Linda-Marie Barrett:
Reading: Just finished We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman, and discovered in our book club discussion that I was an outlier because I found it really funny (and heart-breaking). Have begun The Last Love Song by Kalie Holford, a sweet and moving YA described as a "queer Mamma Mia."
Listening: to the birds and the bees just outside my office. Rumors of bear sightings abound.
Watching: Death in Paradise, and really enjoying it.

Candice Huber:
Reading: Finally finished Everyone On This Train Is A Suspect! It was really fun. Started An Education in Malice by S.T. Gibson, which is much darker.
Listening: To ambient instrumentals of Disney songs as I walk around Disneyland on vacation.
Watching: After watching the new live-action version, I'm now rewatching Avatar the Last Airbender.

Nicki Leone:
Reading: The Weeds by Katy Simpson Smith, The Culture Code by Daniel Coyne (which I have to admit alarms as much as it inspires), and for the book club I'm in with SP, In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden. One of the club members has a thing for novels about nuns.
Listening: Palestinian Walks, Raja Shehadeh, and catching up on my podcasts before everything moves to YouTube.
Watching: Morse (the original) and Endeavor. But Lewis has been spoilt for me, alas.

SP Rankin
Reading: I finished this month's book club book, Rumer Godden's In This House of Brede. Like the place it's about--a cloistered abbey--the inside is much bigger than the outside. I've just started Mary Dearborn's brand new biography: Carson McCullers: A Life.
Listening: Krystle Warren--with and without her backing band, the Faculty. A Kansas City expat in France, she opened for Rufus Wainwright several years ago and I don't know why she isn't a million times more famous. She defies a brief description, but listening to her bend genres will make you think of everyone from Nina Simone to Joan Armatrading to Stevie Wonder to Joni Mitchell to Elvis Costello to Tracy Chapman to Yola, in the best possible way.
Watching: Not really anything except for my sad little habit of HGTV during breakfast, and I'm pretty sure anyone who knows me is sick of hearing about it.

Andrea Richardson
Reading: I just started I Want You More by Swan Huntley to work on my "actually read Winter Institute Books" Storygraph challenge and this thriller already has me tense wondering when this idyllic situation is going to take a very bad turn. I can't wait.
Listening: Vocalist Songwriter Morning, according to my Spotify daylist. I've been on an Ani DiFranco kick lately.
Watching: The wedding episode of Love is Blind - whyyyy do they insist on dragging out the episode releases??