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[[Category:New Reviews|Lifestyle]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Jackson1454955546|title=A Little Piece of England: A tale of self-sufficiencySugarless|author=Nicole M Avena
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|summary=Here at Bookbag we're great fans of John Jackson'This isn't a diet book. We loved his [[Tales The last thing anyone needs is another diet book.'' There was a time, not that long ago, when it was thought that sugary food was better for Great Grandchildren by John Jackson 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. There's a problem, though. Sugar is addictive and Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzinican hijack your brain in much the same way as drugs like heroin and cocaine. Does that sound over the top? Well, it isn't.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1635866847|title=The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|Tales summary=It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for Great Grandchildren]] you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'and', I visited the author' s [[Brahma Dreaminghttps: Legends from Hindu Mythology by John Jackson //www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini|Brahma Dreaming: Legends from Hindu Mythology]] so it was something there's a picture of a treat to meet slice of chocolate cake on the author on his own ground, so to speakhomepage. Originally published as I don''A Bucket of Nuts t eat cakes and a Herring Net: The Birth of a Sparedesserts -Time Farm'' but I wanted that cake viscerally. this is actually Jackson(There's first a recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and thirty-five years later we're delighted that I was told to make a mess of it's been republished . Notes in hardback complete with the original black-and-white illustrations by Val Biromargins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909661031</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0760381267|title=MastermindVerdura: How to Think Like Sherlock HolmesLiving a Garden Life|author=Maria KonnikovaPerla Sofia Curbelo-Santiago
|rating=3.5
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|summary=Psychologist Maria Konnikova seems to have rather ambitious aims regarding her new book, ''MastermindThe most important part of a garden is the one who enjoys it'' . She plans to teach her readers how to think like Sherlock Holmes I've 'gardened' in a vague, indefinite sort of way for more than half a century. Anyone who has read the adventures I know (most of ) the world’s most famous detective will have no doubt marvelled at his uncanny powers of analysis basics but life has changed and observationI needed 'projects' rather than a general commitment to gardening. Can a book really unlock the power ''Verdura'' with its promise of the mind projects for both indoors and turn average-Joe into a master outdoors of deductionvarying complexity seemed like the answer. So, how did it stack up?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085786727X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chip Heath and Dan HeathSarah Wilson|title=DecisiveThis One Wild and Precious Life: How the path back to Make Better Decisions connection in Life and Worka fractured world|rating=3.5|genre=Business and FinanceLifestyle|summary=I donMy favourite Mary Oliver line is the one in which she asks ''t have a problem What is it you plan to do with making decisions, probably your one wild and precious life?'' I get to love that line so much because my answer is ''This! Precisely this.'' I've always tended m lucky enough to be living my one wild and precious life the view way I want to. Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. In her book that ittakes Oliver's better words as her title (though I can't see that she acknowledges the source) she pushes us to make a decision and get on with think about whether we really ''are'' living the life we want – the best life than haver and waste time in limbothat we could be living. With a few notable exceptions itHer answer is an unequivocal ''s served me wellno, but when we are not''Decisive. Don't care what you' appeared on my desk it struck me that there re doing, she thinks you (we, I) could be advantages to improving doing more…And she's effing furious about the quality of the decisions too. The Heath brothers have a good history of collaborating on such subjects and delivering books which open the mindfact that we are not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847940862</amazonuk>1785633848
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1394159544|title=The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves Recycling for Dummies|author=Stephen GroszSarah Winkler
