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Yes, that's right folks The Bloggerhood Of The Traveling Book has proven so successful it's now gone on tour! Now this goes back a way. If you want to know the history of it and how I got involved you can check here and here . The condensed version is Swedish author Stieg Larsson's The Girl Who Played With Fire has been sent from Unfinished Rambler to Quirkyloon to Boom Boom Larew to me to 00dozo. And now we're spending the week sharing our thoughts on what we've read. We're reviewing in the same order. Check out the following reviews from earlier this week... Unfinished Rambler - Monday Quirkyloon - Tuesday Boom Boom - Wednesday Just so you know, there'll be no spoilers in my review. I'm not going to get into the plot of the book. But I will tell you how much I enjoyed it. So how do I start this thing. Well, maybe with a question. What do you get when you cross a 90 something pound, tattooed, computer-hacking, social outcast, misfit waif of a yo...

Okay, so listen up. Three weeks ago I told you how I came by the book The Girl Who Played With Fire . Well, actually, if you clicked on the link you'll see I sang it to you. Wait, wait, wait, I'm not gonna sing again. I'm quite proud of myself. I had really slipped in my reading and there are books piling up around here. They make for expensive doorstoppers. But since I spoke on this subject with you last, I've read three books. I was reading The Given Day by Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River and Shutter Island . It was tough slogging, but an excellent read. But when Cat Lady - oh to hell with formalities - Boom Boom Larew chose me as the next blogger of the Bloggerhood of the Traveling Book , not only did I have to zip through Lehane but I had to buy the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo , the first in this trilogy, in order prepare myself for book II. Well, three weeks later I'm happy to say I've read all three books and am now anxious to read the third...

So the other day I opened up my mailbox expecting to find my latest music purchase from Amazon.com. Instead I found a bubble-wrapped envelope from Boom Boom, containing this. Boom Boom used to be a cheerleader in high school and that was her nickname. Maybe she did really good on the "sis-boom-bah" part, I dunno. But ever since she blogged that story a while back I've been calling her Boom Boom. And I really don't know why I have that Chris de Burgh tune Patricia The Stripper playing in my head right now. Boom Boom is my good blogging buddy Paula Larew Wooters. You may know her better as Cat Lady Larew over at How To Be A Cat Lady...Without The Cats . So why was this in the mail? Well, it turns out I'm the newest member of the Bloggerhood of the Traveling Book. What the hell is that you say? Well, I thought you'd never ask! (sung to the tune of the theme from Gilligan's Island) Just sit right back And you'll hear a tale A tale 'bout a tr...