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Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock (THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER)
Jenny Odell
3.82 AVERAGE
675 reviews for:
Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock (THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER)
Jenny Odell
3.82 AVERAGE
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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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challenging
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medium-paced
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?
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I loved this book! I love Jenny Odell. I read 75% of this in an airport/airplane which was an interesting way to experiment with the expansion and contraction of time. I probably read it for 5 hours straight which is highly atypical for me.
I think people criticize Odell's books in part because the titles are so misleading! This isn't about saving time per se, just as "how to do nothing" wasn't about leisure or whatever. Having finished this, I think it's about *saving* time---like re-engaging with it as a way to contemplate our life on this earth, or with one another, etc.
This is a deep and thoughtful exploration of what time is--how it's used against us by corporate interests, what it means according to class, race, geography, and climate change. She uses art, politics, poetics, and activism to explore the idea of time. Close to the end of the book she talks about time in carceral contexts, which is pretty devastating--about sentencing for various offenses, the concept of a life in spent in prison, the the erosion of programming for inmates, and what that implies about the purpose of incarceration.
She goes on to talk about death as a way of running down time, and conceptions of death being about ending/contracting vs beginning/expansion.
I love this book!
I think people criticize Odell's books in part because the titles are so misleading! This isn't about saving time per se, just as "how to do nothing" wasn't about leisure or whatever. Having finished this, I think it's about *saving* time---like re-engaging with it as a way to contemplate our life on this earth, or with one another, etc.
This is a deep and thoughtful exploration of what time is--how it's used against us by corporate interests, what it means according to class, race, geography, and climate change. She uses art, politics, poetics, and activism to explore the idea of time. Close to the end of the book she talks about time in carceral contexts, which is pretty devastating--about sentencing for various offenses, the concept of a life in spent in prison, the the erosion of programming for inmates, and what that implies about the purpose of incarceration.
She goes on to talk about death as a way of running down time, and conceptions of death being about ending/contracting vs beginning/expansion.
I love this book!
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
intro, conclusion, chapter 1&5 most memorable
The most urgent (sorry, I had to) and significant book I have read so far this year.