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|summary=I usually review fiction. For that reason alone, I knew that reviewing this particular book would be a challenge''Recycling one ton of plastic can save up to 16. I was attracted to it for many reasons; I thought it would give me a window into many situations 3 barrels of which I know little or nothingoil.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099549034</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0760378134|title=Dedicated to...: The Forgotten Friendships, Hidden Stories and Lost Loves found in SecondFirst-hand BooksTime Gardener: Container Food Gardening|author=W B GooderhamPamela Farley|rating=4.5|genre=EntertainmentHome and Family|summary=I have found many strange If you've ever thought how good it would be to be able to pop out into the garden and unusual things in second-hand bookshops. I have done one or two strange pick some fruit and unusual things in them as well, vegetables for a meal – but realised thatyou wouldn's a different storyt know where to start, this is the book you need. Twice now I have managed It's comprehensive: you'll cover everything from why you should grow your own food, what you're going to find a second-hand bookgrow, completely signed what you'll grow it in (both containers and dedicated by the authorsoil), yet discarded by the recipientwhere you'll put these containers, how you'll water and have been able to present the author with the edition at hand fertilise them and get it re-dedicated. (If I'm not mistaken, you finish the discarders were a neighbouring babysitter, and a teacher main part of the author's childrenbook with a handy section on troubleshooting.) I'll admit thatThere's rarefied, however, and on the whole the scribble you find in second-hand books is from the person who bought it, and gave it as also a gift, not the person who wrote itgood glossary. But even soSo, the dedication of the donor can be immensely fascinating and open to all kinds of interpretation, as these examples show perfectly clear.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593072847</amazonuk>is it any good?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=A Piece of Danish Happiness1398508632|author=Sharmi Albrechtsen|rating=4|genretitle=Autobiography|summary=Sharmi Albrechtsen was a true Hindu-American princess. Obsessed with shoes and handbags and designer labels, she saw status and wealth as the only route to happiness. But she wasn't happy enough, no matter how much designer gear she owned. And it wasn't until 1997, when she married her second husband, a Dane, and relocated to Denmark, that she began to wonder if it was something lacking in herself, rather than her possessions, that was at the root of her problems.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00EAINZM8</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewThe Wilderness Cure|author=Rachel Ashwell|title=Couture Prairie And Flea Market Treasures Mo Wilde|rating=45
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|summary=''Shabby Chic'' has always appealed to me: It had been on the cards for a while but it fits neatly with my views on recyclingwas the week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. The end of November, upcycling and generally refusing particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the best time to replace anything which still looks good start, in a world where the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and has life left in ita pandemic. Rachel Ashwell takes this to Wilde had a whole new level, but few advantages: the area around her most glorious moment must have been when - on her regular yearly visit to the flea markets of Round Top in Texas - she decided on was a whim to buy The Outpost at Cedar Creek and she turned this into The Prairie, known habitat with a group variety of buildings terrains. She had electricity which would house allowed her retail store to run a fridge, freezer and dehydrator. She had a B&B which exhibited some of her most treasured findscar - and fuel. As Most importantly, she said herself, her cowboy boots, jeans and love of poetry in country music had come homeshelter: this was not a plan to ''live'' wild just to live off its produce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782490434</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Very British Problems: Making Life Awkward for OurselvesBjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankeler, One Rainy Day at a TimeNavid Modiiri and Agnes Bromme (Translator)|authortitle=Rob TempleI May Be Wrong|rating=35|genre=HumourAutobiography|summary=Are you compelled When the Dalai Lama adds his words to apologise multiple times a day – even when you are not at faultyour frontispiece, or even I'm inclined to inanimate objects? Would you subject yourself think it doesn't really matter how the rest of the world responds to great inconvenience rather than confront someone who is sitting in your reserved seat on a train? Have you been known to commit desperate acts 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 search for your next cup rest of tea? If sothe world responds to this book, because it tells the truth as it is, you may be suffering from Very British Problemsin the early 21st century.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751552593</amazonuk>1526644827
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1732898731|title=How to Keep Calm and Carry OnThe Boy Who Loved Boxes: A Children's Book for Adults|author=Daniel Freeman and Jason FreemanMichael Albanese |rating=4.5
