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[[Category:New Reviews|Lifestyle]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Twigs Way1454955546|title=Allotments (Britain's Heritage Series)Sugarless|author=Nicole M Avena|rating=45
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|summary=Allotments came about originally from the enclosure of land''This isn't a diet book. The last thing anyone needs is another diet book.'' There was a time, not that long ago, primarily when it was thought that sugary food was better for sheep pastureyou than food with high-fat content. Fearing that Fat was the enclosures would leave peasants unable demon food which was going to feed themselveselevate your cholesterol and cause heart disease. Sugar was a carbohydrate, Elizabeth I issued an act requiring all new cottages to have four acres of ground, something which has been honoured more by history than by Elizabethso good. There's contemporariesa problem, though. It was Sugar is addictive and can hijack your brain in much the first in a long line of legislation with same way as drugs like heroin and cocaine. Does that aim in mind - which largely failed to achieve their aimssound over the top? Well, it isn't.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445665700</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicos Nicolaou1635866847|title=The Anxiety-Elimination SystemLavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5
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|summary=Nick Nicolau suffered a major panic attack and was told by his doctor It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that he would need medication to control this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the attacks author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and that there wasn's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't much more that he could do eat cakes and desserts - apart but I wanted that was, from going home to sleepcake viscerally. The next morning he had another attack (There's a recipe in the book, which he could neither stop nor control I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and before long I was having panic attacks every day and developed generalised anxiety and phobias. After told to make a great deal mess of work and research he discovered how to control his anxiety - and now he helps others to do the sameit. No one is born with a chemical imbalance Notes in the brain and genes do not determine behaviourmargins are sanctioned. The proof of You get to fold down the efficacy corners of his system is pages. You suspect that through the course smears of butter would not be a particularly challenging life event - his divorce - he didnproblem. I ''loved''t slip back into inappropriate anxietythis book already.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524667412</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Akon Margaret Kalu0760381267|title=Eat With PleasureVerdura: Living a Garden Life|author=Perla Sofia Curbelo-Santiago|rating=3.5
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|summary=When you think about ''The most important part of a certified nutrition coach you probably imagine someone garden is the one who is going to be very strict with you about what you should or shouldnenjoys it''t be eating. I've 'gardened' in a vague, indefinite sort of way for more than half a century. You visualise someone who will insist that you eat worthy I know (and probably tastelessmost of) food and completely avoid those foods which you really love. Gone will be the bar of chocolate basics but life has changed and possibly even the mug of coffee which gets you going in the morning. It was particularly refreshing and something of a relief to encounter Akon Margaret Kalu - certified nutrition coach and food blogger at [http://www.therealakon.co.uk www.therealakon.co.uk]. SheI needed 's outspoken. She believes that the occasional treat does you no harm so long as you donprojects't make it rather than a regular habitgeneral commitment to gardening. In fact you're better having a small, occasional, indulgent snack than resisting and finally giving into cravings and ''bingingVerdura''. In other words, she lives in the real world with its promise of projects for both indoors and outdoors of varying complexity seemed like the rest of us imperfect beingsanswer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524676942</amazonuk> So, how did it stack up?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ruth PearsonSarah Wilson|title=Say Yes This One Wild and Precious Life: the path back to New Opportunities!connection in a fractured world|rating=43.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=Ruth Pearson was deputy head of her school 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 was studying for a Masters degree when she suffered an emotional breakdown as a result of precious life the stresses of the jobway I want to. Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. The breakdown was so severe In her book that takes Oliver's words as her title (though I can't see that she was afraid to return acknowledges the source) she pushes us to think about whether we really ''are'' living the classroom, but rather than sitting back and letting life we want – the circumstances overwhelm her she allowed what had happened to become a catalyst which would help her to change her best lifethat we could be living. In Her answer is an unequivocal ''Say Yes to New Opportunitiesno, we are not'' she shares what she learned from the experience. To come back from this situation requires strengthDon't care what you're doing, honesty and a sense of purposeshe thinks you (we, all of which Pearson demonstrates quite clearly throughout this bookI) could be doing more…And she's effing furious about the fact that we are not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524676616</amazonuk>1785633848
