All the Time in the World, Jessica Kerwin Jenkins
All the Time in the World, Jessica Kerwin Jenkins
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All the Time in the World
A Book of Hours

Author: Jessica Kerwin Jenkins

Narrator: Tavia Gilbert

Unabridged: 6 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/29/2013

Synopsis

Entertaining, unexpected, and full of charm, the follow-up to Jessica Kerwin Jenkins' Encyclopedia of the Exquisite presents a miscellany of engaging stories, detailing the intriguing customs, traditions, and guilty pleasures pursued throughout the ages.All the Time in the World takes its cue from an iconic component of medieval life, the book of hours, which prescribed certain readings and contemplations for certain parts of the day throughout the year. Divided into more than seventy-five entries, All the Time in the World is brimming with witty bons mots, interesting etymologies, and arresting anecdotes encompassing an array of cultures and eras. Subjects covered include the daylong ceremony of laying a royal Elizabethan tablecloth; the radicalization of sartorial chic in 1890s Paris; Nostradamus' belief in the aphrodisiac power of jam; the sensuous practice of sniffing incense in fifteenth-century Japan; the American fascination with flaming desserts; the short-lived artistic discipline of "lumia," or visual music; the evolution of coffee from a religious ritual to a forbidden delight in the Middle East; Henriette d'Angeville's fearless and wine-fueled ascent of Mont Blanc; the elaborate treasure hunts concocted by London's Bright Young Things; and the musical revolution known as bebop. An antidote to the contemporary cult of "getting things done," All the Time in the World revives forgotten treasures of the past while inspiring a passion for good living in the present.

About Jessica Kerwin Jenkins

Jessica Kerwin Jenkins began her career in New York writing for Women’s Wear Daily and W magazine, later becoming W’s European editor in Paris. Her first book, Encyclopedia of the Exquisite, was an Amazon and Barnes & Noble top one hundred pick and was featured in such publications as the New York Times Book Review, the Wall Street Journal, and Vanity Fair. She currently writes for Vogue and lives on the coast of Maine.

About Tavia Gilbert

Tavia Gilbert is an acclaimed narrator of more than four hundred full-cast and multivoice audiobooks for virtually every publisher in the industry. Named the 2018 Voice of Choice by Booklist magazine, she is also winner of the prestigious Audie Award for best narration. She has earned numerous Earphones Awards, a Voice Arts Award, and a Listen-Up Award. Audible.com has named her a Genre-Defining Narrator: Master of Memoir. In addition to voice acting, she is an accomplished producer, singer, and theater actor. She is also a producer, singer, photographer, and a writer, as well as the cofounder of a feminist publishing company, Animal Mineral.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Marc on May 09, 2023

Love the prose of John Gierach. Calm, light fishing stories with a little something more. Always keep one of his book in the truck. If I'm stuck waiting somewhere or just out by a river, I can read a chapter and just enjoy the story.......more

Goodreads review by Charlie on March 08, 2025

This is the 5th John Gierach book I have read this year. It is a perfect companion during the long winter. As stated in All the Time in the world: “A good trout stream is like a good paragraph; linear and recognizable, but with a little surprise around every corner.” Each essay is full of surprises......more

Goodreads review by Chaz on August 09, 2023

Impulse purchase and read…. Beautiful. Incredibly thoughtful literature references…. Goofy ending.......more

Goodreads review by Randal on February 03, 2023

I love me some John Gierach! He is one of the best outdoor authors in the business today. If you have any interest at all in fly fishing, nature, or just good buddy stories, you owe it to yourself to give him a look. I found this book to be a bit different than all the other (and there are many I ha......more

Goodreads review by Thomas on March 07, 2023

This is another book in the long line that the author John Gierach related to the wonderful world of fishing. There are many adventures told of his travels allover North America some trips with longtime friends and others first time meetings including one trip that included a dog who would go nuts e......more

Quotes

“Jessica Kerwin Jenkins shows us how abundant a source of wisdom the history of civilization can be for constructing our days—month by month, minute by minute—into an artful and mindful cosmos of activity and repose.” BookPage

“This lovely and lovingly researched literary gem encompasses diverse eras and cultures and reveals a world of ‘fancies’ and intriguing bits of history…There is much to contemplate and marvel over in Jenkins’ scholarly and highly entertaining book of exuberance.” Booklist (starred review)

“This compendium of cultural curiosities delivers equal parts education and inspiration with a lively voice and a tasteful nostalgia for slower, more deliberate, and arguably more entertaining times. When the clock ticks, the scene shifts to a new and delightfully unexpected snippet of history. The morning hours bring pancakes (complete with gluten-free recipe), midday watches the slow demise of the siesta, and giddy dancers waltz toward midnight. The cast ranges from the glamorous to starving artists to far-flung ancients…An insightful and contemplative study in culture and all its frivolous progress.” Publishers Weekly

“A literary excursion around the clock and through the year in miniature essays about a host of diverse, fanciful topics…In its chronological presentation, there are more than seventy-five chunks of oddities of civilization from, for example, the mounting taste for coffee to old Shanghai’s cabarets…A small cabinet of wonder, detailing some diverting oddments and minutiae of past times.” Kirkus Reviews

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