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Top 10 dream colleges

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You gotta dream. And when high school students dream about college, California is the place they want to be. The Princeton Review’s annual “College Hopes & Worries Survey” found that four of the top 10 schools students deemed “dream colleges” are located in California. Bear in mind, this is a fantasy list — of schools […] [Read More]
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Suits recounts long hours on Wall Street and going home alone

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SUITS: A WOMAN ON WALL STREET By Nina Godiwalla. Atlas & Co., 300 pp., $24. Reviewed by Joanna Ossinger The life of a new Wall Street analyst is one of extremes: You’re either working long hours as a slave to your tyrannical bosses or mingling with the elite of New York society at expensive restaurants […] [Read More]

C’mon, everyone’s doing it. A review of Tina Rosenberg’s new book.

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Ken Ellis/Chronicle Illustration JOIN THE CLUB: How Peer Pressure Can Transform the World By Tina Rosenberg. W.W. Norton & Company, 402 pp., $25.95. Reviewed by Steve Weinberg Could a simple-sounding plan for reducing crime, terrorism and outright war really work? Tina Rosenberg’s nearly 400 pages of mind-bending case studies suggest that peer pressure appropriately marshaled […] [Read More]

Local book events: March 27-April 2

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• Rebecca Stead, 2010 Newbery Medal winner, will read from When You Reach Me, 3 p.m. today (March 27) at Pershing Middle School auditorium, 3838 Blue Bonnet, as part of Inprint Readings for Young People Reading Series; 713-521-2026 or go to inprinthouston.org. Book sales by Brazos Bookstore. • Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts will discuss and sign Harlem […] [Read More]

Why we can’t get enough of plain Jane Eyre

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Michael Fassbender and Mia Wasikowska as Rochester and Jane in the new film, Jane Eyre. Jane Eyre is 18 and single. But she’s not the type guys usually go for. Poor, small and plain, Jane is bereft of the creamy skin and generous bosom that scream beauty to 19th-century men. A working girl, she’s lucky […] [Read More]
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What would YOU ask Michael Connelly?

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Author Michael Connelly. So, yeah, poor me, I’m interviewing Michael Connelly on Thursday, March 24. As part of my job, I get to speak with authors who not only have new books coming out — The Fifth Witness arrives on April 5 — but have movies made from their books. (That would be The Lincoln […] [Read More]
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E-book lending and borrowing: will you join the clubs?

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Getty Images Kindle- and Nook-lovers probably already know what I’m going to say. But for people like me, who go back and forth between the Kindle and bound books, the news about online e-book clubs was surprising. Earlier this month, the Wall Street Journal reported that online clubs such as BookLending.com, Lendle.me and ebookfling.com let […] [Read More]
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Isabel Wilkerson, a Book & Author guest, wins lit award

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Joe Henson Isabel Wilkerson, author of The Warmth of Other Suns. The National Book Critics Circle, which is made up of book reviewers across the country, gives out 8 awards each year to special books and people. One of this year’s winners was Isabel Wilkerson, a former journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner whose debut book, […] [Read More]

Review: Men need to grow up

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Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men into Boys By Kay Hymowitz. Basic Books, 248 pp, $25.99. Reviewed by Kyrie O’Connor No matter what you think, the kids aren’t all right. That’s the bottom line of Kay S. Hymowitz’s new book, Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men into […] [Read More]

Local book events: March 20-26

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• Ian Rankin will sign and discuss The Complaints, 6:30 p.m. Monday (March 21) at Murder By The Book, 2342 Bissonnet; 713-524-8597. • James P. Bevill will discuss The Paper Republic: The Struggle for Money, Credit and Independence in the Republic of Texas, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday (March 22) at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, […] [Read More]
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