How to Do Nothing vs The Bluest Eye: Which Should You Read?

How to Do Nothing Jenny Odell · 2019 ★★★★☆ 3.7 256 pages · ≈ 4 h 44 m · Challenging

Nothing is harder to do these days than nothing. But in a world where our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity . . . doing nothing may be our most important form of resistance. So argues artist and critic…

The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison · 1970 ★★★★☆ 4.1 195 pages · ≈ 3 h 37 m · Challenging

Each night Pecola prayed for blue eyes. In her eleven years, no one had ever noticed Pecola. But with blue eyes, she thought, everything would be different. She would be so pretty that her parents would stop fighting.…