My treat to myself when I took my mother in law and kids to the mall today… I was able to sneak away and peruse B&N 😊
My treat to myself when I took my mother in law and kids to the mall today… I was able to sneak away and peruse B&N 😊
Got together with friends yesterday and received the best belated birthday present- a clock that has a quote from a book for each minute of the day. Love it so much!
Listening to this book made me think of my granddad, who was a watchmaker. He worked as a Timekeeper for a railroad station located in my small hometown in Kentucky. At the time of his death, when he was 87, we found 5 clocks he was working on in his workshop. There was even a beautiful German cuckoo clock waiting to be delivered back to its owners. This book covered so much material but was so enjoyable. I will end up buying the hard copy.
An interesting read. Rovelli brings a sense of poetry and playfulness to a complex topic that makes it engaging and accessible. I think I'd still need another listen (or five) to begin to grasp some of the strands here, but it is worth exploring. (And with Benedict Cumberbatch narrating the audio, I don't mind spending extra time listening!)
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first books of the year are MORTAL FOLLIES by Alexis Hall (which i described as sexy mayhem with Napoleonic War jokes to a friend) and SAVING TIME by Jenny Odell which is even more intense and philosophical than HOW TO DO NOTHING and i am 1000% here for it.
(pink theme is accidental)
#top23of23 part 2 listed in the order completed. And there's actually 24 total. Just couldn't cut any on the list 😉
This was a quick read and there was never much detail or depth into the characters or their lives. The story asks, what will you do with the ‘time‘ that is given to you? Choose wisely. Words of Oscar Wilde come to mind: to live, is the rarest thing in the world…most people exist, that is all.
Shown: an old funerary symbol with a strong message. Taken at Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, SC.
Try to imagine a life without timekeeping. You probably can‘t. You know the month, the year, the day of the week. There is a clock on your wall or the dashboard of your car. You have a schedule, a calendar, a time for dinner or a movie. Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check his watch. Deer do not fret over passing birthdays. Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man
A lovely book that highlights the beauty of being present and savoring the now.
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Um, no. I couldn‘t with this. I have the book but was doing the audio because I needed something when driving. And as much as I have liked A.S. King‘s strange stories in the past, I just don‘t think this was meant to be on audio. I got 33% in and I really can‘t tell you anything; I‘m just so confused and don‘t have the mental capacity to focus on it