My summer project!
For the rest of the summer, I've volunteered to run Birch Rock Camp's library on Fridays and Saturdays*. The library serves the campers (young men from ages 7 - 15) and the counselors as well.
I'm in love with this place. Josh came here as a camper and then worked here as a counselor, and the first time I walked on campus, I immediately knew exactly why he loved it then and why he still loves it now. We've been visiting every summer for years.
BRC is warm, inviting, dynamic**, friendly, enormously caring, and just... special.
When I'm not recommending books to campers and counselors, I'll be reorganizing and straightening and cataloging their collection — at the very least, I want to get everything listed in LibraryThing so we know what we're working with and where to go forward.
I have a long way to go.
They've got a decent number of books, and people donate more from time to time — I brought ten in today (I'm trying to space them out over the course of the summer), including the new Alex Rider*** — but they don't have a ton of newer stuff. (Newer meaning: Minus Harry Potter, stuff from the last ten years. I haven't, for instance, run into any Wimpy Kid or Griff Carver or Bruce Hale or Jonathan Stroud.)
If you're like me, you regularly find yourself tripping over never-ending piles of books:
If you have any that fit the age range, do feel free to send them along. (C/O me, naturally.)
I will guarantee them a long life in a happy home.
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*Bonus! On those same days, Josh will be teaching wood shop, working with the campers on various projects.
**For instance, at this moment, two counselors are staging a sort-of sudden death cage match on the float out on the lake. To the dulcet tones of Final Countdown. While the entire campful of boys cheers them on. Yes, it's going to be an excellent summer.
**Which almost made a camper hyperventilate.