[OGT] Best Camp Ever?
I’m down with any initiative that encourages book people to spend more time with other book people.
In 2018, Mackenzie Newcomb founded the Bad Bitch Book Club. Turbo-charged by the isolation we all experienced during the Pandemic, by 2020 the club had grown to 38,000 members. But something was missing - club meetings were an online only experience, and this prompted a brilliant idea: the Bad Bitch Book Club Summer Camp is an annual physical gathering of club members at a camp in The Forks, Maine.
It features all the trappings of a kid’s camp experience: living in rustic cabins, barbeques, campfires and s’mores, swimming, a talent show, etc. but the main attraction is, you guessed it, reading. There are book swaps, book discussion groups, book recommendation sharing, book crafts, and of course, lots of reading.
What a great idea! I’d love to attend this camp but it’s limited to bad bitches. Maybe it’s time to start the Dope Dudes Book Club.
Read more about the BBBC Summer Camp in this excellent New York Times article.