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JOIN AWARD-WINNING PODCASTER ZIBBY OWENS OF MOMS DON't HAVE TIME TO READ BOOKS ON A JOURNEY FILLED WITH FOOD, EXERCISE, SEX, BOOKS, AND MORE. It's impossible to ignore how life has changed since COVID-19 spread across the world. People from all over quarantined and did their best to keep on going during the pandemic. Zibby Owens, host of the award-winning podcast MomsDon't Have Time to Read Books and a mother of four herself, wanted to do something to help people carry on and to give them something to focus on other than the horrors of their news feeds. So she launched an online magazine called We Found Time. Authors who had been on her podcast wrote original, brilliant essays for busy readers. Zibby organized these profound pieces into themes inspired by five things moms don't have time to do: eat, read, work out, breathe, and have sex. Now compiled as an anthology named Moms Don't Have Time To, these beautiful, original essays by dozens of bestselling and acclaimed authors speak to the ever-increasing demands on our time, especially during the quarantine, in a unique, literary way. Actress Evangeline Lilly writes about the importance and impact of film. Bestselling author Rene Denfeld focuses on her relationship with food after growing up homeless. Screenwriter and author Lea Carpenter and Suzanne Falter, author, speaker, and podcast host, focus on loss. New York Times bestselling authors Chris Bohjalian and Gretchen Rubin write about the importance of reading. Others write about working out, love and sex, eating and cooking, and more. Join Zibby on her journey through the winding road of quarantine and perhaps you, too, will find time.
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"Zibby Owens is a force for good in more ways than I can count. In this anthology borne of a longing to connect and heal, she has gathered a group of wise and generous writers---herself included!---who are quite simply the best company. Curl up with this book and I promise you'll be surrounded by kindred spirits."---DANI SHAPIRO, New York Times bestselling author of Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love"This moving collection, curated by Zibby Owens, runs the gamut of human relationships. These essays examine our connection with our bodies, our lovers, our kids, our friends, and our minds. Each one is poignant and sharp, slipping between the mundane and the spiritual, and is utterly refreshing during a time of universal longing and loneliness. Moms Don't Have Time To is an absolute gift."---STEPHANIE DANLER, New York Times bestselling author of Sweetbitter and Stray"From `Awake, 3:01 a.m.' to `Sheltering with Ghosts' to `How to Have Sex with a Germaphobe,' this collection of essays, written in real time during the spring and summer of 2020, is a boon pandemic companion. Writer Zibby Owens has created an anthology full of emotion, humor, and good advice for these troubled times and beyond."---LILY KING, New York Times bestselling author of Writers & Lovers"Zibby's essay collection is just like her: warm, inclusive, literary, at times funny, and always refreshingly real. Every piece in here will make you think, shift your perspective, and touch your soul."---LORI GOTTLIEB, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk To Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed"Zibby Owens has assembled some of the best writers around and the result is a hilarious, inspiring collection of essays about all the things we don't have time for, and yet must do to keep ourselves joyful and engaged --- or at the very least, sane. A delightful read from start to finish."---J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN, New York Times bestselling author of Friends and Strangers
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