As a grownup, you’re in charge of your own diary. Don’t forget to make time for fun. Photograph: Boone Rodriguez/CorbisAs a grownup, you’re in charge of your own diary. Don’t forget to make time for fun. Photograph: Boone Rodriguez/CorbisHappy for lifeLife and styleAct your shoe size, not your ageWant to be happier? Then you need to release your inner child As adults, it seems that we are constantly pursuing happiness, often with mixed results.

Film industryChris Rock: 'If Jennifer Lawrence were black, she’d really have something to complain about'Comic and actor highlights yet greater discrepancies for women of colour in Hollywood pay debate Chris Rock, the stand-up comic and film-maker, has cautioned that the gender pay debate in Hollywood risks overlooking the injustice of black actors being paid less than their white counterparts. Speaking as part of a profile of the Saturday Night Live actor Leslie Jones in the New Yorker, Rock appeared to take exception to the territory staked out by Jennifer Lawrence, saying that if she wasn’t white, she would have more cause for complaint.

Jonathan LethemReviewPatrick Ness searches through the smoke of a genial narrativeLet us consider for a moment the deleterious effect of marijuana on the arts. George Michael, to take a random example, used to be one of the most extraordinary pop songwriters on the planet. A song such as "Freedom '90" bursts with so much invention and feeling it's like listening to 17 brilliant choruses all in a row. Then George started smoking weed in really quite extraordinary quantities, and things began to feel somewhat less vital.

Children's booksChildren's booksDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick - review'An incredibly deep and complex book that makes for a very interesting read'Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is probably his best known work, and was adapted into the well known movie, Blade Runner. It follows the story of Bounty Hunter Rick Deckard, whose job is to 'retire' renegade androids who have escaped from the outer colonies.

Photograph: Patti McConville/Alamy Photograph: Patti McConville/AlamyFictionColleen Hoover’s novels took the top six places on last year’s New York Times bestseller list, while in the UK she rivals Richard Osman as the biggest author in recent times. How has she done it? The first Colleen Hoover book I read was It Ends With Us, and when I opened it on the tube, I saw that the woman next to me was reading It Starts With Us.