Rooted Reads- Our Book Club
Every month, we will feature a new book! Link over to our private Facebook group to chat with other members about this month’s book. Each week, we will have a Zoom call to chat through and share our thoughts. Subscribe to become a Rooted Reads Member
June 2025:
Power Moms
Joann Lublin
Power Moms: How Executive Mothers Navigate Work and Life by Joanna Lublin is a compelling exploration of the triumphs, trade-offs, and transformations experienced by high-achieving women who juggle demanding careers and motherhood. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and former Wall Street Journal editor Lublin interviews two generations of executive mothers—Boomers and Gen Xers—to examine how workplace culture, gender expectations, and parenting challenges have evolved.
Through candid storytelling and real-life insights, Power Moms dives into the messy middle between ambition and balance, revealing the personal and professional strategies that helped these women pave the way for future generations.
Join us as we explore the themes of resilience, leadership, mom guilt, and modern success—perfect for anyone who’s ever asked: Can you really have it all?
July 2025:
do less
Kate Northrup
A practical and spiritual guide for working women and mothers to learn how to have more by doing less.
This is a book for working women and mothers who are ready to release the culturally inherited belief that their worth is equal to their productivity, and instead create a personal and professional life that's based on presence, meaning, and joy. As opposed to focusing on "fitting it all in," time management, and leaning in, as so many books geared at ambitious women do, this book embraces the notion that through doing less women can have--and be--more.
The addiction to busyness and the obsession with always trying to do more leads women, especially working mothers, to feel like they're always failing their families, their careers, their spouses, and themselves. This book will give women the permission and tools to change the way they approach their lives and allow them to embrace living in tune with the cyclical nature of the feminine, cutting out the extraneous busyness from their lives so they have more satisfaction and joy, and letting themselves be more often instead of doing all the time.
Do Less offers the reader a series of 14 experiments to try to see what would happen if she did less in one specific way. So, rather than approaching doing less as an entire life overhaul (which is overwhelming in and of itself), this book gives the reader bite-sized steps to try incorporating over 2 weeks!
August 2025:
Fair Play
Eve Rodsky
Tired, stressed, and in need of more help from your partner? Imagine running your household (and life!) in a new way…
It started with the Sh*t I Do List. Tired of being the “shefault” parent responsible for all aspects of her busy household, Eve Rodsky counted up all the unpaid, invisible work she was doing for her family—and then sent that list to her husband, asking for things to change. His response was…underwhelming. Rodsky realized that simply identifying the issue of unequal labor on the home front wasn’t enough: She needed a solution to this universal problem. Her sanity, identity, career, and marriage depended on it.
The result is Fair Play: a time- and anxiety-saving system that offers couples a completely new way to divvy up domestic responsibilities. Rodsky interviewed more than five hundred men and women from all walks of life to figure out what the invisible work in a family actually entails and how to get it all done efficiently. With 4 easy-to-follow rules, 100 household tasks, and a series of conversation starters for you and your partner, Fair Play helps you prioritize what’s important to your family and who should take the lead on every chore, from laundry to homework to dinner.
“Winning” this game means rebalancing your home life, reigniting your relationship with your significant other, and reclaiming your Unicorn Space—the time to develop the skills and passions that keep you interested and interesting. Stop drowning in to-dos and lose some of that invisible workload that’s pulling you down. Are you ready to try Fair Play? Let’s deal you in.