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|summary=Heart poundingThere was a Boy who loved boxes. He had a box for everything and he was meticulous about storage: his parents probably couldn't believe their luck! It began with art supplies, rapid breathing, dry mouth stuffed toys and sweaty palms are just some of the unpleasant symptoms associated with anxiety. Anxiety affects us like: all at one time or another the things which most children have in our lives and occurs abundance. The Boy's delight was in varying degrees the sense of severityorder in his room: it made him feel happy. For example As he grew up and became a Man, a little nervousness is par for his life became more complicated and he dealt with this by getting bigger and better boxes. Look carefully at the course when a performer steps on stage in front pictures and you'll see that one of them has a huge crowd, but on the other end of the spectrum, conditions such as OCD and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder can leave sufferers paralysed with fearpadlock...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0273777750</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1846276772|title=Hospice Voices: Lessons for Living at the The End of LifeBias: How We Change Our Minds|author=Eric LindnerJessica Nordell
|rating=4.5
|genre=AutobiographyPolitics 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: it's simply a part of everyday life. White men will always come first. The able will come before the disabled. Jobs, promotions, higher salaries are the preserve of the white man. Even when those who wouldn'Hospice Voicest pass the medical become a part of an organisation it's rare that their views are heard, that their concerns are acknowledged. It' tells s personally appalling and degrading for the individuals on the stories receiving end of the last days of some fascinating people while bias but it follows author Eric Lindner through his journey as a hospice volunteer and a crisis in his own daughter's healthnot just the individuals who are negatively impacted. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1442220597</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).
Erligg Kagge is a Norwegian explorer who has walked to the South Pole, the North Pole and the summit of Everest. He knows a thing or two about walking. However, this isn't a travelogue about any of those epic journeys, it is instead a thoughtful exploration of what it means to walk. It is a plenitude of unnumbered essays about walking. There is no 'contents' page and I haven't counted. In small format paperback, each essay is only a few pages long. Perhaps then, better thought of as a meditation rather than an essay.|isbn=0241357705}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jill StarkRichard Brook|title=High SobrietyUnderstanding Human Nature: My Year Without BoozeA User's Guide to Life
|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=On the first of January 2011 Jill Stark woke up with the hangover from HellI am a firm believer that sometimes we choose books, and sometimes books choose us. She was no stranger to them: at thirty five she'd been binge drinking for more than twenty years and was in the dubious position In my case, this is one of being the health reporter who wrote herself off at weekendslatter. And by Not so very long ago, if I had come across this book I'wrote herself off' I mean being seriously drunk on a very regular basisd have skimmed it, having consumed vast quantities found some of alcohol and having regularly put herself in danger of serious illnessit interesting, unwanted pregnancy and assault. But on that first day but it would not have 'hit home' in January Stark decided the way that she it does now. I believe it came to me not just because I was going likely to do something about give it and a favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's u.s.p. is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a predisposition towards expecting to like the initial decision was book, even if it doesn't always turn out that she would spend three months on the wagonway'' ] – but also because it is a book I needed to read, right now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1922247030</amazonuk>1800461682
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0753558378|title=The Sex DiariesEffortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters|author=Arianne CohenGreg McKeown|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=As far as ‘doing what it says on the tin’ goes, this book is a good one. It’s the diaries, plural, from people, plural, talking about their sex lives. But it’s not just the doing of the deed and the sowing ''The marginal return of the seedworking harder was, it’s also all the stuff that goes with being in a relationship or not being in one. The daydreams. The texts. The efforts made to secure a hook-upfact, if there’s not one waiting for you at homenegative.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091939550</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Blastland and David Spiegelhalter1523092734|title=The Norm Chronicles: Stories and numbers about dangerA Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van Cort
