Overwhelmed: Work, Love, And Play When No One Has The Time

"Are you crazy busy? Stressed out? Then you’ll love Brigid Schulte’s deep dive into how our days have been shredded into “time confetti.” (Full disclosure: I know Schulte through her husband, my colleague Tom Bowman.) She finds one researcher who uses Christmas cards to pinpoint when busyness became a badge of honor, and another who insists that American women have loads of unappreciated leisure time — 30 hours a week, in fact. My favorite scene is a focus group lamenting harried lives and lack of leisure — in Fargo, N.D. It’s all enough to make you cry, but Schulte’s perspective on our modern-day malaise will also make you laugh out loud."