Paradigm-destroying.

The book is ambitious, expansive, meandering, acute; it helps explain how a person, hoping to reclaim her hours and days, might come to outsource the software of her body to the hardware on her wrist.

A subtle, itinerant study of time.

In Saving Time, with moss as muse, Odell deepens her approach and amplifies her pitch.

A meticulously researched, mentally stimulating scurry down the time-and-space rabbit hole.

She attempts to give us tools to leave these conceptions of time behind. It’s an ambitious project that takes on time-management self-help, climate nihilism, our fear of dying and the grind of corporate life, ultimately asking us to see time itself through different lenses.

In addition to providing a history on how the traditional clock came to be, Odell chronicles how the clock has mutated and multiplied, ensuring that every aspect of our days is carefully cataloged and controlled.

Odell makes an affecting case for an elongated present, though I would like to have heard more about the 'temporal weirdness' she felt during the pandemic.

While the book never quite matches the novelty of her first, bestselling How to Do Nothing, it ultimately offers something just as valuable: time to think.

Saving Time proves that no one can do Odell like Odell.

A rigorous, wide-ranging examination.

An electric call to reject the quantitative view of time in favor of a more expansive, less linear understanding that fosters interpersonal connection and social and ecological justice.