Linda-Marie Barrett / Executive Director:
Reading: Just finished The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton. TRAGIC. Also just completed The Dos and Donuts of Love by Adiba Jaigirdar, which was a lot of fun and reminded me of the many reasons I love the Great British Baking Show. In the midst of Just Some Stupid Love Story by Katelyn Doyle, a rom-com with clever, snappy dialogue.
Listening: To the hum of lawn mowers, conversation between walkers passing by, and birdsong.
Watching: The current season of Shetland, which is a shot of depression with a side of gorgeous countryside, though I must see it through to the end. I really appreciate the two female detective leads, who check in with each other after traumatic incidents, and interview suspects with a consideration about their mental health and the impact of questioning. Great sensitivity and writing!

Candice Huber / Membership and Social Media:
Reading: I've been stuck on Running Close to the Wind because I haven't had a ton of time lately, but I'm close to finishing that one!
Listening: Just started The Emperor and the Endless Palace by Justinian Huang, and I'm super excited about it! It's a queer, spicy romantasy, spanning love story throughout multiple lifetimes.
Watching: Still binging through The Wire, watching for the first time. About halfway through season 4, and I'm VERY attached to these kids. < cries >

Nicki Leone / Communications:
Reading: The Furies by Janet Hobhouse for book club. Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science by Renee Bergland. I've also got the Judi Dench book, Shakespeare, the Man Who Pays the Rent on tap.
Listening: Whetstone Radio's sporadic but always moving podcasts. They've just released "Voices of Palestinian Farmers," which is pretty agonizing. For music, the Color Me Country album by Linda Martell and Beyonce's Cowboy Carter.
Watching: Well, the television is off, but the painted buntings are at the bird feeder, so there's that.

SP Rankin / Website Administrator:
Reading: Thanks to Nicki, Hand-grenade Practice in Peking, Frances Wood's sharply observed, frequently hilarious, and perceptive recollections of a year spent in China, just before the death of Mao and the end of the Cultural Revolution. Sarah Blakely-Cartwright's Alice Sadie Celine, which is sort of hand-grenade practice of a more personal variety and also frequently hilarious.
Listening: Ray Price's masterpiece from 1963, Night Life, for the forty-seven millionth time. Here's to forty-eight!
Watching: The peonies bloom. They come from a cutting my mother gave me, which her mother gave her, which her mother gave her.

Andrea Richardson / Sales:
Reading: An ARC of The Wedding People, coming out this summer. It's darkly funny and a really good read.
Listening: Still on that TTPD* train and I'm not sorry.
Watching: Baby Reindeer on Netflix. Woof. All the trigger warnings but such a well-acted show!
*(The Tortured Poets Department - the new Taylor Swift)