From October 2009 - The Lost Symbol, by Dan Brown

WARNING - Spoiler alert!  If you aren't finished with the book, yet, don't read this until later!! 

Farrah, thank you for hosting a great book club night!  The tortilla soup was DELICIOUS, Lisa's cheesecake was a hit, and the conversation - as usual - proved to be very informative:  we discussed the "twist" in the book, and who we each pictured Mah'lik's character to look like.  The concensus was Billy Zane, although a few of us pictured John Malkovich.  We all felt that after Mah'lik died, the book should have come to an end.  Those last several chapters following his death were very slow and long and boring. 

Also discussed:  Farrah's new house and the crazy baby blue walls in her kitchen that she promptly repainted; the fact that last night was her first time alone in her new home; Mia and Stephanie's groundhog-day introduction; Anissa's NY trip and her fresh-looking hair (although she thinks it needs to be further freshened-up); tattoos and - dare I put it in writing - nipple piercings (this section of the evening was accompanied by a show-and-tell by Stephanie, who has a cute butterfly/bat tattoo on her big toe... however, we saw no evidence of a nipple piercing); Leighton's "cute" Texan accent; Sunday's cute leopard shirt (actually, I don't think this was discussed, but I meant to bring it up); Lisa's son, Kyle's athleticism; Brazilian waxes, and it was decided that the perfect service would be to have a Brazilian done by your OB/GYN at your annual appointment (brilliant!); whether Farrah should walk her son, Ethan, into school on Monday, or if it would be better for her and Ethan's teacher (Shana) to conduct a parent-teacher conference over Mexican martinis instead; Mia's nationality and a trip down memory lane for her regarding the time she spent 5 hours at the US border; and Mia's mother and her foreign accent and how next time we get together, we should call her, put her on speaker and have her tell us something. 

We didn't solve the world's problems, but as usual, we did solve a lot of our own.  These are all very important issues that would never have been discussed, much less decided upon, in any other forum.  Thank you for providing a safe place, ladies.  Thank you.