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Designing for Downton Abbey: costume designer Susanna Buxton on the costumes of Downton Abbey. Pictured: Sybil (Jessica Brown-Findlay), Mary (Michelle Dockery), and Edith (Laura Carmichael), the three daughters of the Earl of Grantham.
about the real life day to day inside the mission and orphanages in Addis
"When I’m 80 years old and sitting in my rocking chair, I’ll be reading Harry Potter. And my family will say to me, 'After all this time?' And I will say, 'Always.'" — Alan Rickman
Miracle Max and Valerie. "Have fun stormin' the castle!" Princess Bride has so many interesting characters.
The duel. Inigo Montoya with The Man In Black. Princess Bride has such great dialog too!
It's All Too Much: An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff by Peter Walsh
Alice in Wonderland - I liked her dresses in the Tim Burton movie.
Wizard of Oz - no one gets in to see the wizard, not no one, not no how!
The daughter of a Chinese mother and a Japanese father, Tsukiyama uses the Japanese invasion of China during the late 1930s as a somber backdrop for her unusual story about a 20-year-old Chinese painter named Stephen who is sent to his family's summer home in a Japanese coastal village to recover from a bout with tuberculosis. Here he is cared for by Matsu, a reticent housekeeper and a master gardener. Over the course of a remarkable year, Stephen learns Matsu's secret and gains not only physical strength, but also profound spiritual insight. Matsu is a samurai of the soul, a man devoted to doing good and finding beauty in a cruel and arbitrary world, and Stephen is a noble student, learning to appreciate Matsu's generous and nurturing way of life and to love Matsu's soulmate, gentle Sachi, a woman afflicted with leprosy.
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September 21, 2000 Readers of Women of the Silk never forgot the moving, powerful story of Pei, brought to work in the silk house as a girl, grown into a quiet but determined young woman whose life is subject to cruel twists of fate, including the loss of her closest friend, Lin. Now we finally learn what happened to Pei, as she leaves the silk house for Hong Kong in the 1930s, arriving with a young orphan, Ji Shen, in her care. Her first job, in the home of a wealthy family, ends in disgrace, but soon Pei and Ji Shen find a new life in the home of Mrs. Finch, a British ex-patriate who welcomes them as the daughters she never had. Their idyllic life is interrupted, however, by war, and the Japanese occupation. Pei is once again forced to make her own way, struggling to survive and to keep her extended family alive as well. In this story of hardship and survival, Tsukiyama paints a portrait of women fighting the forces of war and time to make a life for themselves.
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Tricia S. A sequel to Women of the Silk.
October 15, 1993 In Women of the Silk Gail Tsukiyama takes her readers back to rural China in 1926, where a group of women forge a sisterhood amidst the reeling machines that reverberate and clamor in a vast silk factory from dawn to dusk. Leading the first strike the village has ever seen, the young women use the strength of their ambition, dreams, and friendship to achieve the freedom they could never have hoped for on their own. Tsukiyama's graceful prose weaves the details of "the silk work" and Chinese village life into a story of courage and strength.
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Tricia S. The very first Gail Tsukiyama book I ever read. It was so well done, flowed beautifully and was a fascinating story with wonderful characters.
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Tricia S. I am a new fan of author Gail Tsukiyama. Well written and interesting stories and characters.