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[[Category:New Reviews|Home and Family]]==Home and family==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Guy Andrews|title=The Ultimate Guide to Bicycle Maintenance|rating=4.5|genre=Home and Family|summary=This book seemed like the answer to my husband's prayers. I've had a beautiful Gary Fisher urban bike for about ten years, but shamefully, I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times I've even cleaned it. Well<!-- Remove -used it certainly is, but I must confess to leaving all the maintenance to aforementioned husband. Having conceded that in this day and age I ought to be more independent that that, I dived into this book with great expectations for a fairer future …|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907232362</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Daniel Lezano|title=Getting Started in DSLR Photography|rating=4.5|genre=Home and Family|summary=The magazine-style layout of this 'magbook' (an ugly, but apt, term for the format) lends itself particularly well to the subject in hand, not least as the glossy pages beautifully illustrate the effects on the photographs that the publishers are showing. It's published by the team at 'Digital SLR Photography' magazine and it reads like a collection of the most useful articles published therein, particularly for the novice to SLR photography.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907232877</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Judy Bartkowiak and Carolyn Fitzpatrick1454955546|title=Passing the 11+ with NLP: NLP Strategies for Supporting Your 11 Plus Student|rating=4|genre=Home and Family|summary=The 11+ process is nerve-wracking for parents and children alike and many parents find it difficult to know how best to help their child. Over-enthusiastic intervention can make a child more nervous and conscious that there's a lot at stake, whilst leaving the child to get on with it can well make the child feel that their success or failure doesn't matter to you. It's also important that any preparation is built up in a steady way and that it leaves the child feeling confident of their success. 'Passing the 11+ with NLP' is a dual purpose book: there are the strategies for giving your child self-esteem, focus and concentration along with the other skills needed to pass and then there are details of the type of questions your child will face in the exam.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907685731</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSugarless|author=Barbara Warmsley|title=Make, Mend, Bake, Save and Shine!Nicole M Avena|rating=45
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|summary=A slim, slither of a book with a big title. ''GreenThis isn'' is the mantra on most pages, as well as tips on how to waste less - whether it's food, clothes or water from the tap. This t a diet book has a universal message. How to waste less. There The last thing anyone needs is a nice introduction by seventysomething Barbara Walmsley, aka the charity [http://www.oxfam.org.uk/ Oxfam's] ''Green Granny.'' Certainly catchy but will it catch on? When I was delving inside the first couple of pages looking for the writer's name (it's not on the front cover) I discovered the phrase ''Printed And Bound In Chinaanother diet book.'' Defeating the message?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846013674</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Patricia Nicol|title=Sucking Eggs: What Your Wartime Granny Could Teach You About Diet, Thrift and Going Green|rating=2.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=In the current economy, lots of people are trying to make ends meet in their own ways. Not since the days of Brownie badges has the word ''thrift'' been bandied around so muchThere was a time, but now it's not so much about saving money as it is about surviving. Actuallythat long ago, maybe when it always was, but the Guiding Association thought a jolly piggy bank that sugary food was a more appropriate badge emblem better for you than a depressed family collapsed in front of their Sky TV food with their supermarkethigh-own curry struggling fat content. Fat was the demon food which was going to fill the void left by elevate your cholesterol and cause heart disease. Sugar was a regular take awaycarbohydrate, so good. What we all need is There's a return to the good old daysproblem, when life was simpler though. Sugar is addictive and people happier, the days when you didn't need to clear half an hour can hijack your brain in your diary to navigate much the olive aisle of the supermarket, same way as drugs like heroin and when you ate what was fresh and local, not because it was cheap or you were in cocaine. Does that sound over the moodtop? Well, but because it was all they hadisn't.