of resignation is a necessity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178125320X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Digital InfernoMichael Harris|authortitle=Paul LevySolitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World|rating=45

|summary=You know how This is not the book I was expecting it goes. You have a pressing job that requires your immediate attention, but decide to treat yourself to a five minute tea break surfing the internetbe. One link leads For some reason I expected it to be another and before you know itself-help manual on how to find calm, your short tea break has swallowed up a whole hour. Or maybe you are at an important meeting and you feel how to step outside the phone vibrate in your pocketmainstream, signalling an incoming textbut it is not that at all. Is Instead of telling us how, it rude is more about the ''why''. Harries examines how we're eroding solitude, which used to check your messages when your full attention should really be elsewhere? If you feel a natural part of our human life, and why that meaningful communication with the family matters. Of course he talks about how some people have found solitude and what has been replaced with a glut come of hastily-typed x'sthat, LOLs and emoticonseventually in the final chapter he talks about his own experience of having deliberately sought it out, this book may be just what you need. ''Digital Inferno'' aims to help its readers reclaim their place in but mostly he wanders down the digital world alleys and gain mastery over all of those pieces of tech by-ways that seem to demand so much of ushis thinking about this lost art led him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905570740</amazonuk>1847947662

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|summary=In 1900 a young girl in a strange land told the people around her that she had decided she no longer wanted Go on, admit it - you're not quite perfect. You still have those odd, quirky even loveable (to live in their lovely country, but would much rather return you) habits which seem to the ‘dry, grey’ place she had come from, because there was ‘no place like home’annoy other people. The girl was DorothyOther people, while the people around her were the citizens of Oz – andcourse, yesare sorely afflicted with some dreadful flaws which they could so easily correct, it was all fictionif only they would make just a little bit of effort. Or put another way, 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 seem to be quite monumental changes I never quite seem to get to grips with the creation of author Lconcepts. Frank Baum I constantly fail and then I get cross with myself for failing. Nevertheless he had put into words something which many people deeply felt but had not yet expressedLack of willpower is another burden to add to the list.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848877986</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1785785516|title=The Bookshop BookFucking Good Manners|author=Jen CampbellSimon Griffin|rating=4.5

|summary=I love Manners maketh man, they say. It certainly makes life easier if everybody abides by a good bookshop. The smellset of conventions, the feel some of which are ages old and other which have evolved over time. Manners are not about how much to tip or how you should behave if you get an old bookshopinvitation to Buckingham Palace, and they have nothing to do with class or financial status: they're about getting the wonderful feeling when you chance upon a book that appeals basics right before we try to youdeal with more difficult matters. They may be a dying breed in some places Of course we all have more relaxed manners when we're with family and friends, but Jen Campbell has written a fantastic book that celebrates it's best if we learn to distinguish between our public and private lives and to act appropriately. ''Fucking Good Manners'' aims to help us on the bookshop and those who love themway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472116666</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=William Poundstone1999811402|title=How to Predict the Unpredictable: The Art of Outsmarting Almost Everyone|rating=4|genre=Reference|summary=William Poundstone believes that we are all in the business of predicting, whether it be something as minor as playing rock, paper, scissors to pay a bar bill though to anticipating how the housing or stock markets are going to move. Now, I'm not particularly competitive - if whatever it is means ''that'' much to someone else then I'd rather let them have it - so this book didn't appeal to me on the basis of doing better than someone else, but I was interested in how it might be possible to predict what is going to happen. So, care to predict how it stacked up?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780744072</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewPainting Snails|author=Dan Waddell|title=Who Do You Think You Are?: The Genealogy HandbookStephen John Hartley

|genre=ReferenceAutobiography|summary=The celebrity genealogy programme It's very difficult to classify ''Who Do You Think You Are?Painting Snails'' celebrates its 10th anniversary this : originally I thought that as it's loosely based around a yearon an allotment it would be a lifestyle book, but you're not going to get advice on what to plant when and where for the best results. The makers, Wall to Wall Media, were fortunate enough to ride answer would be something along the ripple lines of family tree fascination, helping to turn 'try it into the hobbyist tidal wave that remains todayand see'. For those not familiar with the formatThen I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, did an engineering apprenticeship, each episode allows us to accompany became a household name as they discover secretsbusker, scandals finally got into medical school and surprises about is now an ancestor or twoA&E consultant (part-time). Thus we arenI found out that there't only entertained; we're encouraged s an awful lot more to delve into our own pasts, BBC TV publications acting as tutor and motivator via this handy little reference guide.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849908249</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lynne Martin|title=Home Sweet Anywhere: How We Sold Our House, Created what goes on in a New LifeMajor Trauma Centre than you'll ever glean from ''Casualty'', and Saw but that isn't really what the World|rating=4|genre=Travel|summary=Lynne and Tim Martin had known each other decades ago but when we meet them theybook've only been married for a short times about. There's just one thing though - they're not ready a lot about rock & roll, which seems to settle down, despite be the fact that theyreal passion of Hartley're what might be called 'upper middle ageds life, but it didn't actually fit into the entertainment genre either. Their roots are in the US - both have adult children there and the Martins Did we have a house in California - but they want to travel and not just as tourists. They want to see category for 'doing the world as impossible the locals see it and to experience what ithard way's like to live there. ? Lynne describes them as not being wealthy, but they decide to sell their home, invest the money and become 'homeYep -freethat'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00J0CRNKE</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Conversations|author=Olivia Fane|rating=5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=I need no encouragement to start talking. Leave me alone with someone and I will find something to talk to them about, in whatever language. I’ve dated people I’ve met by talking to them on aeroplanes, hablaring español with them in evening classes, chatting to them online. I’ve made friends at s the gym, on the shop floor, during a day’s IT system training, people I still keep in touch withone. So you might think the last thing I need is a book of conversation starters, and yet in a way that’s what this is It's an autobiography.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099581981</amazonuk>