Linda-Marie Barrett / Executive Director:
Reading: The Reluctant Reaper by Mary Janice Davidson. A romantasy involving the Gods of Death from around the world and one cute human. What can I say other than: refreshing mind cleanse. About to start Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott for my book club.
Listening: To the eerie hum of cicadas. Their sound is like sci-fi theremin music, and when you see the cicadas themselves, you wonder if they also came from space.
Watching: No TV this week! Spending evenings with family and friends and enjoying the beauty of where I live. May is a magnificent month in Western North Carolina.
Candice Huber / Membership:
Reading: Ask me again next week!
Listening: About halfway finished part one of the Onyx Storm dramatized audiobook. Still very much enjoying it!
Watching: Mo, a delightful comedy on Netflix about a Palestinian family who are refugees in the U.S. trying to gain asylum. It's from comedian Mohammed Amer and is loosely based on his own life. The subject may not sound comedic, and sometimes it isn't, but the show does a great job of riding the line of funny and serious. Highly recommend!
Nicki Leone / Communications:
Reading: I just dropped everything to read Is A River Alive by Robert McFarlane. But The Dove's' Nest and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield, The Theory of Water by Leann Betasamosake Simpson and Susan Choi's Flashlight. are all still next to me for the foreseeable future.
Listening: Redwing blackbirds at the feeder. Erykah Badu on Spotify.
Watching: Still treating myself to Firefly. Chloe rocks.
SP Rankin / Website Administrator:
Reading: I finished Mammoth, the last of Eva Baltasar's trio of novellas (and found it fairly harrowing) and Katherine Mansfield's story collection, The Garden Party. After viewing a spine-tinglingly good exhibition of Grace Hartigan's paintings this past weekend, I started Ninth Street Women by historian Mary Gabriel, about the brilliant women abstract expressionist painters (including Hartigan) at the center of New York's art scene in the 1940-50s.
Listening: This week's song has been "The Oil Rigs at Night" from The Delines' 2014 album Colfax, a favorite that I hadn't listened to in a while. As is the case in all their songs, it captures a moment in a character's life, usually a desperate one. Think Denis Johnson short stories made into a musical.
Watching: My version of a Firefly rewatch is old-school Star Trek. The heart wants what it wants, though I would love to see what Emily Dickinson makes of the space hippies.
Andrea Richardson / Sales:
Reading: I've got about three books going on right now but the "main" one is In The Family Way by Laney Katz Becker, about motherhood and choice in the 60s.
Listening: All my current podcasts are about the trashy reality TV shows I've very into these days.
Watching: The aforementioned reality TV, but I most enjoyed the new season of Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. Please talk about it with me, I have opinions!
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