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What We're Reading/Listening to/Watching

Posted By Nicki Leone, Thursday, November 14, 2024

Linda-Marie BarrettLinda-Marie Barrett / Executive Director:
Reading
: Just finished a re-read of Shark Heart, which is beautiful, wise, and incredibly imaginative. Finished Funny Story by Emily Henry, a fun and thoughtful romance that's also a love letter to Michigan's Great Lakes' setting and culture, and started Susan Coll's Bookish People.
Listening: Back in the mountains after a week away at the beach, I'm enjoying reacquainting my ears with our bird and animal neighbors' sounds.
Watching
: Re-watching the Great British Baking Show earlier seasons as I wait each Friday for the new episode. Just started Alan Cumming's Paradise Homes, which is both hilarious (Cumming's flamboyant wit) and ridiculous (these folks have more money than God to spend on their homes. Am I jealous? Of course not!) .

Candice HuberCandice Huber / Membership:
Reading: In light of the times, I started reading Mutual Aid by Dean Spade. I've only just started, but I'm excited to get ideas for some additional organizing tools and for taking care of my community.
Listening
: To the white noise of my space heater as the weather turns colder.
Watching
: I've started watching 3% on Netflix, and I seriously can't stop! It's a Brazilian dystopian show that is just so intriguing. The concept is that in a distant future, most of the population lives in poverty in "the Inland," but there's an elite group chosen via a brutal "Process" to live in "the Offshore," which is supposed to be a paradise. Every year, 20-year-olds get a chance to go through the Process to be one of the 3% that makes it to the Offshore. And, of course, there is a rebellion against this system. The plot has sucked me in!

Nicki LeoneNicki Leone / Communications:
Reading: Sitt Marie Rose by Etel Adnan, which should not be as hard to find as it was. I just ordered something that I hope will be my winter doorstop novel: Lies and Sorcery by Elsa Morante
Listening: Shakespeare Unlimited podcast -- Yes, still.
Watching
: The Third Man, again. I actually spent a whole evening with it, just starting and stopping to take it all in.

SP RankinSP Rankin / Website Administrator:
Reading: The new edition of the Finnish author Tove Jansson's Notes from an Island, a chronicle of building a cabin on a treeless island in the Gulf of Finland with her partner, the designer and artist Tuulikki Pietilä (whose paintings illustrate the text). "It is astonishing the number of people who go around dreaming of an island."
Listening:
The resident flock of wild turkeys, gobbling away in the woods every morning at sunrise. My favorite Van Morrison album, Saint Dominic's Preview, since it's November and I'm a creature of habit.
Watching:
Long-time and new favorite movies: Gaslight, The Third Man, Wild Nights with Emily, Private Benjamin. The third and final season of Somebody, Somewhere which is so good I can hardly talk about it.

Andri RichardsonAndrea Richardson / Sales:
Reading: Pumpkin Spice Cafe by Laurie Gilmore - I needed something light and fun after the last few weeks and this Gilmore Girls-y fanfic is hitting the spot.
Listening
: As previously mentioned, I am going for distraction and Handsome podcast remains my favorite way to laugh in hard times.
Watching
: What We Do in the Shadows is in its final season and I will miss it so much. I am enjoying every minute of the remaining episodes.

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