Linda-Marie Barrett / Executive Director:
Reading: Re-reading Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop for my book club. I LOVE this book. A passage from last night’s read, “Books are not meant to remain in your mind, but in your heart…At a crossroads in life, a forgotten sentence or a story from years ago can come back to offer an invisible hand and guide you to a decision. Personally, I feel like the books I’ve read led me to make the choices I have in life.”
Listening: To the calls of sea birds and ocean waves rolling in as I work remotely in Garden City, SC this week.
Watching: Younger, and loving the publishing industry details, conversations about ageism, and funny generational commentary and conflict. It’s only ten years since the first episode and it feels both dated and still frustratingly relevant.

Candice Huber / Membership:
Reading: Trying my hardest to get my brain to allow me to finish Oathbound and Eat the Ones You Love.
Listening: The tiny trills and purrs of my two new bonded rescue kittens.
Watching: Almost caught up on The Righteous Gemstones, and I'm sad that it's ending. I expected it to be silly, but I didn't expect it to be this good.

Nicki Leone / Communications:
Reading: Aednan by Linnea Axelsson. Sour Cherry by Natalia Theodoridou.
Listening: Okay, also the audio book of Aednan, which is a novel in verse that is over 400 pages long, but less than three hours on audio, unabridged.
Watching: On Becoming a Guinea Fowl from the same director who did I Am Not a Witch. I am still visited by the memory of the closing scene, days later. Also, I discovered I know next to nothing about Missy Elliott and this is a failing in me.

SP Rankin / Website Administrator:
Reading: On Strike Against God, Joanna Russ's novel from 1980 and recently republished by The Feminist Press. It's a furiously and unforgivingly funny tour de force with every third sentence something I would give anything to have written myself. Think Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim, turned up to eleven and minus the misogyny.
Listening: Remember the Shins? I did, and played Chutes Too Narrow like it was 2004 only on a bluetooth speaker in my living room instead of on my minivan's CD player in a school parking lot while I waited for middle school volleyball practice to be over.
Watching: On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, the follow up to I Am Not a Witch, both from the Welsh/Zambian director Rungano Nyoni. Weird, heartbreaking, funny, surreal, and impossibly human. Nicki and I usually have a fair amount of back and forth on movie nights, but not this time.

Andrea Richardson / Sales:
Reading: I am in between books right now and don't know what to read next! My TBR is intimidating me, I may just have to close my eyes and grab at random.
Listening: The maintenance crew is working on the Little League fields across the street and it's very loud today.
Watching: I came across a show called Polyfamily last night and hooooo boy, it looks like it's going to be interesting!