Linda-Marie Barrett / Executive Director:
Reading: Tell It to Me Singing by Tita Ramírez, a Fiction finalist for SIBA's 2025 Southern Book Prize. This book is just what I needed to read right now, offering very moving insights into the Cuban immigrant experience in Miami, balanced with very funny scenes when characters watch a steamy telenovela and compare it to their lives.
Listening: To a neighbor child with the most delightful staccato laugh punctuate my day with his joy.
Watching: While waiting for the next season of All Creatures Great and Small, am touring around Australia with "Darby and Joan" as they uncover truths in their own and others' lives.

Candice Huber / Membership:
Reading: Breath of the Dragon by Fonda Lee and Shannon Lee. It's based on characters and teachings created by Bruce Lee, and the fight scenes are immaculate, which is to be expected from an author like Fonda Lee, who writes some of the best fight scenes I've ever read. If you're into martial arts media, you should definitely pick this up!
Listening: Halfway through The Lotus Empire by Tasha Suri. Not much has happened thus far, but I'm holding out hope for the second half!
Watching: Doing a re-watch of Schitt's Creek because apparently my husband never watched it!

Nicki Leone / Communications:
Reading: A Grandmother Begins the Story by Michelle Porter. Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson. Helen in Egypt by H.D.
Listening: Still with Middlemarch narrated by Juliet Stevenson. I'm almost done. I'm very sad about it.
Watching: The Folger Library podcast sent me on hunt looking for productions where women play the main male leads in Shakespeare. There are many more of them than I thought. But by far the most memorable has been Harriet Walter playing Brutus in the all-female production of Julius Caesar, done in a woman's prison. I will never, ever forget it. And Harriet Walter is a goddess.

SP Rankin / Website Administrator:
Reading: New to the shelf--D.H. Lawrence's Sea and Sardinia published 1921, mainly for the beautiful color illustrations by the artist Jan Juta.
Listening: Last week, I watched a gorgeous performance of La Bohème staged at the Roman arena in Verona this past summer, and I've been playing a recording since. It makes an appropriately epic background to driving to the recycling center or Target.
Watching: The earth-shattering all-female production (2012) of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar set in a woman's prison, with Harriet Walter as Brutus. Nicki told me about it (of course) and I couldn't move for at least an hour after it was over.

Andrea Richardson / Sales:
Reading: Atmosphere: A Love Story by Taylor Jenkins Reid just destroyed me. I haven't cried like that at a book in a long time!
Listening: Doechii! Several friends have shared her videos lately and she's amazing.
Watching: With the recent bad weather in Richmond, I feel like all I have done lately is watch TV but can't think of anything memorable enough to talk about.