Linda-Marie Barrett / Executive Director:
Reading: Swiped by L.M. Chilton, a novel that brings together the horrors of online dating, serial killers, and existential dread in surprisingly funny ways. I've also been enjoying The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron, a book that's long been highly recommended and is both entertaining and inspiring.
Listening: Enjoying the birdsong and toddler giggles just outside my office window.
Watching: Finished the latest season of Shetland, which was fantastic, and am still on a Death in Paradise and Beyond Paradise kick.

Candice Huber / Membership:
Reading: I just started Mirrored Heavens by Rebecca Roanhorse. I'm going to take this one slow because so far, it's one of my favorite series of all time, and I don't want it to end (Between Earth & Sky, began with Black Sun). This is the final book of the trilogy, and I can't wait to see if it's just as metal as the rest of the series!
Listening: Still making my way through The Emperor and the Endless Palace, and honestly I'm immediately obsessed. And it's pretty spicy!
Watching: Well I finished season 4 of The Wire, and I'm just heartbroken. I have started season 5, the last season, and I don't expect to get any less heartbroken. To balance the heaviness out, I also love my short, charming sitcoms - Abbott Elementary, Animal Control, and Not Dead Yet!

Nicki Leone / Communications:
Reading:Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science by Renee Bergland. Judi Dench, Shakespeare, the Man Who Pays the Rent, and We Wrote in Symbols, Love and Lust by Arab Women Writers, edited by Selma Dabbagh.
Listening: I spent an afternoon sporadically transferring all my playlists off apple music and on to Spotify, and in the process discovered an old playlist from 25 years ago I had titled "Bubblegum."
Watching: Movie night with SP returns! We watched Marleen Gorris' A Question of Silence, also something I remembered from, well, a long time ago. I remembered the story being brilliant. But I hadn't remembered that everything else about the film -- the cinematography, the casting, and the script, oh, the script! -- was equally brilliant. Also, one of the characters was reading Doris Lessing! I distinctly saw the name on her book, although I couldn't see the title and could not even after an intensive image search on Google, find a picture of the cover.

SP Rankin / Website Administrator:
Reading: I am about a third of the way into French writer Julia Malye's epic new novel Pelican Girls. Set in 1720s French Louisiana, it's the story of a group of young French women dispatched from an overcrowded asylum/prison in Paris to be brides/breeding stock for French colonists. Elegantly written, meticulously researched, and harrowingly action-packed.
Listening: Recent stars of my playlist: country icon Linda Martell's classic 1970 album Color Me Country, Angel Olsen/Big Time, Beyoncé/Cowboy Carter, Van Morrison/St. Dominic's Preview, Andrew Combs/Canyons of My Mind and Ideal Man, Calexico/Algiers.
Watching: Nicki and I revived the "watch a movie while furiously texting each other about it" society with A Question of Silence (1982), Dutch director Marleen Gorris's furiously feminist classic. Yes, this needed twice the recommended dosage of "furiously."

Andrea Richardson / Sales:
Reading: Jingle Bell Mingle, the upcoming Julie Murphy/Sierra Simone collab and the third in their Christmas Notch series. It's super spicy right out of the gate this time!
Listening: There is a very enthusiastic Little League game going on across the street from my house right now and it sounds like the dang World Series is happening.
Watching: Everybody's in LA, John Mulaney's absurd live show on Netflix. It's completely ridiculous and lots of fun.