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|title=He Texted: The Ultimate Guide to Decoding Guys
|author=Lisa Winning and Carrie Henderson-McDermott
|rating=4
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=This book, despite the title, is about more than texting. It is about the whole digital world and how guys and gals interact within it (Companies’ House stalkerage aside). From how long to wait to text back, to how to respond to friend requests and what to do with the power when you’re unleashed on his Facebook wall, this book promises to provide hilarious and essential advice on how to navigate the perplexing world that is trouser-shaped.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780892071</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=William Hanson
|summary=Mary Beard's latest collection, 'All in a Don's Day', of her assembled blog pieces from 2009 until the end of 2011, covers similar concerns to her previous selection, [[It's A Don's Life by Mary Beard|It's a Don's Life]]. Professor Beard is a fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge and became Classics Professor at there in 2004. She is also an expert in Roman laughter, an interest which she fully indulges in the pages of her TLS blog. In her latest collection she bemoans the parlous current state of both Education and the Academy, and makes witty observations on matters as various as television chefs, what and how to visit in Rome and the art and worth of completing references in an age when only positive things may be said about postgraduate job-seekers.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685362</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Olga Levancuka
|title=How to Be Selfish (and Other Uncomfortable Advice)
|rating=3.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=It's strange how you come to read a particular book. A couple of days ago I was chatting to a dog-walking friend who retired about a year ago. He'd been surprised to find that the main problem in retirement was one which he hadn't anticipated: all his life he'd had to account for himself to somebody else and now he was struggling to discover what it was that ''he'' wanted to do. Then I found myself chatting to Olga Levancucka, author of ''How To Be Selfish'' - but she seemed like one of the most unselfish people I'd ever met. There was a book here waiting to be read!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1468115987</amazonuk>
}}