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[[Category:New Reviews|Lifestyle]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1454955546|title=The Mistress ContractSugarless|author=She and HeNicole M Avena|rating=35
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|summary='Women feel a reluctance to talk about those things which should be mysterious.' Well, not all of them. This line – and I wonisn't say who says it – is a quote from a large audio archive of the thoughts of a most unusual couplediet book. College friendsThe last thing anyone needs is another diet book.'' There was a time, they split apart then got back togethernot that long ago, and ended up having an affairwhen it was thought that sugary food was better for you than food with high-fat content. Until she decided Fat was the demon food which was going to formalise it in elevate your cholesterol and cause heart disease. Sugar was a momentary flash ofcarbohydrate, wellso good. There's a problem, something, saying she would cede all to his every sexual though. Sugar is addictive and housework wishes if he would cater for her financially can hijack your brain in much the same way as drugs like heroin and with a place to livecocaine. Nowhere did that small contract say Does that they would open up themselves to public scrutiny with recordings of their conversations, sound over a restaurant table or in bed or a car having a tete-a-tetethe top? Well, but they soon did – and these small pages are the resulting bookit isn't.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846689430</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1635866847|title=Dedicated to...: The Forgotten Friendships, Hidden Stories and Lost Loves found in Second-hand BooksLavender Companion|author=W B GooderhamJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
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|genre=EntertainmentLifestyle|summary=I have found many It's strange and unusual things in second-hand bookshops. I have done one or two strange and unusual , the things in them as well, but thatmake you 's a different story'immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Twice now Before I have managed to find a second-hand bookstarted reading ''The Lavender Companion'', completely signed and dedicated by I visited the author, yet discarded by the recipient, and have been able to present the author with the edition at hand 's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and get it re-dedicated. (If Ithere'm not mistaken, the discarders were s a neighbouring babysitter, and picture of a teacher slice of chocolate cake on the author's childrenhomepage.) Idon'll admit t eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted thatcake viscerally. (There's rarefied, however, and on the whole the scribble you find a recipe in second-hand books is from the person who bought itbook, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and gave I was told to make a mess of it as a gift, not . Notes in the person who wrote itmargins are sanctioned. But even so, You get to fold down the dedication corners of pages. You suspect that smears of the donor can butter would not be immensely fascinating and open to all kinds of interpretation, as these examples show perfectly cleara problem. I ''loved'' this book already.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593072847</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0760381267
|title=Verdura: Living a Garden Life
|author=Perla Sofia Curbelo-Santiago
|rating=3.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=''The most important part of a garden is the one who enjoys it''.
I've 'gardened' in a vague, indefinite sort of way for more than half a century. I know (most of) the basics but life has changed and I needed 'projects' rather than a general commitment to gardening. ''Verdura'' with its promise of projects for both indoors and outdoors of varying complexity seemed like the answer. So, how did it stack up?}}{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=A Piece of Danish HappinessSarah Wilson|authortitle=Sharmi AlbrechtsenThis One Wild and Precious Life: the path back to connection in a fractured world|rating=43.5|genre=AutobiographyLifestyle|summary=Sharmi Albrechtsen was a true Hindu-American princess. Obsessed My favourite Mary Oliver line is the one in which she asks ''What is it you plan to do with shoes your one wild and handbags 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 designer labels, precious life the way I want to. Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. In her book that takes Oliver's words as her title (though I can't see that she saw status and wealth as acknowledges the only route source) she pushes us to happinessthink about whether we really ''are'' living the life we want – the best life that we could be living. But she wasn Her answer is an unequivocal ''t happy enoughno, no matter how much designer gear she ownedwe are not''. And it wasn Don't until 1997care what you're doing, when she married her second husband, a Danethinks you (we, and relocated to Denmark, that I) could be doing more…And she began to wonder if it was something lacking in herself, rather than her possessions, 's effing furious about the fact that was at the root of her problemswe are not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00EAINZM8</amazonuk>1785633848
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1394159544
