Continuing onward, I downloaded The Girl Who Played with Fire onto Santino's Kindle and started reading again. There are so many sections that are full of exposition, sometimes it got a little hard to read. Stieg Larsson gives almost too much background information, you think he's confused himself with Mikael Blomqvist. But otherwise it was a pageturner, just like the first.
Unfortunately, Santino wanted to use "his" Kindle to read the Neal Shusterman book Everlost, so I had to suspend reading this story in the middle of a highly suspenseful scene. How dare he??!! But you know, aside from the fact that it is his Kindle, Neal Shusterman is kind of sacred in our household.
I distracted myself by starting another book of the old-fashioned paper sort (Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy) until he finished Everlost. Well, it took him a day. That night (it was a Saturday), after Santino went to bed, I resumed reading The Girl Who Played with Fire. I finished it at around 10 pm, and guess what? This book doesn't have an ending! It's really the first two acts of a 5 act tragedy. So it's 10 pm, the heroine has just been shot in the head, and the book ends. What do I do? Of course I downloaded the next book, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, right away on the Kindle. Instant gratification. Love it.
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