Reader’s Note
Deborah made a spreadsheet about it, which surprised precisely nobody.
by@bookclubdropoutWritten 15 April 2026Read 14 April 2026
This was the work club, which meets in the room with the broken blind and no wine, so standards are lower and attendance is much better.
Ruth-from-work adored it. She said "I've stacked my habits" roughly four times before anyone asked her what that meant. Deborah built a tracker with conditional formatting and shared it with the whole team, and there is now a column with my name on it that has been empty since March.
The one from procurement, whose surname I have never once caught, said the entire book is one idea wearing a hat, and Ruth-from-work got quite sharp with him about it, and he backed down in the room and then said it again by the coffee machine afterwards, which is very him.
Me, I think he's right and I also think the one idea is a perfectly decent idea. Two minutes. Make it easy. Don't break the chain. Seven, because I did start flossing and I refuse to pretend that counts for nothing.
We haven't picked the next one. Ruth wants another business book and I can already tell I'm going to lose that vote...
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