by Karin Smirnoff 'His route takes him along an animal path. Birch, alder andwillow have already lost their leaves. He grabs a handful of lingonberries and pulls a bittersweet face. Bittersweet also describes the smell of the lumps of meat left in the lidded plastic drum.' It is nearly twenty-five years since Lisbeth Salander burst …
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Millennium No.6
The Girl Who Lived Twice by David Lagercrantz (trans. George Goulding) 'She laid a hand on the Beretta in its holster and felt herself pitched into the same icy cold as when she threw the petrol-filled milk carton at her father.' This is David Lagercrantz's third excursion into the world of Larsson's zany heroine, Lisbeth …
It's That Girl Again!
The Girl Who Takes An Eye For An Eye by David Lagercrantz (trans. George Goulding) 'A wave of hatred rippled through the cell and Benito lunged towards Salander, knife raised. Faria never understood what happened next. A punch was thrown, an elbow jabbed, and it was as if Benito had run into a wall …
That which does not kill us . . . .
The Girl in the Spider's Web by David Lagerkrantz translated by George Goulding '. . . . makes us stronger', as the saying goes. That Which Does Not Kill Us (Det som inte dödar oss) is the original Swedish title of this new novel about Lisbeth Salander, Mikael Blomkvist and Millennium Magazine. David Lagerkrantz has …
Welcome back, Lisbeth!
The Spider's Web I talk and write about books a lot, usually about books I have read. For this landmark post (it will be my 100th post on WordPress in my present incarnation), I'm going to talk about one I haven't read. In fact, it hasn't been published yet. Rumours of a new 'dragon tattoo' …
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