Linda-Marie Barrett / Executive
Director:
Reading: Six Little Words by Sally Page. Gorgeously written novel set in Dorset, England, and infused with color and nature imagery. Loving it!
Listening: The neighborhood outside my office is particularly peaceful this time of year, so mostly hearing the sounds of birds, though occasionally my day is interrupted by a bear fumbling with the garbage bins next door, hoping to snag an extra meal.
Watching: Alternating between Australia (Return to Paradise) and England (The Marlow Murder Club).
Candice Huber / Membership:
Reading: Still on all the craftivism books I bought! There are like five, so it'll take me a minute to get through them.
Listening: Like the rest of the world, I've gotten into the soundtrack for K-Pop Demon Hunters. Golden is truly a great hype song!
Watching: All the (silly) spooky movies! Thus far, I've watched The Parenting, Ready or Not, and K-Pop Demon Hunters, all of which are new to me, and both Addams Family movies, Beetlejuice, The Haunted Mansion (2023), Hocus Pocus, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, all movies that I love to watch this time of year. I'd love to hear what you think I should watch next!
Nicki Leone / Communications:
Reading: Fonesca by Jessica Francis Kane.
Listening: Baldwin, A Love Story by Nicholas Boggs is still on tap, but I just heard Harriet Walter talking about her book She Speaks! on the Shakespeare Unlimited podcast, wherein Walter creates speechs for all the Shakespeare women characters she's played, saying the things she thinks they would have said if they could, or that she wished they would have said given have a chance. Her take on Gertrude is something else.
Watching: Movie night with SP was Dance, Girl Dance, which is gloriously feminist, relentlessly honest, and amazingly radical. I can't believe it ever got past the censors.
SP Rankin / Website Administrator:
Reading: I finished Mirage City, Lev AC Rosen's newest installment in his Evander Mills mystery series. Mostly set in 1950s (pre-Stonewall, pre-Harvey Milk) San Francisco, the newest book ventures to Los Angeles, and as in Rosen's other books seamlessly blends queer history into a moody, noir atmosphere.
Listening: This week's song is the band Lucius's slightly spooky cover of Gerry Rafferty's 1970s classic "Right Down the Line," from their 2018 album, NUDES.
Watching: Nicki and I watched the 1940 classic Dance, Girl, Dance, directed by Dorothy Arzner and starring Maureen O'Hara as a naive but determined dancer and Lucille Ball as an equally determined sharpie with a heart of coal. Slyly subversive and bracingly feminist, and so ahead of its time it took critics decades to catch up. .
Andrea Richardson / Sales:
Reading: Mate by Ali Hazelwood! I needed a refresher on the end of Bride but so far it's great.
Listening: Smile for the Cameras by Miranda Smith is my current audiobook - it's a horror book about a horror movie, which I love.
Watching: Every cheesy horror movie that I can get on the TV screen.
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