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  Review by Ronica Wahi Free from Pain – Exercise Book: Exercises to Improve Health, Increase Ability and Provide Vitality in Your Senior Years By Dr. George Ampat First published: July 17, 2021, Talita Koum. Pages: 96. ISBN: 9780995676947 Dr. George Ampat, a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at present, has happily created this useful self-help health resource for people aged 50 and above who suffer from musculoskeletal pains. Despite years of experience of performing surgery, Dr. Ampat explains in Free from Pain – Exercise Book the importance of avoiding surgery, whenever possible. As a good self-help tool should be, the book is easy to grasp. Both the explanations bit and the instructions on performing the recommended exercises for alleviating pains in bones and joints primarily are clearly and crisply given, making these explanations and instructions quicker to assimilate. The illustrations explaining the necessity of exercise and enlivening the metaphors that go with

  Review by Ronica Wahi   And Beneath It All Was Love: My Path Back Home Again Through Breast Cancer By Aime Alley Card First published: February 3, 2016, Aime a Card. Pages: 274. ISBN: 9780692592465 “I am concerned that I was one of those people who appeared on the outside to sail through it. I want to be clear. No one who goes through chemotherapy sails through it. It’s brutal.” Through the above lines, Aime Alley Card, in the “Prologue” to her memoir And Beneath It All Was Love , makes an honest confession of how her experience of cancer treatment was. The entire memoir tells of her journey of fighting cancer – she doesn’t shy away from displaying her vulnerability and mental turmoil, and from talking about her fears and pain felt at different stages of the said journey. The memoir starts from just before she is diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer, a little over a year after her mother succumbed to brain cancer. The pain of and the fears arising from this terrible