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Heya! I'm Lynnee. I post mostly about books, cats, places I've been, recipes, hairstyles, vintage clothes, cute things, and music. I'm also interested in cognitive psychology and book publishing.

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K-dramas I’ve seen, 2019

Miss in Kiss (Taiwanese)

Bromance (Tawainese)

My Only Love Song

Weightlifter Fairy Kim Bok Joo

You’re Beautiful

Part-Time Idol

Orange Marmalade

Because This Is My First Life

My ID is Gangnam Beauty

Romance is a Bonus Book

Oh My Venus

Good Morning Call (Japanese)--rewatch

Stay Tuned (Japanese)

Miss Panda and Mr. Hedgehog

My First First Love

K-POP Extreme Survival

Put Your Head on My Shoulder (Chinese)

Cheer Up/Sassy Go Go

Well-Intended Love (Chinese)--didn’t finish

I Hear You (Chinese)

Fair Lady Kong Shim

Healer

Absolute Boyfriend

Legend of the Blue Sea--didn’t finish

Flower Boy Ramyun Shop---didn’t finish

Shopping King Louie--didn’t finish

Suspicious Partner--didn’t finish

W--didn’t finish

I Cannot Hug You (Chinese)

Heirs--rewatch

My Love from the Star

Hi! School: Love On

Cheese in the Trap

Guardian--didn’t finish

Momo Solon--didn’t finish

What’s Wrong With Secretary Kim

Melting Me Softly

A Little Thing Called First Love (Chinese)

The Liar and His Lover

All I Want for Love is You (Chinese)

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K-dramas I’ve seen, 2018

Hello, My Twenties

Good Morning Call (Japanese)

Good Morning Call--rewatch

Boys Over Flowers

Playful Kiss (I liked the actor from BOF)

Switch Girl (Japanese)

My Little Lover (Japanese)

A Love So Beautiful (Chinese)

Personal Taste

Flower Boy Next Door

Heirs (I liked the actress from FBND)

Pinnocchio

Heartstrings

Goong S

Meteor Shower (Chinese)

Love for Ten: Generation of Youth

Oh My Ghost

Love O2O

The Miracle

Strong Girl Bong-soon

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Salsa Verde: Green Tomatillo Salsa

Get Salsa Verde: Green Tomatillo Salsa Recipe from Food Network

Awesome salsa verde recipe. I like the fresh version. Quite spicy, so keep in mind!

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We have to start somewhere

Joe Gargery: There's one thing you may be sure of, Pip, namely, that lies is lies. However they come, they didn't ought to come, and they come from the father of lies, and work round to the same. Don't you tell no more of 'em, Pip. That ain't the way to get out of being common, old chap. And as to being common, I don't make it out at all clear. You are oncommon in some things. You're oncommon small. Likewise you're an oncommon scholar.

Pip: No, I am ignorant and backward, Joe.

Joe: Why, see what a letter you wrote last night! Wrote in print even! I've seen letters--Ah! and from gentlefolks!--that I'll swear weren't wrote in print.

Pip: I have learned next to nothing, Joe. You think much of me. It's only that.

Joe: Well, Pip, be it so or be it son't, you must be a common scholar afore you can be an oncommon one, I should hope! The king upon his throne, with his crown upon his ed, can't sit and write his acts of Parliament in print, without having begun, when he were a unpromoted Prince, with the alphabet--Ah! and begun at A too, and worked his way to Z. . . . If you can't get to the oncommon through going straight, you'll never do it through going crooked. So don't tell no more on 'em, Pip, and live well and die happy.

Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. 1860. End of Chapter 9.

This surprisingly insightful quote from Joe struck me as powerful because it reminds me that no matter how unsuccessful I feel, everyone starts somewhere. Every step I take can be getting me to that place I want to be.

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[Wine is] like reading body language--same set of rules but specific to the person.

My husband!

Since we started trying out and learning about wines, we’ve been trying to identify notes and how we identify those notes differently between the two of us.

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Proposal scene--great job, sir.

Mr. Walter Hargrave: I must not be denied! (Seizes Helen's hands.) God has designed me to be your comfort and protector--I feel it--I know it as certainly as if a voice from Heaven declared, 'Ye twain shall be one flesh'--and you spurn me from you--

Mrs. Helen Huntingdon: Let me go, Mr. Hargrave!

Mr. Hargrave: (Sees someone watching them retire.) That is Grimsby. He will report what he has seen to Huntingdon and all the rest, with such embellishments as he thinks proper. . . . He will give such a version of this story as will leave no doubt at all, about your character, in the minds of those who hear it. Your fair fame is gone; and nothing that I or you can say can ever retrieve it. But give me the power to protect you, and show me the villain that dares to insult!

