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Most Anticipated New Book Releases June 2024

There was a substantial but not ridiculous new release list for June 2024 to file through. Maybe I’m in a bit of a mood, or there weren’t many titles that I found appealing, because there were only three that I definitely want to get my hands on… the rest sound interesting but given I’m now on a book buying ban, I’m not sure if I’ll pick up. But still I find the premise intriguing. With four…

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[galacticrambler]

Dad Camp | Book Review

I read Dad Camp by Evan S. Porter, and I had a great time with it. The book follows a dad and his daughter who spent the week before school at a summer camp. Continue reading Dad Camp | Book Review

Dad Camp | Book Review

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Dad Camp | Book Review - Galactic Rambler

Dad Camp by Evan S. Porter tells the story of a desperate dad signing his preteen daughter up for a week long father-daughter camp as he cli

I read Dad Camp by Evan S. Porter, and I had a great time with it. The book follows a dad and his daughter who spent the week before school at a summer camp.

I first heard about this book several months ago when Matthew Norman, an author whose books that I love (Charm City Rocks, Last Couple Standing, and We’re All Damaged to name a few.) promoted it on… His Twitter, I think. (Note: I will never call it X.) I thought that the book sounded up my alley and wanted to give it a chance.

I was rewarded with a funny and charming book that brought me to tears on one occasion.

Dad Camp is basically exactly what you’re envisioning. John feels his always-tight relationship with his daughter Avery slipping as she’s gearing up to enter middle school. So what does he do? He does an incredibly risky thing and signs the two of them up for a father-daughter camp which is obviously exactly what a preteen wants to do with their dad for an entire week in the summer.

Porter does a great job of giving the book heart and the characters truly feel alive. All of the main quartet of dads in this book feel like people I’ve met. And, in the midst of this book about father-daughter bonding, a terrific lesson in masculinity is presented by our Quad Dads when they think they are drunk. It’s a hilarious and heartfelt scene.

I really like this book and think you should give it a read.

Thank you Netgalley and Penguin Group Dutton for sending this book for review consideration. All opinions are my own.

[galacticrambler]

Dad Camp | Book Review

I read Dad Camp by Evan S. Porter, and I had a great time with it. The book follows a dad and his daughter who spent the week before school at a summer camp. Continue reading Dad Camp | Book Review

Dad Camp | Book Review

[roadhustler]

150 @ 15 Ball Grid 78%, My son is done with kindergarten as of yesterday. Today was dad camp day one and it started early! 6:30am after 4 hours of sleep he woke me up happy to be done with school. We had a great first day off together it was fun. A long walk, the bug museum, and some penmanship practice. When I put him to bed tonight I crashed out next to him for a while then woke up to hit some balls. I'm beat, my bed is calling me...

[manvchild]

Dad Camp makes me Mad Camp

- my daughter in her diss of Dad Camp

[manvchild]

Dad Camp is Dead, Long Live Dad Camp

I had good intentions starting Dad Camp.  I wanted it to be a week different than a normal week, one with more fun and more focus.  But my daughter didn't want to go to Dad Camp.  She wanted a normal week.

Is it a camp if you have no campers?  

I wanted to go to the Bronx Zoo, but she didn't.  Should I force her to go to the Zoo?  Won't the Aquarium suffice?  And if the Aquarium is too long a bike ride and she wants to go hang at the park, isn't that okay?  What's it to me? Do what's planned or what she wants?

It's a familiar parenting dilemma:  what do you insist on and what do you stay flexible about?  Do you let the kid play video games, become a recluse, become a hacker, online chat with cretins, become a hacktivist, then run a zombie-bot criminal network?  Do you insist they take swim lessons, dance lessons, violin, Latin, debate club, MIT, NSA, then run a zombie-bot criminal network?  Why does everything lead to a zombie-bot criminal network?

In the end, we had two days of play-dates and bike riding at the playground.  It was what she wanted.  It was a little boring to me; not exactly the "Make a Movie Day" or the "Scavenger Hunt" I sort of almost planned.  But she had fun. 

At the beginning of Dad Camp my daughter insisted that Dad Camp was FOR Dads.  It turned out she was right.  It reminded me that being flexible is the most important rule; that being there for her was better than doing the plan.  Dad Camp is Dead, Long Live Dad Camp.

[manvchild]

Dad Camp Day Three: Agenda and Reality

Animal Day Agenda:

9a - camp songs, attendance, buddy line

10a- depart for Bronx Zoo

11a-4p - enjoy an incredible zoo, be an awesome dad, forge memories that we could all reflect upon in later days.  OMiGOD, that monkey is so cute!

4p-5p - head home

6p-7p - Dad has a beer.  Grateful daughter hugs dad.  "You're the best dad ever," she proclaims unprompted.

Actual Animal Day:

9a-10a - Discussion with Fellow Counselor about the Bronx Zoo.  Fellow Counselor really, really does not want to go.  She HATES the car, isn't in the mood.  How about the Aquarium?  This plan is okayed.

10a-11a - Errand to the bank, moving the car because of alternate side street parking, now that we're not using it to go to the zoo.

11a-12p - Sunblock application.  Hauling bike and bike extension down elevator onto street.  Fellow Counselor is very upset about long bike ride to Aquarium.  Does not want to go.  

12p-12:30p - Ride bike one block to Thai Restaurant to eat lunch.  Ride back.  Haul bike back up elevator into apartment.

1p-5p - Playground.

ANOTHER GREAT ANIMAL DAY