IRB Intro #4: Overwhelmed

For this marking period I am going to be reading Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time by Brigid Schulte. I wanted to read something that was not specifically about any one person’s life and I already read a historical book so I decided to go for a topic more directly related to myself but still interesting. This book was written based on extensive research on stress and effective ways spending and enjoying the little free time one has in modern day society. As a student with plenty of stress and one that struggles with time management, this book will hopefully be able to give me some insight as to how I should use my time in the near future. I came across this book on goodreads.com in the popular adults section. Originally I was planning on reading a book about crime in general or a specific case because that is a great interest of mine, I will be majoring in forensic science; however, I figured that I would be reading plenty of those books in the future and it may be better to inform myself on something more useful to me right now, such as stress. Effective time management has never been my strength so I hope that this book will provide me with the tools I need to be successful. I am not exactly sure how the structure of the book will be or hoe the information will be presented, but all of the reviews I have read have been full of praise so I look forward to reading this book.