Suzanne

About me

Gender Female
Industry Arts
Location Homewood, IL, United States
Introduction Went to Portugal. Fell in love with the land, the music (the Fado), the history & the people....
Interests Film -pretty much my life and livelihood, Music: aaah-my beloved piano, Art-Vermeer, Seurat, Goldsborough, Pets-currently our Buddy the Beagle, Theatre, Movie Theatres, Indian food, Cross country skiing, ice skating
Favorite Movies Current favs: The Hurt Locker, Whatever Works, Dear Doctor, Effi Briest, An Education, Happy Go Lucky, Slumdog Millionaire, My Father My Lord, Secrets, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, Persepolis, All Time: Kim Ki-Duk's amazingfilm:Spring Summer Fall Winter and Spring, La Double Vie de Veronique, L'homme du Train, Jean de Florette & Manon of the Spring, The Sound of Music, Divided We Fall, The Shawshank Redemption, Unconditional Love, Rope, Rebecca, Wings of Desire, Jungle to Jungle, The Railway Children, etc..etc..better stop!
Favorite Music Dave's True Story, Mariza-Portuguese Fado, Allison Kraus, Susan Werner, Kate Bush, Neil Young, Mary Gauthier, Katie Melua, Buddy Mondlock, Joey DeFranceso, Mike Stern, Bill Evans, Mozart, Chopin, Delibes, Fareed Haque, Pink Martini, & the ever growing list goes on...
Favorite Books Charlotte Bronte's Villette, Shirley, Ann Bronte's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, All Bronte poetry, Jack Schaeffer's one and only Shane, Jostein Gaarder's brilliant Sophie's World, Italo Calvino's The Baron in the Trees as well his collection of Italian Folktales, Lieutenant Colonel Jay Kopelman's From Baghdad With Love, Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence, Richard Llewellyn's How Green Was My Valley, Sebastian Faulks' Green Dolphin Street, and for as long as I can remember, Enid Blyton's magical The Folk of the Faraway Tree, etc..etc.. too many more!