Hey Toasters, hope you had a good week! What are you reading as you head into the holiday weekend? I am finishing Trip by our own Mindy Hung, and I’m about halfway through One Thing Stolen by my friend and thesis adviser Beth Kephart. I’ve got a road trip this weekend and am thinking of loading up the Kindle before I go, so feel free to drop your best recs in the comments.
Most Important News of the Week: Mallory wanted to catch a kitten. AND THEN: VICTORY
Nicole and Mallory ranked the miserable marriages of Modern Family.
Shrill and Mallory yelled about Mad Max.
Anna North told us about her childhood filmmaking career.
There was a new Dad Mag for the month of May, featuring Matt Lubchansky’s actual, literal dad! (P.S. If you didn’t already know, you can buy some of Matt’s prints here; it’s always a good time to do that.)
Sulagna Misra explained why fandom is sometimes better than the real thing (WHERE IS MY HELEN CHO/SAM WILSON FIC, SULAGNA)
Kate Slater on Pat Gardiner, everyone’s least favorite L.M. Montgomery heroine: “Pat is Cathy from Flowers in the Attic, if Cathy wanted to stay in the attic for the rest of her life and the sibling incest was only vaguely subtextual. Pat is a compliant Bertha Mason Rochester, putting out fires and begging her husband to lock the door behind him. Pat is the warning story told late at night by Hufflepuff first-year students whispering between their beds.”
How To Tell If You Are In A Famous Opera <– The Metropolitan Opera [verified check mark] shared this on FB and I was pretty chuffed, pls congratulate me
“If Shakespeare’s Richard III Were Your Coworker, he would take an instant dislike to anyone in the office named Brittany”
Sometimes I feel like Mallory digs this stuff up just to traumatize me.
Emily Dickinson went to the beach, and I wish I’d gone, too.
I am going to see mountains this weekend. Small blue ones. They are not the Cascades, but any mountains are preferable to the mountainless existence I normally lead. I hope you all have a beautiful weekend, and I will see you next week!
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One Thing Stolen was great! I am jealous that Beth Kephart is your advisor; I got to interview her and she seems very cool.
I was so fortunate to be able to work with her! It was the best experience.
I recently came across this list of pretty good books to read.
look if you are going to post pictures from kdramas and not talk about about kdramas im going to be really sad ya’ll
Stay tuned.
Oh GOSH is that a super young Hyun Bin?! I didn’t even recognize him! I almost bought half The Body Shop when I visited Korea, just because Hyun Bin was promoting at the time and his face was on half their products:
*swoon thud*
especially when it is Kim Samsoon!
I want to talk about kdramas! I need a good recommendation for a new one to watch. I’m in between the end of the semester and the beginning of work and I need a good show to binge. I’ve only seen a couple kdramas, but loved them. Any particular favorites (that are on Netflix or Hulu)?
Which ones have you seen already?
My Princess, Boys Before Flowers, Lie to Me, My Lovely Samsoon, and one with a time traveling doctor that I can’t remember the name of. All super good.
Coffee Prince, Secret Garden, Fated to Love You, Tree with Deep Roots (I have not watched this one yet, but it’s been recommended), Full House, Pasta, My Girlfriend is a Gumiho…
The time travelling doctor is Dr Jin I think…though I prefer the Japanese version.
I looked it up, it was actually called Faith. But the fact that there is more than one time traveling doctor show makes me so unbelievably happy.
Arang and the Magistrate
Master’s Sun
Queen In Hyun’s Man
Rooftop Prince
Tree With Deep Roots
Ooooh, and King 2 Hearts. And Shut Up Flower Boy Band.
WATCH COFFEE PRINCE IMMEDIATELY
also i second Arang and the Magistrate, The Princess’ Man, Miss Korea, and Fool’s Love & Heard it Through the Grapevine which are playing right now/just ended are great
Also Flower Boy Next Door, Pinocchio, and Healer were all legit excellent.
Masters sun. Amaziiiiiing
GHJ and SJS on form!
I also loved Queen In-hyun’s Man.
Why has no one said the words ‘You From Another Star’ yet? Also, not to promote piracy, but there are lots of good streaming sites with Eng subs for those of us who don’t speak Korean.
Also, Sungkyunkwan Scandal absolutely changed my life, definitely worth watching!
There is also Dramafever! all these shows are available and its free (but with a really wonky and annoying ad system)
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I just devoured the last Glamourist History book, “Of Noble Family”, so now I’m starting them all over again. HIGHLY recommended, as they get better and better with each book (though the third may be my favorite). And then basically everything else on my Kindle is romance novels, fanfic and “The Royal We.” So if you want recs on those…?
I didn’t know there was a new Glamourist History out! Thanks
Special Topics in Calamity Physics! She write good.
Oh! This is probably not as big of a coincidence as it seems to me right now, but I just started reading Small Damages by Beth Kephart today! (Assuming it’s the same Beth Kephart). I’m really enjoying it.
She’s so wonderful. Aspiring memoirists/personal essayists should check out Beth’s wonderful book on craft, Handling the Truth!
Not sure if this is the right place for this (I also might have double posted),
but…. it’s looking like a resounding YES in the equal marriage vote in Ireland!!!! The counts only started 2 hours ago so its early days but some areas are polling over 70% yes and some of the serious no side have already conceded defeat!
I’m so proud to be Irish!!
Quote from one of our ministers who just came out himself recently “This is not a referendum. This is a social revolution.”
You can follow live here if you like http://www.rte.ie/news/2015/0523/703207-live-coun…
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS EQUALITY!!!! Overwhelmingly yes votes in nearly every constituency, even rural. Hold me, other Irish toast, we have come so far!!
Congrats to everyone in Ireland who voted yes!! I lost a few hours of productivity yesterday reading #hometovote and other coverage of the referendum and I’m not sorry at all. It’s so inspiring and amazing to see the level of support for gay rights. I know there’s more to do, every where, but this victory feels amazing and I’m not even a little bit Irish.
I’m reading Uncle Tom’s Cabin because I figured I should do that someday. I hate the shit out of it. I recommend Ann Petry’s The Street from 1946, which is like A Tree Grows in Brooklyn but less sappy, or Native Son with ladies and without the boring socialist stuff.
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Arang and the Magistrate
Master's Sun
Queen In Hyun's Man
Rooftop Prince
Tree With Deep Roots
Ooooh, and King 2 Hearts. And Shut Up Flower Boy Band.