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099521121</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Natasha McElhone1635866847|title=After You: Letters of Love, and Loss, to a Husband and Father|rating=3.5|genre=Biography|summary=What would you do if, without warning, your brilliant, loving, superman partner died from a catastrophic heart event at the untimely age of 43, leaving you with two young boys and a third on the way? Most of us would probably reach for the Valium and book a very long course of counseling. But Natascha McElhone couldn't because she was already stretched, juggling a busy transatlantic career as an actress as well as caring for her sparky young family. Coping as a single parent left no spare time for self-indulgence; within months she had a new baby as well. So she found her own way, grabbing instead at odd moments to write in her well-established diary. These short entries … e-mails, almost … to her dead husband form the basis of 'After You'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670919098</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewThe Lavender Companion|author=Joanna Simmons Jessica Dunham and Jay Curtis|title=The Aargh to Zzzz of Parenting: An Alternative GuideTerry Barlin Vesci
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|genre=Home and FamilyLifestyle|summary=It'All in alls strange, having kids the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is an intense rollercoaster ridethe book for you. It plunges up and down, and there’s lots of screaming and vomiting involved.Before I started reading '' So that pretty much sums it up. Advertised as: The Lavender Companion'a comprehensively unhelpful, advice-free look at life', I visited the authors talk about Antecedents and Behaviour, without (fortunately) going too deeply into the Consequences of several dozen baby-related topics. But this definitely isn’t the rocket science of a parenting manual, or the touchy-feely of a misery memoir, rather a blackly comic gallop round pragmatic parenthood, instantly recognizable by anyone who’s been through the mill themselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>022408626X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Chris Barnardo|title=Dadcando: Build, Make, Do ... the Best Way to Spend Quality Time with Your Kids|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=The ideas in this book originated as a 's [httphttps://www.dadcandopinelavenderfarm.co.ukcom/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that Chris Barnardo set up for divorced and separated fathers to help them spend quality time with their children Now hecake viscerally. (There's written a recipe in the book that although aimed at single fathers is equally as useful for married dads, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and mums too or grandparents or carers I was told to inspire crafty ideas make a mess of things it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to make with kidsfold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852652011</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tess Daly0760381267|title=The Baby DiariesVerdura: Memories, Milestones and MisadventuresLiving a Garden Life|author=Perla Sofia Curbelo-Santiago
|rating=3.5
|genre=Home and FamilyLifestyle|summary=One ''The most important part of a garden is the many side effects of pregnancy seems to be the need to read everything you can get your hands on about pregnancy and babies. I know that when pregnant with my daughter I trawled the library for any baby books they had, scoured the internet nightly for due date calendars, week by week guides and baby name dictionaries. I also became an obsessive baby-watcher, interested in any celebrity baby news and willing to speak to anyone 'normal' that I met who was pregnant too or one who already had children. This book is aiming to be a sort of catch-all for pregnancy obsessives I think, as enjoys it's a mix of pregnancy and birth advice and information alongside of Tess Daly's memories from her pregnancies with her two daughters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091935164</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Evany Thomas|title=The Secret Language of Sleep: A CoupleI've 'gardened's Guide to the Thirty-nine Positions|rating=3|genre=Home and Family|summary=This volume takes the premise that the positions in which couples sleep together are an insight into their private minda vague, indefinite sort of way for more than half a century. Therefore, with the help of the line drawings of 39 I know (apparently all most of THE 39) positions, one might see where one is going wrongthe basics but life has changed and I needed 'projects' rather than a general commitment to gardening. It’s a chicken and egg situation where you might learn you’re ''Verdura'' with the wrong bed partner, its promise of projects for both indoors and change either them or your nocturnal habits, or in order to change yourself alter things having reflected on outdoors of varying complexity seemed like the contents here – with the help as they suggest of a ceiling-mounted camcorderanswer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1932416471</amazonuk> So, how did it stack up?
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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.''
