I made my goal today! Since I got a little behind on page counts I'm trying to read 200 pages a day to get in some catch up. It's not undoable if I'm into the text, but it isn't something that I will be able to keep up indefinitely. Lucky enough for me, I'm thoroughly enjoying The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo so reading goals shouldn't be a problem for a couple days.
I'm surprised that the two protagonists haven't met yet. Blomkvist has been working on the financial intrigue/murder mystery angle of the plot. It should be boring, but it's not. He's essentially reading through information on a 40 year old disappearance while simultaneously writing a history on the victim's family. Salander, who is the girl with the dragon tattoo by the way, just went through a hair raisingly awful conflict with her legal guardian. Apparently she was deemed legally incompetent some time ago and her previous guardian just died. The new one is a bastard. I can't really tell what Larsson is trying for with her. She's obviously brilliant, but at the same time she didn't finish their version of high school and allowed herself to be deemed mentally incompetent. It's possible she is supposed to be autistic but that doesn't feel quite right to me. I suppose she could just be horribly damaged on an emotional level.
Salander seems to think she's dealt with her guardian problem. I think she is wrong.
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