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Jose Carrasco _osemcar — Audiobook. Wonderfully narrated by Emily Janice Card & Emma Bering. A young adult book for adults. Andi, of the 21st century New York/Paris, and Alex, of 18th century Paris & the French Revolution, have a combination of youth and adulthood that feels very authentic for characters in their late teens. Andi's parents are absent - her mother mentally, her father physically - and she feels responsible for the death of her younger brother. She's not doing a wonderful job of facing life on her own (she self-doses herself pretty liberally with her prescription for mood stabilizers). So the fact that the character was written as an "almost-adult" as opposed to a "kid" felt especially genuine to me. Alex is the same age, and is coping with the horrors of the French Revolution, also much without much, if any, real adult support. Interestingly, her sympathies are with the royal family, which is an unusual slant to the historical aspect of the novel. Alex is also an "almost-adult". But the small traces of childhood left in them, which comes through from time to time, made the characters feel realistic. There is also quite a bit more depth in this book than many YA books. There are themes that kept me thinking, and relistening to sections. I could see myself relistening to the book again.

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Phil Reisinger philreisinger — What do you get when you take David Brower, the hard-core Sierra Club conservationist, and put him in the wilderness with his "natural enemies" (e.g., a miner, a developer, and a dam-builder)? You get this book. I was totally riveted by this account of the roots of contemporary environmentalism, and about the dialogue between conservationism and progress. It's dated, of course, written in 1970 (back when people could apparently purchase houses in fancy developments on coastal islands for $50,000?!) but it was fascinating for me to think about where we were then, and where we are now with issues related to land use, conservation, natural resources, etc. I especially loved the third section of the book, where David Brower is riding the Colorado River rapids with Floyd Dominy, who was in charge of building the Glen Canyon Dam that created Lake Powell. Their boat passes over the flooded Glen Canyon--said to have been one of the loveliest places on earth before Lake Powell filled it up--and their conversations are thought-provoking, and sort of heart-breaking, too.