{{newreview|author=Fraser's Autographs|title=Collect Autographs: An Illustrated Guide to Collecting and Investing in Autographs|rating=4.5|genre=Business and Finance|summary=There must be many of us who have at 'Recycling one time had an autograph book or something ton of the kind as children and asked friends, relations or even celebrities to paper can save 17 trees from being cut down.'do something', written to celebrities in the hope of obtaining a personally signed picture, or even waited patiently at a stage door after a play or concert eagerly clutching a theatre programme, record or CD sleeve and pen in hand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852597525</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Sonali Fernando|title=Soul Mates: True Stories From The World of Online Dating|rating=2.5|genre=Home and Family|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 If you're looking send an apple core to meetlandfill, you can it will take your pick from any number of sites. Yes, even 'Guardian' readers can log on between 6 months and look for love specifically with, erm, other 'Guardian' readers2 years to decompose. To do so, they just have A glass bottle will take up to click through to 'Guardian Soulmates', which is probably no different from 'Match.com' or 'Datingdirect', though might count a larger proportion of sandal wearing hippies among its members1 million years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085265202X</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Jethro Adlington|title=Online TherapyAs a just-post-WWII baby, I faced a dilemma: Reading Between the Lines|rating=4|genre=Home and Family|summary=You can get most things online these days reducing, reusing and even therapy recycling is becoming more widely available on the internetpart of my DNA. It NEVER throw away anything that might seem like a simple step to take but many of ''possibly'' come in handy now or in the signals beyond the spoken word are not available to future. NEVER buy anything if you can cobble together something that would serve the online therapistpurpose. In a face-to-face situation body language is an added form of communication Almost everything can be used one more time and even small changes in skin tone can give clues as to state any purchase must pass the test of mind. In a situation where these clues are not available it's Is this absolutely essential to make ?' On the most other hand, I suspected I was guilty of wishcycling: assuming that something must be recyclable (toothpaste tubes - I''all'' m looking at you) and dropping it in the clues offered by kerbside bin. Yes, I could go searching on the written wordinternet - and get conflicting advice - but what I needed was a recycling bible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312748</amazonuk>s
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Keith Hern0760378134|title=Bangers and Mash|rating=4.5|genre=Home and Family|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 do, but the doctor was insistent. He knew then that he had cancer. The lump in his neck was, in fact, a secondary tumour with the primary being in the back of his tongue. But for the secondary tumour the discovery of the primary might have been too late for successful treatment. Keith takes us through the discovery of his cancer, his reactions to the diagnosis, his treatment and the titular meal of bangers and mash – the first solid food which he had attempted for some time.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312772</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFirst-Time Gardener: Container Food Gardening|author=Donna Blinston|title=Make New Year's Resolutions and Keep Them Using NLPPamela Farley|rating=25
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|summary=ItIf you's coming up 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 time of year again – you wouldn't know itwhere to start, this is the book you need. It's the one where comprehensive: you'll cover everything from why you should grow your own food, what you make resolutions about 're going on a dietto grow, getting more exercise, stopping smoking or losing weight. If they last a week into the New Year what you're probably doing well – ll grow it in (both containers and then soil), where you're left with a feeling of failure. Donna Blinston offers advice on ll put these containers, how to make your resolutions you'll water and how to keep fertilise them and I needed this advice as much as you finish the main part of the next couch potatobook with a handy section on troubleshooting. There's also a good glossary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312845</amazonuk> So, is it any good?
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Vyvyen Brendon1529149800|title=Prep School ChildrenThings You Can Do: A Class Apart Over Two CenturiesHow to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini Meadows
|rating=4
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=''Prep School Children'' is Vyvyen Brendon's second collection (''Children of We begin with a telling story. All the Raj'' was birds and animals fled when the first)forest fire took hold and most of them stood and watched, unable to think of anything they could do. It explores The tiny hummingbird flew to the pupil experience, using primary sources like weekly letters home, memoirs river and interviews, and less immediate material such as fiction, school magazines began taking tiny amounts of water and headmasters' biographies. I came flying back to drop them into the book with some questionsfire. The animals laughed: what good was it like to be a boarder at a prep school? What difference did a prep school education make to life as an adult? that doing. Why parents might send their children to such schools when ''I'm doing the best I can'', said the horrors were well-knownhummingbird. And that, many of really, is the dads presumably having survived only way that we will solve the experience themselvesproblem of climate change – by each of us doing what we can, however small that might be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847062873</amazonuk>
