Vortex by Robert Charles Wilson – I didn’t like it even as a stand alone. Axis is still my favorite book from the series. 3/5 stars
The Dark Tower: Drawing of the Three by Stephen King - I kinda liked it better than the first TDT book. 4/5 stars
The Handmaid's Tale by Margareth Atwood – Why do people like dystopia? Ugh! I like to feel good when I read something, not depressed. 3/5 stars
Grass for His Pillow by Lian Hearn – Same as the first book from the Otori series, nothing much to add. 3/5 stars
Monday, October 31, 2011
2011 Skate Canada
27-30.10.2011
Mississauga, Canada
Full Results
Men
Ladies
Pairs
Ice dance
Maybe because it was the first skate of the season, but somehow I found Skate America more interesting.
Still I loved loved loved Volosozhar and Trankov, and Fernandez too.
Mississauga, Canada
Full Results
Men
| FPl. | Name | Nation | Points | SP | FS | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Patrick CHAN |
| 253.74 | 3 | 1 | |||
| 2 | Javier FERNANDEZ |
| 250.33 | 1 | 2 | |||
| 3 | Daisuke TAKAHASHI |
| 237.87 | 2 | 3 | |||
| 4 | Adam RIPPON |
| 217.97 | 4 | 4 | |||
| 5 | Denis TEN |
| 212.39 | 5 | 6 | |||
| 6 | Ross MINER |
| 202.36 | 9 | 5 | |||
| 7 | Andrei ROGOZINE |
| 193.40 | 6 | 7 | |||
| 8 | Kevin VAN DER PERREN |
| 179.21 | 8 | 8 | |||
| 9 | Alexander MAJOROV |
| 177.84 | 7 | 9 | |||
| 10 | Elladj BALDE |
| 151.57 | 10 | 10 |
Ladies
| FPl. | Name | Nation | Points | SP | FS | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Elizaveta TUKTAMISHEVA |
| 177.38 | 1 | 2 | |||
| 2 | Akiko SUZUKI |
| 172.26 | 4 | 1 | |||
| 3 | Ashley WAGNER |
| 165.48 | 2 | 3 | |||
| 4 | Alena LEONOVA |
| 152.22 | 7 | 4 | |||
| 5 | Mirai NAGASU |
| 151.72 | 5 | 5 | |||
| 6 | Amelie LACOSTE |
| 146.40 | 6 | 6 | |||
| 7 | Cynthia PHANEUF |
| 140.70 | 8 | 7 | |||
| 8 | Sarah HECKEN |
| 130.71 | 10 | 8 | |||
| 9 | Adriana DESANCTIS |
| 129.48 | 9 | 9 | |||
| 10 | Rachael FLATT |
| 128.22 | 3 | 10 |
Pairs
| FPl. | Name | Nation | Points | SP | FS | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tatiana VOLOSOZHAR / Maxim TRANKOV |
| 201.38 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 2 | Wenjing SUI / Cong HAN |
| 180.82 | 4 | 2 | |||
| 3 | Meagan DUHAMEL / Eric RADFORD |
| 174.84 | 2 | 3 | |||
| 4 | Narumi TAKAHASHI / Mervin TRAN |
| 169.41 | 3 | 5 | |||
| 5 | Lubov ILIUSHECHKINA / Nodari MAISURADZE |
| 165.17 | 5 | 6 | |||
| 6 | Jessica DUBE / Sebastien WOLFE |
| 158.44 | 6 | 7 | |||
| 7 | Xiaoyu YU / Yang JIN |
| 158.36 | 8 | 4 | |||
| 8 | Paige LAWRENCE / Rudi SWIEGERS |
| 153.96 | 7 | 8 |
Ice dance
| FPl. | Name | Nation | Points | SD | FD | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tessa VIRTUE / Scott MOIR |
| 178.34 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 2 | Kaitlyn WEAVER / Andrew POJE |
| 155.99 | 2 | 3 | |||
| 3 | Anna CAPPELLINI / Luca LANOTTE |
| 154.87 | 3 | 2 | |||
| 4 | Madison CHOCK / Evan BATES |
| 135.10 | 6 | 4 | |||
| 5 | Ekaterina RIAZANOVA / Ilia TKACHENKO |
| 132.36 | 4 | 5 | |||
| 6 | Ekaterina PUSHKASH / Jonathan GUERREIRO |
| 126.63 | 5 | 6 | |||
| 7 | Tarrah HARVEY / Keith GAGNON |
| 122.80 | 7 | 7 |
Maybe because it was the first skate of the season, but somehow I found Skate America more interesting.
Still I loved loved loved Volosozhar and Trankov, and Fernandez too.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
ODD?
My little real-life story ended up as runner-up in the contest ran by SF Signal and judged by Jeffrey Ford.
More details about the ODD? anthologies on Jeff VanderMeer's blog.
