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[[Category:New Reviews|Home and Family]]==Home and family==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sonali Fernando1454955546|title=Soul Mates: True Stories From The World of Online DatingSugarless|author=Nicole M Avena|rating=2.5|genre=Home and FamilyLifestyle|summary=Internet dating is no longer the new taboo it once was. These days, whatever type of person you are, and whatever type of person you're looking to meet, you can take your pick from any number of sites. Yes, even 'Guardian' readers can log on and look for love specifically with, erm, other This isn'Guardian' readerst a diet book. To do so, they just have to click through to 'Guardian Soulmates', which The last thing anyone needs is probably no different from 'Matchanother diet book.com' or 'Datingdirect', though might count a larger proportion of sandal wearing hippies among its members.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085265202X</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Jethro Adlington|title=Online Therapy: Reading Between There was a time, not that long ago, when it was thought that sugary food was better for you than food with high-fat content. Fat was the Lines|rating=4|genre=Home demon food which was going to elevate your cholesterol and Family|summary=You can get most things online these days and even therapy is becoming more widely available on the internetcause heart disease. Sugar was a carbohydrate, so good. It might seem like There's a simple step to take but many of the signals beyond the spoken word are not available to the online therapistproblem, though. In a face-to-face situation body language Sugar is an added form of communication addictive and even small changes can hijack your brain in skin tone can give clues much the same way as to state of minddrugs like heroin and cocaine. In a situation where these clues are not available Does that sound over the top? Well, itisn's essential to make the most of ''all'' the clues offered by the written wordt.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312748</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Keith Hern1635866847|title=Bangers The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and MashTerry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=Home and FamilyLifestyle|summary=Keith Hern found a small lump in his neck and when the results of the tests came through he tried to put the appointment off as he had something more pressing to doIt's strange, but the doctor was insistent. He knew then things that make you ''immediately'' feel that he had cancer. The lump in his neck was, in fact, a secondary tumour with this is the primary being in the back of his tongue. But book for the secondary tumour the discovery of the primary might have been too late for successful treatmentyou. Keith takes us through the discovery of his cancerBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', his reactions to the diagnosis, his treatment and the titular meal of bangers and mash – I visited the first solid food which he had attempted for some time.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312772</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Donna Blinston|title=Make New Year's Resolutions and Keep Them Using NLP|rating=2|genre=Home [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and Family|summary=Itthere's coming up to that time a picture of a slice of year again – you know it's chocolate cake on the one where you make resolutions about going on a diet, getting more exercise, stopping smoking or losing weighthomepage. If they last a week into the New Year youI don're probably doing well – t eat cakes and then you're left with a feeling of failuredesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. Donna Blinston offers advice on how to make your resolutions and how to keep them – and I needed this advice as much as the next couch potato.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312845</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Vyvyen Brendon|title=Prep School Children: A Class Apart Over Two Centuries|rating=4|genre=Home and Family|summary=''Prep School Children'' is Vyvyen Brendon(There's second collection (''Children of a recipe in the Rajbook, which I'' was the firstm avoiding with some difficulty!!). It explores Then I started reading the pupil experience, using primary sources like weekly letters home, memoirs book and interviews, and less immediate material such as fiction, school magazines and headmasters' biographies. I came to the book with some questions: what was it like told to be make a boarder at a prep school? What difference did a prep school education make to life as an adult? mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. Why parents might send their children You get to such schools when fold down the horrors were well-known, many corners of the dads presumably having survived the experience themselvespages.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847062873</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tad Tuleja|title=A Dictionary You suspect that smears of Foreign Words and Phrases|rating=3|genre=Home and Family|summary=Take a look at the cover design of this book, and you'd butter would not be mistaken for thinking this was a trivia compendium for all those foreign words that have taken part in our English language since whenever they crossed over from their original homesproblem. But the title is definitely honest, for I ''loved'' this is a dictionary book first, for reference, and a browser for the trivia buff secondalready.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709089562</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''.
