In Praise of Slowness, Carl Honoré

I’ve been wanting to read this book for a long time, especially after reading The Slow Professor a few years back. In many ways, this book catalyzed the whole Slow movement, and it was an international bestseller about fifteen years ago. So, the irony, of course, is that I was rather slow in getting around to reading it. But since this is the beginning of my annual summer reading binge, I decided that I should strike it off my list first since it’s literally been sitting on my bookshelf for over a decade.

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