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 [...]

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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. [...]

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