Relax and Grow Rich: How to Live a Successful, Satisfying and Sustaining Life
Posted 12:24am Monday 26th July 2010
Authors: Mike Hutcheson & Claire Wadey Publisher: Harper Collins 1/5 This book is not about getting rich in a practical sense, and the ‘relax’ aspect is certainly not in relation to what you would do as you bank the bucks from passive income. Relax and Grow Rich spends 280 Read more...
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future
Posted 9:12pm Sunday 11th July 2010
Author: Michael J. Fox Publisher: Hachette (1/5) In a brief 100 pages, Michael J. Fox tells his tale of how to be successful as a high school drop-out. Instead of a college education, Fox got life experience, which is just as well given his confession that he would have been loathe to Read more...
Get Knotted
Posted 8:52pm Sunday 11th July 2010
Author: Michelle Holman Publisher: HarperCollins (2/5) Get Knotted is the story of how Danny falls in love with her twin sister’s American partner’s brother. The twin is dead (she had breast cancer), and so is her partner, Patrick (he drowned). This leaves Danny trying to Read more...
Solar
Posted 2:52pm Sunday 11th July 2010
Author: Ian McEwan Publisher: Jonathan Cape Rating: 3/5 Fans of Ian McEwan, prepare to be disappointed. Solar may be the closest McEwan has gotten to a rush job. Indeed, I was dismayed, and about halfway through I kept wondering if McEwan had actually written the book himself. Read more...
Against the Tide: Back pain treatment – the breakthrough by Robin McKenzie
Posted 4:01am Wednesday 23rd June 2010
Publisher: Dunmore Publishing 3/5 My first introduction to the McKenzie Method was when I hurt my back and upper leg a year ago while running. I have had recurrent back pain for years, but serious training tipped it into an intolerable degree of pain. The physiotherapy clinic talked me Read more...
The Group - Mary McCarthy
Posted 2:16am Monday 10th May 2010
Publisher: Hachette (4.5/5) I’ve got to admit, first of all, to being a big Sex in the City fan. So, I was pleased to see Candace Bushnell’s introduction of this newly re-released version of a classic, dare I say, feminist novel first published in 1964. It spent two Read more...