{{newreview|author=Loose Women|title=Here Come the Girls|rating=4|genre=Home and Family|summary=This is the second volume by the panelists from that nice ITV series, I've 'Loose Womengardened''. Just as promised on the coverin a vague, this book is an entertaining night with the girlsindefinite sort of way for more than half a century. It turns out that they're just like us. The faces are already familiar I know (most of) the basics but life has changed and even if you donI needed 't know them yet, with nine contributors, youprojects'll soon find rather than a like-minded woman behind one of the celebrity facesgeneral commitment to gardening. The women are universally warm-hearted and supportive: there will be many a lonely woman who reads this book and feels as if she sat down ''Verdura'' with a group its promise of friends projects for both indoors and outdoors of varying complexity seemed like the eveninganswer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444700154</amazonuk> So, how did it stack up?
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gill Hines and Alison Baverstock1394159544|title=It's Not Fair! Parenting the Bright and Challenging ChildRecycling for Dummies|author=Sarah Winkler
|rating=5
|genre=Home and FamilyLifestyle|summary=I like parenting books. So, even though my sons are now young adults, I looked forward ''Recycling one ton of plastic can save up to reading a new book about raising children16. I'm in touch with many parents with children 3 barrels of all ages, and am always interested in reading current recommendationsoil. ''
The subtitle of this book is, 'Parenting the bright and challenging child'Recycling one ton of paper can save 17 trees from being cut down. When I saw it, I wondered if it would be similar to the American book 'Raising your Spirited Child' (by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka) which I found extremely useful when my sons were younger. Spirited children are defined as those who are intense, sensitive, perceptive, persistent and energetic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749940468</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Lucy Mangan |title=My Family If you send an apple core to landfill, it will take between 6 months and Other Disasters|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=Not living in the UK means that we don't have British newspapers2 years to decompose. Even when we lived in England, we never bought ''The Guardian'', so I had never actually heard of Lucy Mangan before being sent this book. That's probably not a bad thing, since I began the book - a collection of her Guardian columns - without any preconceptions A glass bottle will take up to 1 million years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852651244</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Jane Brocket|title=Ripping Things to Do|rating=5|genre=Children's NonAs a just-post-Fiction|summary=Right from the very moment I opened the envelope this book was delivered inWWII baby, I had the distinct feeling this would be faced a real gem of a bookdilemma: reducing, reusing and how right I wasrecycling is part of my DNA. Though, initially, I was reminded of the Iggulden brothers NEVER throw away anything that might ' 'possibly'Dangerous Book for Boys'' series, this book has a very different ethos, even though come in handy now or in the subject matter overlaps somewhat unavoidably making it bear comparisonfuture.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340980966</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Maria Tatar |title=Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood|rating=3|genre=Home and Family|summary=Like most avid readers, I don't remember NEVER buy anything if you can cobble together something that would serve the time before there were books. We were brought up with bookspurpose. There are family tales of my father as a child eating his breakfast with Almost everything can be used one hand, while trying to tie his shoelaces with the other more time and still contriving to read at any purchase must pass the same time. test of 'Is this absolutely essential?' They were a poor familyOn the other hand, I suspected I was guilty of wishcycling: assuming that something must be recyclable (toothpaste tubes - I'm looking at you) and books weren't just expensive, they were valuabledropping it in the kerbside bin. They were dearYes, in every sense of I could go searching on the word. Likewise my mother remembers her early schoolinternet - and get conflicting advice -years when every day ended with but what I needed was a chapter from one of the classicsrecycling bible. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393066010</amazonuk>s
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Brian0760378134|title=The Complete Guide to IVFFirst-Time Gardener: Container Food Gardening|author=Pamela Farley
|rating=5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Each year some forty thousand cycles of IVF – in vitro fertilisation – are carried out in the UK and something like a million worldwide. About two hundred thousand IVF babies are born annually with some twelve thousand of those in the UK according to a recent article I read on a BBC site. Fertility expert Kate Brian has followed her [[The Complete Guide to Female Fertility by Kate Brian|Complete Guide to Female Fertility]], which we loved, with another indispensable guide – this time to IVF.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749909706</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ali Valenzuela
