Linda-Marie Barrett / Executive Director:
Reading: Women! In! Peril! by Jessie Ren Marshall. So imaginative; each story brings you somewhere new, and different than anything you've experienced.
Listening: Enjoying music and meditation on my Calm app.
Watching: Am in between series at the moment, and open to recommendations for cozy mysteries and romantic comedies set in beautiful places.
Candice Huber / Membership:
Reading: Mirrored Heavens by Rebecca Roanhorse. So excited to dig into the third book in this trilogy!
Listening: So close to finishing The Emperor and the Endless Palace by Justinian Huang!
Watching: Finally finished The Wire. What a brilliant show! I particularly loved Bubbles, Omar, and Prez's character arcs.
Nicki Leone / Communications:
Reading: Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science by Renee Bergland, We Wrote in Symbols, Love and Lust by Arab Women Writers, edited by Selma Dabbagh.
Listening: Judi Dench, Shakespeare, the Man Who Pays the Rent. I switched to the audiobook because, you know, Judi Dench! What a fascinating look at how a great actor approaches a character. Most oft-repeated piece of advice: "The audience understands more than you think. Don't underestimate them."
Watching: Well, thanks to the above I have a lot of RSC (Royal Shakespeare Company) productions queued up on my watch list. But with some trepidation -- film is not stage.
SP Rankin / Website Administrator:
Reading/Listening/Watching: "A story is not like a road to follow … it’s more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering how the room and corridors relate to each other, how the world outside is altered by being viewed from these windows. And you, the visitor, the reader, are altered as well by being in this enclosed space, whether it is ample and easy or full of crooked turns, or sparsely or opulently furnished. You can go back again and again, and the house, the story, always contains more than you saw the last time. It also has a sturdy sense of itself of being built out of its own necessity, not just to shelter or beguile you." - Alice Munro
Andrea Richardson / Sales:
Reading: I just finished an ARC of The Genius of Judy, about Judy Blume's books and feminism and I could not have loved it more.
Listening: Rain outside! It's so cozy, all I want to do is tuck in with a cat and a book.
Watching: All I am watching right now is the weather forecast for my upcoming camping weekend, when the rain will be much less cozy.