|title=Recycling for Dummies
|author=Sarah Winkler
|rating=5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=''Recycling one ton of plastic can save up to 16.3 barrels of oil.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0760378134|title=Hospice VoicesThe First-Time Gardener: Lessons for Living at the End of LifeContainer Food Gardening|author=Eric LindnerPamela Farley|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyHome and Family|summary=If you've ever thought how good it would be to be able to pop out into the garden 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. It's comprehensive: you'll cover everything from why you should grow your own food, what you're going to grow, what you'Hospice Voicesll grow it in (both containers and soil), where you'll put these containers, how you' tells ll water and fertilise them and you finish the stories main part of the last days of some fascinating people while it follows author Eric Lindner through his journey as book with a hospice volunteer and a crisis in his own daughterhandy section on troubleshooting. There's healthalso a good glossary. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1442220597</amazonuk> So, is it any good?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jill Stark1398508632|title=High Sobriety: My Year Without BoozeThe Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating=4.5
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|summary=On It had been on the first cards for a while but it was the week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of January 2011 Jill Stark woke up with the hangover from Helleating only wild food. She The end of November, particularly in Central Scotland was no stranger perhaps not the best time to them: at thirty five she'd start, in a world where the normal sores had been binge drinking for more than twenty years exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and a pandemic. Wilde had a few advantages: the area around her was in the dubious position a known habitat with a variety of being the health reporter who wrote herself off at weekendsterrains. And by 'wrote herself off' I mean being seriously drunk on She had electricity which allowed her to run a very regular basisfridge, having consumed vast quantities of alcohol freezer and having regularly put herself in danger of serious illness, unwanted pregnancy dehydrator. She had a car - and assaultfuel. But on that first day in January Stark decided that Most importantly, she had shelter: this was going not a plan to ''live'' wild just to do something about it and the initial decision was that she would spend three months on the wagonlive off its produce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1922247030</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Sex DiariesBjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankeler, Navid Modiiri and Agnes Bromme (Translator)|authortitle=Arianne CohenI May Be Wrong
|rating=5
|genre=LifestyleAutobiography|summary=As far as ‘doing what When the Dalai Lama adds his words to your frontispiece, I'm inclined to think it says on doesn't really matter how the tin’ goes, this rest of the world responds to your book is a good one. It’s I know, having read the diariesbook in question, plural, from people, plural, talking about their sex livesthat Lindeblad would disagree with that thought. But it’s not just the doing of the deed He knows (and at core so do I) that it matters very much how the sowing rest of the seedworld responds to this book, it’s also all because it tells the stuff that goes with being truth as it is, in a relationship or not being in one. The daydreams. The texts. The efforts made to secure a hook-up, if there’s not one waiting for you at homethe early 21st century.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091939550</amazonuk>1526644827
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Ward1732898731|title=Out of OfficeThe Boy Who Loved Boxes: Work Where You Like and Achieve MoreA Children's Book for Adults|author=Michael Albanese |rating=34.5
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|summary=There was a Boy who loved boxes. He had a box for everything and he was meticulous about storage: his parents probably couldn'Imbibe coffee t believe their luck! It began with art supplies, stuffed toys and become imbued with an entrepreneurial spirit' would be an apt summary of the gist of 'Out of Office' by Chris Ward. If you choose to read like: all the book, be prepared to receive inspiration rather than practical instruction on how to build an empire, if anythingthings which most children have in abundance. This is not to discredit The Boy's delight was in the book; sense of order in his room: it is attractively designedmade him feel happy. As he grew up and became a Man, full of fundraising event photos his life became more complicated and company founder portraits, motivational quotes he dealt with this by getting bigger and brief enthusiastic testimonies of better boxes. Look carefully at the interviewees featured. But in terms pictures and you'll see that one of content, it doesn’t offer substantial advice on how to make that leap from the office cubicle – them has a context quite heavily vilified by Ward – to the existence of the creatively liberated mover and shakerpadlock...