|title=Weighing It Up
|rating=3
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Although never having had an eating disorder myself, I have been interested in them since I was young. I was a competitive gymnast and that is a world where eating disorders do creep in. Now I'm a mother of three teenage daughters, I worry about the subject from a whole new angle, especially as one of them is a size 6-8 and idolises those super-skinny celebrities.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340988401</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Anna Paterson
|title=Anorexic
|rating=4
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=It might seem strange and somewhat ironic that an obese woman is reviewing a book on anorexia. But it is a topic I have always found interesting. Despite my being at the opposite end of the weight scale to Anna Paterson, I could empathise with some of the things she felt.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0952921529</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Loose Women
|title=Girls' Night In
|rating=4
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=I love watching ''Loose Women'' on TV and feel it's like sitting down for a good gossip with a load of girlfriends. Every time it's on, I get involved in the debates and they spark discussions at home with whoever is around. My teenage daughters are fans of the show too.
 
So when I heard a book was coming out, I definitely wanted to read it! But would the fun and camaraderie so obvious on the telly really be able to translate to the written word?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340918454</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jeffrey Dean
|title=The Fight of Your Life
|rating=4
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=This book is a wake-up call. Jeffrey Dean wrote it so that parents can understand the difficult world that their teens may have to face everyday, and through this understanding, they will be motivated to help their teens to survive.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1601421109</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Mark Diacono
|title=Veg Patch: River Cottage Handbook No 4
|rating=4
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=At a time when the climate is changing and the economy appears to be heading south the thought of being able to produce your own vegetables is very tempting. Forget about food miles and consider instead how few minutes there can be between harvesting your vegetables and the cooking process. Don't worry about pesticides and residues as you'll know exactly what's been fed to your food. Mark Diacono, head gardener on the hallowed ground of River Cottage HQ, run by the sainted Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, tells you exactly how to go about it in this, the fourth of the River Cottage Handbooks.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747595348</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=John Kay
|title=The Long and the Short of it: A Guide to Finance and Investment for Normally Intelligent People Who Aren't in the Industry
|rating=4.5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=Sometimes I wonder if authors set out to stop people reading their books, strange as this might seem. John Kay is an excellent example. He tells us that he expects his readers to be erudite and to be readers of popular science. They'll never knowingly have dealt with Goldman Sachs and will pay tax at the 40% rate. At the other end of the scale they'll not be bad credit risks and just to cut out anyone hoping for a quick buck, they'll not be tempted to make a living from Stock Market speculation. If you don't qualify on all points there's not even a hint of a pass mark which might allow you to sneak into the checkout queue.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0954809327</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Glenn Harrold
|title=Look Young, Live Longer: The Secret to Changing Your Life and Slowing the Ageing Process
|rating=4
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=I was really intrigued by If you've ever thought how good it would be to be able to pop out into the title of therapist Glenn Harroldgarden 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 book comprehensive: you'll cover everything from why you should grow your own food, what you're going to grow, what you'Look Young ll grow it in (both containers and Live Longersoil), where you'll put these containers, how you'. Could it be possible that ll water and fertilise them and you finish the main part of the book with a book could deliver handy section on such troubleshooting. There's also a huge promise? Having been feeling more than a little jaded latelygood glossary. So, I was willing to give is it a try.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>075288610X</amazonuk>any good?
