 | Category: | Books | | Genre: | Biographies & Memoirs | | Author: | Ekaterina Gordeeva |
My Sergei: A Love Story, written by E.M. Swift and Ekaterina Gordeeva and published in 1996, recounts the history behind one of figure skating's most well recognized pair teams.
Sergei Grinkov and Ekaterina Gordeeva were paired together as young children in the Soviet Union after failing to prove themselves as strong solo skaters. Together they captured many amateur titles (including two Olympic gold medals) and professional titles. They eventually fell in love, married, had a child, and continued skating together as professionals until Grinkov died from a sudden heart attack during a rehearsal in Lake Placid, in November of 1995.
This book includes many black and white and color photos from Gordeeva and Grinkov's personal collection as well as publicity photos from their various touring groups, such as Stars On Ice. A made-for-television movie version of My Sergei was also made, which included interviews of family and friends, archival skating footage, and re-enacted scenes from the book (starring another famous Russian skating duo, Yelena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikhuralidze).
  | Category: | Music | | Genre: | Rap & Hip-Hop | | Artist: | Outlandish |
Outlandish arrived at an interesting time. Despite the fact that they have been around in Denmark for a good few years, they have finally managed to break the UK's notoriously difficult pocket-money infested market with the radio airplay of chilled summery crossover hit "Guantanamo" with its Spanish vocals and its Cuban guitar straight off the streets of Havana. It is an interesting time because of the slow ebb and flow of international and ethnic music in the charts. Bhangra has made the crossover it has been threatening for years and everyone's dad bought Buena Vista Social Club. Somewhere in the middle is Outlandish. On their latest album, "Bread & Barrels of Water" styles vary back and forth between playful Bollywood samples and Arabic strings with Spanish guitars and Cuban percussion adding a summery, chilled and multi-layered album. The vocals, although at times the rhythms stay the same, are expansive in both their political and social content and the variety of languages on show. Despite the fact that Outlandish evolved in Denmark, they rap mainly in English with rapper Lenny adding Spanish and Isam and Waqas occasionally slipping into Arabic and Urdu. The result is an album that sometimes hits hard. The song "Fatima" is a passionate take on arranged marriage and family responsibilities, whilst "Peelo"'s playful child's vocal is both innocent and hardcore all at once. The album does slip into cheesiness in places, however the strong songs more than make up for it.   | Category: | Books | | Genre: | Mystery & Thrillers | | Author: | Ken Follet |
You think that you know your family background very well. What if one day, you'll find about your twin you have been separated from since birth...and then, there is another? This novel gave me a headrush.   | Category: | Movies | | Genre: | Drama |
This story happens and is more realistic. A piece of hanky is a must. "This kind of certainty comes but once in a lifetime. " - Clint Eastwood (Robert Kincaid)   | Category: | Books | | Genre: | Romance | | Author: | Nicholas Sparks |
A tear-jerker novel of Nick. He always touches hearts.   | Category: | Books | | Genre: | Comics & Graphic Novels | | Author: | Michael Silberkleit (Publisher) |
Funny and boredom killer ever. Every strip has a good moral to ponder. I'll read this 'til I reach 50.   | Category: | Books | | Genre: | Literature & Fiction | | Author: | Paulo Coelho |
This book is informative and has social relevance.   | Category: | Books | | Genre: | Literature & Fiction | | Author: | Dan Brown |
It is one of the page-turner books I have ever read. Dan Brown knows how to tickle the minds of the readers. If your faith is unstable, this book is not for you! 
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