Nov 20th, 1:00pm Anniversary Book Club Meeting

Ladies we will be celebrating our 1 year anniversary at Aura Spa in Hoboken NJ. Below are just a few of the 30 min Pick me Up treatment the spa offers for only $55 each.

30-min PICK-ME-UPs
$55 per treatment

Face or Eye Refresher
This is a quick face or eye treatment to brighten fatigued face or de-puff stressed eye bags. The instant rise-and-shine radiant booster for your face!

Back Booster Massage
Our suave back-relief technique is guaranteed to un-kink the knots and strain you’ve been feeling on your back!

Scalp-Neck-Shoulder Relaxer
This is an ultra relaxing massage that follows the meridian points of your body to help release tension and allow better circulation of blood.

Foot Energizer
Our foot reflexology will leave your feet feeling peppy and light as a feather!

Check out the link and let me know what treatment you would like to request, I will then e-mail the spa and set out our appointments you will then call and provide them with a credit card to hold your individual appointments.

We can all get Mani & Pedis or full body treatments. All clients with services on the lower level (facials, massages, and body treatments) are welcome to use the Far-Infrared Radiant Heat Sauna, free of charge.

Aura Spa

 70 Hudson Street, Hoboken NJ

201-656-0002

http://spaaura-nj.com/

Aura spa is a half a block away from the Hoboken Path\Lightrail\bus and transit station.

Check out the New Kindle's from Amazon

Amazon has put out some great new products for those of you who arn't reading on e-readers. Here are some of the basic facts.....Prices starting at only $79 put it on your Christmas list.

Less then 6 ounces, lighter than a paper back book
Most advanced E Ink Display
Read in Sunlight
Book downloads in 60 seconds
Adjustable text sizes

New one month Battery Life: A single charge lasts up to one month with wireless off based upon a half-hour of daily reading time. Keep wireless always on and it lasts for up to 3 weeks. Battery life will vary based on wireless usage, such as shopping the Kindle Store, web browsing, and downloading content.

And now you can borrow books from your public library too.

http://www.amazon.com/

Book suggestion: Please look after Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin

There is a simple, yet remarkable, scene in Kyung-sook Shin’s novel, Please Look After Mom, where the book’s title character visits her adult son in Seoul.  He lives in a duty office in the building where he works, because he can't afford an apartment. At night, they sleep on the floor and she offers to lie next to the wall to shield him from a draft.  “I can fall asleep better if I’m next to the wall,” she says.  And with this gesture, we catch a glimpse of the depth of love she has for her first-born and the duty-bound sacrifices she’s made on behalf her family.

Please Look After Mom is the story of a mother, and her family’s search for her after she goes missing in a crowded train station, told through four richly imagined voices:  her daughter’s, her oldest son’s, her husband’s, and finally her own.  Each chapter adds a layer to the story’s depth and complexity, until we are left with an indelible portrait of a woman whose entire identity, despite her secret desires, is tied up in her children and the heartbreaking loss that is felt when family bonds loosen over time.

Kyung-sook Shin’s elegantly spare prose is a joy to read, but it is the quiet interstitial space between her words, where our own remembrances and regrets are allowed to seep in, that convicts each one of us to our core.

book suggestion: The Devil in a white city by Erik Larson

Not long after Jack the Ripper haunted the ill-lit streets of 1888 London, H.H. Holmes dispatched somewhere between 27 and 200 people, mostly single young women, in the churning new metropolis of Chicago; many of the murders occurred during the city's finest moment, the World's Fair of 1893. Larson's breathtaking new history is a novelistic yet wholly factual account of the fair and the mass murderer who lurked within it.

This is, in effect, the nonfiction Alienist, or a sort of companion, which might be called Homicide, to Emile Durkheim's Suicide. However, rather than anomie, Larson is most interested in industriousness and the new opportunities for mayhem afforded by the advent of widespread public anonymity.

book suggestion: The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht

Drawing on the former Yugoslavia's fabled past and recent bloodshed, Belgrade-born Obreht portrays two besieged doctors. Natalia is on an ill-advised "good will" medical mission at an orphanage on what is suddenly the "other side," now that war has broken out, when she learns that her grandfather, a distinguished doctor forced out of his practice by ethnic divides, has died far from home. She is beset by memories, particularly of her grandfather taking her to the zoo to see the tigers.

We learn the source of his fascination in mesmerizing flashbacks, meeting the village butcher, the deaf-mute Muslim woman he married, and a tiger who escaped the city zoo after it was bombed by the Germans. Of equal mythic mystery is the story of the "deathless man." Moments of breathtaking magic, wildness, and beauty are paired with chilling episodes in which superstition overrides reason; fear and hatred smother compassion; and inexplicable horror rules.

352 pages

please let me know if you have read

book suggestion:Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

From Publishers Weekly

 The plot of this book is fairly straightforward. Marion and Shiva Stone are born one dramatic afternoon in 1954 in Addis Ababa, the same day their mother — a nun, Sister Mary Joseph Praise — dies of complications from her hidden pregnancy. The boys are conjoined at the skull, yet separated at birth; they are raised by Dr. Kalpana Hemlatha and Dr. Abhi Ghosh, both immigrants from Madras and both doctors at the hospital where the boys’ natural parents also worked.

They grow up amid the political turmoil of Ethiopia (its actual chronology altered slightly by Verghese to suit his fictional purposes), and in 1979 Marion flees, first to Nairobi and finally to New York, where he qualifies as a surgeon. Shiva, too, goes into medicine, specializing in treating vaginal fistula, for which work he is acclaimed in this very newspaper, a sure sign of his renown. Almost supernaturally close as children, the brothers become more and more distant as the novel progresses; they are dramatically reunited at its end — through the mysterious agency of the long-vanished Thomas Stone.

667 pages