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957612303</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Blastland and David Spiegelhalter1846276772|title=The Norm ChroniclesEnd of Bias: Stories and numbers about dangerHow We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell|rating=4.5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=I'd like you Anyone who is not an able, white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the extent to meet Norm. Hewhich they suffer from it: it's an absolutely average kind of guy, thirty one years old, 5'9”, simply a touch over thirteen stone and he works a thirty-nine hour week with the occasional treat part of a bar of milk chocolateeveryday life. Oh, and he's ambivalent about Marmite - couldn't care one way or the other - can take it or leave itWhite men will always come first. In ''The Norm Chronicles'' we hear able will come before the story of his life and disabled. Jobs, promotions, higher salaries are the lives preserve of his friends Prudence (the name tells you what you need to know) and Kelvin, white man. Even when those whowouldn't pass the medical become a part of an organisation it's a dare-devilrare that their views are heard, hard-living kind of guythat their concerns are acknowledged. It's personally appalling and degrading for the story of individuals on the hazards they face - some real and some imagined - in every aspect receiving end of their lives. And along with these stories are the bias but it''real'' facts about s not just the reality of the risks they takeindividuals who are negatively impacted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686202</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=Simon DawsonRichard Brook|title=Pigs in CloverUnderstanding Human Nature: Or How I Accidentally Fell in Love with the Good A User's Guide to Life
|rating=4.5
|genre=AutobiographyLifestyle|summary=Simon Dawson really had no intention of leading I am a life firm believer that sometimes we choose books, and sometimes books choose us. In my case, this is one of self-sufficiency - he accidentally fell into the beginnings latter. Not so very long ago, if I had come across this book I'd have skimmed it, found some of it at a New Yearinteresting, but it would not have 'hit home's Eve party which in the way that it does now. I believe it came to me not just because I was a little too noisy for him likely to be completely certain what give it was he was agreeing toa favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's u.s.p. But even then is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there was no need for it is a predisposition towards expecting to go too far. After alllike the book, this maneven if it doesn's heart was in London and he was an estate agent - a member of the profession whose place at the top of the opprobrium ladder was only made wobbly after a serious PR campaign on behalf of journalists and politicians. But his wife was determined t always turn out that she couldnway''t stand being ] – but also because it is a property solicitor any longer and so they sold their flat in London and rented a property on Exmoor and Simon began a weekly commute - weekends in Devon and most of the week in Londonbook I needed to read, right now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780285019</amazonuk>1800461682
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Naomi Schillinger0753558378|title=Veg StreetEffortless: Grow Your Own CommunityMake It Easier to Do What Matters|author=Greg McKeown
|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=As a child Naomi Schillinger helped her parents to grow fruit and vegetables in their South London garden and the urge to grow resurfaced when she had her own property. It wasn't just the ''growing'' which she rememberedThe marginal return of working harder was, in fact, but the negative.''sharing That'' of the produce and sense of community which went with its what happened to Patrick McGinnis. Soon after starting It's no exaggeration to say that he devoted his life to grow food the company he worked for herself she , struggling through, even when he was ill, only to find that he was working for a prime mover in getting whole streets involved in growing fruit bankrupt company. His stock had fallen by 97%, he had lost his health and vegetables in their front gardenshis job had little value. He made a bargain with God; if he survived, making the most of recycled materials he would make some changes. He did survive and free seeds came through stronger - and compostricher. When weThere is, you see, a different way: ''great things are not reserved for those who bleed, for those who almost break.''re constantly urged to reduce food miles what could be better than growing your food (quite literally) on your own doorstep?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780721129</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish1523092734|title=How To Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will TalkA Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van Cort
|rating=5
