Linda-Marie Barrett / Executive Director:
Reading: Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott for my book club. Published in 1929, this book still feels timely and poignant, reminding me a bit of Jean Rhys’ work.
Listening: I’ve been listening to cicadas who emerged after 17 years underground. I’ll miss their beautiful sound when this season is over. Also enjoying the peaceful, quiet vibe of our neighborhood.
Watching: Binge-watching Younger. Set in the fictional publishing house Empirical, the insider humor is often hilarious, especially around catering to celebrity authors and centering youth-culture and influencers.
Candice Huber / Membership:
Reading: Again, I have started a bunch of things but having trouble finishing anything. Right now, I'm still reading Oathbound and The Radical Bookstore.
Listening: Really close to finishing part one of the dramatized Onyx Storm audiobook. I wish every audiobook was dramatized! I also just got a copy of Heart's self-named album Heart, which was actually their eighth album, and IMO, their overall best.
Watching: Murderbot of course! Ths show is doing a bang up job of staying true to the series while also doing its own thing. I at first wasn't sold on Alexander Skarsgård being cast as Murderbot because it is notoriously not gendered, however, after watching the first few episodes, he has sold me.
Nicki Leone / Communications:
Reading: My reading life is all about water these days: Is A River Alive by Robert McFarlane, a book which poses a question that seems like it has an obvious answer to me, frankly. And I'm still going through The Theory of Water by Leann Betasamosake Simpson, which is about water, yes, but also about interconnected living and transformation. A kind of mantra against evil times.
Listening: SP sent me a YouTube link to Tami Neilson singing, so yeah. I'm in love.
Watching: I just started Dark Winds. Spectacularly beautiful scenery. Highly eerie storytelling.
SP Rankin / Website Administrator:
Reading: Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life, Claire Tomalin's elegantly written and wickedly perceptive 1987 biography of the almost unknowable writer. After years of Mansfield's life being interpreted by others, who may have had their own agenda, Tomalin neatly turns the tables by letting her speak for herself. At my front door this morning: Spent, Alison Bechdel's new graphic novel.
Listening: The song of the week has been "You're Gonna Fall," by Tami Neilson, New Zealand's big-haired and big-voiced spiritual daughter of a long line of other big-haired and big-voiced queens.
Watching: Murderbot, the Apple TV adaptation of the Martha Wells series The Murderbot Diaries, starring Alexander Skarsgård. As usual, Apple has not stinted on the budget, and the series is funny, action-packed, and wryly sweet. The BBC series from the early 1980s, A Fine Romance, starring Judi Dench and her real-life husband, Michael Williams. It's also wryly sweet (just barely) and funny, though not action-packed unless you count characters crawling around the floor of a French restaurant trying to find a dropped contact lens.
Andrea Richardson / Sales:
Reading: I've got about three books going on right now but the "main" one is In The Family Way by Laney Katz Becker, about motherhood and choice in the 60s.
Listening: all my current podcasts are about the trashy reality TV shows I've very into these days.
Watching: The aforementioned reality TV, but I most enjoyed the new season of Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. Please talk about it with me, I have opinions!
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