Linda-Marie Barrett / Executive
Director:
Reading: The Keeper of Stories by Sally Page. I absolutely love this, the perfect read for any book lover who shares a fascination with the stories that make us who we are, inform our decisions and relationships, and hold the secrets we keep from others.
Listening: To quiet instrumental music and the sound of the furnace kicking on and off.
Watching: Having finished the final episode of this season’s Great British Baking Show (tears of joy), and Young Sheldon (fountains of tears over a family’s grief, SO MOVING), we are now looking for the next program to spend after-dinner time with.
Candice Huber / Membership:
Reading: Nothing new to report this week!
Listening: Still on Zomromcom by Olivia Dade. I'm only about 12% in, so I'll be here a while.
Watching: The first snow of the season falling outside my window! Also, the first couple of episodes of Pluribus are out on AppleTV. I've been waiting for Vince Gilligan to do another show, and his return to sci-fi does not disappoint. It's so unique and interesting. Plus, the romantasy book signing line at the beginning of the pilot episode was so accurate that I could not stop laughing. I kept having to pause it. A guy correcting the author's use of "mizzenmast"? Folks asking the author if their favorite character is actually dead? Lots of swooning over a sexy pirate? Perfection!
Nicki Leone / Communications:
Reading:Belonging: Natural Histories of Place, Identity and Home by Amanda Thomson --an author and artist I know because SP gave me a copy of her book A Scots Dictionary of Nature several years ago. That one has the most wonderful collection of words to describe walking: Taiver: to wander. Tarsie-Versie: a term applied to walking backwards. Teasle: the fatigue and derangement of dress produced by walking against a boisterous wind. Belonging is a different kind of book: memoir, ruminations on home and nature and our place in both, colored by northern landscapes.
Listening: Slightly Foxed podcast episodes -- the new one about the Brontes, and some old favorites, like the one about Muriel Spark and the one about Jean Rhys.
Watching: I have got my parents hooked on The Criterion Channel. This week we watched The Conversation, because Mom had never seen it. SP and I watched Hedda, directed by Nia DaCosta, for one of our movie nights. That is one of the great literary characters, and I kind of want to see every production to see what each actor makes of the role. We're also watching Masterpiece Theatre's The Gold, which is probably the best thing I've seen on TV all year. Phenomenal script.
SP Rankin / Website Administrator:
Reading: The Writers' Castle: Reporting History at Nuremburg by Ulwe Neumarh. A riveting account not so much of the trials themselves, but of the writers and journalists all staying at the official press camp. A history of history as its being created.
Listening: The gods of the algorithm delivered this week's song, though it has been a fundamental favorite of mine for many years. It's a song that will always meet you where you are: "Let the Mystery Be" by Iris DeMent. Watching: Nicki and I watched Hedda, the new film adaptation of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler directed by Nia DaCosta. Set in an English manor house in the 1950s, it's gorgeous to look at and kept my stomach in knots as Tessa Thompson's Hedda laid waste to the all the people surrounding her.
Andrea Richardson / Sales:
Reading: I'm dabbling in a little Non-Fiction November with Mark Hoppus's memoir but also getting into a couple of thrillers coming out next year.
Listening: My sweet old lady cat is taking a bath right next to my head and I wish I was listening to something less gross.
Watching: We've gotten very into Sex Education and have been bingeing that at my house. It's bawdy comedy but also really sweet and heartbreaking sometimes. The cast is A+.
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