Archive for November, 2011

Book Review: Zeitoun by Dave Eggers

Author: Dave Eggers Title: Zeitoun Publication Info: Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, p2009 ISBN: 9781440764134 Summary/Review: This work of literary non-fiction captures the harrowing story of Abdulrahman Zeitoun immediately before, during, and after Hurricane Katrina.  Zeitoun, by all accounts a decent and honest man, is a hardworking Syrian immigrant who runs a contracting business.  When the storm comes, [...]

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The Future of Forest Hills: The At-Grade City Street Option

I live in the Forest Hills neighborhood of Jamaica Plain in the city of Boston.  The neighborhood on the whole is a great place to live as it features diverse people of different backgrounds and social scale, a wide variety of attractive housing, interesting and successful local business, access to public transit and bike paths [...]

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