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What We're Reading/Listening to/Watching

Posted By Nicki Leone, Thursday, June 27, 2024

Linda-Marie BarrettLinda-Marie Barrett / Executive Director
Reading:
Finished Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal, a fascinating Pakistani spin on Pride and Prejudice. Beginning A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum, for my book club, an unexpectedly timely choice for us.
Listening:
Alternately, to silence, birdsong, ambient chill music, and the whir of my ceiling fan.
Watching:
Continuing with Death in Paradise though more often than not, I’m preferring a game of cards.

Candice HuberCandice Huber / Membership:
Reading: Still on The Examiner by Janice Hallett. It's really compelling!
Listening
: Still on Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle.
Watching
: Still binging through The Vampire Diaries. I'm on season 5. Also watching House of the Dragon (and I HATE Criston Cole with every bone in my body). And I LOVED this season of Doctor Who that just ended! Ncuti Gatwa is an amazing Doctor!

Nicki LeoneNicki Leone / Communications:
Reading:The Forgotten Notebook by Alba de Céspede. Laughter in Ancient Rome by the unmatchable Mary Beard, Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon
Listening: The Arkangel Shakespeare, Twelfth Night. Also catching up on the recent episodes of the Great Women Artists podcast, because whenever I see the name "Leonora Carrington" mentioned I am there like a bee to a particularly weird and alluring flower.
Watching: The British Country Village channel, aka Midsomer Murders.

SP RankinSP Rankin / Website Administrator:
Reading: Still Life: On Photographs and Memory by Janet Malcolm is waiting patiently until life gets a little more still.
Listening:
Hurray for the Riff Raff's latest album, The Past Is Still Alive, has been on nearly constant rotation, and I do mean constant. Alynda Segarra is a deeply talented songwriter.
Watching: Johnny Guitar (1954), the outrageously strange and splendid, pure camp (paging Susan Sontag) classic Western, directed by Nicholas Ray at his Ray-est. But mainly, it stars Joan Crawford at peak Joan Crawford and a psychotically intense Mercedes McCambridge who both devour ALL the scenery and spit out the nails and it's all shot in nearly psychedelic Technicolor. Oh, and Sterling Hayden is supposedly the title character. Nobody cares. I could talk about it for hours--find me at NVNR in August.

Andri RichardsonAndrea Richardson / Sales:
Reading: I am reading a memoir that I am not super enjoying at the moment and in the interest of good manners, I won't name it. I think it's time to dive back into my TBR.
Listening: The very loud tow trucks and street cleaning equipment outside my house.
Watching: New seasons of Alone and Alone: Australia. I love to watch that show while I snack and enjoy AC.

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