Your favorite staff picks for: Reading, Watching and Listening
Alison
Reading:
Little Comfort by Edwin Hill (local author, set in Somerville)
The Penderwicks at Last by Jeanne Birdsall
Annamarie
Reading:
Louisiana's Way Home by Kate DiCamillo
The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan
Ellen
Reading:
Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak.
Heidi
Reading:
Unnecessary Roughness by Jose Baez
Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
Toil and Trouble: 15 stories of Women and Witchcraft Edited by Tess Sharpe
Ugly Girls by Lindsay Hunter
Watching:
Reading:
Small Blows Against Encroaching Totalitarianism [various authors]
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business [Neil Postman]
Watching:
Will & Grace: The Revival. Season 1
Listening to:
Romance/Romance [Original Broadway Cast]
Liv On [Olivia Newton-John, Beth Nielsen Chapman, Amy Sky]
Cheryl Wheeler Live [Cheryl Wheeler]
Kevin
Reading:
The Mars Room by Rachel Cusk, Ghost Lights by Lydia Millet
The Vietnam War: A Film by Ken Burns
Lilly
Reading:
Little Comfort by Edwin Hill
Listening to:
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn on Overdrive
Karen
Reading:
Wildcard by Marie Lu (YA sci-fi)
Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish by Pablo Cartaya (middle grade realistic fiction)
Dreamers by Yuyi Morales (picture book)
Time's Convert by Deborah Harkness (adult historic fantasy)
Watching:
Dr Who (The Thirteenth Doctor)
Mary
Reading:
Harbor Me by Jacqueline Woodson
Kitchen Confidential : Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
Tim
Reading:
Ojibwa warrior : Dennis Banks and the rise of the American Indian Movement / Dennis Banks with Richard Erdoes"
No bosses here : a manual on working collectively
Listening to:
Indigenous Politics: From Native New England and Beyond (podcast)