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Relax: 52 Brilliant Little Ideas to Chill Out
Need to relax but don't know how? Or perhaps you just don't know how to fit it into your frenetic schedule. It's time to act before stress messes with your health, your career and your relationships. It can be difficult to know where to start though. The never-ending avalanche of feel-good books and the reams of articles in magazines, websites and TV programmes are all supposed to help. But who's got the time to wade through this lot to sift the stuff that works from the rubbish? Well, we've done the hard work for you - Relax cuts straight to the heart of the matter, providing you with quick to read and easy to implement tips.
125 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 17, 2012
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January 31, 2022
I am genuinely shocked at how this e-book made it onto the shelves of my local e-library.
First, there's a chapter titled the likes of "grumpy old man", offering advice to male seniors who are in a bad mood all the time, apparently. One of the suggestions is that they stop sleeping with their secretary. I kid you not. And no, the author isn't being snarky or humorous - she's perfectly serious when she says this.
Secondly, linguistic errors abound. We're talking the likes of "you're" being used where "your" should be, and stuff like that. Glaring, plebeian errors that would never have been made by someone with a decent education, and that should have been picked up by a decent editor, had one been hired.
Lastly, the tone used throughout the book is pretty self-righteous and off-putting, like the author "knows it all". Well, I guess she must think she really does, since she feels it's perfectly alright to assume all old men sleep with their secretaries and that at least some of their problems must stem in part from this. She talks about conversations she's had with friends (not named), that make her think they caused their own problems and are to blame for their resulting worries and anxiety (though she says she doesn't actually tell them that - which makes her a hypocrite?!) - and while that may be the case, there seems to be an absolute lack of empathy here. I, for one, am glad that I'm not her "friend"!
So, in short, you got that right - I'm not recommending this book to anyone anytime soon!
First, there's a chapter titled the likes of "grumpy old man", offering advice to male seniors who are in a bad mood all the time, apparently. One of the suggestions is that they stop sleeping with their secretary. I kid you not. And no, the author isn't being snarky or humorous - she's perfectly serious when she says this.
Secondly, linguistic errors abound. We're talking the likes of "you're" being used where "your" should be, and stuff like that. Glaring, plebeian errors that would never have been made by someone with a decent education, and that should have been picked up by a decent editor, had one been hired.
Lastly, the tone used throughout the book is pretty self-righteous and off-putting, like the author "knows it all". Well, I guess she must think she really does, since she feels it's perfectly alright to assume all old men sleep with their secretaries and that at least some of their problems must stem in part from this. She talks about conversations she's had with friends (not named), that make her think they caused their own problems and are to blame for their resulting worries and anxiety (though she says she doesn't actually tell them that - which makes her a hypocrite?!) - and while that may be the case, there seems to be an absolute lack of empathy here. I, for one, am glad that I'm not her "friend"!
So, in short, you got that right - I'm not recommending this book to anyone anytime soon!
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