Book of Idle Pleasures
“The Book of Idle Pleasures” is a restorative gift book for the stressed out, tired and hassled. An antidote to our non-stop culture, it is a welcome compedium of timeless delights. The book lists and reflects on 100 simple pastimes and proves that the best things in life really are free: lighting fires, skimming stones, catching falling leaves, whittling, staring out of the window, dreaming, doodling or taking a nap. “The Book of Idle Pleasures” is a celebration of pleasure for its own sake in a world of consumer overload.
Edited by Tom Hodgkinson and Dan Kieran, with fine illustrations by Ged Wells.
You can order it from the Idler shop here. Also available at Amazon.co.uk.
"For Jerome, idleness had little in common with laziness. His notion of idleness in the world beyond his fiction was one of contemplative productivity with the minimum of fuss."