PS I'm as psychic as a rock so this was really odd.
More details about the ODD? anthologies on Jeff VanderMeer's blog.
PS I'm as psychic as a rock so this was really odd.
Monday, October 24, 2011
2011 Skate America
20-23.10.2011
Ontario, CA, USA
Full Results
Men
Ladies
Pairs
Ice Dance
Brezina, Savchenko and Szolkowi, Davis and White were the highlights for me.
I'm so happy that Eurosport is airing the grand prix events! They usually only seem to do it before the Olympic season so this is a nice change even if it messes up me schedule some. But skating takes sacrifices and skating fans aren't spared either. As long as there's skating on TV, I'm not complaining.
Ontario, CA, USA
Full Results
Men
| FPl. | Name | Nation | Points | SP | FS | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Michal BREZINA |
| 216.00 | 1 | 3 | |||
| 2 | Kevin VAN DER PERREN |
| 212.48 | 4 | 1 | |||
| 3 | Takahiko KOZUKA |
| 212.09 | 2 | 2 | |||
| 4 | Richard DORNBUSH |
| 202.27 | 5 | 6 | |||
| 5 | Denis TEN |
| 197.98 | 6 | 7 | |||
| 6 | Daisuke MURAKAMI |
| 193.32 | 3 | 9 | |||
| 7 | Douglas RAZZANO |
| 192.95 | 9 | 5 | |||
| 8 | Samuel CONTESTI |
| 190.20 | 10 | 4 | |||
| 9 | Florent AMODIO |
| 187.60 | 8 | 8 | |||
| 10 | Armin MAHBANOOZADEH |
| 179.07 | 7 | 10 |
Ladies
| FPl. | Name | Nation | Points | SP | FS | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alissa CZISNY |
| 177.48 | 1 | 2 | |||
| 2 | Carolina KOSTNER |
| 177.35 | 2 | 1 | |||
| 3 | Viktoria HELGESSON |
| 145.75 | 5 | 5 | |||
| 4 | Haruka IMAI |
| 142.94 | 4 | 9 | |||
| 5 | Ksenia MAKAROVA |
| 142.67 | 7 | 4 | |||
| 6 | Caroline ZHANG |
| 140.70 | 3 | 10 | |||
| 7 | Elene GEDEVANISHVILI |
| 140.12 | 10 | 3 | |||
| 8 | Joelle FORTE |
| 139.70 | 6 | 7 | |||
| 9 | Valentina MARCHEI |
| 135.17 | 9 | 6 | |||
| 10 | Joshi HELGESSON |
| 133.98 | 8 | 8 |
Pairs
| FPl. | Name | Nation | Points | SP | FS | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aliona SAVCHENKO / Robin SZOLKOWY |
| 183.98 | 5 | 1 | |||
| 2 | Dan ZHANG / Hao ZHANG |
| 178.66 | 1 | 3 | |||
| 3 | Kirsten MOORE-TOWERS / Dylan MOSCOVITCH |
| 177.43 | 4 | 2 | |||
| 4 | Caydee DENNEY / John COUGHLIN |
| 175.40 | 2 | 4 | |||
| 5 | Vera BAZAROVA / Yuri LARIONOV |
| 173.94 | 3 | 5 | |||
| 6 | Tiffany VISE / Don BALDWIN |
| 155.42 | 7 | 6 | |||
| 7 | Mary Beth MARLEY / Rockne BRUBAKER |
| 144.80 | 6 | 8 | |||
| 8 | Maylin HAUSCH / Daniel WENDE |
| 141.54 | 8 | 7 |
Ice Dance
| FPl. | Name | Nation | Points | SD | FD | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Meryl DAVIS / Charlie WHITE |
| 178.07 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 2 | Nathalie PECHALAT / Fabian BOURZAT |
| 156.29 | 2 | 2 | |||
| 3 | Isabella TOBIAS / Deividas STAGNIUNAS |
| 132.58 | 5 | 4 | |||
| 4 | Nelli ZHIGANSHINA / Alexander GAZSI |
| 131.61 | 3 | 6 | |||
| 5 | Kharis RALPH / Asher HILL |
| 131.29 | 4 | 5 | |||
| 6 | Madison HUBBELL / Zachary DONOHUE |
| 131.04 | 6 | 3 | |||
| 7 | Isabella CANNUSCIO / Ian LORELLO |
| 115.22 | 7 | 8 | |||
| 8 | Alexandra PAUL / Mitchell ISLAM |
| 111.70 | 8 | 7 |
Brezina, Savchenko and Szolkowi, Davis and White were the highlights for me.
I'm so happy that Eurosport is airing the grand prix events! They usually only seem to do it before the Olympic season so this is a nice change even if it messes up me schedule some. But skating takes sacrifices and skating fans aren't spared either. As long as there's skating on TV, I'm not complaining.
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