Linda-Marie Barrett / Executive Director:
Reading: Not for the Faint of Heart by Lex Croucher, a queer historical YA romance inspired by Robin Hood, and re-reading You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi for my book club.
Listening: To very little human-made sound, unless I must. Quiet is Bliss.
Watching: The Fellowship of the Ring (extended version), The Great British Baking Show (whatever season is available), and Hot Frosty, because it looked like the good/bad treat it turned out to be.
Candice Huber / Membership:
Reading: Almost finished Mutual Aid by Dean Spade, and it's giving me lots of ideas!
Listening: Chappell Roan on repeat.
Watching: Still on 3%, the Brazilian dystopian show on Netflix. I also love Shrinking on AppleTV, which has come back, and I'm sad to be watching the final season of What We Do in the Shadows! But I'm excited that completely unrealistic, silly, holiday rom-com time is upon us!
Nicki Leone / Communications:
Reading: I finished a Sylvia Townsend Warner story collection A Moral Ending and Other Stories (an early present) in about an hour. I'm now into Lies and Sorcery by Elsa Morante, but also Deer Book by Cecelia Vicuña, which is a hard to describe collection of art, poetry, myth, and sacred dancing. I've also got Loretta Barrett Oden's book Corn Dance open on the kitchen counter, also a gift. I feel humbly gratified that most of the ingredients it uses are already staples in my pantry.
Listening: I put Robin Wall Kimmerer's The Serviceberry at the head of the queue mostly because I love to listen to the author reading.
Watching: SP came for a visit this past weekend, so we watched It Came from Outer Space one evening, and then went to see Anora in the theater the next day. The former was tons of fun. The latter is one of the best movies I've ever seen.
SP Rankin / Website Administrator:
Reading: Sylvia Townsend Warner's 1943 story collection A Garland of Straw, slowly, one perfect sentence at a time. A recent women-in-Hollywood book haul: Dorothy Parker's Hollywood (Gail Crowther), Miss May Does Not Exist (Carrie Courogen), and Inventing the It Girl (Hillary C. Hallett).
Listening: Old, old, old eponymous favorite albums: The Velvet Underground, The Roches, The Smiths.
Watching: The hilarious, gorgeous, heartwrenching Anora. Forty-eleven stars out of five. A master class on all the usual master class things, and probably one of the greatest endings in film history. See it in the theater so you can forget the rest of the world for a couple of hours.
Andrea Richardson / Sales:
Reading: It's Non-Fiction November for me so I am into Enough is Enuf, a history of the English language and why it is so weird, It's fascinating!
Listening: According to my Spotify Daylist, I'm into "Bitter Bed Rot Morning" lately.
Watching: Hot Frosty, which is exactly what you think it would be. Bring on the holiday cheese, please!.