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jeri

jeri@bookwyrm.social

Joined 2 months, 1 week ago

i used to read a lot when i was younger, and i wish i can go back to that. i grew up with classics because they're the most accessible (thank you, project gutenberg!) and suspense novels in the school library. adulthood brought me to non-fiction.

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2023 Reading Goal

16% complete! jeri has read 2 of 12 books.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Paperback, 2008, Viking Canada) 4 stars

Journalist Mikael Blomkvist and hacker Lisbeth Salander investigate the disappearance of Harriet Vanger which took …

"The job of the financial journalist was to examine the sharks who created interest crises and speculated away the savings of small investors, to scrutinise company boards with the same merciless zeal with which political reporters pursue the tiniest steps out of line of ministers and members of the Parliament. He could not for the life of him understand why so many influential financial reporters treated mediocre financial whelps lik rock stars."

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by 

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Paperback, 2008, Viking Canada) 4 stars

Journalist Mikael Blomkvist and hacker Lisbeth Salander investigate the disappearance of Harriet Vanger which took …

"The job of the financial journalist was to examine the sharks who created interest crises and speculated away the savings of small investors, to scrutinise company boards with the same merciless zeal with which political reporters pursue the tiniest steps out of line of ministers and members of the Parliament. He could not for the life of him understand why so many influential financial reporters treated mediocre financial whelps lik rock stars."

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by 

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Paperback, 2008, Viking Canada) 4 stars

Journalist Mikael Blomkvist and hacker Lisbeth Salander investigate the disappearance of Harriet Vanger which took …

"The job of the financial journalist was to examine the sharks who created interest crises and speculated away the savings of small investors, to scrutinise company boards with the same merciless zeal with which political reporters pursue the tiniest steps out of line of ministers and members of the Parliament. He could not for the life of him understand why so many influential financial reporters treated mediocre financial whelps lik rock stars."

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by 

Negative Space (2020, Apocalypse Party) 3 stars

"Like smoke off a collision between Dennis Cooper’s George Miles Cycle and Beyond The Black …

drawn out pointless violence

2 stars

I rushed through it because it was reading like a lot of words with little development and little interest of making sense to the reader.

It's not that it's badly written, it's readable, but the violence and plentiness of it feel ultimately pointless.