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The Place I'm In: What I see when I stop to notice
A reminder of the pleasure to be found in stopping to notice things.
Wherever we go, life is happening. And all too often, we let it pass us by. We’re caught up in our phones, in our heads, in a conversation from three weeks ago. But if we slow down, open our eyes and look around, it’s possible to observe the tiny miracles that are occurring all around us.
In The Place I’m In, Miranda Keeling, author of The Year I Stopped to Notice and writer and presenter of multi-award-winning podcast Stopping to Notice shares observations she’s collected from years of paying attention. Sometimes funny, sometimes poignant, sometimes weird but always strangely appealing, they invite you to look at the world anew, slow down, and take the time to notice.
Wherever we go, life is happening. And all too often, we let it pass us by. We’re caught up in our phones, in our heads, in a conversation from three weeks ago. But if we slow down, open our eyes and look around, it’s possible to observe the tiny miracles that are occurring all around us.
In The Place I’m In, Miranda Keeling, author of The Year I Stopped to Notice and writer and presenter of multi-award-winning podcast Stopping to Notice shares observations she’s collected from years of paying attention. Sometimes funny, sometimes poignant, sometimes weird but always strangely appealing, they invite you to look at the world anew, slow down, and take the time to notice.
192 pages, Hardcover
Published June 17, 2025
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About the author
Miranda Keeling
2 books10 followersMIRANDA KEELING is the author of The Year I Stopped to Notice (Icon Books) and the writer and presenter of multi-award-winning podcast Stopping to Notice. Her work has appeared in 100 Voices (Unbound), Write Across London poetry map (The Royal Society of Literature), METRO online, Reader's Digest and Gains and Losses (Barbican Press).
She also writes for film and theatre. Her work incudes Sweet Porridge (Tiny Light Theatre), Panphobia (Stratford Circus Theatre), The Carbon Footprint Detective Agency (Arcola), Tweet-off on the Tyne and What Kind of Times Are These with Ian McMillan (both for The Verb, BBC Radio 3).
She is a winner of the BBC Radio’s Norman Beaton award. Visit her at https://www.mirandakeeling.com
She also writes for film and theatre. Her work incudes Sweet Porridge (Tiny Light Theatre), Panphobia (Stratford Circus Theatre), The Carbon Footprint Detective Agency (Arcola), Tweet-off on the Tyne and What Kind of Times Are These with Ian McMillan (both for The Verb, BBC Radio 3).
She is a winner of the BBC Radio’s Norman Beaton award. Visit her at https://www.mirandakeeling.com
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September 28, 2025
I had read the author's first book and was happy to support her work again. I discovered her on social media with her brief posts about observing life: snippets of conversations, people watching, etc. A slice of life: sometimes funny, sometimes poignant, sometimes just your everyday life happenings, etc.
If you read either her first book or the social media, then it is the same, with much of the same material popping up (I can't remember if anything is duplicated from the first book but I don't think so?). There are some illustrations, but it is mostly sparse text (generally limited by social media character limits, etc.).
Not much new there. This is really about what you like: if you enjoy her posts and/or like this style of writing (vs a memoir, etc.) then it is just fine. If you were looking for something "more" with her thoughts or a narrative, etc. that is not what this is, and that is fine, too.
I liked it, will continue to follow her and will read the next book. But like her other book I'll probably get it used/overstock/library. Neither were readily available in the US so I was very happy this book was available via Hoopla.
If you read either her first book or the social media, then it is the same, with much of the same material popping up (I can't remember if anything is duplicated from the first book but I don't think so?). There are some illustrations, but it is mostly sparse text (generally limited by social media character limits, etc.).
Not much new there. This is really about what you like: if you enjoy her posts and/or like this style of writing (vs a memoir, etc.) then it is just fine. If you were looking for something "more" with her thoughts or a narrative, etc. that is not what this is, and that is fine, too.
I liked it, will continue to follow her and will read the next book. But like her other book I'll probably get it used/overstock/library. Neither were readily available in the US so I was very happy this book was available via Hoopla.
June 26, 2025
I love this. Reading it is like having a comfort blanket to dip into every day. I recognise the types of people and animals she’s observed so well. It’s uplifting, clever and inspiring. I’m a big fan of Tove Jansson, and something of her magic feels like it’s seeped into Miranda Keeling’s work. The scenes she's captured really trigger your own thoughts, and the London settings add that delicious spark of recognition.
December 14, 2025
This book makes me want to start another journal and record my own observations of the places I’m in. What a joy to read!
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