​A Brief History of Timekeeping The Science of Marking Time, from Stonehenge to Atomic Clocks by Chad Orzel Narrated by Mike Lenz

I received a digital copy of this audiobook from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Have you ever wanted to take a semester long college course on the history and science of time keeping? Then this is definitely the book for you. Complete with anecdotes and jokes referencing the author/professors academic and personal life. It genuinely made me feel like I was back in grad school. Complete with jokes that fell a little flat. I’m going to give the benefit of the doubt and assume this was more due to the lack of passion in the subject matter evidenced in the narrators reading. He spoke clearly and well and with some fairly animated inflection for not being the author but this is no Neil DeGrasse Tyson, which really who is? It does make me wonder if the audiobook had been read by the author who must be enthusiastic about the subject matter to have written a book, that perhaps that would have been an improvement? Though likely no one can live up to the standard set by Neil DeGrasse Tyson. 

All of that is to say the reading was a little dry so I would not advise listening while driving long distances and tired. However the subject was very interesting and I did enjoy all of the information presented as I’m always eager to learn. I would recommend this book to someone truly interested in the knowledge and not just casually consuming “pop science”.

Overall - 4/5