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[[Category:New Reviews|Lifestyle]]__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Arianne Cohen|title=The Sex Diaries Project|rating=4|genre=Lifestyle|summary=It's often said 'there's nowt so queer as folk'. Surely this should be qualified as 'there's nowt so queer as folks' sex lives'. Arianne Cohen has made a major online database of testimony from people about their thoughts regarding sex <!-- Remove -- having it, not having it, having it with whom they're with, having it with those whom they're not with. And in every sense, the results can be exceedingly queer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091939356</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Vatsyayana1454955546|title=Kama Sutra|rating=4|genre=Lifestyle|summary=''Kama Sutra'', then... What could I possibly say to introduce it that you don't already know or think you know? For all that Kama Sutra is, it's no longer a guide to the art of pleasure. It's a fascinating historical document, and undoubtedly influential, but it's very much of its time and of its society. Try to follow all its suggestions and at best you'd never get laid again; at worst, you'll be up on a rape charge within a week. (''After sending the nurse's daughter away, he takes the girl's maidenhead while she is alone, asleep and out of her senses...'') |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846141095</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSugarless|author=Jane Shilling|title=The Stranger in the Mirror: A Memoir of Middle AgeNicole M Avena
|rating=5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Translated from French this beautifully presented little book takes the reader into homes boasting ''This isn't a diet book collections, large and small. Studded with succinct and appropriate quotations such as 'there The last thing anyone needs is no better reason for not reading a another diet book than having it.'' by Anthony Burgess.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906694583</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Roy Vickery1635866847|title=Garlands, Conkers and Mother-Die: British and Irish Plant-Lore|rating=5|genre=History|summary=For many centuries, plants have not only had practical uses as food, remedies, textiles and dyes, but have also symbolic and folkloric meaning in many different cultures. The term ''plant-lore'' has been coined to describe the profusion of the customs and beliefs associated with plants, and this book gathers together many of the plant-lore traditions of Britain and Ireland.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1441101950</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewLavender Companion|author=Cindy M Meston and David Buss|title=Why Women Have Sex: Understanding Sexual Motivation from Adventure to Revenge (Jessica Dunham and Everything in Between)Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=IIt'm all in favour of Edward Gorey becoming a bigger names strange, especially here in the UK, where his output things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is certainly less lauded than in his native USAthe book for you. ItBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's evident from a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the bright, glossy pages here that he was an extraordinary talenthomepage. Polymath I don't eat cakes and knowdesserts -all but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in real lifethe book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in his ink drawings he can show the complexity margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of someone like Dore, while using his draughtsmanship to pen macabre whimsy, like an old-fashioned love-child pages. You suspect that smears of Mervyn Peake and Edward Learbutter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0764948040</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Barbara Warmsley0760381267|title=Make, Mend, Bake, Save and Shine!Verdura: Living a Garden Life|author=Perla Sofia Curbelo-Santiago|rating=43.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=A slim, slither of a book with a big title. ''Green'' is the mantra on The most pages, as well as tips on how to waste less - whether it's food, clothes or water from the tap. This book has important part of a universal message. How to waste less. There garden is a nice introduction by seventysomething Barbara Walmsley, aka the charity [http://www.oxfam.org.uk/ Oxfam's] ''Green Granny.'' Certainly catchy but will it catch on? When I was delving inside the first couple of pages looking for the writer's name (one who enjoys it's not on the front cover) I discovered the phrase ''Printed And Bound In China.'' Defeating the message?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846013674</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Evany ThomasSarah Wilson|title=The Secret Language of Sleep: A Couple's Guide to the Thirty-nine Positions|rating=3|genre=Home and Family|summary=This volume takes the premise that the positions in which couples sleep together are an insight into their private mind. Therefore, with the help of the line drawings of 39 (apparently all of THE 39) positions, one might see where one is going wrong. It’s a chicken One Wild and egg situation where you might learn you’re with Precious Life: the wrong bed partner, and change either them or your nocturnal habits, or path back to connection in order to change yourself alter things having reflected on the contents here – with the help as they suggest of a ceiling-mounted camcorder.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1932416471</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Norah Vincent|title=Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Binfractured world