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1394159544|title=Confessions of Modern WomenRecycling for Dummies|author=Spadge WhittakerSarah Winkler|rating=4.5
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|summary=She's back! Huzzah! Do 'Recycling one ton of plastic can save up to 16.3 barrels of oil.'' ''Recycling one ton of paper can save 17 trees from being cut down.'' If you remember when Spadge Whittaker [[Braver Than Britainsend an apple core to landfill, Occasionally by Spadge Whittaker|faced her (it will take between 6 months and our) deepest fears]]? We loved the way she did that2 years to decompose. EXCEPT FOR THE SPIDERS A glass bottle will take up to 1 million years.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dixe Wills0760378134|title=Tiny CampsitesThe First-Time Gardener: 80 Perfect Little Places to PitchContainer Food Gardening|author=Pamela Farley|rating=4.5|genre=TravelHome and Family|summary=IIf you've often been put off the idea of camping by the ever thought of large, soul-less campsites, often populated by people who want how good it would be to be able to party late pop out into the nightgarden and pick some fruit and vegetables for a meal – but realised that you wouldn't know where to start, this is the book you need. I much prefer camping It's comprehensive: you'll cover everything from why you should grow your own food, what you're going to mean something - a feeling of being somewhere specialgrow, of being able to be at one with nature. But the trouble iswhat you'll grow it in (both containers and soil), where do you find 'll put these gems? Wellcontainers, how you''Tiny Campsites'' will provide ll water and fertilise them and you finish the main part of the book with eighty perfect little places to pitch your tenta handy section on troubleshooting. There's also a good glossary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749578483</amazonuk> So, is it any good?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Redress1398508632|title=Dress (with) sense: The Practical Guide to a Conscious ClosetWilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating=4.5
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|summary=Not too It had been on the cards for a while but it was the week-long ago I didn't have any problems with clothesconsumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. They were just about all black and I wore them until they dropped off my back - and then I used what I could The end of November, particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the best time to start, in a world where the material for other purposesnormal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and a pandemic. I Wilde had this lovely little clothes shop in Ilkley (it says 'Oxfam' over a few advantages: the door) when I needed area around her was a known habitat with a variety of terrains. She had electricity which allowed her to restockrun a fridge, freezer and dehydrator. Clothes were simpleShe had a car - and fuel. Then I encountered the lovely [[:Category:Numba Pinkerton|Numba Pinkerton]] and suddenly I Most importantly, she had colour in my lifeshelter: this was not all of it could be had from Oxfam. Sometimes I might even be buying 'a plan to 'new'live' clothes. I needed help and more advice, because it really isn't as simple as wild just walking into the nearest department storeto live off its produce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500292779</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dr Elizabeth Blackburn Bjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankeler, Navid Modiiri and Dr Elissa Epel Agnes Bromme (Translator)|title=The Telomere Effect: A Revolutionary Approach to Living Younger, Healthier, LongerI May Be Wrong
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|genre=Popular ScienceAutobiography|summary=When the Dalai Lama adds his words to your frontispiece, I have lived my life determined not 'm inclined to think it doesn''age'': I see nothing aspirational in t really matter how the dependence rest of old agethe world responds to your book. I know, whether it be on other peoplehaving read the book in question, government in all its forms or the NHSthat Lindeblad would disagree with that thought. He knows (and at core so do I'm prepared to put effort into this: ) that it's not matters very much how the cosmetic image rest of youth I seekthe world responds to this book, but rather because it tells the ability to do truth as I do now - running a businessit is, regularly walking for miles in our glorious countryside and enjoying life - for as long as possiblethe early 21st century. So far it's working out, but what else could I do and ''why'' does this work for some people and not for others?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0297609238</amazonuk>1526644827
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Weatherhogg1732898731|title=Living With DepressionThe Boy Who Loved Boxes: A Children's Book for Adults|author=Michael Albanese |rating=4.5
