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The Blurb On The Back:

Make yourself heard - on and off the bench

Whether you spend your days arguing your case at work, fighting gender discrimination, or raising the next generation of dissenters, call an adjournment and ask yourself,

”What would RBG do?”

Grab your collar and get motivated to change the world with words of inspirational wit and wisdom from Associate Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

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The Verdict:

In this peculiar self-help book based on Ruth Bader Ginsburg as a brand, Marilyn Easton frames aspects of Ginsburg’s life and experience as a motivational tool for the reader. It’s a very US-centric book and I found it both patronising and shallow without ever doing Ginsburg or her career justice but if you’re absolutely desperate for a self-help gift for the feminist or lawyer in your life, then it may be worth a shot.

BE MORE RBG: SPEAK TRUTH AND DISSENT WITH SUPREME STYLE will be released in the United Kingdom on 1st October 2019. Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.

The Blurb On The Back:

’Good morning, Eeyore,’ shouted Piglet.
‘Good morning, Little Piglet,’ said Eeyore.
‘If it is a good a good morning,’ he said.
‘Which I doubt,’ said he.
‘Not that it matters,’ he said.

This gently-humorous collection of A. A. Milne’s most melancholy moanings will bring a smile to the face of even the grumpiest Eeyore.

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The Verdict:

This gift book is a collection of extracts from A A Milne’s classic Winnie-the-Pooh books (complete with the original charming illustrations by E H Shepard) themed around gloom and pessimism. Eeyore naturally dominates proceedings so this would be a good gift for Eeyore fans but to be honest, it’s such an obvious cash-in on the Milne titles that I couldn’t help but think you’d be better off just buying the originals.

WINNIE-THE-POOH GLOOM & DOOM FOR PESSIMISTS was released in the United Kingdom on 1st November 2018. Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.