|rating=5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=I'd like you to meet Norm'She brings a hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in her life. Again and again and again. He's an absolutely average kind of guy' (Alma Derricks, thirty one years oldformer CMO, 5Cirque du Soleil RSD) '9”, a touch over thirteen stone and he works a thirty-nine hour week with 'To claim space is to live the occasional treat life of a bar of milk chocolatechoosing unapologetically and bravely. OhIt is to live the life you've always wanted.'' Sometimes the reviewing gods are generous: at a time when violence against women is much in the news, and he''A Women's ambivalent about Marmite Guide to Claiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk. Now - to be clear - couldnthis book is not a 'how to disable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual: it't care one way or s something far more effective, but discussion at the other - moment seems to be about how women can take it or leave it. In be ''protected'The Norm Chronicles'. I' we hear the story of his life and the lives of his friends Prudence (the name tells you what you ve always thought that women need to know) and Kelvinrise above this, to be people whodon's a dare-devilt need protection, hard-living kind of guy. It's the story of the hazards they face - some real and some imagined - in every aspect of people who claim their livesown space. And along with these stories If all women did this, those few men who are violent to women would realise that we are the ''real'' facts about the reality of the risks not just an easy target to be used to prove that they takeare big men.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686202</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529109116
|title=Call Me Red: A Shepherd's Journey
|author=Hannah Jackson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|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.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Naomi Schillinger1786495902|title=Veg StreetThe Natural Health Service: Grow How Nature Can Mend Your Own CommunityMind|author=Isabel Hardman|rating=4.5
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|summary=As Isabel Hardman suffered a child Naomi Schillinger helped her parents trauma which she chooses not to grow fruit share. She says that a friend who does know, burst into tears and vegetables health-care professionals' jaws have sagged in their South London garden and the urge to grow resurfaced when she had her own propertydisbelief. It wasn't just Hardman dealt with this at the time by 'keeping going'growing'' which : the next day she rememberedwent to work to cover the budget, but next there was the ''sharing'' of EU referendum, the produce political party leadership contests and sense of community which went with then itwas party conference season. Soon after starting One night she had to grow food for herself she was a prime mover in getting whole streets involved in growing fruit be sedated and vegetables in their front gardens, making the most of recycled materials and free seeds and compostreturned home to begin long-term sick leave. When we're constantly urged That was what brought me to reduce food miles what could be better this book: 2020 was the year when the bins went out more often than growing your food (quite literally) on your own doorstep?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780721129</amazonuk>I did.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adele Faber and Elaine MazlishLauren Martin|title=How To Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will TalkThe Book of Moods
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|summary=Many parents, it seems, go through life I was in a constant state great mood when I first learnt of feud. Not with each otherthis book, necessarilyand because sarcasm doesn't always translate well into writing, but imagine the word ''great'' being delivered with their childrenan eye roll and a sigh, through clenched teeth. Their small, beloved bundles I had spent the best part of joy turn into obstreperous toddlersa rainy, defiant pre-schoolerswindy weekend afternoon out on the water at our local sailing club in the rescue rib, angry schoolchildren or morose teenson standby in case anyone who was racing needed support. Parents find themselves caught up in argumentsIt's a volunteer duty we all do during the year, and normally I'm happy to, advicebut that day the weather was miserable and I was miserable, failed attempts at consolationand it all came to a head that evening when I noticed on the website that we had been thanked for our time as "Dave and wife".Wow.. and then may resort to punishment of some kindI had never needed this book more.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848123094</amazonuk>1538733625
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hilly Janes0008420386|title=Latte or CappuccinoFailosophy: 125 Decisions That Will Change Your LifeA handbook for when things go wrong|author=Elizabeth Day
|rating=4
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|summary=I must admit that my immediate reaction when I saw the title ''Latte or CappuccinoWhat 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 - more importantly - they' was that a filter coffee would be very pleasant, particularly with a shortbread biscuit. But itve been willing to appear on Elizabeth Day's not a book about coffee but rather about choices we encounter which could make a real difference podcast to our livesdiscuss their failures and how life worked out for them afterwards. You see one coffee has 150 calories and the other just 90 and over 'll find the weeks and months that decision can mean substantial weight gain - or loss. There are 125 results of these relatively minor questions which can have real impact, particularly when you add them all up.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843175584</amazonuk>discussions in ''Failosophy''
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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=Daniel Smith1538731738|title=How Simple Abundance: 365 Days to Think Like Sherlock: Improve Your Powers of Observation, Memory a Balanced and DeductionJoyful Life|author= Sarah Ban Breathnach|rating=3.5
