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Our Boston: Writers Celebrate the City They Love, by Andrew Blauner

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3.0

I got this book at a really awful holiday party at work and it somehow captured so much of why I'm not yet totally sold on Boston. It was too much about sports and ancient history and who people knew - blah. I learned some fun new facts and some stories were good, but by the end, I just wanted to be able to say I'd read them all and move on.

Definitive best: The Classroom of the Real (Pico Iyer)
Most quotable: Pride or Prejudice (Andre Aciman)
Best understanding of the Charles River: In the Long Run (Shira Springer)

If you've lived in Boston, pick it up and read a few. If you haven't, very little of it will make any sense.

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