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3.83 AVERAGE
3.83 AVERAGE
Sad to rate it so low! Was just not as interesting/cohesive/insightful as I’d hoped
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The first 3 hours were supremely depressing, but also when I listened to it I was having a very depressed week. The middle was more hopeful and then the very end felt like word soup. My only takeaway is that actually everything is bad when you have to sell your time.
I will say that this book is incredibly well researched. Politically, I’m very aligned with everything the authors proposes. However, though I’ll always love her writing, this is a far cry from how amazing ‘How To Do Nothing’ was. Would still recommend, though.
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This started as a 5-star book for me, and I do love a lot about it. It takes an academic look at many issues that I've noticed and felt and lived (thinking about experiencing time as a teacher vs. different jobs and roles, etc) in a way that felt edifying and expanding. It gives gorgeous examples and makes thoughtful points...and then it just keeps going. I saw someone describe it as "too-rich" writing, which I would say is true for me- too many quotes, too many examples, just stuffed with stuff, and it lost me by the end. I would still highly recommend it, especially the first half, though!
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Saving Time (Jenny Odell) book is wild. I feel like she wrote this because she is just so incredibly well read, and has a brain that likes to find connections and themes and meaning and so somehow she connected all the wacky out of the box (and in the box) things she read (and thought) during the pandemic into this book that goes on all these strange and wandering tangents…and I guess it kinda works? Like, I’m enjoying this romp through her brain and everything she’s thought about the books she’s read?