The Cigarette CaseAs a late birthday present, Mimmi gives Salander "a beautiful cigarette case with a lid of blue and black enamel and some tiny Chinese characters as decoration" (9.43). We wish we...
Stockholm, Sweden and St. George, Grenada; December 16, 2004 – April 7, 2005The Girl Who Played With Fire opens at The Keys Hotel in St. George, on the Caribbean island of Grenada. Lisbeth Sa...
She listened to David Bowie singing "putting out fire with gasoline." She didn't know the name of the song, but she took the words as prophetic. (29.121)The title (Flickan Som Lekte Med Elden in Sw...
Equations are classified by the highest power (value of the exponent) of their unknowns. If this is one, the equation is of the first degree. If this is two, the equation is of the second degree, a...
The ending is exasperating, improbable, and painfully fun. To quickly summarize: Salander's super-eeevil father Zala shoots her in the head, and her half-brother Ronald Niedermann buries her, only...