Saving Time

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Jenny Odell: Saving Time (2023, Random House Children's Books)

English language

Published Oct. 5, 2023 by Random House Children's Books.

ISBN:
978-1-84792-684-5
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4 stars (2 reviews)

5 editions

Ein anderer Blick auf die Zeit

5 stars

Nach ihrem ersten Buch "Hot to Do Nothing" hatte ich mir von "Saving Time" eigentlich weitere spannende Gedanken über den individuellen Umgang mit Zeit erwartet. Stattdessen will Odell nicht und persönlich helfen, unsere Zeit zu "sparen", sondern eine grundsätzlich andere Herangehensweise an Zeit vorstellen - "saving" im Sinne von "retten", nicht von "sparen".

somewhat a letdown

3 stars

Less revelatory than her How To Do Nothing or Bridle's Ways of Being, the intent is there to re-examine the colonial capitalist and puritan influences on time's central role in living - our drive for efficiency, self-improvement, fixed hours and seasons - but even if the message is to de-focus, this is a scattered book. "The point isn't to live more, to but to be more alive in any given moment."