|genre=LifestylePolitics and Society|summary=Many parents, it seems, go through life in ''She brings a constant state of feud. Not with each other, necessarily, but with their children. Their small, beloved bundles of joy turn into obstreperous toddlers, defiant prehug-kick-schoolers, angry schoolchildren or morose teens. Parents find themselves caught up thunderclap that every woman needs in arguments, advice, failed attempts at consolationher life... Again and again and then may resort to punishment of some kindagain.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848123094</amazonuk>}}'' (Alma Derricks, former CMO, Cirque du Soleil RSD)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Gilpin1529109116|title=Mindfulness for Black Dogs and Blue DaysCall Me Red: Finding a Path Through DepressionA Shepherd's Journey|author=Hannah Jackson|rating=34.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Richard Gilpin is a counsellor, cognitive behavioural psychotherapist and mindfulness instructor. He's also suffered from depression since his teens and is well aware 'I want the image of just how debilitating it can a British farmer to simply bethat of a person who is proudly employed in feeding the nation. In I don'Mindfulness and Black Dogs' ( a nod t think that is too much to Churchill who referred to his depression as his black dog) he shares his own experiences with the illness and offers insights as to how a sufferer can find a way through the weight which descends upon themask. He looks particularly at how ''mindfulness'' can help.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907332928</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel Coyle1786495902|title=The Little Book of TalentNatural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Isabel Hardman|rating=45
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|summary=When you want - or need - Isabel Hardman suffered a trauma which she chooses not to master share. She says that a new skill you'll be told to practicefriend who does know, but thereburst into tears and health-care professionals's not always a lot of advice around on ''howjaws have sagged in disbelief. Hardman dealt with this at the time by 'keeping going' : the next day she went to practice. Sometimes it's that hint about how work to practice more effectivelycover the budget, how to approach next there was the skill from a different direction which makes all EU referendum, the differencepolitical party leadership contests and then it was party conference season. Daniel Coyle has fifty two tips - most of which can One night she had to be applied sedated and returned home to just about everything from improving your golf swing begin long-term sick leave. That was what brought me to success in this book: 2020 was the year when the business world. The tips are short - all fifty two are covered in about a hundred and twenty pages - easily read and simple to put into practicebins went out more often than I did.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847946798</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melissa KiteLauren Martin|title=Real Life: One Woman's Guide to Love, Men and Other Everyday DisastersThe Book of Moods|rating=45|genre=AutobiographyLifestyle|summary=We're used to thinking about career women who have it all: the high-flyer who goes home to her husbandI was in a great mood when I first learnt of this book, children and immaculate house to plan their next holiday and their social life. We might not know these people - but everything seems to tell us that theybecause sarcasm doesn're t always translate well into writing, imagine the word ''theregreat''being delivered with an eye roll and a sigh, through clenched teeth. WhatI had spent the best part of a rainy, though, of windy weekend afternoon out on the water at our local sailing club in the single womanrescue rib, no longer on standby in the first flush of youth (thatcase anyone who was racing needed support. It's probably nineteena volunteer duty we all do during the year, these days) who struggles just and normally I'm happy to keep going? What of , but that day the woman who struggles to keep the ''boiler'' going weather was miserable and who is tempted to kidnap the television repairman I was miserable, and tie him it all came to a head that evening when I noticed on the bed because she's convinced website that the television will stop working the moment he goes?we had been thanked for our time as "Dave and wife". Wow. I had never needed this book more.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780331916</amazonuk>1538733625
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Siri Hustvedt0008420386|title=Living, Thinking, LookingFailosophy: A handbook for when things go wrong|author=Elizabeth Day
|rating=4
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary='LivingWhat do Malcolm Gladwell, Alain de Botton, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Lemn Sissay, ThinkingNigel Slater, Looking' is a collection of essays by Siri Hustvedt whichEmeli Sandé, she claimsMeera Syal, are linked by an abiding curiosity about what it means Dame Kelly Holmes and Andrew Scott have in common? They've all failed and - more importantly - they've been willing to be human. In these essays she examines who we are appear on Elizabeth Day's podcast to discuss their failures and how we got that waylife worked out for them afterwards.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444732633</amazonuk> You'll find the results of these discussions in ''Failosophy''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Brett Cohen1504321383|title=Stuff Every Dad Should Know|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)Single, it's not that kind of knowledge on offer. Here instead is practical information on rearing your own little thingAgain, 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 placeAgain, and goes from the actual birth to marrying them off.