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|summary=Nick Weatherhogg has been diagnosed as suffering from severe depressionThere was a Boy who loved boxes. Many of you will be nodding wisely He had a box for everything and thinking that you know how he feelswas meticulous about storage: but there are two points he wants to make here. You ''donhis parents probably couldn't'' know how he feels. believe their luck! This is ''his'' depression It began with art supplies, stuffed toys and only he knows what it feels the like - if he's able to think or express how he's feeling: all the things which most children have in abundance. The other point is that thereBoy's a big difference between ''feeling'' depressed and ''being'' depressed - ''fepression'' and ''bepression'' as he terms them. He's rightdelight was in the sense of order in his room: I've been thereit made him feel happy. My feelingsAs he grew up and became a Man, my experience will have been different, but I do know that it was hellishhis life became more complicated and he dealt with this by getting bigger and better boxes. He describes Look carefully at the experience as 'pictures and you'll see that one of them has a mental state in which your brain regularly and consistently lies to youpadlock...''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524663662</amazonuk>
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{{newreview<!-- remove 12/1 -->Frontpage|authorisbn=Jo Bird1846276772|title=Web to SuccessThe End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell
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|genre=LifestylePolitics and Society|summary=[[Anyone who is not an able, white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the extent to which they suffer from it:Category:Jo Bird|Jo Bird]] (illustrator, designer and… errrit's simply a part of everyday life. White men will always come first. The able will come before the disabled.wall tattooist) had a lightbulb moment about positive thinking Jobs, promotions, self-improvement and successhigher salaries are the preserve of the white man. The road to an improved self isnEven when those who wouldn't linear in pass the medical become a 'change this thing and all will be fine' way; part of an organisation it's a web rare that connects and intersects several paths and subjects their views are heard, that can be summarised under three headingstheir concerns are acknowledged. All successful people (socially as much as professionally) know about self-awareness, personal development It's personally appalling and emotional awareness. After having a shot at principles degrading for the individuals on the receiving end of self-improvement herself, Jo shares the fruit of her experience across a wealth of fields to make one heck of a self-help bookbias but it's not just the individuals who are negatively impacted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>152466622X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mary Ellen GuineyErling Kagge|title=Vietnamese VoicesWalking: One Step At A Time|rating=3.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=Mary Ellen Guiney has been diagnosed at various times Those 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 schizophrenia and bi-polar disorderan apology to the Norfolk Library Service: sorry! I forgot it was your book not mine. The resulting treatment In my defence, I will say that as a reader of this type of choice book there is something connective about noting where prior readers were inspired (provided it is subtle – I'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 have finished telling you why). Erligg Kagge is a Norwegian explorer who has walked to the South Pole, the conventional western medicine approach North Pole and drug regimens that brought with them unpleasant side-effectsthe summit of Everest. He knows a thing or two about walking. Determined to find However, this isn't a better way travelogue about any of symptom controlthose epic journeys, using her biochemical background, Mary Ellen begins it is instead a thoughtful exploration of what it means to investigate alternative eastern medicine and therapies in addition to looking at the effect walk. It is a plenitude of nutrition unnumbered essays about walking. There is no 'contents' page and exerciseI haven't counted. The results are here: this In small format paperback, each essay is Mary Ellen's story written in her own wordsonly a few pages long. Perhaps then, better thought of as a meditation rather than an essay.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524663123</amazonuk>0241357705
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patrick MbayaRichard Brook|title= My Brain Is Out Of Control|rating= 4|genre= Home and Family|summary=Dr Patrick Mbaya was enjoying life as a consultant psychiatrist, husband and father. His career was going well and he enjoyed making ill people better. His marriage was solid and fulfilling and his two children were exploring their potential, often through the uplifting power of music. Life was good. But then...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524636649</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jonathan S Lee|title=Lean Gains|rating=4|genre=Sport|summary=I don't often begin a book by telling you what it ''isn't'' but in this case I think itUnderstanding Human Nature: A User's important. If you're a fairly sedentary person or a casual sportsman or woman looking Guide to shed a few pounds then you won't get the best out of this book. You'll find some good advice about diet, but I'm afraid that much of it is going to go over your head. Of course you could always take up a sport seriously... On the other hand, if you ''are'' a serious sportsman then you could find that the advice in ''Lean Gains'' could lift you up to the next level of performance.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>152463493X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Laura Slater|title=Hollywood Beauty: Vintage SecretsLife|rating=4.5
