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Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock by Jenny Odell

5.0

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This book is astounding, and impossible to categorize or describe adequately. Jenny Odell considers our linear, productivity-driven view of time, and offers different ways to change our perspective. There are long passages about nature, climate change, the economy, social justice movements, crip time, houseworkers' wages, Pando in Utah, ochre sea stars, I could go on and on. I was never not fascinated. Reading one of her books is like dipping your toes in hundreds of other books written over hundreds of years. She quotes from them, explains them, helps you understand them. This will sound dramatic, but every time I sat down to read this book, I left feeling more human, or more aware of my humanity--aren't those both the same thing anyhow?

I can't think of a person who I wouldn't recommend this book to.

Thank you NetGalley for the digital ARC of this book.