Ep 474: Burnout and the reading life

What Should I Read Next?

Anne Bogel

Books, Arts, Leisure

4.8 • 5.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Readers, if you are feeling burned out right now, you are not alone. In our team meeting last week, we talked about the fact that things are hard right now. That's why this feels like a great time to revisit a favorite past episode from another time not so long ago when we were also feeling burned out. Today we're sharing Anne's May 2021 conversation with journalist Anne Helen Petersen, which originally aired back then as Episode 284. Anne Helen writes the weekly email newsletter Culture Study and she knows a lot about burnout because she literally wrote a book about it: Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation. In today's episode, Anne Helen shares her personal experience with reading during a grueling season, advice and hope for readers who feel stuck in burnout, and a handful of backlist favorites from her own bookshelves. No matter how your reading life has evolved over the last few years, or even if it hasn't, we think you'll find comfort and insight in today's episode. Find the full list of titles mentioned today at whatshouldireadnextpodcast.com/474. We've been working hard behind the scenes to prepare your 2025 Summer Reading Guide! This year will be our 14th annual Summer Reading Guide, and we kick off the celebration with our live unboxing before continuing with all sorts of bonus reading adventures in Modern Mrs. Darcy Book Club and in our Patreon community. Order your Summer Reading Guide at modernmrsdarcy.com/srg. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey readers, I'm Ann Bogle, and this is What Should I Read Next?
0:14.0	Welcome to the show that's dedicated to answering the question that plagues every reader.
0:19.1	What should I read next?
0:22.8	We don't get bossy on this show.
0:28.4	What we will do here is give you the information you need to choose your next read. Every week,
0:32.7	we'll talk all things books and reading and do a little literary matchmaking with one guest. Readers, it's been a busy and also fun time here at What Should I Read Next, HQ,
0:45.4	where we've been working hard behind the scenes to prepare your 2025 summer reading guide.
0:51.4	Summer reading season kicks off with our guide. It'll be our 14th annual,
0:55.6	and it continues with all sorts of bonus reading adventures in Modern Mrs. Darcy Book Club and
1:00.2	in our Patreon community. Order your summer reading guide and reserve your spot for our live
1:05.4	unboxing at Modern Mrs. Darcy.com slash SRG for Summer Reading Guide. That's Modern Mrs. Darcy.com slash SRG for summer reading guide. That's modern misses darcy.com slash
1:14.6	SRG.
1:17.6	Last year, Amazon was the world's largest corporate fire of renewable energy.
1:24.6	Seeing all and more of our energy come from windmob
1:28.8	like this one.
1:31.5	Guys, what happened
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1:39.1	visit about amazon.com.
1:41.4	At U.K. forward slash
1:43.1	sustainability.
1:47.3	At Pure Gym, whatever you're here for, we're here for it.
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