In Many ways, it was Lisbeth Salanders fault that we decided to start our holiday in Sweden and particularly Stockholm.This woman entered the Mortensens universe some time in the beginning of 2010, when Catriona brought home a book called: “The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo”.
That was because of a book club where someone had suggested this story.
At the beginning I didn’t really connect this title to the book and film I’d read about in an online Danish newspaper, back in 2007. There it was called; “Men who hates women”, which also is the original Swedish title.
I got a copy of the book in Danish, so soon we both were infected by Mr. Larsons story about the fascinating Ms. Salander and the journalist Blomquist and the Millennium Magazine.
After this first book, the second; “The girl who played with fire” was soaked into the memory and short after they final book “The Girl who kicked the Hornets nest” got hovered up by eye and mind.
All the events taking place in and around Stockholm arose a desire to go there and see the places and feel the atmosphere of that city, where such exciting story could unfold.
I’ve been to Stockholm twice before, some many years ago, but Catriona had never, so by planning the holiday, we both were keen on starting there.
See, this is what reading can do to people.
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