Helen Huntingdon: No one has ever dared to insult me as you are doing now!

Mr. Hargrave: I do not insult you. I worship you. You are my angel--my divinity! I lay my powers at your feet--and you must and shall accept them! I will be your consoler and defender! and if your conscience upbraid you for it, say I overcame you and you could not choose but yield!

Helen: (snatches palette-knife and holds it against him.) [L]isten to me.--I don't like you. [A]nd if I were divorced from my husband--or if he were dead, I would not marry you. There now! I hope you're satisfied.

Mr. Hargrave: I am satisfied [t]hat you are the most cold-hearted, unnatural, ungrateful woman I ever yet beheld!

SOURCE: Bronte, Anne. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. 1848. Edited by Josephine McDonagh, Oxford UP, 2008, 302-303.

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. . . among this nest of boon companions . . . beside my abandoned wretch of a husband, the base, malignant Grimsby, and the false villain Hargrave, this boarish ruffian, coarse and brutal as he was, shone like a glow-worm in the dark, among its fellow worms.

Bronte, Anne. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. 1848. Edited by Josephine McDonagh, Oxford UP, 2008, 306.

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The artist who paints for the million must use glaring colours, as no one knew better than Mr. Sentiment when he described the inhabitants of his alms-house; and the radical reform which has now swept over such establishments has owed more to the twenty numbers of Mr. Sentiment's novel, than to all the true complaints which have escaped from the public for the last half century.

Trollope, Anthony. “Tom Towers, Dr. Anticant, and Mr. Sentiment.” The Warden. 1855. Ed. David Skilton. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. 208-209.

As many Victorian novels demonstrate, novels can draw great attention to a problem and can be used as a useful source to understand the big cultural issues of the time period.

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David's Tea blog

These look delicious! I suppose you wouldn’t necessarily need that particular tea, but I’m very curious about adding tea to recipes such as these.

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How To Cast Jane Eyre

Guys, you're not doing it right.

This is really funny. The “plain and little” fairy, sprite, demon, toad Jane Eyre never quite seems plain enough in the movies. They certainly make her less-beautiful than possible, especially with the hair part down the middle, but they begin with someone nice looking. At least they’re almost always “little.” But Mr. Rochester, especially, is not a great person. He shouldn’t be a babe. He has pretty questionable morals/behavior, though he’s not bad, he’s just a bit too passionate. I’m certainly okay with more Jane Eyre adaptations, though. I think variation is fascinating.

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Every Meal In Wuthering Heights, In Order Of Sadness

Obviously they are all sad.

Wow, even the food reflects the sadness and apathy in this book.

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The Custodian of Forgotten Books - The New Yorker

In Brussels, a former I.T. adviser for the U.S. Air Force has made a hobby of rescuing neglected works from obscurity.

Here’s a well-written article about forgotten books. It’s interesting thinking about books that may have been stars in their time and now are fully lost. I’m trying to imagine whether that could happen to Harry Potter--but the same I’m sure could be said of countless others from generations ago that have done exactly that. It’s tragic, in one way; in another way, perhaps it’s fodder that leaves open the spotlight for something more topical. I just recently finished reading East Lynne by Ellen Wood, a sensation fiction novel so famous even the Prince was reading it and an opera was made of it. Yet most probably would never have heard of it. Reading it now, I hated it! It was boring! It harped on one woman’s poor mistakes and never let her get over them. We have different values in today’s culture(s), just as the values that made the book popular at that time were important and fascinating. So I’m torn in this idea of bringing back lost books: by all means, find something fantastic, but with all the authors of today, wanting their own recognition, there’s so much competition that the job of the publisher must be well-considered.

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Shakespeare calls jealousy yellow and green. I think it may be called black and white; for it most assuredly views white as black, and black as white.

Ellen Wood, East Lynne (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), 183.

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Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time to close behind you? You leave the previous book with ideas and themes--characters even--caught in the fibers of your clothes, and when you open the new book, they are still with you.

Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale (New York: Washington Square Press, 2006), 289-290.

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A river is no use to a Yorkshire cat. It is the moors he is looking for.

Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale (New York: Washington Square Press, 2006), 403.

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Julia Nunes, “Make Out”

I really like how this video doesn’t just feature one type of gender couple.

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BBC - Food - Recipes : Classic Cornish pasty

An all-in-one meal that’s portable, filling and delicious.

Pasties are arguably my favourite food.

These are fun to make, are delicious, and make great leftovers! They look like little dinosaurs. If I double the recipe, I can make 16 big pasties (~1.5 of these size pasties = my hunger satisfied) or 32 medium pasties. Be sure to add lots of salt or they can be a little bland.