Linda-Marie Barrett:
Reading: The Husbands by Holly Gramazio. A woman's attic is a portal through which husbands appear and disappear, one after another. Each new husband brings a different set of past life experiences. Reading this reminds me how each decision, and each person we meet, can create so much unexpected change in our life's journey.
Listening: To peaceful nature sounds around my home and in the woods behind.
Watching: Continuing Death in Paradise, with side trips to cozies in England and Malta.

Candice Huber:
Reading: In my effort to educate myself, I'm currently reading Ten Myths About Israel by Ilan Pappe. I'm also still in the middle of Running Close to the Wind. These books balance each other out well
Listening: Almost finished Can't Spell Treason Without Tea, and I've really enjoyed it. It's squarely in the cozy fantasy genre (I mean, there is literally tea and books), and I think lovers of Legends & Lattes will also love this!
Watching: I've binged through two seasons of The Wire so far. I can see why this was such a pioneering show! Can't wait to see what Omar does next.

Nicki Leone:
Reading: I finished Godden's lovely book about cloistered life In This House of Brede, although not, as planned, on the plane returning from vacation because I had barely fifteen minutes to get across the Charlotte airport to make my connecting flight. ("CLT, said SP to me later, is the anti-Brede.) I still have The Shipwreck That Saved Jamestown (Daniel Blake Smith) and Flights (Olga Tokarczuk) in my currently reading stack, but they have been briefly superseded by Letters from New York by Helene Hanff, which I forgot I had ordered from the Slightly Foxed people, but was waiting for me when I came home from vacation. Don't you love when that happens?
Listening: My bird song identification skills vanished when I returned home, and I am reduced to recording the birds I hear from my back deck and playing them at my Merlin app. With doubful results.
Watching: I play British mysteries and old scifi shows in the evening when I'm trying to catch up with the day's email. Having been gone for over a week, the email backlog is pretty extreme, so I've got Supernatural running since it has like fifteen seasons and was filmed back when "a season" was over twenty episodes. Plus, Felicia Day as Charley Bradbury!

SP Rankin:
Reading: I told Alison at Cleary's Bookstore on Saturday that Table for Two, Amor Towles's splendid new collection of short fiction, would be in my reading list this week and I can confirm that I am indeed reading it AND marking my place with my Cleary's bookmark.
Listening: Don't Forget Me, Maggie Rogers's (the theme of my list this week is "s's," which I like to do because it bothers people) new album that I think I will be listening to all summer.
Watching: Returning to my 2024 project of works from women directors I haven't watched before led to Agnès Varda's One Sings, the Other Doesn't from 1977, which places its main characters squarely in the women's liberation movement in France without becoming preachy or abstract for even one single second. It will, however, make you unbearably nostalgic for the 1970s (even if you didn't live through them but particularly if you did) so fair warning.

Andrea Richardson:
Reading: I'm in a bit of a TBR-Induced panic attack - I have so many I want to read right now and don't know where to start. I did read an early copy of Kate McKinnon's Middle Grade debut last week (The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science) and I am madly in love with it.
Listening: A virtual conversation between Salman Rushdie and Suleika Jaouad that their publisher hosted - it's fascinating!
Watching: There aren't a ton of new shows that have grabbed me lately, so I am watching old episodes of Bachelorette in my downtime. I'm on Jojo's season at the moment.