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|genre=Lifestyle|summary=My favourite Mary Oliver line is the one in which she asks ''Voluntary MadnessWhat 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 journalist Norah Vincent's account of her visits 'This! Precisely this.'' I'm lucky enough to be living my one wild and precious life the way I want to three mental health facilities in America. The first Sarah Wilson is an urban, public hospital that houses mainly homeless, psychotic patients, many of whom are addicted to drugsequally lucky. In this hospital, the doctors are overworked and jaded and medication is always the answer. Soon, the author finds her book that takes Oliver's words as her latent depression title (which led her though I can't see that she acknowledges the source) she pushes us to do think about whether we really ''are'' living the book in life we want – the first place) best life that we could be living. Her answer is returningan unequivocal ''no, we are not''. The process of being institutionalised breaks her sense of self-worth down astonishingly fast. Indeed Don't care what you're doing, she thinks you (we, I) could be doing more…And she suggests that it is 's effing furious about the lack of autonomy in institutional life, even for those patients who voluntarily commit themselves, fact that makes it so hard for them to rebuild independent lives when they finally leave the institutionwe are not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099513439</amazonuk>1785633848
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jean Hannah Edelstein 1394159544|title=Himglish and Femalese: Why Women Don't Get Why Men Don't Get ThemRecycling for Dummies|author=Sarah Winkler|rating=45
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|summary=Men aren't Martian and women don't hail from VenusRecycling one ton of plastic can save up to 16. We're all Earthlings apparently; which seems like progress 3 barrels of a sortoil. Even so we still have trouble understanding each other because we speak different languages – Himglish and Femalese. Luckily Jean Hannah Edelstein is fluent in both and has written this light hearted volume to define the problem and translate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848091729</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary Beard0760378134|title=It's A Don's LifeThe First-Time Gardener: Container Food Gardening|author=Pamela Farley
|rating=5
|genre=LifestyleHome and Family|summary=Professor Mary Beard, feisty Cambridge classics don, keeps an eye open for architectural detail wherever she goes. Even on holiday, she notices If you've ever thought how good it would be to be able to pop out into the changing urban landscape garden and records interesting parallels with ancient cities in her sparky blog. She is engaged in writing pick some fruit and vegetables for a detailed history of Pompeii and suddenly realisesmeal – but realised that you wouldn't know where to start, whilst perambulating the backstreets of the Mexican city of Oaxacan, that this is exactly what Pompeii must have been like. She observes the low rise shops, dirt tracks across dusty streets and the close juxtaposition of rich and poor. Impressive portals of grand residential properties tower above humble workshops, and this prompts her into imaginative reconstruction. In her blog, from which this intriguing book is culled, she tells us about just how Oaxacan encourages her to ponder again the curious cart ruts of Pompeiiyou need. She even finds walls splashed with political slogans that are just like Roman It's comprehensive: you'dipintill cover everything from why you should grow your own food, what you're going to grow, what you'. Indeed, here ll grow it in Mexico(both containers and soil), the local library displays an edifying message in Spanish which originates in Cicerowhere you's speech in his Pro Archiall put these containers, how you''Science ll water and fertilise them and letters are you finish the nourishment main part of youth and the diversion of old agebook with a handy section on troubleshooting. There''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682517</amazonuk>s also a good glossary. So, is it any good?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr Aaron Carroll and Dr Rachel Vreeman1398508632|title=Don't Swallow Your GumThe Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde
|rating=5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary='''BANG'''. That's It had been on the cards for a while but it was the sound week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of copious urban myths being shot downeating only wild food. '''BANG'''The end of November, particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the best time to start, in a world where the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and a pandemic. That's Wilde had a few advantages: the sound area around her was a known habitat with a variety of the old wives slamming the doorterrains. She had electricity which allowed her to run a fridge, as their tales get revealed as baselessfreezer and dehydrator. She had a car - and fuel. Most importantly, she had shelter: this was not a plan to ''live'CLICK'''. That's the noise lots of ill-informed websites make as they get closed down. All noises come due wild just to this brilliant booklive off its produce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141043369</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Luca Turin Bjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankeler, Navid Modiiri and Tania Sanchez Agnes Bromme (Translator)|title=Perfumes: The A - Z GuideI 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.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1732898731
