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Froth on the Cappuccino: How Small Pleasures Can Save Your LifeSnagging.org In association with Amazon.co.ukOnline Shop | Property Guides | Kitchen & Home | Garden Tools | Power Tools | Consumer Electronics Get the Snagging Checklist Here!  List Price: £8.99 Amazon.co.uk's Price: £6.74 You Save: £2.25 (25%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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Binding: HardcoverEAN: 9781401911058 ISBN: 1401911056 Label: Hay House Manufacturer: Hay House Number Of Pages: 224 Publication Date: October 02, 2007 Publisher: Hay House Studio: Hay House Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Merely alrightPotential buyers need to be aware that the author makes two big assumptions. She assumes that the reader is female e.g. girls night out as a pleasure. As a fellow I found it rather irritating that she goes on about cheap jewellery (that turns out not to be cheap), pashminas, matching underwear without considering that these do not apply to half the population. She also assumes that the reader is well off. The target audience is women with plenty of spare money and the author is not much interested in anyone else. Rating:  - A Lovely Book for Dipping IntoThis is another one of those books you can dip into at any time - beautifully packaged, with a hardback cover and a pink satin bookmark attached. It's the sort of book that makes a perfect gift. The main focus of the book is looking at everyday things that are around us all the time that we take for granted, looking at them and seeing how much pleasure can be gained by the small things in life. The book is divided up into the various pleasures, with just a brief snippet written about each one. Most of the things are ordinary, everyday things such as; a cool pillow, watching the dawn, painting your toenails but there are a few more expensive treats including; spa days and cashmere, It's a charming little book and great for a bit of a pick-me-up Rating:  - small but sometimes rather expensive pleasuresI do like the pink ribbon but Froth on the Cappuccino has a rather affluent take on 'small' pleasures which supposedly include wearing cashmere, spa days, champagne, pashminas, and fresh pesto. Spas are no longer 'prerogative of the very rich' but are 'a possibility for most of us'. Cheap jewellery is asking a little shop in Paris to make a custom glass tiara. In the midst of this sweetly but rather obliviously privileged view of pleasures there are a host of concepts that can speak to a much wider audience: * doing something you've been putting off * making satisfying economies * being met from a journey * tasks with an echo of the past * listing 3 good things * seeing life as a web not a ladder Work is almost entirely absent from the book. Even pleasures that might easily apply to your job are illustrated with a domestic, leisure or family example. Perhaps, for Haran, work is a world of only big pleasures or of none at all? Rating:  - the feel good factor!What a lovely, easy reading book! The sort you can dip in & out of, sitting with a cup of coffee (cappuccino or otherwise!). I lent it to my 2 big sisters who also loved it & appreciated how it makes you smile & forget the everyday hassles of life. Would recommend it to women everywhere. Even loved the pink inside cover & bookmark!  Try searching the Internet for "Froth on the Cappuccino: How Small Pleasures Can Save Your Life" or Ebay for "Froth on the Cappuccino: How Small Pleasures Can Save Your Life". You might also be interested in the following great products:
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