The point of this blog

I was reading the NYT online just now while I ate lunch at my desk and pretended to work, and came across an article on how the movie of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is going to be released in the States on Friday.  Now, I am going nuts, because I know that I read, and really enjoyed, Stieg Larsson's "Milennium Trilogy" (I wish there were spell check on this thing, or that I knew how to use it if there is - did I spell milennium right?  I always worry since it was spelled wrong on my high school's senior-class tshirts - not my fault, but now the word is branded in my head as a dangerous one.  Like any variation on "receive").  BUT, I don't know if I read all three.  I thought I had - I could have sworn I read The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, and then The Girl Who Played With Fire, and then, presumably, the third book in the trilogy, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest.  But according to the Times, Hornet's Nest hasn't come out yet, and won't be released (in hardcover) until the end of May.  Totally confused.  I REALLY think I read them; I certainly remember putting down the last one, whichever it was, and feeling a sense of (happy) satisfaction and completion, which I did NOT feel at the end of the first (not that it wasn't great, I was just eager to hear more of the story).  And the description of the events on the Amazon page for the book sounds familiar, but, again, it hasn't been released yet.  I thought maybe Widener had gotten a European copy in, prior to the book being published here, which definitely happens sometimes, but there is only one copy listed, and it is the 2010 copy - and has an 11 person waiting list!  So, a mystery, and one I won't be able to solve for a while - I am sure once I read the first few pages I will be all set, but until them I have no idea.
Which is where this blog will come in handy - now, when I read books, I can write down what I think of them, and never have this problem again!  I like to think it's a reflection of the positive fact that I read a lot of books, but sometimes I worry that it's a bad sign I can forget books so easily - the titles, anyways.  I was all excited to read a book called The Heretic's Daughter that I picked up the other day - well.  I am just really glad that when I saw it at the bookstore I decided to check for it in the library first, because I started sensing a familiarity on the first page, and realized by the third I had already read it (I think maybe on the beach in Newport this summer, but that might have been Deliverance Dane, now that I think about it...which was stupid, but fun).  it happened with another book, too, The Pope's Daughter: the Extraordinary Life of Felice della Rovere.   History "lite" for sure, but I really enjoyed it, and remembered it as soon as I read the first page, the title just hadn't stuck.  But it was annoying because I had gone to the bother of checking it out of the library, and ended up having to run back and return it before class, which was still less bother than carrying it home and back (it's good, but heavy in the library binding!).