|title=The Boy Who Loved Boxes: A Children's Book for Adults
|author=Michael Albanese
|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Wonderful, wonderful, wonderfulThere was a Boy who loved boxes. The only thing that could be conceivably better than reading He had a box for everything and he was meticulous about storage: his parents probably couldn''Perfumes'' would be to read it while sampling t believe their luck! It began with art supplies, stuffed toys and the scents it reviews, but even without like: all the olfactory component, ''Perfumesthings which most children have in abundance. The Boy'' is a s delightwas in the sense of order in his room: Turin (it made him feel happy. As he grew up and became a lyrical scientist) Man, his life became more complicated and he dealt with this by getting bigger and Sanchez (an analytically enthusiastic collector) not only treat perfume creation as high art, but turn perfume criticism into an art form (or better boxes. Look carefully at least the pictures and you'll see that one of them has a sophisticated genre of writing) toopadlock... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846681278</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeremy Clarkson1846276772|title=Driven to DistractionThe End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell
|rating=4.5
|genre=EntertainmentPolitics and Society|summary=Jeremy ClarksonAnyone 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: it's middle name ought to be ''Marmite''simply a part of everyday life. You really do either love him or hate himWhite men will always come first. I am in The able will come before the first campdisabled. I think he is brilliantly funnyJobs, promotions, higher salaries are the preserve of the white man. He is. He makes me laugh. Out loud. And like many women Even when those who watch Top Gear, (well, those that donwouldn't watch pass the medical become a part of an organisation it because they 's rare that their views are heard, that their concerns are strangely – ''bizarrely'' - attracted to James May – I am '''not''' - or because they want to mother The Hamster – I do '''not''') I find Jeremy Clarkson hilariousacknowledged. And I donIt't think you have to like cars to see s personally appalling and degrading for the individuals on the appeal either! I mean, receiving end of the columns within bias but it''Driven To Distraction'' occasionally start ''off'' talking about cars, but s not always and they quickly move on to just the things that get his dander up before tailing neatly back to the cars again. Or not. And what is in between is pure gold dustindividuals who are negatively impacted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718155548</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|author=Erling Kagge
|title=Walking: One Step At A Time
|rating=5
|genre= Lifestyle
|summary= 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 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'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).
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James MayRichard Brook|title=Car FeverUnderstanding Human Nature: Dispatches From Behind The WheelA User's Guide to Life|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Now, way back when I was younger, and watched TV a lot, I am sure I remember Top Gear as being a consumer programme. How times change. These days I am sure they destroy more cars than they reviewfirm believer that sometimes we choose books, and the three main people from the show are approaching superstar status, with their amenable personalities, awkward wardrobe choices and trenchant laddish charmssometimes books choose us. They've sprung their media entities from out In my case, this is one of the studiolatter. Not so very long ago, into other TV programmesif I had come across this book I'd have skimmed it, and the world found some of journalismit interesting, with chatty columns but it would not have 'hit home' in the broadsheets allowing them free rein way that it does now. I believe it came to witter me not just because I was likely to their heartgive it a favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's desireu. And heres.p. is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, in one grandiloquent volumeso there is a predisposition towards expecting to like the book, and in time for Christmaseven if it doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – but also because it is a book I needed to read, are many of James May's desiresright now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340994533</amazonuk>1800461682
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0753558378
|title=Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters
|author=Greg McKeown
|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=''The marginal return of working harder was, in fact, negative.''