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|summary=I have vivid memories from am a firm believer that sometimes we choose books, and sometimes books choose us. In my youth case, this is one of seeing the Hollywood beauties on the television or at the cinema and wishing that latter. Not so very long ago, if I had come across this book I'd have skimmed it, found some of it interesting, but it would not have 'Ihit home'' could look like in the way that and - of course, no matter how it does now. I tried, I never could. The look of Marilyn Monroe, Rita Hayworth, Audrey Hepburn, Brigitte Bardot, Ava Gardner and Sofia Loren always eluded believe it came to me. To begin with, not just because I lacked knowledge. Despite being reasonably petite my oblong face was never going likely to look anything like Audrey Hepburngive it a favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag'su. I lacked quite a few of Brigitte Bardot's attributes too. Gradually, I realised p. is that developing my people chose their own style was books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a predisposition towards expecting to like the best way to gobook, but Ieven if it doesn'll confess t always turn out that there are still way''elements'' of the stars' looks which ] – but also because it is a book I'd love needed to copy. That's where ''Vintage Secrets: Hollywood Beauty'' comes inread, right now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0859655083</amazonuk>1800461682
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Yuchi Yang0753558378|title=A Food Guide Effortless: Make It Easier to Lowering Blood Pressure: 6 Simple StepsDo What Matters|author=Greg McKeown|rating=4.5
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|summary=Yuchi Yang has been a registered dietitian for over twenty years and she's allowing us the benefit 'The marginal return of her knowledge to help us to reduce our blood pressure working harder was, in fact, negative.''without That's what happened to Patrick McGinnis. It' taking medications no exaggeration to say that he devoted his life to the company he worked for, struggling through, even when he was ill, although she does stress only to find that if you ''are'' taking medication you shouldn't stop doing so without consulting your doctorhe was working for a bankrupt company. You can reduce your BP in six stepsHis stock had fallen by 97%, which are actually he had lost his health and his job had little value. He made a lot simpler than they soundbargain with God; if he survived, he would make some changes. He did survive and came through stronger - and richer. Does it work? YesThere is, it doesyou see, a different way: I've been eating this way 'great things are not reserved for those who bleed, for more than two years and I've gone from having 'very worryingthose who almost break.' 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 sort.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1539803422</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Long1523092734|title=The Mock OlympianA Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van Cort|rating=45|genre=SportPolitics and Society|summary=It started with an idle conversation just before the 2012 London Olympics: Michael Long's friend Sarah gave him 'She brings a book as part of his birthday presenthug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in her life. Again and again and again. It was ''Time Out(Alma Derricks, former CMO, Cirque du Soleil RSD) 's'' guide To claim space is to live the history life of choosing unapologetically and bravely. It is to live the Olympics and it covered each of life you've always wanted.'' Sometimes the summer Olympics reviewing gods are generous: at a time when violence against women is much in chronological order from the inaugural games in Athens in 1896. Sarahnews, ''A Women's boyfriend James commented that with all the running Michael did, heGuide to Claiming Space''d probably have run in most of the Olympic citiesby Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk. Although Long had done Now - to be clear - this book is not a goodly number of runs, bike rides and triathlons he'd only competed in how to disable your attacker with two of the twenty three cities - London and Athens. Now most of us would have left simple jabs' manual: it at that's something far more effective, but that's not discussion at the Michael Long youmoment seems to be about how women can be 're going to come to know and love. He saw it as a 'protected'challenge'. I' and whatve always thought that women need to rise above this, to be people who don's more he blogged about it and then wrote t need protection, people who claim their own space. If all women did this book, 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524662887</amazonuk>
