Linda-Marie Barrett / Executive Director:
Reading: The Three Lives of Cate Kay by Kate Fagan. This layered novel deals with teenage angst, big dreams, tragedy, fake identities, and closeted love. I’m following along, not knowing where the story will lead, but unable to put it down. Also reading Rebecca Solnit’s new book of essays No Straight Road Takes You There.
Listening: To brown thrashers, called “exuberant singers with one of the largest repertoires of any North American songbird.” Not surprised to learn they are in the same bird family as mockingbirds.
Watching: The new adaptation of Towards Zero on Britbox. Looking for something on the lighter side next.

Candice Huber / Membership:
Reading: Unfortunately lots of news articles because I just can't quit.
Listening: Iron Flame, the dramatized audiobook version. I feel like I wouldn't enjoy these books any other way.
Watching: I've hopped onto The Righteous Gemstones train, and now I don't want to get off!

Nicki Leone / Communications:
Reading: Hellions, by Julia Elliott. Aednan by Linnea Axelsson. Sour Cherry by Natalia Theodoridou.
Listening: Catching up on the Between the Covers podcasts. I love how every episode is at least two hours long.
Watching: This week the television has not been on too often. It's default is CNN and I usually turn it on to catch up, grimace, and turn it back off after ten minutes. Then I go old cassic BBC episodes to watch. Like the original All Creatures Great and Small.

SP Rankin / Website Administrator:
Reading: Art critic Sebastian Smee's 2024 Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism, which how could I not read this, but it also promises to rightly place Manet's partner Berthe Morisot in the center of the revolution.
Listening: Beirut's new album, A Study of Losses. John Martyn's old album Solid Air. Song of the week has been Joyce Heath's "I Wouldn't Dream of It" from 1957 or so which is one of those spooky, sad, haunted songs that belong in a David Lynch movie.
Watching: While I really will watch and enjoy almost anything (except slasher movies), I haven't watched much current network TV in a long time and I've been rediscovering the very particular pleasures of a glossy, big-budget, decently written yet also completely formulaic mystery show. So reassuring while the world falls apart! Which is a long way of saying I'm about halfway through the first season of Evil, which is scary and well-acted and fun but in that solid, reliable CBS kind of way, you know?

Andrea Richardson / Sales:
Reading: I finished Holly Jackson's adult-cast thriller (coming out in July!) last night. It was so good but also really emotional.
Listening: I'm not a regular audiobook listener but I'm currently captivated by the audio edition of Frieda McFadden's The Crash. Her stuff is just like popcorn for me. Watching: Season 2 Episode 2 of The Last of Us. I don't want to talk about it.