660 reviews for:

Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America 1619-2019

Jenny Odell

3.82 AVERAGE

animaniac17's review against another edition

3.0

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

agonz60's review against another edition

2.0

challenging hopeful slow-paced

snowbike's review against another edition

3.0

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Enjoyable. Too many really disparate themes, stories, and anecdotes.i really liked several sections but thought there is too much focus n labor issues. I really liked “Doing Nothing” and this was not as good.

racgorman's review against another edition

3.5

slow-paced

mrivera23's review against another edition

3.5

informative medium-paced

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Great content. Not very gripping 

benmsmith's review against another edition

2.0

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Thanks to NetGalley and Random House for the ARC of this book.

I'm ~70% through this and tapping out. I enjoyed [b:How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy|42771901|How to Do Nothing Resisting the Attention Economy|Jenny Odell|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1550724373l/42771901._SY75_.jpg|66525499], but this feels deeply aware of some of the criticism that book got and seems like it's constantly trying to outrun and respond to that, which gets irritating at times. There are meandering narrative sections between the reflections in each chapter that I absolutely was skimming over towards the end of my time with this book, and though it keeps asking "whose time is being wasted", I felt like it was mine. Maybe I'll return to this in a few years, but right now this was the wrong book at the wrong time.

ofumere's review against another edition

5.0

hopeful informative medium-paced

juh_jun's review against another edition

4.5

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

graceelllen12's review against another edition

3.75

hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

chuuphoria's review against another edition

3.75

informative reflective slow-paced