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|summary=Whether youSomeone once said: it're a fan of the original Conan Doyle novelss not self-indulgence, have enjoyed the recent film and television representations of Sherlock Holmes or if, like me, the name always conjures up the image of Basil Rathbone youit'll be impressed by the way that Holmes can reason and deduce. s therapy! You've I think they were talking about shopping, but it probably wished that you were capable of some of the mental acrobatics which he performscan be applied to most things. Much of his prowess is down In my case, it applies to being a fictional character (of course) but it is possible writing about things because I want to improve your powers of observation, memory and deduction by exercising your brain. Daniel Smith has some suggestions rather than because I can sell it or because I've got something to get us startedsell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843179539</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard GilpinSharon Blackie|title=Mindfulness for Black Dogs and Blue Days: Finding a Path Through DepressionIf Women Rose Rooted|rating=35|genre=LifestyleBiography|summary=Richard Gilpin is I normally say that you can tell how much a counsellor, cognitive behavioural psychotherapist and mindfulness instructorbook means to me by how many pages have corners turned down. HePerhaps an even greater measure of impact is setting out to buy my own copy before I've finished reading the one I's also suffered from depression since his teens and is well aware of just how debilitating it can beve borrowed. In I want to avoid clichés like 'powerful' 'inspiring' 'Mindfulness and Black Dogslife-changing' ( a nod to Churchill who referred to his depression as his black dog) he shares his own experiences with – although it is definitely the illness first two and offers insights as to how only time will tell about the third – but clichés exist for a sufferer can find a way through the weight which descends upon them. He looks particularly at how ''mindfulness'reason and I' m not sure I can helpsuccinctly put it any better.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907332928</amazonuk>1912836017
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Coleman1543987877|title=The Train in the NightLearn to Love: A Story of Music and LossGuide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life|author=Dr Thomas Jordan
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|genre=AutobiographyLifestyle|summary=Picture the scenario''Learn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life'' is a book about love relationships rather than a book about love. You have always been passionate about music, with a catholic taste which embraces classical, soul The two greatest emotions are love and heavy rock with a bit of everything in between, grief and your job love is that the opposite of an arts and music journalistgrief: ''if you love'', Dr Thomas Jordan tells us, ''you will inevitably grieve''. In your mid-forties Your love relationships begin the moment you're born and end only when you wake up one morning to find your whole world changed overnight by Sudden Neursosensory Hearing Lossdie. It has a devastating effect on your balance when subjected Whilst we all come into the world hoping to any kind of sound, whether it give and receive love there are many people for whom love is an aeroplane overhead, not quite so simple. Some people suffer multiple disappointments - sometimes repeating the roar of same mistakes - and this eventually becomes resignation. For people who are making the crowd at a football matchsame mistakes repeatedly, self-preservation, or in the music which you once adored with every fibre form of your being. Your head resignation is filled with tinnitus, like a very poorly-tuned radio which lacks an off switchnecessity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224093576</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniel CoyleMichael Harris|title=The Little Book Solitude: In Pursuit of Talenta Singular Life in a Crowded World|rating=45
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|summary=When you want - or need This is not the book I was expecting it to be. For some reason I expected it to be another self- help manual on how to master a new skill you'll be told find calm, how to practicestep outside the mainstream, but there's it is not always a lot that at all. Instead of advice around on telling us how, it is more about the ''howwhy'' to practice. Sometimes itHarries examines how we's that hint about how to practice more effectivelyre eroding solitude, how which used to approach the skill from be a different direction which makes all the differencenatural part of our human life, and why that matters. Daniel Coyle Of course he talks about how some people have found solitude and what has fifty two tips - most come of which can be applied to just about everything from improving your golf swing to success that, and eventually in the business world. The tips are short - all fifty two are covered in final chapter he talks about a hundred his own experience of having deliberately sought it out, but mostly he wanders down the alleys and twenty pages by- easily read and simple to put into practiceways that his thinking about this lost art led him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847946798</amazonuk>1847947662
