Buzz Reads is a column about books by reviewer Cindy Burnett. Each month, Cindy recommends five recently or soon-to-be released titles.

In February of 2024, life was normal for Lily Dunlap. That is, it was normal for an exceptionally driven, A-student, basketball playing 16-year-old at St. John’s School. In her own words, Lily was ...

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In a memorable two-and-a-half-week stretch, St. Pius X ’23 graduate Victoria Hunter won a national softball championship while playing for the Texas Longhorns and then, only 16 days later, former St.

The unimaginable tragedy on July 4th hit painfully close for everyone in our communities. Eight-year-old Blakely McCrory, a camper who died in the flood, was our neighbor. We didn’t know the McCrorys ...

No bull – just boots, bling, and a yellow mini sombrero or two. The Symphony League’s Western Night Out at King Ranch Kitchen was a rootin’-tootin’ roundup. About 30 decked-out cowgirls wrangled their ...

As I write, we are days into an unimaginable week in Texas. For as many hurricanes and tropical storms as we have seen in Houston, the lightning-fast flooding of the Guadalupe River on July 4 has ...

Every summer for several years, our monthly “Back Porch” column has highlighted some aspect of summer reading. We’ve done beach reads, young adult reads, high school literature classes, reading with ...

In the heat of our Houston summer, it is a wonder to me that August 5 is designated as “Work Like a Dog Day,” according to nationaldaycalendar.com. I think that we would all prefer to work like a dog ...

It’s early morning and West University is alive with motion. The hum of chatter. The whir of bicycle wheels. The slap of sneakered feet on pavement. Kids walk hand in hand with parents, backpacks ...

They were late again. It was a characteristically humid and rainy day in Houston, and a long Hello Kitty raincoat swallowed her tiny frame. Her mom, soaked and out of breath, guided her to a chair.

August signals the approaching end of summer and a return to schools and universities. In keeping with the school theme, I compiled a list of books set in a campus environment, ranging from elementary ...