Time: Big Ideas, Small Books - Thought-Provoking Short Reads for Busy Professionals & Book Lovers

Eva Hoffman's How to be Bored (The School of Life) led me to this equally compact but richly rewarding meditation on Time ... and the poor pun of my subject line is meant quite sincerely, as I went slowly through these pages, stopping to mull over what had been said in a paragraph or two, before continuing onward. In fact, one of the major complaints of other reviewers -- that the book rambles & meanders -- is for me one of its most enticing & enjoyable qualities. Just as our experience of Time is often a ramble & meander, and our musings on it as well, so too this little book flows, digresses, returns to, expands upon its subject, going from the physical & the material to the psychological & the philosophical. It's not trying to make or prove a point, so much as it's introducing various approaches to its subject & essentially inviting the reader to join in the conversation, with his or her own reflections, musings, questions. And again, it's this fluid (but always intelligent & thoroughly-sourced) approach that makes it so appealing to me ... although I can well understand that it won't necessarily be to everyone's taste, and nothing wrong with that. It's a book I'll return to in the future, as its ideas are worth subsequent exploration -- for me, most highly recommended!