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Book Club Holds Maine Summer Camp
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A Camp Where You Can Read All Day (No Kids Allowed)

These women met in an online book club. They traveled to a remote corner of Maine to read together. It was oddly moving.

By Elisabeth Egan

Photographs and Video by Jackie Molloy

Reporting from The Forks, Maine

Published Aug. 27, 2025Updated Aug. 30, 2025

On a blistering afternoon in July, a group of women lugging duffel bags and pillows lined up to meet their counselors at Bad Bitch Book Club summer camp in The Forks, Maine. But first they browsed a smorgasbord of 1,500 novels, thrillers and memoirs piled on knotty pine tables.

The vibe was equal parts Scholastic Book Fair and β€œThe Parent Trap,” with a millennial twist.

β€œI am obSESSed,” said one woman, tapping a hot pink fingernail on the cover of β€œShopgirls” by Jessica Anya Blau.

β€œI so love that for you,” said another, who wore a β€œReading Is My Favorite Sport” T-shirt.

A third held a hardcover to her nose, inhaled and declared, β€œThis is giving me life.” Then she snapped a s...

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