Linda-Marie Barrett / Executive Director:
Reading: The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston. A fun publishing industry insidery romance about a ghostwriter who sees ghosts and has given up on love. This is my book club’s December read and it’s perfect for the moment.
Listening: I’m tuning in to the most tranquil, calming music this side of a “trapped in a spa” soundtrack. It’s working for me.
Watching: Tis the time of year for Hallmark, and I’ve been hitting the holiday romance movies like A Merry Little Ex Mas (over the top even for this genre, but I appreciated the pro environment heroine) and Merry Gentleman (not bad!). Looking forward to the new season of Man on the Inside and anything else not involving murder or other problems, including sadness, that can’t be solved.

Nicki Leone / Communications:
Reading: Belonging: Natural Histories of Place, Identity and Home by Amanda Thomson. The Salvage by Anabara Salam.
Listening:. The Rochester Memorial Art Gallery has something called "Third Thursday Concerts" that feature a bonafide Italian Baroque Pipe Organ (trust me, the thing deserves the capitalization).  So tonight, we are going.
Watching: With the date of SIBA's transition fast approaching, I haven't had much time to watch much of anything.

SP Rankin / Website Administrator:
Reading: I'm still listening to Ulwe Neumahr's The Writers' Castle: Reporting History at Nuremburg, and it continues to be an interesting and even somewhat discomfiting look behind the scenes at the trials.
Listening: This week's song is Elvis Costello's "Goon Squad," from Armed Forces. For obvious reasons.
Watching: When the temperatures start to drop, I'm always in the mood for overstuffed, oversaturated Technicolor 1950s melodramas, and the master is Douglas Sirk. And it doesn't get more overstuffed than 1954's Magnificent Obsession, starring Rock Hudson (in the role that proved he could actually act) and Jane Wyman.

Andrea Richardson / Sales:
Reading: I started Nowhere Burning by Catriona Ward yesterday and I can't read it fast enough. I think it's going to be my new favorite from her.
Listening: Cats tearing up and down the stairs, playing.
Watching: We're on the last season of Sex Education and while it's not as good as the first three seasons, the music is SO good and Aimee Lou Wood can do no wrong, ever.