Rainbow, I'm not sure reading 10 minutes to your T each week would be good. This idea has elements of coercion in it, as you have already told your T several times you would like her to read this book, you have given her the book, told her she can keep it, etc. You have tried to get her to read this book and she has chosen not to, for whatever reasons. It seems your reading to her every week might be a way to insist she does what you want, or it might come off that way.

If I'm understanding correctly, you want your T to understand the relationship between Torey and the child in the book. This is important to you because you think it will help give your T insight into some of your own struggles. Is that right? I think you can achieve that without your T having to read (or have read to her by you) the entire book. I have almost completed reading One Child, and I think there are some great passages in it that could illustrate what you want to communicate to your T. This will require you to do some work and read through the book again and choose the best passages. But this is something you really want, so I think you would be willing to do that work, wouldn't you? You wrote that it is more than just certain passages but the entire relationship between Torey and the child that you want to communicate so your T needs to read the whole book. I'm not sure I agree. I think there are some great passages that illustrate the relationship. Plus, you could preface your reading of the passage with an explanation of how the relationship was so special, how it is relevant to your own situation, etc. I think you can make this work without requiring your T to sit through your reading each week.

Speaking for myself, it would be very hard for me to follow the train of thought or feeling in a book if I just heard 10 minutes of it each week. I just don't think that would be that effective. Maybe I'm just too forgetful. I think you can make finding an illustrative passage or two, combined with your own explanation, work for you and your T. And then your T won't feel this is coercion or manipulation on your part to get her to read this book come hell or high water. You have great communication skills, Rainbow. I believe you can communicate what is important about this book to your T without her having to read the entire book.