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|summary=''I want the image of a British farmer to simply be that of a person who is proudly employed in feeding the nation. I don't think that is too much to 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 thought as to what he really wants to do: he knows that he'll be a farmer. It's not always the case though. Hannah Jackson was born and brought up on the Wirral: she'd never set foot on a commercial farm until she was twenty although she'd always had a deep love of animals. Her original intention was that she would become 'Dr Jackson, whale scientist' and she was well on her way to achieving this when her life changed on a family holiday to the 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. With the determination that you'll soon realise is an essential part of her, she set about achieving her ambition.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Numba Pinkerton1786495902|title=The No Black ProjectNatural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Isabel Hardman|rating=4.5
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|summary=I don't like shopping for clothesIsabel Hardman suffered a trauma which she chooses not to share. She says that a friend who does know, but thereburst into tears and health-care professionals's no valid reason whyjaws have sagged in disbelief. IHardman dealt with this at the time by 'm small, but reasonably slim - a size 10 petite usually fits me perfectly - and Ikeeping going'm lucky : the next day she went to be able work to afford to buy whatever clothes I want. The trouble is that I lack cover the budget, next there was the EU referendum, the confidence to know what is going to suit me political party leadership contests and to be honest then it's very difficult to get excited about a trip which will almost certainly end up with another pair of smart black trousers and a matching topwas party conference season. I never feel that I look particularly good in black, but I've resorted One night she had to it because it can usually take me anywhere be sedated and is unlikely returned home to cause offencebegin long-term sick leave. So, how did I feel when I That was given a copy of ''The No Black Project''? Well, what brought me to be honest, this book: 2020 was the year when the bins went out more often than I felt a little scared..did.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1533506957</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert ShortLauren Martin|title=101 Things To Do When You're Not DrinkingThe Book of Moods|rating=45
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|summary=If youI was in a great mood when I first learnt of this book, and because sarcasm doesn're thinking about giving up alcohol long termt always translate well into writing, short term or for Dry January then you might be wondering if itimagine the word ''great''s going to leave one helluva hole being delivered with an eye roll and a sigh, through clenched teeth. I had spent the best part of a rainy, windy weekend afternoon out on the water at our local sailing club in the rescue rib, on standby in your social lifecase anyone who was racing needed support. You might be thinking about what youIt'll s a volunteer duty we all do with during the time you year, and normally spend out socialising (just having I'm happy to, but that day the weather was miserable and I was miserable, and it all came to a quick one before you get the train home...) as well as head that evening when I noticed on the website that we had been thanked for our time you spend recovering from having had ''just'' one too many the night before. Sunday mornings will loom large as uncharted "Dave and largely unknown territorywife". Robert Short has a few answers for you - well 101 of them in fact - in a pocket-size Wow. I had never needed this book which should give you some inspirationmore.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780722877</amazonuk>1538733625
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tonia Vojtkofsky0008420386|title=Keep Your Brain Stronger Failosophy: A handbook for Longerwhen things go wrong|author=Elizabeth Day
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|summary=On the front of the book it says that our brains need a wellWhat do Malcolm Gladwell, Alain de Botton, Phoebe Waller-rounded workout just like our bodies. Bridge, Lemn Sissay, Nigel Slater, Emeli Sandé, Meera Syal, Dame Kelly Holmes and Andrew Scott have in common? A decade or two ago I wouldnThey't have given very much thought to this ve all failed and - more importantly - my body they've been willing to appear on Elizabeth Day'and'' my brain seemed to get all the workout they needed without me adding s podcast to discuss their burdens, but close on the beginning of my eighth decade I've noticed somethingfailures and how life worked out for them afterwards. I keep losing words: nothing major, you know, but this morning I couldnYou't remember ll find the name results of a flower which I hadnthese discussions in 't seen since this time last year - until about half an hour later, when, of course it was no longer relevant. When you're young you donFailosophy't worry about what you'll suffer from in old age. As you get older you develop dreads and one of the biggest for people who are still hale and hearty is that they'll develop dementia.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722842</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Margery Allingham and Julia Jones1504321383|title=Beloved Old Age Single, Again, and Again, and What to Do About it: Margery Allingham's the RelayAgain|author=Louisa Pateman
