Linda-Marie Barrett / Executive Director:
Reading: Hot Desk by Laura Dickerman. Although marketed as a rom-com, this take on the publishing world set in the early 80s and today is so much more. I may know where one storyline is heading (enemies to lovers), but I’m very curious about the potential lovers to enemies arc of the other. The author pulls back curtains to scenes that are very layered and thought-provoking.
Listening: I’m dedicated to the very underappreciated sound of silence.
Watching: Entering the final season of Younger, which continues to intrigue and delight me with the publishing industry details and the struggles of women in a corporate environment. I will miss it when I finish the series.
Candice Huber / Membership:
Reading: The world has seriously not allowed my brain to read much this year, unfortunately. I have a very long TBR though! I'm just trying to finish all the books I started. Does reading crochet patterns count?
Listening: I found a "90s Summer Jams" playlist on Spotify, and I've certainly been jamming.
Watching: My partner caught me in the living room with a blanket and cat on my lap while crocheting and watching The Golden Girls. He wondered what was happening and asked if I was 80 years old. I told him I'm in my "Granny Era," and I in no way regret it. But let's be real, I've pretty much always been in my "Granny Era."
Nicki Leone / Communications:
Reading: Right now, Katherine Mansfield's In a German Pension, because I'm on a Mansfield binge. But I also just ordered Zhang Yueran's Cocoon, because someone in book club recommended it.
Listening: The audiobook of Peter Marshall's Storm's Edge: Life, Death and Magic in the Islands of Orkney.
Watching: Not much, but I did decompress for a few hours with Evil Under the Sun (1982) featuring not my favorite Poirot actor Peter Ustinov, but also a younger Maggie Smith (who is my favorite anything), wearing the most amazingly bejewelled jacket and carrying around an hors d'oeuvres tray that SP later accurrately commented, "looked like Sputnik."
SP Rankin / Website Administrator:
Reading: I finished Food Person, which is a little sharp, a lot sweet, and seems destined for a binge-worthy TV series. I'm a few chapters into Taylor Jenkins Reid's latest novel, Atmosphere, which seems even more destined for adaptation. Astronauts in love in the 1980s! Come. On. Listening: I had my song of the week all picked out, but a late night discussion of Nina Simone led to yet another listen to her 1969 album To Love Somebody, which led to multiple listens to her goosebump-inducing cover of Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are A-Changin'," and I'm certainly not going to disagree with that. Especially not this week. Watching: The Times of Harvey Milk, the 1984 documentary made only six years after Milk's assassination, 32 years before a Navy ship was named in his honor, and 41 years before a cowardly fraud removed his name from the ship because this warrior did not "reflect warrior culture."
Andrea Richardson / Sales:
Reading: I am preparing for a good bit of air travel in the next few days so I have a TON of DRCs downloaded and no idea where I plan to start.
Listening: A friend of mine was over for porch hangouts recently and put on a Spotify playlist full of angry 90's women that I can't get enough of.
Watching: We just finished a really good dark Scottish crime series called Dept Q. And then Lego Masters AU to lighten the mood after that's done.
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