Comments on: Always

By: MMTyler

MMTyler — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 14:08:12 +0000

Just so’s ya know, Always is the third Aud Torvingen book, after The Blue Place and Stay. It just happens to be the first Seattle book. I haven’t read the other two yet (I will) but I think they’re placed in Atlanta.

By: Mik

Mik — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:01:43 +0000

Wow. Thanks for the book tip, I’ll have to pick it up today. Boston is very much a city of neighbourhoods, I loved living there. Richmond, Virignia, not so much. I’m still relatively new to the Seattle area and so far have found West Seattle to be very much like you Nicola describes above, just on a smaller scale.

By: nicola griffith

nicola griffith — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:28:23 +0000

I think the neighbourhood thing has two main factors: the longer the city has been in place before the car came long, the more likely there is to be little villages within towns within cities. And tightly knit ethnic groups form their own little villages. So old, immigrant-rich cities like Boston, Chicago, New York have great ‘hoods. Seattle, tho’ it’s relatively new, had a huge early Norwegian and Swedish population. Cities that didn’t get a lot of immigration and/or got torn down (or burnt) e.g. Atlanta–which is constantly being torn down, at least until very recently–are less neighbourhood-focused.

By: Tony B.

Tony B. — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:18:10 +0000

I had the same thoughts concerning Seattle being a “city of neighborhoods”. Then I went to Chicago a couple of weeks ago and I think they are even more so than we are.