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Books Into Movies News: Lisbeth Salander, Alex Cross, Harry Potter, and More

Rooney Mara has landed the coveted role of badass computer hacker Lisbeth Salander in the movie based on Stieg Larsson’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. She’s a relative unknown who most recently starred in the 2010 remake of Nightmare on Elm Street. She beat out higher profile actresses like Natalie Portman, Kristen Stewart, Scarlett Johansson, and Emma Watson. (Daemon’s Movies) Idris Elba has been cast as Alex Cross in the upcoming movie Cross, based on James Patterson’s book of the same name. Morgan Freeman, who previously played Alex Cross in Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider, has been deemed too old for the part. In the book, Alex Cross hunts down a serial rapist who may be tied to the murder of his wife 14 years earlier. Elba has been on HBO’s The Wire and NBC’s The Office. (Deadline Hollywood) As you may recall, Harry Potter and [...]

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AUTHOR: Kristen

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Aug 20

2010

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Two Stieg Larsson Unpublished Stories Found

Two unpublished stories by the late novelist Stieg Larsson have been discovered in Sweden. The science fiction tales “The Crystal Balls” and “The Flies” were received by the Swedish National Library as part of a private donation in 2007. When Larsson was 17 years old, he sent the two stories to Jules Verne, a science fiction magazine in Sweden. The magazines rejected the work. Larsson was in the midst of writing his Millennium series when he died of a heart attack at the very young age of 50. The completed books in the series are “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”, “The Girl Who Played with Fire” and “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest”. He was writing the fourth novel when his untimely death occurred. The Swedish National Library’s spokesperson, Hakan Farje thinks that Larsson’s heirs have the right to decide whether to publish the stories. (Source: CBS News)

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AUTHOR: Eric

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Jun 12

2010

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More Reasons Not To Judge A Book By Its Cover

In an interesting article in The Observer, Tom Lamont wonders why books are given different covers for each country they are published in, something not done for other types of media like movies and CDs. He interviews a few cover designers who attribute the changes in a book’s cover as an attempt to capture the cultural sensibilities of each individual country. However, at least one of the designers he talked to is skeptical “about book buyers being so different in each country that they require different covers.” International cover design is something that came to my attention after reading The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (read my review here). The US version seemed harmless with it’s brightly colored cover and benign title, so I was shocked by the horrific violence that it contained. After reading it, I discovered the original Swedish title was “Men Who Hate Women” [...]

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AUTHOR: Kristen

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May 25

2010

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Friday News Roundup, November 6, 2009

Here are some book related stories that have been in the news this week: Entertainment Weekly has the first chapter of the Twilight parody, Nightlight. (EW) Mattie Stepanek’s mother, Jeni, has written a new book about his life. Good Morning America has an excerpt. (GMA) Are ebooks and the price war changing the publishing industry? (PBS) The family of Stieg Larsson, author of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, is battling over his estate. Things are complicated because he and his girlfriend of 32 years never married and he didn’t leave a will. (The Guardian) Lucy Maud Montgomery’s final Anne of Green Gables book reveals a darker side of the Blythes. (The Globe and Mail) 10 cool bookends for the bibliophile in your life. The Star Wars trash compactor bookends are awesome. (Oddee) The top 5 books on the New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestseller List: THE LOST SYMBOL, by [...]

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AUTHOR: Kristen

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Nov 5

2009

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THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO Review

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO by Stieg Larsson Up until I read The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson, I imagined Sweden as a peaceful, tranquil country. Now I have a vision of Sweden as a country plagued by corruption, racism, misogyny, and horrific violence against women. I purchased this book on a whim without knowing much about it, and I was surprised by the graphic violence. Had I known the original Swedish title was “Men Who Hate Women,” I might have been clued in sooner. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo centers on Mikael Blomkvist, a financial reporter and amateur investigator, who was recently convicted of libel and is facing a hefty fine and a few months in jail. Out of options, he accepts a job offer from Henrik Vanger to investigate the disappearance of his niece, Harriet, over forty years ago. Harriet disappeared during a [...]

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AUTHOR: Kristen

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Jul 20

2009

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