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|genre=Home and FamilyAutobiography|summary=We remember [[''You can't be happy and fulfilled on your own. You are not complete until you find a man''. This was what Louisa Pateman was brought up to believe. It wasn't unkind:Category:Margery Allingham|Margery Allingham]] as a novelist from it was simply the golden age of crime, perhaps not adults in her life advising her as famous as Agatha Christie or Dorothy L Sayers but certainly well regarded to what they thought would be best for her. It was reinforced by all those fairy tales where the girl (she's usually fairly young) is rescued by the handsome prince who appreciate good writing and excellent plottingthen marries her so that they can live happily ever after. Her last completed book was not a novel but Few girls are lucky enough to be brought up ''The Relaywithout'', a combined account of caring for three elderly relatives, (Em, Maud the expectation that they will marry and Grace) between 1959 and 1961 and suggestions as to how other people might achieve a good old age for their relativeshave children. Margery died in 1966 It was a belief and it would be many years before Louisa would conclude that ''The Relaya belief is a choice'' was never published in the form in which it was written.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1899262296</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jack Pendarvis1538731738|title=Cigarette Lighter (Object Lessons)Simple Abundance: 365 Days to a Balanced and Joyful Life|author= Sarah Ban Breathnach|rating=35
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|summary=I have a favourite cigarette lighter. That sentence may become more strange to you when you consider the fact that I have never smoked. I donSomeone once said: it't know how but I got s not self-indulgence, it as a freebie donkey's years ago, and therapy! I loved its curvy bronzed linesthink they were talking about shopping, and the fact that I had to click down on a button instead of rub against a flint-wheel but it probably can be applied to light itmost things. I optimistically took In my case, it with me at uni in case applies to writing about things because I found a girl good enough want to be with even though she smoked (which took almost another twenty years, but that's a different story) – therefore rather than because I was carrying something so evidently not a match as a potential match-maker. Later, its semi-art deco styling made can sell it perfect for a play or because I was in once, after which it dried up. Now it's more or less a paperweightve got something to sell. 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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lydia PyneSharon Blackie|title=Bookshelf (Object Lessons)If Women Rose Rooted|rating=5|genre= Biography|summary= I normally say that you can tell how much a book means to me by how many pages have corners turned down. Perhaps an even greater measure of impact is setting out to buy my own copy before I've finished reading the one I've borrowed. I want to avoid clichés like 'powerful' 'inspiring' 'life-changing' – although it is definitely the first two and only time will tell about the third – but clichés exist for a reason and I'm not sure I can succinctly put it any better.|isbn=1912836017}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1543987877|title=Learn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life|author=Dr Thomas Jordan
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|summary=Could you imagine ''Learn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life'' is a whole book dedicated to about love relationships rather than a single lump book about love. The two greatest emotions are love and grief and love is the opposite of woodgrief: ''if you love'', Dr Thomas Jordan tells us, or a few sections of metal? I can't assume it would be great – with or without said item being 'you will inevitably grieve'an object with physical, historical and psychological components'. Your love relationships begin the moment you're born and end only when you die. But shove some distorted tree by-products on Whilst we all come into the world hoping to said wood or metal, give and lo receive love there are many people for whom love is not quite so simple. Some people suffer multiple disappointments - sometimes repeating the same mistakes - and behold you have a bookshelfthis eventually becomes resignation. Now you're talking – but could you even now imagine For people who are making the same mistakes repeatedly, self-preservation, in the form of resignation is a whole book dedicated to it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1501307320</amazonuk>necessity.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Georgina RodgersMichael Harris|title=Peace of MindSolitude: A Book In Pursuit of Calm for Busy Mumsa Singular Life in a Crowded World|rating=35
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|summary=The promise of a This is not the book bringing me calm I was too much expecting it to resist! There be. For some reason I expected 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 to be trying another self-help manual on how to findcalm, how to step outside the mainstream, peace of mindbut it is not that at all. I have to sayInstead of telling us how, I was looking forward to some insightful revelations into changing my lifeit is more about the ''why''. I think the problem, howeverHarries examines how we're eroding solitude, was quickly apparent in that like a busy mum, who is trying which used to wear be a hundred masks at the same timenatural part of our human life, and carry out a multitude why that matters. Of course he talks about how some people have found solitude and what has come of rolesthat, this book isn't entirely sure what and eventually in the final chapter he talks about his own experience of having deliberately sought it's trying to beout, with everything from poetry but mostly he wanders down the alleys and colouring to mindfulness and recipesby-ways that his thinking about this lost art led him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473635519</amazonuk>1847947662
