Linda-Marie Barrett / Executive Director:
Reading: Just finished Booked for Murder by P.J .Nelson. A charmingly cozy mystery set in an against-all-odds thriving bookstore in semi-rural Georgia. Beginning Samantha Harvey’s Booker Prize-winning Orbital for my book club.
Listening: To holiday music, and the sounds of increasing traffic as Asheville continues to recover and receive visitors.
Watching: As we await the holiday episodes of the Great British Baking Show, and the newest season of Virgin River, we watched two episodes of Later Daters, which was so painful to witness that I’ve officially stopped. Will instead re-visit the final installment of LOTR, since we all know THAT ends well.

Candice Huber / Membership:
Reading: Just trying to finish up all the books I've started so I can begin the new year fresh!
Listening: Holiday tunes while I drink hot chocolate and wrap gifts.
Watching: Finished Finding Mr. Christmas, which was delightful (although I wasn't happy with the winner). If anyone else watched it, please reach out, I'd LOVE to discuss! Also watched Sabrina Carpenter's holiday special on Netflix, and it was exactly what I expected.

Nicki Leone / Communications:
Winter is my time for deep dives and doorstops, so...
Reading: I am in the 300s of the nearly 800-page Lies and Sorcery by Elsa Morante. It is quite a journey. I've also got my reading notebook open to write down the things I love about Summer Will Show, which I read last month but book club got delayed, so we're discussing it next week. Revisiting Sylvia Townsend Warner is never a hardship.
Listening: Middlemarch, read by Juliet Stevenson, It's glorious. I'm in hour 12 of its 35+ and I think I'll finish by Christmas. Then probably start reading it in print.
Watching: Bosch from start to finish. You know, I don't think I'd ever want to live there, but I love seedy, gritty Los Angeles scenery.

SP Rankin / Website Administrator:
Reading: The only thing happening with books lately is putting them in boxes!
Listening: I have read Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy more times than I can count but I've never listened to them on audio. My daughter recommended the version read by Andy Serkis, and they have been a perfect companion in all my moving tasks. Fair warning: he sings ALLLLL the songs.
Watching: A seemingly unlikely double feature of two of my favorite holiday movies: The Ref and Remember the Night. At first glance they couldn't be more different (a foul-mouthed, irreverent 90s comedy and a bittersweet 40s Hollywood classic) but watch them together and you'll get it.

Andrea Richardson / Sales:
Reading: I just devoured You Wanna Be On Top, a memoir about Sarah Heartshorne's time on Cycle 9 of America's Next Top Model. It was so juicy and funny!
Listening: Holiday music on repeat at the store. I'm not quite sick of it yet but it's getting close.
Watching: Still into all the holiday joy I can find! Next up is Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas, and The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (I loved that book so much as a kid)