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The Girl Who Played With Fire

April 22, 2010 – 5:57 pm

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The second in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy and my favorite (so far). The story picks up with ‘punk hacker savant’ Lisbeth Salander being the prime suspect in the brutal murders of two journalists that were investigating a sex trafficking scandal. Salander, intent on clearing her name, must go underground to elude detection [...]

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The Angel’s Game

June 18, 2009 – 9:46 am

This is the prequel to the world wide best seller The Shadow of the Wind.  Set in Barcelona in the 1920’s and 1930’s, this dark, gothic love story/mystery revolves around a young novelist, David Martin, who is commissioned to  write a story like no other.  4 stars!
Book Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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The Shadow Catcher

April 21, 2009 – 12:38 pm

I enjoyed reading this book and loved Wiggins use of language and thought process. She made me think differently about quite a few things. That said, I got bogged down in the middle of the book with a little too much description. I was fascinated with her fictional depiction of Edward Curtis’ life (early western [...]

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