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What We're Reading/Listening to/Watching

Posted By Nicki Leone, Thursday, January 30, 2025

Linda-Marie BarrettLinda-Marie Barrett / Executive Director:
Reading
: The Otherwhere Post by Emily J. Taylor. Reminiscent of Harry Potter, with a school to hone magical abilities, layered worlds, misunderstood orphans, and young adults saving the day. Perfect reading for deep winter.
Listening
: Enjoying the “Songs for Cozy Mornings” on my Calm app, and the chimes gently sounding in the breeze.
Watching
: All Creatures Great and Small, which often brings tears because of everyone’s good-heartedness during a time of war. Also back to the first season of Death in Paradise, which is kind of the opposite, though the main police crew are delightful.

Candice HuberCandice Huber / Membership:
Reading: How to Protect Bookstores and Why by Danny Caine and The Bookshop by Evan Friss for research. Still on Breath of the Dragon for "fun," but who has time for fun reading?
Listening: I went back to The Lotus Empire by Tasha Suri. About 60% through the audiobook.
Watching
: Only a few episodes left in our Schitt's Creek binge!

Nicki LeoneNicki Leone / Communications:
Reading: Still with The Alabama Stitch Book for my hand sewing lessons. And I'm excited my book club chose Tanya Tagaq's Split Tooth for next month. I've read it before and am so glad I'll have people to talk to about it!
Listening: I caught up with the latest episode of the Slightly Foxed podcast, all about William Golding. I am now suitably ashamed that I have never read anything by him except Lord of the Flies in high school. The Spire is in my Bookshop.org shopping cart. The Yield by Tara June Winch is still first in my audiobook queue.
Watching: My current late-night background television show is the (original) Star Trek series. I wish there were more than three seasons. But on the other hand, it was an era when "a season" was thirty episodes long, so its really like five seasons now. For my TV show I need to pay close attention to, I've got wrapped up in The Pitt. It's billed as a kind of new ER (which I've never seen) but I love the pace, the camera work, and how even the minor characters in its cast of thousands (all crammed into a Claustrophobically small space) are real and multidimensional. It's a show with a generous spirit, with no pat answers, and not so much about medicine as it is about how people keep themselves sane.

SP RankinSP Rankin / Website Administrator:
Reading: Lauren McBrayer's frothy Like a House on Fire, which made for some excellent brain candy. Charleston: A Bloomsbury House and Garden, the gorgeously photographed book on Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant's home from 1916 until 1978. Everything--from the walls to the furniture to the bathtub--served as a canvas for their art and that of their friends, for whom Charleston was a second, even sometimes first home as well as the hub of English literature and art.
Listening:
I spent much of a recent, reluctantly taken road trip listening to the Belgian/Egyptian singer Tamino, after hearing a podcast episode featuring his new single ("Sanctuary") with Mitski. Though classically trained, he somehow manages to sound like Rufus Wainwright and Jeff Buckley at the same time, in one beautiful--almost in a painterly way--song after another.
Watching:
Oklahoma! (1955). When I've seen a movie many times, I like to pay attention to something different during each viewing. This time it was the dozens of astonishingly talented, disciplined dancers filling every scene, many of them imported from the original Broadway production.

Andri RichardsonAndrea Richardson / Sales:
Reading: An ARC of the upcoming Nora Roberts thriller Hidden Nature. I need a nice comfort read and I always know what to expect from Nora.
Listening: The sounds of quiet in my house after hosting a few family members for a few nights. It's nice.
Watching: The birds outside at the bird feeder (and the cats are watching pretty closely too)

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