A couple of weeks ago my wife and I decided to start our own little book club of two. We picked out a book we’d both like to read and set a deadline to have it finished. We almost never read the same book and if we do it is at completely different times. It’s nice to have someone to talk to about what you’re reading, I was always telling her about whatever book I was reading anyway. Now we’ll be able to have a conversation instead of my monologue.

The book we’ve chosen first is The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. At this point we’re both about half way through it. It’s been fun to talk about it along the way, though the other day I accidentally let something slip that my wife hadn’t read yet. Luckily she wasn’t too far behind and it wasn’t a major plot point. Our deadline is about two weeks away. We’re both on track and plan on having a discussion at the end. We’ve got two more books lined up if everything goes well.

Randomness: I’m attending a conference for work in Salt Lake City the rest of this week. To reach the hotel where the conference is being held I have to transfer trains downtown. Directly across from the transfer point is an independent bookstore called Sam Weller’s that I’ve been wanting to visit for some time. I was so very tempted to skip the conference and hang out in the bookstore but I resisted. I’m not sure if I made the right choice or not…

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