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594745536</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewAgain|author=Mary Beard|title=All in a Don's DayLouisa Pateman|rating=4.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Mary Beard's latest collection, 'All in a DonYou can's Day', of her assembled blog pieces from 2009 t be happy and fulfilled on your own. You are not complete until the end of 2011, covers similar concerns to her previous selection, [[Ityou find a man's A Don's Life by Mary Beard|It's a Don's Life]]. Professor Beard is a fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge and became Classics Professor at there in 2004. She is also an expert in Roman laughter, an interest which she fully indulges in the pages of her TLS blog. In her latest collection she bemoans the parlous current state of both Education and the Academy, and makes witty observations on matters as various as television chefs, what and how to visit in Rome and the art and worth of completing references in an age when only positive things may be said about postgraduate job-seekers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685362</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Matousek1538731738|title=When You're Falling, DiveSimple Abundance: 365 Days to a Balanced and Joyful Life|author= Sarah Ban Breathnach|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=You never quite know what life is going to serve up next and even the happiest moments or saddest news can be turned around in a heartbeat. For the author Mark Matousek his down was learning he was HIV positiveSomeone once said: it's not self-indulgence, while his upit's therapy! I think they were talking about shopping, a while later, was being informed that but it wasn’t quite the death sentence originally imposed and that he had quite a bit of life leftprobably can be applied to most things. In this book he looks at how you can find the good in the bad ormy case, it applies to writing about things because I want to quote the subtitle, the keys to rather than because I can sell it or because I'Using your pain ve got something to transform your life'. The art of survival is an intriguing one. The same scale of trauma affects different people in different ways and this book seeks to draw on the wisdom of those who triumph in the face of adversity to share what they know and inspire the same behaviour in ussell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848504926</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Karen FrenchSharon Blackie|title=The Hidden Geometry of LifeIf Women Rose Rooted|rating=2.5|genre=Spirituality and ReligionBiography|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'The Hidden Geometry of Life'inspiring' aims to explore the esoteric and often mystical meanings contained in 'life-changing'shapes and patterns [that] represent ideas – although it is definitely the first two and distil only time will tell about the essence of reality''. This mystical angle was a little bit of a unpleasant surprise third – but clichés exist for this reader. I should have had a better look at Karen French's Amazon pages reason and previous work, but I was attracted by an exciting-sounding title, attractive cover and and references to author's artm not sure I can succinctly put it any better.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780281080</amazonuk>1912836017
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Neill1543987877|title=Feel Happy NowLearn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life|author=Dr Thomas Jordan|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=''Feel Happy NowLearn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life'' is a dummy’s guide to happiness written by an NLP expert who Paul McKenna has dubbed 'book about love relationships rather than a book about love. The finest success coach in two greatest emotions are love and grief and love is the worldopposite of grief: ''if you love''. What makes this book stand out, perhapsDr Thomas Jordan tells us, is ''you will inevitably grieve''. Your love relationships begin the way moment you're born and end only when you die. Whilst we all come into the complexity world hoping to give and receive love there are many people for whom love is done away with, not quite so simple. Some people suffer multiple disappointments - sometimes repeating the same mistakes - and everything is broken down to an accessible level without being too patronizingthis eventually becomes resignation. Its expert concepts presented For people who are making the same mistakes repeatedly, self-preservation, in layman speak and the result form of resignation is a highly readable and accessible book regardless of your belief in the subjectnecessity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848504942</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon OxfordMichael Harris|title=Make Yourself Immune to Heart AttackSolitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World|rating=45