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1529149800|title=Adam Phillips Things You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change and Barbara TaylorReduce Waste|titleauthor=On Kindness Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini Meadows
|rating=4
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=As a title, ''On Kindness'' doesn't pack quite the same punch as Adam Phillip's earlier: 'On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored'. It put me in mind of an eighteenth century treatise, and, give or take a couple of centuries, that is exactly what the book provides: a thought-provoking exposition on a currently unfashionable virtue.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241144337</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Olive Hickmott and Andrew Bendefy
|title=Seeing Spells Achieving
|rating=4.5
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=I felt an immediate empathy We begin with Olive Hickmott when I read this booka telling story. We're obviously All the birds and animals fled when the forest fire took hold and most of a similar age them stood and were taught reading and spelling in a time before you were ''dyslexic''watched, unable to think of anything they could do. I found that The tiny hummingbird flew to the terms more commonly used were 'not trying hard enough' river and began taking tiny amounts of water and 'lazy'flying back to drop them into the fire. I did master reading although I The animals laughed: what good was late by todaythat doing. ''s standards but I've always struggled with spelling: certain words and letter combinations still have terrors hidden within them half a century later and until we changed m doing the format of Bookbag best I used to warn reviewers that they should check whatever I uploaded onto can'', said the site as I was unreliable when it came to spellinghummingbird. Olive and I have both been saved by the spellchecker. I settled happily into readingAnd that, Olive less soreally, but is the only way that we both made careers where numbers were important. I could read a set will solve the problem of climate change – by each of accounts like a story; she found a home in engineering. We worked in areas where intuition was importantus doing what we can, however small that might be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312209</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Brian1849767009|title=The Complete Guide It Isn't Rude to Female Fertilitybe Nude|author=Rosie Haine
|rating=5
|genre=Home and FamilyFor Sharing|summary=ItThis could have been one of those books which 's tempting preaches to say the choir': the only people who'll buy it are the people who know that every woman over nudity is OK and the age of puberty should have access to Kate Brianones who ''s know'The Complete Guide to Female Fertility'. The truth is that it's shameful will avoid it like they should all have their own copies avoid the hot-and they should read -bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit to bust. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a book until itabout not wearing clothes. It's dog-eared a celebration of bodies: bodies large and small and of every possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and falling apartmarkings. They're fine. In fact, because I really canthey't think of a better way to understand why some women are more fertile than others or some women have difficulty in conceivingre wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749927925</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=India Knight1504321383|title=The Thrift Book: Live Well Single, Again, and Spend Less Again, and Again|author=Louisa Pateman
|rating=4.5
|genre=Home and FamilyAutobiography|summary=A soon as I read the introduction I wondered if this was really going to be the book for me. Despite having two books in the top ten best seller list India Knight knew the bailiffs well and was facing bankruptcy. It wasn't that she wasn't earning money – it was simply that she had no ability to handle it. Hmm – I have a horror of debt and I You can handle money. Was India Knight ''really'' going to t be able to teach the person who grew up with the austerity of post-war Britain chomping at her heels anything about thrift? Plans were already forming to move the book happy and fulfilled on, when slowly and inexorably I was won over.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905490372</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michael Schmidt and Robert Maslen|title=The Shakespeare Handbook |rating=4|genre=Home and Family|summary=William Shakespeareyour own. If You are not complete until you're find a fan of the theatre, you may see him as the greatest playwright of all time. If youman're currently studying English at school, he may be the worst thing that ever happened to you. Over the years, I've certainly held both opinions, depending on where I was at the time.
