Book Club - Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time
We’ll meet to discuss themes from Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time by Brigid Schulte.
Please know you're welcome whether you read the book cover to cover or didn't end up finishing it - the point is to talk about ideas, not pass a test! I'll have questions to guide the discussion while leaving space for everyone to bring their own experiences into the conversation.
About the book - According to the Leisure Studies Department at the University of Iowa, true leisure is “that place in which we realize our humanity.” If that’s true, argues Brigid Schulte, then we're doing dangerously little realizing of our humanity. In Overwhelmed, Schulte, a staff writer for The Washington Post, asks: Are our brains, our partners, our culture, and our bosses making it impossible for us to experience anything but “contaminated time”?
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That group was SO good! I loved the easy conversation and it felt very easy to talk. My other book club is a little more surface level, so I really enjoyed this. -La'Shea G.
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Overwhelmed is a map of the stresses that have ripped our leisure to shreds, and a look at how to put the pieces back together. Schulte speaks to neuroscientists, sociologists, and hundreds of working parents to tease out the factors contributing to our collective sense of being overwhelmed, seeking insights, answers, and inspiration. She investigates progressive offices trying to invent a new kind of workplace; she travels across Europe to get a sense of how other countries accommodate working parents; she finds younger couples who claim to have figured out an ideal division of chores, childcare, and meaningful paid work. Overwhelmed is the story of what she found out.
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