Monday, January 31, 2011

2011 January Reading List

A Feast of Crows by George R. R. Martin - After the first three books in the series that were almost 5 stars material, this one was very disappointing. 3/5 stars

The Terracotta Dog, Excursion to Tindari, The Snack Thief by Andrea Camilleri – I just love the entire Montalbano series. Too bad there’s not more of it translated here. 4/5 stars


Star grading system:
1 star - you won't find any so it doesn't matter
2 stars - waste of time or unfinished book or both
3 stars - you won't be sorry for reading it but you can just as well live without it
4 stars - it brings something special into your life
5 stars - brilliant, damn near perfect

Sunday, January 30, 2011

2011 European Figure Skating Championships

24-30.01.2011
Bern, Switzerland

Full Results

Men

FPl.NameNationPointsSPFS
1Florent AMODIO

FRA
226.8613
2Brian JOUBERT

FRA
223.0171
3Tomas VERNER

CZE
222.6052
4Kevin VAN DER PERREN

BEL
216.5945
5Artur GACHINSKI

RUS
216.0736
6Samuel CONTESTI

ITA
204.8869
7Konstantin MENSHOV

RUS
202.62144
8Michal BREZINA

CZE
201.39210
9Javier FERNANDEZ

ESP
199.65117
10Alban PREAUBERT

FRA
196.15108


Ladies

FPl.NameNationPointsSPFS
1Sarah MEIER

SUI
170.6032
2Carolina KOSTNER

ITA
168.5461
3Kiira KORPI

FIN
166.4014
4Ksenia MAKAROVA

RUS
162.0425
5Alena LEONOVA

RUS
154.31133
6Viktoria HELGESSON

SWE
151.6647
7Ira VANNUT

BEL
150.66106
8Elene GEDEVANISHVILI

GEO
147.9658
9Mae Berenice MEITE

FRA
138.74710
10Valentina MARCHEI

ITA
137.44814


Pairs

FPl.NameNationPointsSPFS
1Aliona SAVCHENKO / Robin SZOLKOWY

GER
206.2012
2Yuko KAVAGUTI / Alexander SMIRNOV

RUS
203.6121
3Vera BAZAROVA / Yuri LARIONOV

RUS
188.2433
4Katarina GERBOLDT / Alexander ENBERT

RUS
169.9554
5Stefania BERTON / Ondrej HOTAREK

ITA
164.8345
6Maylin HAUSCH / Daniel WENDE

GER
149.9766
7Klara KADLECOVA / Petr BIDAR

CZE
139.9487
8Stacey KEMP / David KING

GBR
128.0479
9Adeline CANAC / Yannick BONHEUR

FRA
125.3498
10Lubov BAKIROVA / Mikalai KAMIANCHUK

BLR
120.721010


Ice Dance

FPl.NameNationPointsSDFD
1Nathalie PECHALAT / Fabian BOURZAT

FRA
167.4011
2Ekaterina BOBROVA / Dmitri SOLOVIEV

RUS
161.1422
3Sinead KERR / John KERR

GBR
157.4933
4Elena ILINYKH / Nikita KATSALAPOV

RUS
153.4844
5Federica FAIELLA / Massimo SCALI

ITA
145.9295
6Ekaterina RIAZANOVA / Ilia TKACHENKO

RUS
145.0556
7Nelli ZHIGANSHINA / Alexander GAZSI

GER
140.6977
8Nora HOFFMANN / Maxim ZAVOZIN

HUN
140.3068
9Pernelle CARRON / Lloyd JONES

FRA
135.41810
10Lucie MYSLIVECKOVA / Matej NOVAK

CZE
135.35109

Friday, January 21, 2011

Romanian Steampunk Anthology (2)

As announced on the publisher's blog, we have the cover art for the Romanian Steampunk anthology. Art by Les Edwards. Still waiting for the subtitle and authors' names to be added.

What do you think?

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Absolute Skating revamped

After six years we managed to revamp the site. It looks better and it's more user friendly. The gallery is still work in progress, but we'll get there too.

Absolute Skating


Ready for the Euros now!

Friday, January 14, 2011

Romanian Steampunk Anthology

Romanian steampunk? What's that? Well, we're about to find out. It will be published by Millennium Books and the editor has already announced the contributing writers: Oliviu Craznic, Stefana Czeller, Costi Gurgu, George Lazar, Florin Pitea, Mircea Oprita, Marian Truta and yours truly. :) I'm looking forward to discover what the other texts are about and I can't wait to see the cover art. :D