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Merinda D'Aprano0753553236|title= Tiny Habits: The Essential Guide to Your Prep School Journey (Head Teacher in Your Pocket)|rating= 4.5|genre= Lifestyle|summary= As you might have gathered from the title, ''The Essential Guide to Your Prep School Journey'' is pitched at parents who intend on using the private sector to educate their children. 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 to parents whose children will be travelling through the state sector. So if this is you, don't discount this book immediately. Such advice includes ''Why is reading so important?'', ''How can I promote 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 about. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993550304</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSmall Changes That Change Everything|author=A A Milne and E H Shepard|title=Winnie-the-Pooh's Little Book Of WisdomB J Fogg|rating=45
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|summary=For a Bear of Very Little Brain Winnie-theGo on, admit it -Pooh talks an awful lot of sense and we should be honoured that heyou's chosen to share with us a few of his wise wordsre not quite perfect. You seestill have those odd, occasionally quirky even loveable (wellto you) habits which seem to annoy other people. Other people, an awful lot of the timecourse, are sorely afflicted with some dreadful flaws which they could so easily correct, if we're honest) we look for wisdom in the wrong places and only they would make just a little bit of effort. Or put another way, I get cross with myself because I forget about those who have a very simple approach to life do things or do some actions more than I should and who may well have discovered no matter how I try to make what seem to be quite monumental changes I never quite seem to get to grips with the secret of happinessconcepts. I constantly fail and then I get cross with myself for failing. Pooh's take on life Lack of willpower is very simple and none another burden to add to the worse for thatlist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405281278</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rasmus Hougaard, Jacqueline Carter and Gillian Coutts1785785516|title=One Second Ahead: Enhance Your Performance at Work with MindfulnessFucking Good Manners|author=Simon Griffin
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|summary=Serendipity often brings you to the important booksManners maketh man, they say. Recently I heard myself say to It certainly makes life easier if everybody abides by a friend: ''I'm far too busy to do set of conventions, some of the important stuff''which are ages old and other which have evolved over time. It pulled me up shortManners are not about how much to tip or how you should behave if you get an invitation to Buckingham Palace, they have nothing to do with class or financial status: there was definitely something wrong here - and then I had they're about getting the opportunity basics right before we try to listen to an audio download of ''Busy'deal with more difficult matters. Of course we all have more relaxed manners when we' re with family and I knew that friends, but it was something I ''had'' s best if we learn to do distinguish between our public and private lives and take notice of if I was to stop going act appropriately. ''backwardsFucking Good Manners''aims to help us on the way. Because that was what I was doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B01727ER84</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rachel Kelly and Jonathan Pugh1999811402|title=Walking on Sunshine: 52 Small Steps to HappinessPainting Snails|author=Stephen John Hartley|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleAutobiography|summary=How It's very difficult to classify ''Painting Snails'': originally I thought that as it's loosely based around a year on an allotment it would be a lifestyle book, but you like 52 tips 're not going to get advice on how what to plant when and where for the best results. The answer would be happier? something along the lines of 'try it and see'. No this isn't Then I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, did an offer to sign up to engineering apprenticeship, became a dodgy website busker, finally got into medical school and is now an A&E consultant (part- ittime). I found out that there's an awful lot more to what goes on in a small book which Major Trauma Centre than you could pop into a bag and which will give you tips'll ever glean from ''Casualty'', tools and positive idea but that isn't really what the book's about how you can make your life happier, less complicated and more fulfilling. Open it at randomThere's a lot about rock & roll, if thatwhich seems to be the real passion of Hartley's what you feel like doinglife, or work your way through but it reading one tip per week - theydidn're helpfully divided t actually fit into the four seasons - and savour just entertainment genre either. Did we have a couple of pages of elegant writing which will give you something to think about or something positive to do (or not do category for 'doing the impossible the hard way'? Yep - if you see what I mean)that's the one. It's an autobiography.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722524</amazonuk>
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