Linda-Marie Barrett / Executive Director:
Reading: Booked for Murder by P.J. Nelson. This cozy mystery with notes of rom-com is set in Enigma, GA, in a bookstore with lots of secrets. It's no surprise Booked for Murder is a SIBA Read This Next December choice!
Listening: Last night an owl hooted outside the bedroom window for a long time, the perfect lullaby. This week giant trucks are in our neighborhood removing towering piles of tree debris from curbsides as part of the Hurricane Helene recovery effort.
Watching: Just finished the extended version of The Two Towers, which never fails to inspire. Also viewed the latest Lindsay Lohan rom-com, Our Little Secret. It was better than I expected. Looking forward to the newest season of All Creatures Great and Small, beginning on Sunday.

Candice Huber / Membership:
Reading: It's been slow going with reading lately! Still working on the same books, haven't started anything new.
Listening: To my own coughing, as I've been pretty sick since Thanksgiving!
Watching: So far I've watched five new holiday films, and there's only one episode left of Finding Mr. Christmas, a reality show where wholesome men compete to be the next leading man in a Hallmark Christmas movie. It is absolutely delightful! The men are so supportive of each other and cry together over dogs. Can't wait to see who wins and watch their movie!

Nicki Leone / Communications:
Winter is my time for deep dives and doorstops, so...
Reading: I am in the 300s of the nearly 800-page Lies and Sorcery by Elsa Morante. It is quite a journey. I've also got my reading notebook open to write down the things I love about Summer Will Show, which I read last month but book club got delayed, so we're discussing it next week. Revisiting Sylvia Townsend Warmer is never a hardship.
Listening: Middlemarch, read by Juliet Stevenson, It's glorious. I'm in hour 12 of its 35+ and I think I'll finish by Christmas. Then probably start reading it in print.
Watching: Bosch from start to finish. You know, I don't think I'd ever want to live there, but I love seedy, gritty Los Angeles scenery.

SP Rankin / Website Administrator:
Reading: My favorite movie of all time is the 1955 Douglas Sirk-directed Technicolor melodrama All That Heaven Allows, and I finally tracked down a copy of the 1952 novel it's based on.
Listening: I've just started the audiobook of Miranda July's All Fours, which should definitely make road trips more interesting.
Watching: The Sticky, loosely based on the Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist of 2011. It's a spiky, hilariously black-humored and Fargo-inflected tale of semi-competent Boston mobsters, a corrupt maple syrup cartel, local blowhards and yokels, a smart policewoman, and the always magnificent Margo Martindale as a hotheaded maple syrup farmer.

Andrea Richardson / Sales:
Reading: the new memoir by Gypsy Rose Blanchard. Her story is so fascinating and sad and I'm curious to hear how she's doing now.
Listening: Holiday music, because I work in retail.
Watching: The final episode of What We Do in the Shadows is next week and I'm not ready for it to be over! I may start a rewatch from the beginning.