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 {{newreview|author=Tad Tuleja|title=A Dictionary 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 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 homes. But the title is definitely honest, for this is a dictionary book first, for reference, and a browser for the trivia buff second.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709089562</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Loose Women1849767009|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, ''Loose Women''. Just as promised on the cover, this book is an entertaining night with the girls. It turns out that they're just like us. The faces are already familiar and even if you donIsn't know them yet, with nine contributors, you'll soon find a like-minded woman behind one of the celebrity faces. The women are universally warm-hearted and supportive: there will Rude to be many a lonely woman who reads this book and feels as if she sat down with a group of friends for the evening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444700154</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewNude|author=Gill Hines and Alison Baverstock|title=It's Not Fair! Parenting the Bright and Challenging ChildRosie Haine
|rating=5
|genre=Home and FamilyFor Sharing|summary=I like parenting This could have been one of those books. So, even though my sons which 'preaches to the choir': the only people who'll buy it are now young adults, I looked forward the people who know that nudity is OK and the ones who ''know'' that it's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and-bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit to reading bust. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a new book about raising childrennot wearing clothes. I It'm in touch with many parents with children s a celebration of all ages, bodies: bodies large and small and am always interested in reading current recommendationsof every possible hue.  The subtitle of this book is, 'Parenting the bright Bodies with disabilities and challenging child'markings. When I saw it, I wondered if it would be similar to the American book They'Raising your Spirited Child' (by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka) which I found extremely useful when my sons were youngerre fine. Spirited children are defined as those who are intenseIn fact, sensitive, perceptive, persistent and energeticthey're wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749940468</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lucy Mangan 1504321383|title=My Family Single, Again, and Other DisastersAgain, and Again|author=Louisa Pateman|rating=4.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Not living in the UK means that we don't have British newspapers. Even when we lived in England, we never bought 'You can'The Guardian'', so I had never actually heard of Lucy Mangan before being sent this bookt be happy and fulfilled on your own. That's probably You are not complete until you find a bad thing, since I began the book - a collection of her Guardian columns - without any preconceptionsman''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852651244</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Jane Brocket|title=Ripping Things This was what Louisa Pateman was brought up to Do|rating=5|genre=Childrenbelieve. It wasn's Non-Fiction|summary=Right from the very moment I opened t unkind: it was simply the envelope this book was delivered adults in, I had the distinct feeling this her life advising her as to what they thought would be a real gem of a book, and how right I wasbest for her. Though, initially, I It was reminded of reinforced by all those fairy tales where the Iggulden brothersgirl (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 ''Dangerous Book for Boyswithout'' series, this book has the expectation that they will marry and have children. It was a very different ethos, even though the subject matter overlaps somewhat unavoidably making belief and it bear comparisonwould be many years before Louisa would conclude that ''a belief is a choice''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340980966</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maria Tatar Graff_Find|title=Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood|rating=3|genre=Home and Family|summary=Like most avid readers, I don't remember the time before there were books. We were brought up with books. There are family tales of my father as a child eating his breakfast with one hand, while trying to tie his shoelaces with the other and still contriving to read at the same time. They were a poor family, and books weren't just expensive, they were valuable. They were dear, in every sense of the word. Likewise my mother remembers her early school-years when every day ended with a chapter from one of the classics. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393066010</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFind Another Place|author=Kate Brian|title=The Complete Guide to IVFBen Graff|rating=3.5|genre=LifestyleAutobiography|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>}} {{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 IWhen Ben Graff'm s grandfather Martin handed him a mother plastic folder of three teenage daughters, I worry about the subject handwritten notes from a whole new anglehis journal, especially as one he didn't take much notice of them is a size 6-8 and idolises those super-skinny celebrities.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340988401</amazonuk>}} {{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 At the opposite end age of 24, Graff didn't realise the weight scale to Anna Paterson, I could empathise with some gravity of the things she feltpages he was holding.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0952921529</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Loose WomenGoodland_Worth|title=GirlsIt' Night Ins Worth a Try|author=Nicola Goodland
|rating=4
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=I love watching This is how Nicola Goodland introduces her book, ''Loose Women'' on TV and feel itIt's like sitting down for Worth a good gossip with a load of girlfriends. Every time itTry''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 ''I wanted to write this kind of book because when I heard was a book was coming outyoung woman, I definitely wanted ladies and gents told me that they suffered from abuse of some kind as children and only found the courage to read talk about it! But would the fun as adults. Maybe this book can deter children from becoming future abusers and camaraderie stop abuse so obvious on the telly really be able to translate to the written word?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340918454</amazonuk>it goes away for good.''
