What We're Reading, Listening to, and Watching This Week (1/11/2026)
Linda-Marie Barrett / Executive Director:
Reading: Summer State of Mind by Kristy Woodson Harvey. Nothing warms me up in January like a beach read! Set on the coast of NC, involving a former baseball star and a NICU nurse, this reads like Sweet Magnolias, in the best ways.
Listening: To the heat pump working hard as we experience arctic weather this week.
Watching: All Creatures Great and Small’s newest season just kicked off for American viewers on PBS and it's as big-hearted and visually stunning as always. The scene where the Brits celebrate the end of WWII was especially poignant considering what they were fighting against and what we’re dealing with now in our country. Also enjoying the New Zealand series, Brokenwood.
Candice Huber / Membership:
Reading: A Power Unbound by Freya Marske as part of my project to read all the sequels.
Listening: I've been listening to my "throwback" playlist a lot lately, with music from the 70s, 80s, and 90s, and I'm realizing that I'm one of those olds now that thinks the music of my time was way better than anything current.
Watching: The Traitors has returned, along with Alan Cumming's fabulous outfits!
Nicki Leone / Communications:
Reading: Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys. Motherland by Julia Ioffe. And a copy of Sea Garden by H.D. just arrived in the mail!
Listening:. Chloe Flower's She Composed.
Watching: Mostly stuff to play in the background and keep me awake at night. Right now, that is Forged in Fire, a reality show about blacksmithing. Don't judge me.
SP Rankin / Website Administrator:
Reading: Jeanette Winterson's new book One Aladdin Two Lamps is coming out on the 20th and I can't wait to read it.
Listening: I am still in the thick of The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope, and Lizzie Eustace remains a brilliantly amoral and disconcertingly modern anti-heroine.
Watching: Riot Women, Sally Wainwright's (Happy Valley, Gentleman Jack, Last Tango in Halifax) new series about five menopausal women in Yorkshire who start a punk band. The recent death of Bob Weir led me to Long Strange Trip, the 2017 documentary about the Grateful Dead.
Andrea Richardson / Sales:
Reading: Well, after last week, I had to read the entirety of Heated Rivalry, of course, so I just finished that. Now I'm getting into Keeper of Lost Children, fantastic historical fiction by Sadeqa Johnson (who is local to us as well as a very big deal!)
Listening: The creaking of the radiators - it's cold outside! Watching: People We Meet on Vacation, of course! I also devoured the first few episodes of the new season of The Traitors.