Linda-Marie Barrett / Executive Director:
Reading: Finished Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters, which was extremely moving and revelatory, and a huge hit with my book club this week. Currently reading Georgie, All Along by Kate Clayborn, a new favorite author since meeting her at last year's NVNR conference. Her romances are very satisfying and inspire reflection on life choices.
Listening: To birdsong with my Merlin app, and to a giant loud and proud neighborhood bullfrog who's apparently deeply loving the daily rains.
Watching: The Beautiful Game with Bill Nighy, which was inspiring and educational, Death in Paradise on Britbox, and fireflies, including the famous blue ghosts of the Southern Appalachians.

Candice Huber / Membership:
Reading: Still into The Nightmare Before Kissmas by Sarah Raasch, which I'm really enjoying so far!
Listening: In the midst of The Honey Witch by Sydney J. Shields.
Watching: I am unashamedly still binging The Vampire Diaries. I'm two seasons in, and it's actually better than I thought it would be!

Nicki Leone / Communications:
Reading: Her Side of the Story by Alba de Céspedes, Carpentaria by Alexis Wright, and Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes
Listening: Judy Chicago being interviewed about her exhibition "Revelations" on the Great Women Artists podcast. It's like listening to the Oracle at Delphi.
Watching: Taste of Things (2023) directed by Trần Anh Hùng and starring the immortal Juliette Binoche. It was one of the films a suggested list SP gave me when I asked for "feel good movies." A beautiful story about the intimate relationship between a gourmand and his cook expressed almost entirely through the food they cook together. And the best example of how a kitchen becomes the heart of a home that I've ever seen. Also, I want every knife, pot, slotted spoon, and copper pan in that movie -- especially the dove-tailed turbotiere.

SP Rankin / Website Administrator:
Reading: I finished Anna Dorn's latest, Perfume and Pain, which was my pick for a long plane ride in a window seat. I hoped it (book, not plane ride) would be funny and fast and irreverent and roman-à-clef-ish with an unlikable but semi-lovable main character and while it's more than that, my hopes worked out fine. I never hope for much on a plane ride.
Listening: The Mavericks' swoonily excellent new album Moon & Stars (how can Raul Malo STILL sound like this?). The audiobook of film critic and podcaster Alonso Duralde's Hollywood Pride, while I impatiently wait for the hard copy to arrive.
Watching: The Taste of Things (2023). Love, food, art, France, cooking, living, dying, more love, highly inspirational copper pans. The season finale of Hacks, which was perfect even without copper pans. I'm happy it's June when one million Pride-themed lists and collections are everywhere and it's impossible to choose what to watch next.

Andrea Richardson / Sales:
Reading: Just finished You Like It Darker, Stephen King's newest story collection. I loved it even though it gave me terrifying rattlesnake nightmares.
Listening: After working an event with some of the guys from The Replacements, I've had "Can't Hardly Wait" on repeat this week.
Watching: My cats are having the best time watching "The Squirrel and Bird Show" in the backyard and I am having the best time watching them enjoy it.