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeffrey DeanHigashida_Fall|title=The Fight Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight: A Young Man's Voice From the Silence of Your LifeAutism|ratingauthor=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, Naoki Higashida and through this understanding, they will be motivated to help their teens to survive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1601421109</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mark Diacono|title=Veg Patch: River Cottage Handbook No 4David Mitchell|rating=45
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=At a time Naoki Higashida was only 13 years old when he wrote 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. Doninternational best-seller ''t worry about pesticides and residues as youThe Reason I Jump'll know exactly what's been fed to your food. Mark DiaconoThe book was popular because it gave a rare glimpse into the workings of the autistic mind, head gardener on as told from the hallowed ground unique perspective of River Cottage HQa teenager with non-verbal autism. Naoki communicates by using an alphabet grid, run or by tracing letters on the sainted Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstallpalm of a transcriber. Despite this slow and laborious method of writing, tells you exactly how 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 go about it Naoki as a young adult in this, the fourth of the River Cottage Handbookshis 20s and explains how his perspectives on life have changed since writing his first book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747595348</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John KayBialik_Girling|title=The Long and the Short of it: A Guide to Finance and Investment for Normally Intelligent People Who Aren't in the IndustryGirling Up|author=Mayim Bialik
|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.
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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 the title This book arrived on my desk to cries of therapist Glenn Harrold''Amy Farrah Fowler's written a book ?'' or ''Look Young and Live LongerNo, that's Blossom''depending on your generation. Could it be possible that 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 characters). Aimed at teenagers, this book could deliver focuses on such growing up as a huge promise? Having been feeling more than a little jaded latelygirl, or ''Girling up'' if you will, I was willing and what it means to transition from school girl to give it a trygrown-up, via that hideous detour of teenage years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>075288610X</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adam Phillips and Barbara TaylorMattinson_Puppy|title=On Kindness |rating=4|genre=Politics and Society|summary=As a title, ''On Kindness'' doesn't pack quite Choosing 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>}} {{newreviewPerfect Puppy|author=Olive Hickmott and Andrew Bendefy |title=Seeing Spells AchievingPippa Mattinson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=I felt an immediate empathy with Olive Hickmott when I If you have ever, for even a fleeting moment, thought about getting a puppy, you really ought to read this book. We're obviously Too many people are carried away in the heat of a similar age and were taught reading the moment and spelling in a time before you were ''dyslexicmust''have a particular breed and go ahead without any thought about the consequences. I found that They then have to live with the terms more commonly used were problems which 'not trying hard enough' and might'lazy'have been avoided for a decade or more. I did master reading although I was late by today's standards but I've always struggled with spelling: certain words The puppy and letter combinations still have terrors hidden within them half a century later and until we changed the format of Bookbag I used adult dog also has to warn reviewers that they should check whatever I uploaded onto the site as I was unreliable when it came live with an owner who might not be able to spellingaccommodate his needs. Olive and I have both been saved by the spellchecker[[:Category:Pippa Mattinson|Pippa Mattinson]] is my go-to author on matters dog related: she talks sense. I settled happily into reading, Olive less so, but we both made careers where numbers were important. I could read a set She doesn't try to talk you out of accounts like getting a story; particular breed or any puppy: she found a home in engineeringsimply presents the facts and allows you to make your own decisions. We worked in areas where intuition was important.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312209</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate BrianRaskin_Grow|title=The Complete Grow: A Family Guide to Female FertilityGrowing Fruit and Veg|author=Ben Raskin
|rating=5
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=ItI worried when I looked at this book: 's tempting to say that every woman over the age of puberty should have access to Kate Brian's Grow'', it said, ''The Complete Guide A family guide to Female Fertilitygrowing fruit and veg''. The truth is that they should all have their own copies Why did it worry me? Well, it's a mere 48 pages and they should read the book until cover says that itincludes ''Games, stickers and MORE!'' I have weighty tomes which don's dog-eared t completely cover what I need to know about growing fruit and falling apartveg, because I really canso wasn't think of this going to fall a better way to understand why some women are more fertile than others or some women have difficulty in conceivinglittle short? Well, it doesn't - not at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749927925</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=India KnightMcgrath_Camping|title=The Thrift Book: Live Well and Spend Less Camping With Kids|author=Simon McGrath