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=The older you get, This is not the more likely book I was expecting it is that you will suffer from to be. For some form of heart disease or even die from reason I expected it. Many deaths occur without warning in people who are apparently healthy to be another self- so help manual on how to find calm, how to step outside the mainstream, but it's is not something that you can wait to be diagnosed and plan on doing something about at that stageall. Whatever your age thereInstead of telling us how, it is more about the 's a real possibility that you can make a significant improvement in your health 'why'and'. Harries examines how we' improve the quality re eroding solitude, which used to be a natural part of your our human life, and why that matters. I came to read this book because family members Of course he talks about how some people have found solitude and what has come of my generation were suffering ''severe'' heart problems that, and eventually in the final chapter he talks about his own experience of having deliberately sought it was a wakeout, but mostly he wanders down the alleys and by-up call ways that was impossible to ignorehis thinking about this lost art led him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907629319</amazonuk>1847947662
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha0753553236|title=Tiny Habits: The Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your CareerSmall Changes That Change Everything|author=B J Fogg|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=In decades gone byGo on, educated workers in many industries 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 view their careers as an elevator – rising through the ranks so easily correct, if only they would make just a little bit of a company before stepping aside and settling into a comfortable retirementeffort. In today's vastly different job market Or put another way, I get cross with much less loyalty from both employers myself because I forget to do things or do some actions more than I should and employees, your career is more likely no matter how I try to make what seem to be quite monumental changes I never quite seem to get to follow grips with the model of some promotions mixed in with frequent sideways moves to other companies concepts. I constantly fail and perhaps even completely different industries. Time, then, I get cross with myself for a new guide failing. Lack of willpower is another burden to how add to handle your employment prospectsthe list.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184794079X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charlotte Watts and Anna Magee1785785516|title=The De-Stress Diet: The Revolutionary Lifestyle Plan for a Calmer, Slimmer YouFucking Good Manners|author=Simon Griffin
|rating=4
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Most people will recognise that excessive stress is not good for youManners maketh man, they say. It's the cause certainly makes life easier if everybody abides by a set of depressionconventions, high blood pressuresome of which are ages old and other which have evolved over time. Manners are not about how much to tip or how you should behave if you get an invitation to Buckingham Palace, skin problems and insomnia - they have nothing to do with class or financial status: they're about getting the basics right before we try to name just a few problems from a very long listdeal with more difficult matters. ThereOf course we all have more relaxed manners when we's also mounting evidence that chronic stress is responsible for excessive weight gain re with family and not just because therefriends, but it's a tendency (er, yes, I can testify best if we learn to this...) distinguish between our public and private lives and to turn to comfort eatingact appropriately. Too many stress hormones in the body encourage fat storage - particularly in that ''obviousFucking Good Manners'' and very-hard-aims to-shift area around help us on the middle. The aim of the De-Stress Diet is to bring about a slimmer, calmer person with a better quality of lifeway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848507798</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anita Anand, Julian Barnes, Bella Bathurst, Alan Bennett and others1999811402|title=The Library BookPainting Snails|author=Stephen John Hartley
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|genre=LifestyleAutobiography|summary=It's very difficult to classify ''Painting Snails'': originally I had better begin by saying thought that I had as it's loosely based around a year on an allotment it would be a vested interest in liking this lifestyle book since , but you're not going to get advice on what to plant when and where for the best results. The answer would be something along the lines of 'try it and see'. Then I am considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, did an engineering apprenticeship, became a chartered librarian myself busker, finally got into medical school and so am wholeheartedly is now an A&E consultant (part-time). I found out that there's an awful lot more to what goes on in support of saving our nationa Major Trauma Centre than you'll ever glean from ''Casualty'', but that isn't really what the book's public librariesabout. But you donThere't need s a lot about rock & roll, which seems to be the real passion of Hartley's life, but it didn't actually fit into the entertainment genre either. Did we have a librarian to enjoy this bookcategory for 'doing the impossible the hard way'? Yep - that's the one. It is rich with anecdotes from some wonderful writers and makes a pleasant read whether you're keen to save libraries or nots an autobiography.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781250057</amazonuk>
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