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1523092734
|title=A Women's Guide to Claiming Space
|author=Eliza Van Cort
|rating=5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=''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)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Haynes1529109116|title=Who Is It That Can Tell Call Me Who I Am?Red: A Shepherd's Journey|author=Hannah Jackson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=This is a remarkable book. It gives an insight into ''I want the process image of psychotherapy, both from the theoretical point a British farmer to simply be that of view and, more significantly, from actual conversations and sessions a person who is proudly employed in feeding the consulting roomnation. Jane Haynes takes us through her own development as a client (although she doesnI don't like think that word) in her own self-discovery and therapy sessions, and then into some of her consulting sessions after she qualifies as a therapistis too much to ask. I've always thought of this kind of thing as very American, but this book is entirely British.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845299728</amazonuk>}}'
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Sanders1786495902|title=Juggle! Rethink Work, Reclaim your LifeThe Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Isabel Hardman|rating=2.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Isabel Hardman suffered a trauma which she chooses not to share. She says that a friend who does know, burst into tears and health-care professionals'jaws have sagged in disbelief. Hardman dealt with this at the time by 'Juggle!keeping going'' - says : the title - ''Rethink next day she went to workto cover the budget, next there was the EU referendum, reclaim your life''the political party leadership contests and then it was party conference season. Wonderful One night she had to be sedated and returned home to begin long- it seems like just the right term sick leave. That was what brought me to this book for someone like me: having a decent 9-to-5 job, but still wondering whether it is 2020 was the year when the best possible place to bebins went out more often than I did. Aren't we all told in school we have hidden talents and one could achieve brilliance if only one used them?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906465371</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Victoria Moore Lauren Martin|title=How to DrinkThe Book of Moods
|rating=5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=A friend who saw me reading I was in a great mood when I first learnt of this book was moved to ask if I really needed , and because sarcasm doesn't always translate well into writing, imagine the advice word ''great'' being delivered with an eye roll and was quite surprised when a sigh, through clenched teeth. I explained that it was about had spent the whole range best part of liquid intake from a rainy, windy weekend afternoon out on the humble glass of warm water (try it – it's wonderful first thing at our local sailing club in the morning) to rare spirits costing hundreds of pounds a bottlerescue rib, on standby in case anyone who was racing needed support. It's completely unpreachy with not a word about how much liquid you should be taking in each day to how few units you should be consuming each week. It's about getting volunteer duty we all do during the best (which isnyear, and normally I't always m happy to, but that day the most expensive) weather was miserable and I was miserable, and enjoying it – and most importantly, enjoying all came to a drink head that evening when I noticed on the website that's the drink you wantwe had been thanked for our time as "Dave and wife". Wow. I had never needed this book more.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847080200</amazonuk>1538733625
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Judy Heminsley 0008420386|title=Work From HomeFailosophy: A handbook for when things go wrong|author=Elizabeth Day
|rating=4
|genre=Business and FinanceLifestyle|summary=Judy Heminsley has worked from home both as en employee What do Malcolm Gladwell, Alain de Botton, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Lemn Sissay, Nigel Slater, Emeli Sandé, Meera Syal, Dame Kelly Holmes and Andrew Scott have in common? They've all failed and running her own businesses. She is now a professional advisor - more importantly - they've been willing to appear on Elizabeth Day's podcast to homeworkers discuss their failures and how life worked out for them afterwards. You'll find the results of these discussions in 'Work From Home'Failosophy'' distils her experience into a practical guide for all who are considering work from home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184528335X</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1504321383
|title=Single, Again, and Again, and Again
|author=Louisa Pateman
|rating=4.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=''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: it was simply the adults in her life advising her as 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 then marries her so that they can live 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''.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ruth Binney1538731738|title=The Allotment ExperienceSimple Abundance: 365 Days to a Balanced and Joyful Life|author= Sarah Ban Breathnach|rating=45
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=There have been allotment gardens in the UK and other European countries since the late 18th centurySomeone once said: it's not self-indulgence, with numbers in the UK reaching a peak of 1.5 million plots around the time of World War it's therapy! I and nearly the same number during World War II. Numbers then fell, reaching 600,000 by the late 1960s. Increased interest in green issues from the 1970s only slowed the declinethink they were talking about shopping, and by 1997 the number of plots in use was around 265,000. More recently, there has been a resurgence of interest as the notion of food miles and "slow food" has come but it probably can be applied to the fore, let alone the rising costs of foodmost things. In 2008my case, The Guardian reported that 330it applies to writing about things because I want to,000 people held an allotment, whilst 100,000 were on waiting lists. My interest in this book stems from the fact that we are already keen back (and front) garden vegetable growers and are shortly rather than because I can sell it or because I've got something to join an allotment waiting list ourselvessell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905862261</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage|author=Sharon Blackie|title=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}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Peacock1543987877|title=Patio