Part of this could have been because I, like most school pupils, never had a gentle introduction This was what Louisa Pateman was brought up to Shakespearebelieve. If IIt wasn'd had a book like this 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 early expectation that they will marry and have children. It was a belief and it would be many years of my schooling, I suspect I may have come around to my love of Shakespeare before Louisa would conclude that ''a belief is a lot sooner than I didchoice''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184724615X</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tania GlydeGraff_Find|title=Cleaning Up: How I Gave Up Drinking And LivedFind Another Place|author=Ben Graff|rating=43.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=I suspect that IWhen Ben Graff'm like s grandfather Martin handed him a lot plastic folder of people who enjoy alcohol on a regular basis: there's a nagging guilt and suspicion that you might have a problem. Equallyhandwritten notes from his journal, therehe didn's St Augustine's approach to a sin: you're determined to do something about t take much notice of it, but not just yet. So, when ''Cleaning Up: How I Gave Up Drinking And Lived'' dropped through the letterbox on Saturday morning I wondered if this was a message from a higher authority.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686555</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mike Toms and Paul Sterry|title=Garden Birds and Wildlife|rating=5|genre=Home and Family|summary=''Garden Birds & Wildlife'' has been created and published under At the auspices age of British Trust for Ornithology (though the actual publisher is24, possibly in Graff didn't realise the spirit gravity of penance for damage inflicted on wildlife by the motorcar, the AA). Accordingly, the main focus of the guide is, indeed, on birds. It contains a wealth of information: from birdwatching to bird biology and behaviour, including visual guides to eggs and nests; practical tips and guides to bird watching, feeding (what, how and where), creating a bird-and-wildlife- friendly garden and building nest boxes; it's all there, with copious illustrations, clear text and more interesting or practically relevant facts and tips in separate insert boxespages he was holding.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749559128</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael OkeGoodland_Worth|title=Write Your Life StoryIt's Worth a Try|author=Nicola Goodland
|rating=4
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=I love writing and over the last few yearsThis is how Nicola Goodland introduces her book, I have begun to write my autobiography. While I find this a very rewarding process, sometimes it can be hard to stay motivated. ''It is easy to get bogged down in wondering if it's any good, if you are going into too much detail or not enough. Sometimes you need Worth a push in the right direction. ''Write Your Life StoryTry'' by Michael Oke is ideal for this, as well as for anyone interested in writing their memoirs, but unsure how to start.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845283058</amazonuk>}}:
{{newreview|author= Niall Edworthy and Petra Cramsie|title=The Optimist's/pessimist's Handbook|rating=4|genre=Trivia|summary=With a publication date in early November, the passing Christmas shopper is clearly the target for I wanted to write this kind of book. ''The Optimist's/ Pessimist's Handbook'' isn't because when I was a self-help bookyoung woman, but a compendium ladies and gents told me that they suffered from abuse of enlightening snippets. Off some kind as children and only found the shelf, I think you'd know immediately which relative or friend might enjoy receiving courage to talk about itas adults. So I suggest eschewing Amazon in favour of a real-life bookshop, not least because there will be a shelf full of similar books Maybe this book can deter children from becoming future abusers and stop abuse so it goes away for a surreptitious and delightful half-hourgood.''s browse before choosing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>038561411X</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeremy ButterfieldHigashida_Fall|title=Damp SquidFall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight: The English Language Laid Bare A Young Man's Voice From the Silence of Autism|author=Naoki Higashida and David Mitchell|rating=4.5
