Unfinished Books -- Overwhelmed and Stuck

There are a lot of books in the world.  I always try to remind myself of that when I'm reading a book that just isn't doing it for me.  It's hard, because not finishing something I've started feels like quitting.  I'll watch even a terrible show all the way to its final, lamentable episode.  But I am trying to be better, which is to say to be willing to give up on unimportant things, because life is short.

Two books I've decided I'm not going to finish are Overwhelmed and Stuck.

Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time turned out to be far too focused on motherhood to be useful to me.  There were a few good points about mental pollution (all that to-do-list stuff that takes up space in your brain), time confetti (those little bits of time, a few minutes here or there, which get wasted), and how much is lost because we are, these days, only able to dedicate about five minutes at a time to any given task.  

The author's disdain for the cultural shift where somehow speed and busyness became virtues also spoke to me.  The section on work had at least some non-kid-related thoughts, mostly about the myth of multitasking and how much of a typical worker's day is spent either being interrupted or trying to get back on track after an interruption.  But once I got to the sections on love and play, I was out. 

Remember how Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity mysteriously ended up in my library ebook app?  I started reading it, and it wasn't terrible.  I'm just stopping because it wasn't one I had picked for myself.  I have loads of other stuff to read. 

And, as I said, life is short.