Monday, April 19, 2010

1300 sign to borrow 'Dragon Tattoo'
By Eloise Gibson
New Zealand Herald, Monday Apr 19, 2010

Crime thriller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has Aucklanders hooked, with 1300 people in the region waiting to borrow a copy from their local library.
Auckland city libraries have 404 people waiting for the book in its area alone - an impressive number, but a pale shadow compared with the 1000 who waited in the queue during the peak popularity of vampire romance Twilight last year.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - the first in a trilogy featuring investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist and his computer-hacking sidekick, Lisbeth Salander - is pitched at an older readership than Stephenie Meyer's chaste vampire series, two of which have been made into hit movies.
Full story at NZH.

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