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3.82 AVERAGE
3.82 AVERAGE
I appreciated the wide range of approaches Odell takes to her subject, with considerations geographic, ecological, and sociological. It did seem she was stringing her observations with other people’s more considered, meatier thoughts, which made me feel I should have been reading those books instead.
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reflective
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5 hours into this 11 hour audio book I was like, wow, I can't believe how much longer this goes on lol.
Overall, though, I really enjoyed this book and resonated with it a lot. I agree with another reviewer that this book is a "collage of quotes", jumping from one external source to the next - in fact, this was certainly the source of my tedium halfway through the book. One she started quoting the comments section of a 2021 Washington Post article, I felt she was mining too much for external sources instead of just making an argument herself.
That said, I thought that for the most part, she wove quite a tapestry presenting about time. "Saving Time" is perhaps not the right title. The book really is about uncovering that time is entirely socially constructed, that Western conceptions of time are based entirely around extraction, commodification, and exploitation, and that the earth relies on its own timescale that we've entirely forgotten about. Also, all of her analysis about ecological systems and climate change are def spot on - thoughts I've had myself, anyway.
Overall, though, I really enjoyed this book and resonated with it a lot. I agree with another reviewer that this book is a "collage of quotes", jumping from one external source to the next - in fact, this was certainly the source of my tedium halfway through the book. One she started quoting the comments section of a 2021 Washington Post article, I felt she was mining too much for external sources instead of just making an argument herself.
That said, I thought that for the most part, she wove quite a tapestry presenting about time. "Saving Time" is perhaps not the right title. The book really is about uncovering that time is entirely socially constructed, that Western conceptions of time are based entirely around extraction, commodification, and exploitation, and that the earth relies on its own timescale that we've entirely forgotten about. Also, all of her analysis about ecological systems and climate change are def spot on - thoughts I've had myself, anyway.
challenging
slow-paced
I'll tell you how I felt about this book in Chapter 6.
Even in "Conclusion", Odell struggles to draw any conclusions.
Even in "Conclusion", Odell struggles to draw any conclusions.
I would have rated this 5 stars but about halfway through, the author started to lose me. It got too abstract.
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hopeful
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I loved this book. It is thoroughly researched and offers beautiful meditations on how to live in a world where the colonial-capitalist worldview had collapsed time into perfunctory units for creation of economic value.
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Very affirming to read as a healthcare worker in a “time as money” surveillance culture system! I found this book to fit the current moment perfectly, just as How to Do Nothing did when I read it in 2020.