Linda-Marie Barrett / Executive Director:
Reading: Go Luck Yourself by Sara Raasch, the latest in Raasch’s Royals and Romance series. Lots of fun, expletives, and riffs on Irish culture. Re-reading Real Life and Other Fictions by Susan Coll for my book club. I really enjoyed this quirky, poignant novel involving Mothman lore.
Listening: To the sounds of birds delighting in spring’s arrival, and to occasional rains, which we so need in western North Carolina.
Watching: Enjoying two series, Ludwig and The Residence, featuring brilliant detectives with unusual passions: one a puzzlemaster and the other a birder and both the best investigators out there, noticing things that others don’t, with little regard, or even awareness of social niceties

Candice Huber / Membership:
Reading: Still on Oathbound and Eat the Ones You Love
Listening: Started the dramatized version of Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros. The dramatized aubiobooks of the Fourth Wing series are so fun and immersive. It's truly like watching a CW show.
Watching: Only one episode left of The White Lotus!

Nicki Leone / Communications:
Reading: Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy. Noopiming by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. Wildlife by Amanda Leduc.
Listening: There has been a shift in the birds visiting the feeders lately, so my Merlin app is recording while I have my morning coffee on the back deck. Of the ten-to-fifteen different birds it claims to have identified by song, I only ever see about six or seven of them.
Watching: Back in The Pitt.

SP Rankin / Website Administrator:
Reading: The Antidote by Karen Russell.
Listening: So many new albums! Lucy Dacus, Japanese Breakfast, Dean Wareham, Perfume Genius. So many old albums! Talking Heads, Birds of Chicago, Mitski, Irma Thomas, Brittany Howard, Clem Snide.
Watching: This Chapel Hill grad can't help but feel a gleeful schadenfreude at Duke's pearl-clutching over this season of The White Lotus.

Andrea Richardson / Sales:
Reading: I was fortunate enough to get a DRC of Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry and it's sooooo good. It has Book Lovers vibes and a fun story-within-a-story.
Listening: Lucy Dacus's full new album is out now and she's still one of my faves.
Watching: We binged all the episodes of Mid Century Modern this weekend and it was cute and fun. Think modern Golden Girls, with a trio of gay men and one of their mothers.