PositiveThe New RepublicWhile 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 ... It seems obvious that Odell is shying away from some of Saving Time’s biggest questions. While Odell writes in the introduction that she wrote the book to save her own life amid the despair of ecological catastrophe, she never seems quite confident enough to take the logical next step—analyzing the threat climate change poses to human conceptions of the future ... In any other era, such a book might be a real waste. Saving Time is neither particularly intellectually incisive nor especially beautifully written ... But in an era when discourse is defined by the length of a tweet or a TikTok video, extended explorations of important ideas—and the ideas in Odell’s book are important—can offer something more important than novelty: room for reflection, even disagreement.