|rating=4.5
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=A soon as I read the introduction I wondered if this When my daughter was really going young it used to be the book for me. Despite having two books joked that if a child asked on his fifth birthday to go camping and you told him that he could in the top ten best seller list India Knight knew the bailiffs well and was facing bankruptcy. It wasnfive years't that she wasntime, he't earning money – it was simply that she had no ability d be there on his tenth birthday, all kitted up and ready to handle itgo. Hmm – I have a horror of debt These days the discussions - and delaying tactics - are more likely to be about technology - and I can handle moneymobiles in particular. Was India Knight Whilst it's wonderful that children do embrace technology, it shouldn'really'' going to t be able to teach at the person who grew up with expense of getting out in the austerity fresh air, being free of postscreens and having an adventure -war Britain chomping at her heels anything about thrift? Plans were already forming to move preferably with all the book on, when slowly and inexorably I was won overfamily doing it ''together''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905490372</amazonuk>
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 {{newreview|author=Michael Schmidt and Robert Maslen|title=The Shakespeare Handbook |rating=4|genre=Home and Family|summary=William Shakespeare. If you're a fan of the theatre, you may see him as the greatest playwright of all time. If you'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 to Shakespeare. If I'd had a book like this in the early years of my schooling, I suspect I may have come around to my love of Shakespeare a lot sooner than I did.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184724615X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tania GlydeWilliams_Son|title=Cleaning Up: How I Gave Up Drinking And Lived|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=I suspect that I'm like a lot of people who enjoy alcohol on a regular basis: there's a nagging guilt and suspicion that you might have a problem. Equally, there's St AugustineMy Son's approach to a sinNot Rainman: you're determined to do something about itOne Man, but not just yet. SoOne Autistic Boy, 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>}} {{newreviewA Million Adventures|author=Mike Toms and Paul Sterry|title=Garden Birds and WildlifeJohn Williams|rating=3.5
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|summary=''Garden Birds & Wildlife'' has been created and published under the auspices of British Trust for Ornithology (though the actual publisher isIn 2012, possibly in stand-up comedian John Williams was encouraged by his work colleagues to write a show charting his experiences as the spirit parent of penance for damage inflicted on wildlife by the motorcar, the AA)an autistic boy. Accordingly, After registering the main focus of the guide isdomain name: ''My Son's Not Rainman, indeed, on birds. It contains '' he also decided to write a wealth of information: from birdwatching blog to bird biology share his funny anecdotes and behaviour, including visual guides to eggs and nests; practical tips and guides to bird watching, feeding experiences. After a shaky start (what, how and where''I had a handful of followers. Three of them were my brothers''), creating the blog eventually went viral as it increased in popularity with parents who felt a bird-connection with John and-wildlife- friendly garden and building nest boxes; it'The Boy'. This book fills in some of the gaps in the story, starting with 'The Boy's all there' early childhood and ending, with copious illustrationsappropriately, clear text and more interesting or practically relevant facts and tips in separate insert boxeson his thirteenth birthday when he suddenly became 'The Teen'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749559128</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael OkeMbaya_Brain|title=Write Your Life StoryMy Brain Is Out Of Control|author=Patrick Mbaya
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|summary=I love writing and over the last few years, I have begun to write my autobiography. While I find this Dr Patrick Mbaya was enjoying life as a very rewarding processconsultant psychiatrist, sometimes it can be hard to stay motivatedhusband and father. It is easy to get bogged down in wondering if it's any good, if you are His career was going into too much detail or not enoughwell and he enjoyed making ill people better. Sometimes you need a push in His marriage was solid and fulfilling and his two children were exploring their potential, often through the right directionuplifting power of music. ''Write Your Life Story'' by Michael Oke is ideal for this, as well as for anyone interested in writing their memoirs, but unsure how to startwas good. But then...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845283058</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Niall Edworthy and Petra CramsieAllingham_Beloved|title=The Optimist's/pessimistBeloved Old Age and What to Do About it: Margery Allingham's Handbook|rating=4|genre=Trivia|summary=With a publication date in early November, the passing Christmas shopper is clearly the target for this book. ''The Optimist's/ Pessimist's Handbook'' isn't a self-help book, but a compendium of enlightening snippets. Off the shelf, I think you'd know immediately which relative or friend might enjoy receiving it. So I suggest eschewing Amazon in favour of a real-life bookshop, not least because there will be a shelf full of similar books for a surreptitious and delightful half-hour's browse before choosing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>038561411X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewRelay|author=Jeremy Butterfield|title=Damp Squid: The English Language Laid Bare Margery Allingham and Julia Jones