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Melissa Kite0753553236|title=Real LifeTiny Habits: One Woman's Guide to Love, Men and Other Everyday DisastersThe Small Changes That Change Everything|author=B J Fogg|rating=45|genre=AutobiographyLifestyle|summary=WeGo on, admit it - you're used to thinking about career women who not quite perfect. You still have it all: the high-flyer who goes home those odd, quirky even loveable (to her husband, children and immaculate house you) habits which seem to plan their next holiday and their social lifeannoy other people. We might not know these Other people - but everything seems to tell us that , of course, are sorely afflicted with some dreadful flaws which they could so easily correct, if only they're ''there''would make just a little bit of effort. What, though, of the single womanOr put another way, I get cross with myself because I forget to do things or do some actions more than I should and no longer in the first flush of youth (that's probably nineteen, these days) who struggles just matter how I try to make what seem to be quite monumental changes I never quite seem to keep going? What of the woman who struggles get to keep grips with the ''boiler'' going concepts. I constantly fail and who then I get cross with myself for failing. Lack of willpower is tempted another burden to kidnap the television repairman and tie him add to the bed because she's convinced that the television will stop working the moment he goes?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780331916</amazonuk>list.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Siri Hustvedt1785785516|title=Living, Thinking, LookingFucking Good Manners|author=Simon Griffin
|rating=4
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary='LivingManners maketh man, Thinkingthey say. It certainly makes life easier if everybody abides by a set of conventions, Looking' is a collection some of essays by Siri Hustvedt which, she claims, are linked by 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 abiding curiosity invitation to Buckingham Palace, they have nothing to do with class or financial status: they're about what it means getting the basics right before we try to be humandeal with more difficult matters. In these essays she examines who Of course we are all have more relaxed manners when we're with family and how friends, but it's best if we got that learn to distinguish between our public and private lives and to act appropriately. ''Fucking Good Manners'' aims to help us on the way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444732633</amazonuk>
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{{newreview|author=Brett CohenFrontpage|titleisbn=Stuff Every Dad Should Know1999811402|rating=4|genre=Home and Family|summary=For an object lesson in how important the little things are, consider this book's title. This is not one of those collections of trivia or whimsies for fathers to appear cool to their children (ten great variations on tag; 6,000 good records with which to ween your daughter off Justin Bieber), it's not that kind of knowledge on offer. Here instead is practical information on rearing your own little thing, and in a quiet way this pocket diary-sized volume has the cojones to expect to stick around being useful for a generation, as it starts at budgeting for children in the first place, and goes from the actual birth to marrying them off.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594745536</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewPainting Snails|author=Mary Beard|title=All in a Don's DayStephen John Hartley|rating=4.5
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|summary=Mary BeardIt's latest collection, very difficult to classify ''Painting Snails''All in a Don: originally I thought that as it's Dayloosely based around a year on an allotment it would be a lifestyle book, but you', of her assembled blog pieces from 2009 until re not going to get advice on what to plant when and where for the best results. The answer would be something along the end lines of 2011'try it and see'. Then I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, did an engineering apprenticeship, covers similar concerns to her previous selectionbecame a busker, [[Itfinally got into medical school and is now an A&E consultant (part-time). I found out that there's A Donan awful lot more to what goes on in a Major Trauma Centre than you'll ever glean from ''Casualty'', but that isn's Life by Mary Beard|Itt really what the book's a Donabout. There'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 laughterlot about rock & roll, an interest which she fully indulges in seems to be the pages real passion of her TLS blogHartley's life, but it didn't actually fit into the entertainment genre either. In her latest collection she bemoans Did we have a category for 'doing the parlous current state of both Education and impossible the Academy, and makes witty observations on matters as various as television chefs, what and how to visit in Rome and hard way'? Yep - that's the art and worth of completing references in one. It's an age when only positive things may be said about postgraduate job-seekersautobiography.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685362</amazonuk>
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