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What We're Reading/Listening to/Watching

Posted By Nicki Leone, Thursday, January 23, 2025

Linda-Marie BarrettLinda-Marie Barrett / Executive Director:
Reading
: Wandering Wild by Lynette Noni, a YA romance involving two teens on a reality TV show set in a vast Australian national park. When they’re separated from the leader (imagine Bear Grylls) and need to find their way back to civilization, they learn to trust and deeply appreciate each other’s strengths and struggles. Fun, engaging, and sensitive!
Listening
: To my Calm app and my heat pump work REALLY hard to keep our house warm when it’s single digits outside.
Watching: All Creatures Great and Small and Darby and Joan.

Candice HuberCandice Huber / Membership:
Reading: I'm in chaos at the moment, reading 5 or 6 books at once. I'm researching for a book I'm writing as well as trying to keep up with Breath of the Dragon.
Listening: Not listening to much lately! I'm enjoying the silence. Although my cat does meow at me a lot.
Watching
: We decided to finish Schitt's Creek before we start something else, but Severance season 2, Silo season 2, Squid Game season 2, and The Traitors are all on the docket.

Nicki LeoneNicki Leone / Communications:
Reading: Don't laugh, but books about hand sewing. It's part of my ongoing quest to learn how to sew a straight seam and repair, recycle, and upcycle my favorite clothes. So, on the advice of my ridiculously talented mother, I'm reading The Alabama Stitch Book: Projects and Stories Celebrating Hand-Sewing, Quilting, and Embroidery for Contemporary Sustainable Style by Stacie Stukin, Natalie Chanin, and Robert Rausch (Photographer).
Listening: The Yield by Tara June Winch, The Mango Tree by Annabelle Tometich.
Watching: Alongside my ambitious project above, I've got a couple of recordings of "Hand sewing Basics" classes given by Tatter.org (a website I often visit just to drool over the pictures.) The straight seam is still eluding me, though. In my darker moments I also turn on the news, or old episodes of Criminal Minds.

SP RankinSP Rankin / Website Administrator:
Reading: Not so much reading as wandering through the pages of The Glaciers, a collection of the Scottish Modernist artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham's glacier paintings. She explored the Grindelwald Glacier in Switzerland only once in the summer of 1949, but returned to the subject over and over in her art for the next four decades.
Listening:
Head of Roses: Phantom Limb, the 2022 expanded version of Jenn Wasner's (Flock of Dimes) 2021 album Head of Roses. The 2021 version is perfect as is, but the expanded version includes gorgeous covers of Joan Armatrading's "The Weakness in Me" and Joni Mitchell's "Amelia."
Watching:
The Traitors. Hearing Alan Cumming intone "murrrrrrduuuuuur" as Scottishly as possible is something nobody should miss in these trying times. Also Withnail and I (1987), because nobody should ALSO miss Richard E. Grant shouting "We want the finest wines available to humanity. And we want them here, and we want them now!"

Andri RichardsonAndrea Richardson / Sales:
Reading: Manboobs by Komail Aijazuddin for an upcoming book club. I'm not too far in yet but it's really funny so far!
Listening: The crackling cozy fire beside me as I work from home on a very cold day.
Watching: Anything but the news, as much as I can help it.

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