Book It: This Week's Book Events

We know you just can't get enough of books and book events. Here's a summary of what's going on this week, reading-wise. This week's heavy on the poetry, so it's a good opportunity to get your National Poetry Month groove on! We hope you don't "dislike it" too much. As always, asterisked events are Bostonist recommendations.

Poetry Night
Mary Jo Firth Gillett and Betsey Houghton
Monday, April 14th, 7:00 p.m., Harvard Book Store
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Jake Greene, Whoa, My Boss is Naked! A Career Book
Monday, April 14, 2008, 7:00 p.m., Porter Square Books
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* Sloane Crosley, I Was Told There Would Be Cake
Tuesday, April 15th, 7:00 p.m., Brookline Booksmith

Madeleine M. Kunin, Pearls, Politics, and Power: How Women Can Win and Lead
Tuesday, April 15th, 7:00 p.m., Harvard Hillel
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* Nicholson Baker, Human Smoke
Tuesday, April 15, 7:00 p.m., Porter Square Books
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Jack O'Connell, The Resurrectionist
Tuesday, April 15, 7:00 p.m., Harvard Book Store
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* Cambridge Forum
Kevin Phillips discusses Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism
Tuesday, April 15th, 7:30 p.m., First Parish Church Meetinghouse
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Hermione Lee, Edith Wharton
Wednesday, April 16th, 7:00 p.m., Brookline Booksmith

Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods
Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 7:00 p.m., Location TBD
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Alexander McCall Smith, The Miracle at Speedy Motors (Latest in the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series)
Wednesday, April 16th, 7:00 p.m., First Parish Church Meetinghouse, $5
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Meredith Hall, Without a Map
Thursday, April 17, 2008, 7:00 p.m., Porter Square Books
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Richard Price, Lush Life
Thursday, April 17th, 7:00 p.m., Harvard Book Store
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Breakwater Reading Series
MFA Students from UMass and Emerson
Friday, April 18, 7:00 p.m., Porter Square Books
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Noah Feldman, The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State
Friday, April 18th, 3:00 p.m., Harvard Book Store
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A Night of Wave Books Poets - DATE CHANGED
Caroline Knox, Quaker Guns
Dorothea Laskey, Awe
Dara Wier, Remnants of Hannah
Saturday, April 19th, 7:00 p.m., Brookline Booksmith