Sex smarts
Sexual
intelligence what we really want from sex and how to get it
By Marty
Klein (HarperCollins)
The
shape of it:
“Enjoyable sex: it’s not about technique or a perfect body or being
passionately in love. It’s about sexual intelligence.” Klein distils more than
30 years’ sex therapy and counseling experience into practical advice to develop
your sexual intelligence, and improve your relationships along with your
sexuality. He starts by separating what people say they want from what they
really want, includes the components of sexual intelligence (brain, body and
heart), and outlines the practical applications of sexual intelligence.
Why we
like it: They call
him the Steve Jobs of sex advice, and if he can simplify and beautify this most
tangled of human passions, then we’re for it! The book opens with a true or
false quiz that illustrates how little we actually know about this thing called
sex. Guaranteed to spice up your dinner-party conversations, as well as your
sex life!
Rated : 4 star
Wholehearted
Half a
wife – the working family’s guide to getting a life back
By Gaby
Hinsliff (Chatto & Windus)
The
shape of it: Gaby
Hinsliff was a career journalist with a 60-hour work week, who flitted between
her desk and various war zones. Then she had a baby, took an acceptable amount
of maternity leave, and went back to work.
All good?
Not really. “I felt boxed in, flattened out, desperate to escape but ashamed of
my desire to do so”
So she quit
her job, and embarked on a journey to find a new way. This book, she says, is
in part conceived “to explain to myself what on earth I had done”
Why we
like it: Hinsliff
is smart, with heart. This is the book Allison Pearson, author of the working
mother’s lament I Don’t Know How She Does It, wishes she’d had when she tried
to reconcile her twin passions for her children and her work.
More than a
personal account, Half a Wife is a considered look at how dual career parenting
is altogether reshaping the modern workforce.
Rated : 3 star
This month’s 3 must-read novels…
The
Dovekeepers
By Alice
Hoffman (Simon & Schuster)
Judea, 70
A.D., and the assassin’s daughter crosses the desert after the Romans ransack
Jerusalem, finally finding refuge with the dovekeepers in a high citadel. But
when they find themselves under siege, they know they can’t all survive… This
is a lyrical and heart-rending tale of strength and spirit in the face of
sacrifice and savagery.
The
Hunger Games
By Suzanne
Collins (Scholastic Press)
Are you one
of those people who has to read the book before you see the movie? And you
haven’t already blazed through this addictive trilogy? Then get behind young
gladiator Katniss as she fights deadly foes and sticky love entanglements in
the ultimate survival reality game.
Lone
Wolf
By Jodi
Picoult (Hodder & Stoughton)
Luke Baxter
is in a come. While daughter Cara prays for a miraculous awakening, estranged
son Edward can’t imagine that a man who once ran with wild wolves can accept a
compromised life. But they must decide. Once again, Picoult picks an impossible
dilemma and puts her readers right inside it.
