This cover reminded me of my college graduation present from my parents: a river trip through the Grand Canyon. The journal is the one I took with me on the rafts so I pressed that tamarisk in 1993!
I am not sure about this one, but going to give this at least 50 pages to decide.
so-soSet in the American West in the 1990s, this is a look at idealism, activism, and the feeling that you may not really be making a difference in the world. It‘s been compared to The Interestings a lot, and I can see why people would make that comparison. I felt, however, that the story was somewhat unfocused and that simplifying it may have made this a better book. The audiobook and ebook are available on Hoopla. 3⭐️
Ah, the tragedy of poor Charlie. The things one learns at camp: how to tell the difference between Harry Chapin and Cat Stevens, which are the best meals to eat “veggie”, and that Charlie on the MTA was written as a campaign song in Boston for some guy that was running to fight fare increases on the T.
I closed my eyes and picked this in my kindle library to read tonight. I attended a camp much like the one described in the summary, during the same time period of the book. I loved my camp; it‘s still around, in a new incarnation as a math camp for Russian kids; no longer the “hippie camp” I cherished, but alums in the know say that a lot of the guiding principles bestowed on our rag tag group are still in play. I think I‘m going to enjoy this.
The Optimistic Decade | 