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|summary=How do you pronounce We remember [[:Category:Margery Allingham|Margery Allingham]] as a novelist from the word ghoti? Go on, say it out loud – you must recognise itgolden age of crime, perhaps not as famous as Agatha Christie or Dorothy L Sayers but certainly well regarded by those who appreciate good writing and I dare say youexcellent plotting. Her last completed book was not a novel but ''The Relay've eaten one enough times.  OK, I'll help. You know gh sounds like f, like it does in rough. You know o sounds like ia combined account of caring for three elderly relatives, just like in women. And ti is clearly the same as sh(Em, Maud and Grace) between 1959 and 1961 and suggestions as in notionto how other people might achieve a good old age for their relatives. Yes, ghoti is pronounced fish. ItMargery died in 1966 and ''The Relay''s just a very blunt way of saying was never published in the rules that control the language, and how form in which it is spelled, pronounced, used, and changes over history are all over the placewas written.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199239061</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben Crystal Rodgers_Peace|title=Shakespeare on ToastPeace of Mind: A Book of Calm for Busy Mums|author=Georgina Rodgers|rating=4.53
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|summary=The promise of a book bringing me calm was too much to resist! There it is, in the title, my job description (busy mum...well, that''Shakespeare on Toast'' claims s just one of my jobs!) and that elusive state that many mums seem to be for virtually everyone: those trying to find, peace of mind. I have to say, I was looking forward to some insightful revelations into changing my life. I think the problem, however, was quickly apparent in that are ''reading Shakespeare for like a busy mum, who is trying to wear a hundred masks at the first same time, occasionally finding him troublesomeand carry out a multitude of roles, think they know him backwards or have never set foot near one of his plays but have always wanted tothis book isn't entirely sure what it's trying to be, with everything from poetry and colouring to mindfulness and recipes. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848310161</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marisa Peer Ehrlin_Rabbit|title=You Can Be Thin: The Ultimate Programme to End Dieting... Forever Rabbit Who Wants To Fall Asleep|author=Carl-Johan Forssen Ehrlin|rating=4.5
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|summary=After having my baby just over two years agoRoger the Rabbit wanted to fall asleep, but somehow he couldn't, I have found it quite no matter how hard to shed he tried. It wasn't that he didn't do much during the day, because he did but sometimes he was so tired that he could fall asleep on the weight which seemed to be sticking aroundswings. I used One night Mummy Rabbit took Roger to be quite thin before having himsee Uncle Yawn, so to suddenly go up who had a dress size notice outside his house saying I can make anyone fall asleep and once Roger went home (it was a bit of a shock. I'm actually quite a petite person so even just a few extra pounds shows unfortunately. I decided I had difficult for him to get rid of the weight, there as his eyes kept closing) he went straight to bed and so I turned to this book sent to me by The Bookbagfell asleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847441394</amazonuk>
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{{newreview|author=Elise Lindsay|title=How Move on to Get a Celeb's Body: Discover the Secrets of the Stars with Your Own Personal Trainer |rating=2|genre=Home and Family|summary=I do not know Elise Lindsay - neither by name or reputation. I am optimistic and therefore think she must be a great coach. A hundred plus pages with pictures show her posing very confidently in flattering sport outfits and she does seem quite fit. 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 have motivated anyone to write a book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718153375</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kathleen Burk and Michael Bywater|title=Is This Bottle Corked? The Secret Life of Wine |rating=4|genre=Trivia|summary=Now, I'm the first person to admit I am not a wine buff. I know a lot more now than I did before my current relationship, but she is right to say I have a very masculine (ie dead weak) sense of smell. Added to that a blunt sense of taste and I'm left saying I know what I like when I drink it, and that's it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571241743</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Horror Reviews]]