Recap: January 2011

I'm likely posting the recaps out of order, but at the end of each month, I'm going to post a monthly recap listing the books I read that month, links to their reviews, as well as where I am in the challenge.  :o)

January 2011 (I will go back and update the links when I finish the review.)

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo - Steig Larsson

The Girl Who Played With Fire - Steig Larsson

The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest - Steig Larsson

Love You, Hate You, Miss You - Elizabeth Scott

2011 Challenge:  71 Books Remaining

Review: The Girl Who Played With Fire by Steig Larson

The Girl Who Played With Fire - Steig Larson
Release Date: July 28, 2009
Publisher: Vintage
Genre: Mystery
Pages: 512
Source: Personally Owned
Challenge: 100 Books in 2011
Buy the Book: Amazon

From Goodreads:

Part blistering espionage thriller, part riveting police procedural, and part piercing exposeé on social injustice, The Girl Who Played with Fire is a masterful, endlessly satisfying novel. Mikael Blomkvist, crusading publisher of the magazine Millennium, has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation. On the eve of its publication, the two reporters responsible for the article are murdered, and the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to his friend, the troubled genius hacker Lisbeth Salander. Blomkvist, convinced of Salander's innocence, plunges into an investigation. Meanwhile, Salander herself is drawn into a murderous game of cat and mouse, which forces her to face her dark past.


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Review: The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest by Steig Larson

The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest - Steig Larson
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Publisher: Knopf
Genre: Mystery
Pages: 576
Source: Personally Owned
Challenge: 100 Books in 2011
Buy the Book: Amazon

From Goodreads:

This novel not only puts the cap on the most eagerly read trilogy in years; the sequel to The Girl Who Played With Fire marks the completion of its Swedish author's career#58; Stieg Larsson died at the age of fifty in 2004. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest is, however, too exciting and too adept to be read simply as a major author's memorial. From its onset, with "avenging angel" protagonist Lisbeth Salander lying in intensive care, this fiction pulses forward. One British critic called it "intricately plotted, lavishly detailed but written with a breakneck pace and verve...a tantalizing double finale#151;first idyllic, then frenetic."


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Review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larson

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Steig Larson
Release Date: September 16, 2008
Publisher: Vintage
Genre: Mystery
Pages: 480
Source: Personally Owned
Challenge: 100 Books in 2011
Buy the Book: Amazon

From Goodreads:

A spellbinding amalgam of murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue.

It's about the disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden . . . and about her octogenarian uncle, determined to know the truth about what he believes was her murder.

It's about Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently at the wrong end of a libel case, hired to get to the bottom of Harriet's disappearance . . . and about Lisbeth Salander, a twenty-four-year-old pierced and tattooed genius hacker possessed of the hard-earned wisdom of someone twice her age--and a terrifying capacity for ruthlessness to go with it--who assists Blomkvist with the investigation. This unlikely team discovers a vein of nearly unfathomable iniquity running through the Vanger family, astonishing corruption in the highest echelons of Swedish industrialism--and an unexpected connection between themselves.

It's a contagiously exciting, stunningly intelligent novel about society at its most hidden, and about the intimate lives of a brilliantly realized cast of characters, all of them forced to face the darker aspects of their world and of their own lives.


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