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=How do you pronounce Naoki Higashida was only 13 years old when he wrote the word ghoti? Go on, say it out loud – you must recognise it, and international best-seller ''The Reason I dare say youJump've eaten one enough times.  OK, I'll help. You know gh sounds like f, like The book was popular because it does in rough. You know o sounds like i, just like in women. And ti is clearly gave a rare glimpse into the workings of the same as shautistic mind, as in notiontold from the unique perspective of a teenager with non-verbal autism. YesNaoki communicates by using an alphabet grid, ghoti is pronounced fishor by tracing letters on the palm of a transcriber. It's just a very blunt way Despite this slow and laborious method of saying the rules that control the languagewriting, he has published several books in his native Japan and manages to give public presentations to raise awareness of his condition. Fall Down 7 Times Get up 8 reintroduces us to Naoki as a young adult in his 20s and explains how it is spelled, pronounced, used, and changes over history are all over the placehis perspectives on life have changed since writing his first book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199239061</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben Crystal Bialik_Girling|title=Shakespeare on ToastGirling Up|author=Mayim Bialik
|rating=4.5
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=This book arrived on my desk to cries of ''Amy Farrah Fowler's written a book?''Shakespeare on Toastor '' claims to be for virtually everyone: those No, that are 's Blossom'reading Shakespeare ' depending on your generation. Mayim Bialik is or was both, of course, but in addition to being a well-known sitcom actress, she is also a neuroscientist (and the only PhD on The Big Bang Theory, except for the first timecharacters). Aimed at teenagers, occasionally finding him troublesomethis book focuses on growing up as a girl, think they know him backwards or have never set foot near one of his plays but have always wanted to''Girling up'' if you will, and what it means to transition from school girl to grown-up, via that hideous detour of teenage years. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848310161</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marisa Peer Mattinson_Puppy|title=You Can Be Thin: The Ultimate Programme to End Dieting... Forever Choosing the Perfect Puppy|author=Pippa Mattinson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=After having my baby just over two years ago, I If you have found it quite hard to shed the weight which seemed to be sticking around. I used to be quite thin before having himever, so to suddenly go up for even a dress size was a bit of fleeting moment, thought about getting a shock. I'm quite a petite person so even just a few extra pounds shows unfortunately. I decided I had to get rid of the weightpuppy, and so I turned you really ought to read this book sent to me by The Bookbag.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847441394</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Elise Lindsay|title=How to Get a Celeb's Body: Discover Too many people are carried away in the Secrets heat of the Stars with Your Own Personal Trainer |rating=2|genre=Home moment and Family|summary=I do not know Elise Lindsay - neither by name or reputation. I am optimistic and therefore think she ''must be '' have a great coach. A hundred plus pages with pictures show her posing very confidently in flattering sport outfits particular breed and she does seem quite fitgo ahead without any thought about the consequences. I am sure she can motivate her clients and make them do their best. Quite frankly though, I do not believe that should in any way They then have motivated anyone to write live with the problems which ''might'' have been avoided for a bookdecade or more.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718153375</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kathleen Burk The puppy and Michael Bywater|title=Is This Bottle Corked? The Secret Life of Wine |rating=4|genre=Trivia|summary=Now, I'm the first person adult dog also has to admit I am live with an owner who might not a wine buffbe able to accommodate his needs. I know a lot more now than I did before [[:Category:Pippa Mattinson|Pippa Mattinson]] is my current relationship, but go-to author on matters dog related: she is right to say I have a very masculine (ie dead weak) talks sense of smell. Added She doesn't try to that talk you out of getting a blunt sense of taste particular breed or any puppy: she simply presents the facts and I'm left saying I know what I like when I drink it, and that's itallows you to make your own decisions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571241743</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicole KlieffRaskin_Grow|title=Baby Next Time|rating=3|genre=Home and Grow: A Family|summary=Nicole Klieff grew up with the same knowledge that most women hope to have. They'll enjoy themselves, eventually meet Mister Right, settle down and have a family. Well, most of it went according Guide to plan – it was just that bit about having a family which seemed somewhat elusive. After a period of trying for a baby in the normal way Nicole Growing Fruit and her husband Barry sought help from the medical profession and began the fertility treatments which were to dominate their lives for years to come. It wouldn't do their bank balance much good either.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1434395138</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewVeg|author=Ursula James|title=You Can Be Amazing: Transform Your Life with HypnosisBen Raskin
