I don't know if your husband is a pretty busy guy like most, but mine sure is. If I give him a book chances are he won't get to it even if he really wants to. So, one thing I've done (although this probably sounds like I'm enabling laziness!) is that I'll sometimes photocopy a chapter from a book I want him to read and then use a highlighter to point out things that have meaning to me, or that I want him to think about. Then, at a later time, arrange to discuss it with him.
I've done this for him prior to plane trips so he'll have something short and easy to go through on the plane!
There is no arriving, ever. It is all a continual becoming.
