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The Girl of Millenium
The Girl in the Spider's Web by David LagercrantzMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
The Girl of Millennium
The girl with the dragon tattoo. The girl who played with fire. The girl who kicked the hornet's nest.
And the girl in the spider's web.
I love the Millennium series. I love this brutal, raw, dark and violent Swedish saga, cold and ruthless as the Swedish weather. And I love that this story continues.
Even though the first opening pages of The Girl in the Spider's Web by David Lagercrantz stroke me as slow and a bit lulling in building the plot, soon new pages are turned and stick to your fingers like frost sticks to the frozen windows in December Stockholm. The Girl in the Spider's Web sets with vigor and thrill into an action worthy of its literary predecessors, continuing Stieg Larsson's series with dignity and justified trust. Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander continue living, and that is what's most important.
I didn't pick this book by chance to read it during my vacation in Sweden, although I had a few more other books in store to chose from. I took The Girl in the Spider's Web on a flight with me and read it until I reached my final destination; as well as on my way back via Copenhagen and Frankfurt to Zagreb. However, while staying in Växjö I chose to live my own personal Swedish story, a story of hundreds of unwritten pages no one will be able to read but me.
As for Lisbeth and Mikael, they kept me company for ten more days upon my return, making that intoxicating feeling of Sweden linger linger linger and last throughout my whole conscious being.
I look forward to our reunion. We are alive and Sweden is ready and waiting for us.
BJ
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Bye Bye, bernardjan.com
Bye bye, bernardjan.com.
With regrets and sadness, I must say that this is the last post on my Wix Premium website. How appropriate, since after today, May 8, 2025, bernardjan.com is no more.
Because of an enormous increase in my Wix Premium plan price from $342.5 to $600.00 USD for two years, Wix has forced me to give up on my paid site and go for a free one. 300 USD for a year is too much for the website, which brings me no profit but merely serves as my diary or the catalogue of all the things my books and my author life related.
I will lose many advantages, and I can only guess what will happen to some (or all) of my posts because of the smaller storage space. We will see soon. It just makes little sense paying so much for something that is not profitable.
It feels like giving up on my baby, and all the work and love I have invested in it in the past nine years. At one point, my first thought was killing it and deleting it from online life. When emotions calmed down and disappointment and fury ceased, I decided on a free website with the possibility of deleting it anytime later if it becomes too much of a burden and a sad reminder of the better days we had in the past.
Long story short, in the coming days I will have to update my free website new URL everywhere on my social media and also in all my eBooks and paperbacks published on Amazon. I will also have to adjust my privacy and cookie policy for the new/old URL of my website.
This means that bernardjan.com will be replaced with bernardjanofficial.wixsite.com/bernardjan.
And my subscribe link bernardjan.com/mailinglist will be replaced with bernardjanofficial.wixsite.com/bernardjan/mailinglist.
As I said, bye bye, bernardjan.com.
With regrets and sadness, I must say that this is the last post on my Wix Premium website. How appropriate, since after today, May 8, 2025, bernardjan.com is no more.
Because of an enormous increase in my Wix Premium plan price from $342.5 to $600.00 USD for two years, Wix has forced me to give up on my paid site and go for a free one. 300 USD for a year is too much for the website, which brings me no profit but merely serves as my diary or the catalogue of all the things my books and my author life related.
I will lose many advantages, and I can only guess what will happen to some (or all) of my posts because of the smaller storage space. We will see soon. It just makes little sense paying so much for something that is not profitable.
It feels like giving up on my baby, and all the work and love I have invested in it in the past nine years. At one point, my first thought was killing it and deleting it from online life. When emotions calmed down and disappointment and fury ceased, I decided on a free website with the possibility of deleting it anytime later if it becomes too much of a burden and a sad reminder of the better days we had in the past.
Long story short, in the coming days I will have to update my free website new URL everywhere on my social media and also in all my eBooks and paperbacks published on Amazon. I will also have to adjust my privacy and cookie policy for the new/old URL of my website.
This means that bernardjan.com will be replaced with bernardjanofficial.wixsite.com/bernardjan.
And my subscribe link bernardjan.com/mailinglist will be replaced with bernardjanofficial.wixsite.com/bernardjan/mailinglist.
As I said, bye bye, bernardjan.com.