|rating=5
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=Ursula James is a hypnotherapist who has written I worried when I looked at this book to help you to instigate changes in your life: ''Grow'', whatever they may be – careerit said, relationships''A family guide to growing fruit and veg''. Why did it worry me? Well, your physical self. It is accompanied by it's a CD of hypnotic suggestions mere 48 pages and the cover says that it includes ''Games, stickers and MORE!'' I have weighty tomes which reinforce the messages don't completely cover what I need to know about growing fruit and exercises in the bookveg, so wasn't this going to fall a little short? Well, it doesn't - not at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846051975</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jim ScrivenerMcgrath_Camping|title=Learning TeachingCamping With Kids|author=Simon McGrath
|rating=4.5
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=It takes a year When my daughter was young it used to do be joked that if a PGCE. Some other people even do whole 3 year degrees in teaching. Not me. I did a 20 day course. Those other teachers may not need this sort of book, but gosh, did I, especially when a job offer came my way child asked on day 7, his fifth birthday to go camping and I was suddenly only a few short weeks away from having real live students at my mercy. There are two English as a Foreign Language (EFL) you told him that he could in five years'biblestime, he'. One is this oned be there on his tenth birthday, all kitted up and the other is ''How To Teach English'' by Jeremy Harmerready to go. Also known as These days the purple one discussions - and delaying tactics - are more likely to be about technology - and the blue one mobiles in our householdparticular. I like purple better, so Whilst it's this one wonderful that made children do embrace technology, it into my pathetic 20kg-for-a-year luggage allowance. Lucky for meshouldn't be at the expense of getting out in the fresh air, I chose well (being free of screens and Amazon users agree... having an adventure - preferably with all the purple one gets 5* customer reviews, the blue one only 2family doing it ''together''.5*)|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405013990</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mathew Collins and Nicky BarclayWilliams_Son|title=Living and Working in the UKMy Son's Not Rainman: One Man, One Autistic Boy, A Million Adventures|author=John Williams|rating=23.5
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|summary=In 2012, stand-up comedian John Williams was encouraged by his work colleagues to write a show charting his experiences as the parent of an autistic boy. After registering the domain name: ''My Son's Not Rainman,''Living he also decided to write a blog to share his funny anecdotes and Working in the UKexperiences. After a shaky start ('' claims to be I had a source handful of followers. Three of them were my brothers''all ), the practical information you need to live happily blog eventually went viral as it increased in the UKpopularity with parents who felt a connection with John and 'The Boy', whether you are a student, an expat or an HR professional intending to bring staff over.  Unfortunately, it's nothing This book fills in some of the sort. Most of its bulk is a compilation of information easily available gaps in the public domain (the sources are scrupulously quoted) that at the first look seems excellent story, starting with 'The Boy's' early childhood and comprehensiveending, but whichappropriately, on more detailed perusal, is very, very disappointinghis thirteenth birthday when he suddenly became 'The Teen'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845280679</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ursula JamesMbaya_Brain|title=You Can Think Yourself ThinMy Brain Is Out Of Control|author=Patrick Mbaya|rating=54
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|summary=I wanted to read this book because I have always struggled with my weight since having my two childrenDr Patrick Mbaya was enjoying life as a consultant psychiatrist, husband and father. Although more traditional diets have worked for me in the short term I never seem to be able to maintain the weight loss so I His career was fast reaching the conclusion that I needed to work on my mind as going well as my bodyand he enjoyed making ill people better. Ursula James' book ''You Can Think Yourself Thin'' came along at just the right time for me His marriage was solid and fulfilling and I have been absolutely astounded by his two children were exploring their potential, often through the effects uplifting power of reading this book and listening to the hypnosis tracksmusic. I had never tried anything like this before and Life was even alittle skeptical but not any more!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846051983</amazonuk>good. But then...
