Girl with the Dragon Tattoo; Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

So I tried to read Stieg Larsson's "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" a couple of months ago, got 100 pages in, was bored stiff, and gave up. My sister and several coworkers have been encouraging me to try it again ever since, and I finally relented and did. I powered past the beginning (which was still really boring, he spends a good deal of time giving the backstory of the characters, and since we haven't really met them yet I didn't care enough about them to find it interesting) and once I did the book got good and fast paced and I ended up enjoying it. There was a lot going on, and most people who want to read it already have by now (plus nobody reads this anyway, so hey, I can spoil all I want). Mikael Blomkist is a disgraced writer/editor/publisher who is offered an opportunity to redeem himself by a wealthy former CEO of a corporation, Henrik Vanger. Vanger wants Blomkist to investigate the disappearance of his niece, Harriett, back in 1966. Blomkist takes the assignment, knowing he probably won't be able to come up with any new evidence, but he does, and with the help of a slightly mentally unbalanced researcher/hacker named Lisbeth Salander, he solves the mystery and is able to clear his good name. There are of course two sequels, so I'm curious as to what those will be about, since he seemed to have tied up the loose ends in this one.
Ransom Rigg's built his fiction title "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" around a real collection of odd vintage photographs discovered over the years by various scouts who collect that sort of thing. The photographs in and of themselves were absolutely fascinating. Basic trick photography in the early 1900s is vastly different than PhotoShop now, plus some of them weren't trying to be tricky they were just...odd. What a great concept for a book, too! Rigg's brings the strange people in the photographs to life by building them a refuge, a home in a "loop" protected by time and from the Hollows, who like to eat peculiar children. Jacob's grandfather lived at Miss Peregrine's home, and he had the ability to see the evil monsters that were hunting them. Jacob has inherited this talent, and on his deathbed his grandfather asks him to find the home and warn Miss Peregrine about the danger coming after her and her wards. The story was great and the characters so fresh and lively. The ending leaves the way paved for a sequel, so I'm hoping there is more, if for no other reason than wanting to see more neat old time photos!