I find professionalized humanist writing stuporously dull. It doesn't help that Hall, who probably has enthusiasm and good taste and even a sense of rhythm, provides contrast by quoting and and . It does help that it's a short book, and I mean that kindly, although I can't make it sound so.
That aside, there's good in this book; it's about how to avoid misery in non-prestigious employment in the humanities without adding to anyone else's grief. Half the advice is a light course in time management, a little like 43Folders but less hilariously obsessive. The other half is how to find the will and alliances needed to fix the problems that cause the misery in the first place. I like the combination. Books on 'problems of the day' often get terrible reviews because the reviewer wanted a survival manual and got a political action plan, or v.v.; Hall's recognition that in any real jam you probably need both is not deep, but until it's broadly noticed it bears repeating.
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So wrote clew in History (commodity).