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane VassAllingham_Beloved|title=Daily Mail Tax Guide 2008/2009Beloved Old Age and What to Do About it: Margery Allingham's the Relay|author=Margery Allingham and Julia Jones
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|summary=I doubt that there's anyone who genuinely looks forward to completing We remember [[:Category:Margery Allingham|Margery Allingham]] as a Tax Return. Even as an ex-Inspector of Taxes I'll freely admit that novelist from the thought golden age of it fills me with dread. It's tediouscrime, perhaps not as famous as Agatha Christie or Dorothy L Sayers but important that you don't get it wrong. So, what do you do? Professional assistance can be expensive certainly well regarded by those who appreciate good writing and isn't necessarily entirely reliableexcellent plotting. You can go along to your H M Revenue and Customs Enquiry Centre, Her last completed book was not a novel but their function is to answer your queries rather than give advice about where you could minimise your tax bill. Going it alone is free''The Relay'', but you need to have comprehensive knowledge a combined account of taxation caring for three elderly relatives, (Em, Maud and Grace) between 1959 and 1961 and suggestions as to be sure that you're paying the correct amount of taxhow other people might achieve a good old age for their relatives. The Margery died in 1966 and ''Daily Mail Tax Guide 2008/2009The Relay'' will give most people all was never published in the information that they need to ensure that they're getting form in which it rightwas written.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846680891</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lee SiegelRodgers_Peace|title=Against the MachinePeace of Mind: Being Human in the Era A Book of the Electronic MobCalm for Busy Mums|author=Georgina Rodgers|rating=4 3
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=Some people switch the television or the radio on first thing The promise of a book bringing me calm was too much to resist! There it is, in the morning and only turn it off when they go to bedtitle, my job description (busy mum... For mewell, itthat's the computer and particularly the internet. It's my source just one of information, my workjobs!) and that elusive state that many mums seem to be trying to find, my play and peace of mind. I have to an unfortunately large extentsay, I was looking forward to some insightful revelations into changing my social life. To most it seems bizarre I think the problem, however, was quickly apparent in that I list amongst my friends people I've never met or even spoken like a busy mum, who is trying towear a hundred masks at the same time, but it's and carry out a fact. Whilst I might argue that circumstances have thrust multitude of roles, this situation upon me and that life would be emptier without the computer book isn't entirely sure what it's still something which shouldn't trying to be allowed , with everything from poetry and colouring to persist without thought. High-tech isolation mindfulness and social famine are not necessarily the best way forwardrecipes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686970</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Reynolds Ehrlin_Rabbit|title=On Guerrilla Gardening: A Handbook for Gardening Without Boundaries The Rabbit Who Wants To Fall Asleep|author=Carl-Johan Forssen Ehrlin
|rating=5
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=The term "guerrilla gardening" was first used in New York in 1973 Roger the Rabbit wanted to describe fall asleep, but somehow he couldn't, no matter how hard he tried. It wasn't that he didn't do much during the transformation of a derelict private plot into a gardenday, although because he did but sometimes he was so tired that he could fall asleep on the actual practice is much olderswings. As an environmental movementOne night Mummy Rabbit took Roger to see Uncle Yawn, guerrilla gardening is who had a form of direct action in which flowering or food plants are established on an abandoned piece of land, without the owner's permission, saving the land from neglect or misuse notice outside his house saying I can make anyone fall asleep and giving once Roger went home (it a new purpose. It is also a political stance, challenging issues of land ownership, the misuse of urban land was actually quite difficult for him to get there as his eyes kept closing) he went straight to bed and the deterioration of the urban environmentfell asleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747590818</amazonuk>
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{{newreview|author=Andy Hamilton and Dave Hamilton|title=The Self-sufficientish Bible|rating=5|genre=Home and Family|summary=Andy and Dave Hamilton practice what they preach. They grow vegetables, they forage for wild food, they cycle, they make-and-mend-do. They don't live Move on a farm with many acres to play with, but live in Bristol and enjoy what the city has to offer, but want a low-impact lifestyle. They haven’t renounced the real world. They realise that the whole hog of self-sufficiency isn't for everyone, hence the concept of "self-sufficientish" – doing what you can, with what you have, and with an eye on the environment, ethical living and saving money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>034095101X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview |title=The Secret|author=Rhonda Byrne|genre=Home and Family|rating=1|summary=The Secret has been on Amazon's list of top bestsellers for quite a while now. (It's no 12 at the time of writing). The description suggested a motivational self-help book of some kind and the synopsis referred to physicists, old oral traditions, religions, poetry and philosophy. Intrigued by the consistently high ranking, I included the book in my last order even though I am not normally in a market for this kinds of work.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847370292</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Horror Reviews]]
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