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As I mentioned in yesterday's blog post, there has been a lot of anticipation of Stieg Larsson's third book in the Millennium trilogy, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, featuring the antiheroine, Lisbeth Salander. I have not read any of Mr. Larsson's books (I don't read a lot of crime thrillers.), and really haven't wanted to until I read Pat Ryan's article in the New York Times Book Review titled Pippi Longstocking with Dragon Tattoo. Lisbeth Salander is being compared to a grown up Pippi Longstocking--I really, really loved Pippi as a young girl, so much so that I dressed up as her for Halloween one year. A colleague of Mr. Larsson's had a conversation with him, obviously prior to his death, about children's book characters and what they would be like as adults. He apparently liked the idea of a grown up Pippi. So the Millennium trilogy will get added to my long list of books to read. FYI--the New York Times Magazine also had an article about Mr. Larsson titled "The Afterlife of Stieg Larsson" which was quite interesting. Long live Pippi!