Hi…
Bought some books last week…one of them is a current international blockbuster…yeah… Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo…usually, I keep my eyes open for interesting new books, keep myself updated on latest releases through reviews, but somehow, I didn’t know about this book at all…until I read Sandipan Deb’s piece on this novel in his regular column Rear Window in the weekly Open (Sandipan Deb is the editor of this weekly)…this was an unusual piece…not a review per se (though Deb says it is one…of a kind…review)…but intriguing enough for me to want to read it anon…I will not repeat everything that appears in Deb’s piece here, but it had enough points to arouse my curiosity (in case you are interested, you can read Deb’s piece at this link http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/voices/marked-for-life) …I have since bought the novel and finished reading it…and it is everything that I read in Deb’s piece…I used all the spare minutes that I managed to scrounge in between preparing my daughter’s feeds, washing feeding bottles, running errands, and generally carrying her around the house…it is, to use book readers’ killer term ‘unputdownable’…and is worth all the praise that is heaped on it…and to think that, the author, Stieg Larsson (a Swede), died even before seeing his novel becoming a blockbuster…He wrote two more novels (both crime thrillers and I think, sequels to ‘…Dragon Tattoo’ …correct me if I am wrong…) before he died…together they are called the ‘Millennium Trilogy’…unable to resist the temptation, I have placed orders for the second and third ones too…
There are two other books that I bought …I am reading one…this is about music…books of this kind are not published frequently and I am glad I found it… I hadn’t heard of this one too…until I saw it lying unconsoled, consigned to the back stack, last but one stack from the bottom of a shelf at the airport book stall…for me it was like finding a hidden treasure…more next…
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