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REVIEW: THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST, BY STEIG LARSSON

My good friend and avid fan of this blog, Jane Costa, requested that I post a review on the final instalment of Steig Larsson’s Millennium trilogy, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest. Jane has been quite supportive The Poor Poet as it struggles to find itself in the ever expanding world of bloggers, and

WHAT I’M READING: DEC. 23

One of my favourite things about the holiday season is all the extra time I have to read! At least, that’s what I tell myself every year before heading home for Christmas, although in actuality, I probably end up reading a lot less than I do on a regular basis. Here we are on the

REVIEW: The Girl Who Played with Fire, by Steig Larsson

Having already reviewed The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in depth, this review will be short and sweet. Like this first book in Larsson’s trilogy, I flew through this one in a matter of days. For what it is, it’s a really fantastic book. If you are comparing it to some of the great literary masterpieces of

REVIEW: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson

I had my doubts when I finally started reading Stieg Larsson’s novel, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. There has been so much buzz about Larsson’s best selling trilogy that I cynically took the position that it could hardly be as good as everyone was saying, and dismissed it as sensational pulp fiction. But, even