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Jenny Odell: How to Do Nothing (Paperback, 2020, Melville House) 4 stars

Nothing is harder to do these days than nothing. But in a world where our …

Review of 'How to Do Nothing' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

This book was titled and marketed in a misleading way. It’s not an instructional guide to “how to do nothing” and resist our capitalist culture where every spare moment can be monetized, it’s more of a collection of wandering essays on the joy and necessity of doing nothing, mixed in with the author’s personal journey. In a way, the book itself proves its own point, but it wasn’t what I was looking for.