ProduceLearn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life|author=Dr Thomas Jordan|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=It's surprising how many people dismiss the idea of growing at least some of their own fruit and vegetables in the mistaken belief that they'll need Learn to Love: Guide to have an allotment or at the very least a sizeable vegetable patch of the type which Healing Your Disappointing Love Life'' is simply not possible in many modern gardens or because they're living in a city book about love relationships rather than a villagebook about love. Paul Peacock sets out to prove that this neednThe two greatest emotions are love and grief and love is the opposite of grief: ''if you love'', Dr Thomas Jordan tells us, ''you will inevitably grieve''t be . Your love relationships begin the case – with moment you're born and end only when you die. Whilst we all come into the world hoping to give and receive love there are many people for whom love is not quite so simple. Some people suffer multiple disappointments - sometimes repeating the proof of same mistakes - and this particular pudding being eventually becomes resignation. For people who are making the fact that he lives same mistakes repeatedly, self-preservation, in Manchesterthe form of resignation is a necessity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905862288</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lynda GrattonMichael Harris|title=GlowSolitude: How You Can Radiate Energy, Innovation and Success|rating=4|genre=Business and Finance|summary=Have you ever read In Pursuit of a self-help book and found that simply reading the first chapter tells you all you need to know about any wisdom contained therein? Well, fortunately with ''Glow'' by Lynda Gratton – that's not the case. While its essential principles are neatly summarised Singular Life in the first chapter, the remaining chapters, packed with pleasantly jargon-free examples, are well worth reading for anyone interested in improving their working life, forming empowering networks and thinking creatively.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0273723871</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kate Brian|title=The Complete Guide to IVFa Crowded World
|rating=5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Each year This is not the book I was expecting it to be. For some forty thousand cycles of IVF – in vitro fertilisation – are carried out in reason I expected it to be another self-help manual on how to find calm, how to step outside the UK and something like a million worldwidemainstream, but it is not that at all. About two hundred thousand IVF babies are born annually with some twelve thousand Instead of those in telling us how, it is more about the UK according ''why''. Harries examines how we're eroding solitude, which used to be a recent article I read on a BBC sitenatural part of our human life, and why that matters. Fertility expert Kate Brian Of course he talks about how some people have found solitude and what has followed her [[The Complete Guide to Female Fertility by Kate Brian|Complete Guide to Female Fertility]]come of that, which we lovedand eventually in the final chapter he talks about his own experience of having deliberately sought it out, with another indispensable guide – but mostly he wanders down the alleys and by-ways that his thinking about this time to IVFlost art led him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749909706</amazonuk>1847947662
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ali Valenzuela0753553236|title=Weighing It UpTiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything|author=B J Fogg|rating=35
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Although never having had an eating disorder myselfGo on, admit it - you're not quite perfect. You still have those odd, quirky even loveable (to you) habits which seem to annoy other people. Other people, of course, are sorely afflicted with some dreadful flaws which they could so easily correct, if only they would make just a little bit of effort. Or put another way, I have been interested in them since get cross with myself because I was young. forget to do things or do some actions more than I was a competitive gymnast should and that is a world where eating disorders do creep inno matter how I try to make what seem to be quite monumental changes I never quite seem to get to grips with the concepts. Now I'm a mother of three teenage daughters, constantly fail and then I worry about the subject from a whole new angle, especially as one get cross with myself for failing. Lack of them willpower is a size 6-8 and idolises those super-skinny celebritiesanother burden to add to the list.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340988401</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna Paterson1785785516|title=AnorexicFucking Good Manners|author=Simon Griffin
|rating=4
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Manners maketh man, they say. It might seem strange certainly makes life easier if everybody abides by a set of conventions, some of which are ages old and somewhat ironic other which have evolved over time. Manners 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: they're about getting the basics right before we try to deal with more difficult matters. Of course we all have more relaxed manners when we're with family and friends, but 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 way.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1999811402|title=Painting Snails|author=Stephen John Hartley|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=It's very difficult to classify ''Painting Snails'': originally I thought that as it's loosely based around a year on an obese woman is reviewing allotment it would be a lifestyle book , but you're not going to get advice on anorexiawhat to plant when and where for the best results. But The answer would be something along the lines of 'try it and see'. Then I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, did an engineering apprenticeship, became a busker, finally got into medical school and is a topic now an A&E consultant (part-time). I have always found interestingout that there's an awful lot more to what goes on in a Major Trauma Centre than you'll ever glean from ''Casualty'', but that isn't really what the book's about. Despite my being at There's a lot about rock & roll, which seems to be the opposite end real passion of Hartley's life, but it didn't actually fit into the entertainment genre either. Did we have a category for 'doing the impossible the weight scale to Anna Paterson, I could empathise with some of hard way'? Yep - that's the things she feltone. It's an autobiography.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0952921529</amazonuk>
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