In the Neighborhood: The Search for Community on an American Street, One Sleepover at a Time, (Paperback)

from Jcambridge

This is an interesting read that can easily be tackled in an afternoon. While it seems more like an extended magazine article, it does cause a reader to look around their own neighborhood and ask how well the people know one another -- if at all. Having lived on the same street for more than 30 y...

from AnaraGuard

Do you know your neighbors? How well? Have you ever been inside their homes? If you needed help at 4 AM, could you call them? On the author's suburban street, although he has lived there for decades, he realizes how little connection he has with his own neighbors and sets out to remedy that. One ...

from JanesList

Only made it a couple chapters into this book and gave up. I did not appreciate the detailed description of the murder-suicide and think that much of the book is about the author feeling bad that bad things happen to people, and that having good neighbors would have fixed it. The only thing I'll ...

from bettyandboo

"Oh, who are the people in your neighborhood? In your neighborhood? In your neighborhood? Say, who are the people in your neighborhood? The people that you meet each day." from Sesame Street As regular readers of this blog know, our family is in the process of moving. So far, we've visited appro...