Hey Everyone!

Here's a transcript of today's fun Tweet Chat! Thank you to everyone who tweeted - I had a blast chatting with all of you! In fact, we're gonna do it again September 30th and we'll be tweeting about The Tower, The Zoo & The Tortoise by Julia Stuart.

xo

Ali

Ali Sweeney: hey everyone! ready to chat Girl with the Dragon Tattoo? use hashtag #GirlWith to get in the conversation!! What'd you think?

@freckles_405 no, it's my twitter-bookclub! we all read it and are talking about it now! #Girlwith

@Amanda_Ratliff yes, I felt the exact same way. it went from 0 to 60 for me around 20% in! why is that?? #Girlwith

@steeners41 @TaraCain @bandnpr678 every1 says that & ITA, why so hard to get through? could he have made the first part more interesting?

@AshleySandberg Yeah, i totally downloaded the next two immediately. did you guess the who-dun-it? #GirlWith

@TMoore8114 yes! it took me forever to get the names straight. I still have never tried to pronounce them aloud. lol. #GirlWith

Ali Sweeney: excellent question! anyone read the other two? RT @jenn269 Are all the books just as hard to get into?#GirlWith

@jdarronk I knew I liked Salander right from the start! #GirlWith ... can't believe what she went thru - the whole State guardian! crazy!

@jenn269 @AshleySandberg @vaccarol yes, shocked by the magnitude of the crime. the violence against female stats were alarming #girlwith

@RedAngelus I was on an airplane when I read 'tattoo' scene.had 2 put it down, I so desperately needed to discuss w/ someone! #girlwith

@dancinghols did anyone HATE Salander?? I thought she was clearly our heroine? #GirlWith

@VT2SC I was so amazed at how clever she was covering her tracks at the end. But I really thought she was going to disappear after #girlwith

@Amanda_Ratliff yes - that Blomkbist/Berger/her hubby triangle was SO strange. why do u suppose he included that dynamic? #Girlwith

@Brandie185 yes! & there's controversy over 4th book, that girlfriend has manuscript for or something? #GirlWith

@Amanda_Ratliff yes, I guessed at Salander's autism right off. #GirlWith

@s_exum But I think he included it as a story beat to really show up Blomkbist's inability to commit to anything.. right? #GirlWith

@pattybgud I agree.. definitely both men & women would find it compelling. #girlwith

Ali Sweeney: Let's talk about the 'cold case' Blomkbist solved. Grandfather's obsession with it etc... #GirlWith

@RedAngelus totally - I kinda didn't want it 2 happen because she trusted him.&please, he 'resisted'?he got so much action in #GirlWith

@AshleySandberg or were you just really hungry while reading it?? #GirlWith

@Wampumqueen yes, without really calling attention to it, the reader gets a real look at the Swedish culture #GirlWith

Ali Sweeney: Whole Vangar family was SO messed up. couldn't trust any of them. What was Lesser's point to making them all so disturbed? #GirlWith

@TaraCain yes, I totally thought he had a guilty conscious riding him to find Harriet. Maybe in the end - he shouldve known? #GirlWith

@Brandie185 really? #GirlWith

@Amanda_Ratliff @dancinghols I don't think he thought she was alive. He felt those prints were taunting him, right? #GirlWith

Ali Sweeney: what about H inheriting the business at the end? seemed a little too pat for me. #GirlWith

@Raleigh76 yes, I loved that line too. good point. but he really emphasized how young she was, the era, etc... #GirlWith

@lostbraincell but brave enough to just get out. make a new life away from it all... smart enough to not get caught... #GirlWith

@Brandie185 I felt it was a bit trite. I mean, Vangar doesn't know the woman she's become...can't just ask her to run his biz! #Girlwith

@DonnaM212 agreed. #GirlWith

@bandnpr678 but I agree w @DonnaM212 that a main theme in #GirlWith was that $$ & power corrupt, so ... why give her both, all at once!

@jenn269 yes - how could she think it was okay to send him those flowers? it was torture. #GirlWith

@Amanda_Ratliff @CharmedChica she didn't want 2b found,so why go 2 trouble? he might've moved on, let it go, if not 4 the flowers #GirlWith

@RedAngelus is she immune to it's corruption because of her Aspergers?

@bonteach @Amanda_Ratliff it was so fascinating, the way he broke down & chased down those photos.I read that part so fast! #GirlWith

@jenn269 yes, that's true too... the cousin, right? couldve mentioned over all those years how upsetting they were to him. #GirlWith

Ali Sweeney: you all are OBSESSED with the coffee in #GirlWith! I didn't even notice. I did feel COLD just reading it though.
@designsbyjessie i heard the Swedish movie leaves out the whole Blomkist/Berger relationship? #Girlwith

@designsbyjessie oh, right!!another crazy side-story. the crazy Nazi-Vangar. Why did he lay so much groundwork into family history #Girlwith

@designsbyjessie @SusieTVaddict yes, but Blomqvist's sexual exploits do say a lot about him... right?! v r important to character #Girlwith

@RedAngelus really? here in US? #GirlWith #justcurious

@Amanda_Ratliff TOTALLY. #girlwith

Ali Sweeney: what about Blomqvist's feeling he was betraying his beliefs by not telling the story. thoughts? journalists out there weigh in! #girlwith

Ali Sweeney: I mean, of anything in the book, including his own daughter, he seemed most passionate about that! #GirlWith

@s_exum hmmm. good point. #GirlWith

@pattybgud thanks for joining us!

@ckawez makes sense, I just felt it was 'principle' or 'reputation' for Blom not a genuine concern for families. maybe I'm wrong #GirlWith