Title: The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules Pdf A Novel (League of Pensioners)
Author: Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg
Published Date: 2016-07-12
Page: 400
“Instead of hyperbolic, mustache-twirling villains, Ingelman-Sundberg deftly orchestrates the twists and turns in the plot through the foibles of real life, capturing the rebelliousness percolating just under the surface of ignored, shuffled away elderly folks in this merry, lighthearted caper.” (Kirkus Reviews)“Swedish writers may be known for their crime novels, but Ingelman-Sundberg’s caper involves illegal activity of a rather unusual order: The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules is a story about spirited seniors determined have fun and raise some hell.” (Booklist)“Reminded me of the more mischievous moments of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” (J.B. Morrison, author of The Extra Ordinary Life of Frank Derrick, Age 81)“A quirky, offbeat delight and a heart-warming reminder that one is never too old for some mischief.” (Tom Winter, author of Lost & Found)“A good-natured humorous crime caper.” (Independent on Sunday (UK))“Criminally fun!” (Bonniers Bokklubb (Sweden))“It has humor, brilliant dialogue, irony and warmth. A light-hearted and enjoyable detective comedy.” (PRO Pensionären (Sweden))“This is hilarious! Ocean 11 group meets the 70s group from the nursing home. I hope I am as spry as the 79 main character. They antics they get into make the book a delight to read....such fun.” (Kay Sheldon, Page & Palette)“Such a great read! This definitely proves the wisdom: it’s not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years.” (Suspense Magazine)“Readers will pull for the unlikely gang in their efforts to commit the ‘ultimate crime’ toward the end of this appealing crime novel.” (Publishers Weekly.com) CATHARINA INGELMAN-SUNDBERG is the Swedish author of over nineteen books. The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules sold more than 1.2 million copies internationally and was a #1 bestseller in Canada. The Little Old Lady Strikes Again and The Little Old Lady Behaving Badly are also national bestsellers.
#1 International Bestseller
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel meets The Italian Job in internationally-bestselling author Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg’s witty and insightful comedy of errors about a group of delinquent seniors whose desire for a better quality of life leads them to rob and ransom priceless artwork.
Martha Andersson may be seventy-nine-years-old and live in a retirement home, but that doesn’t mean she’s ready to stop enjoying life. So when the new management of Diamond House starts cutting corners to save money, Martha and her four closest friends—Brains, The Rake, Christina and Anna-Gretta (a.k.a. The League of Pensioners)—won’t stand for it. Fed up with early bedtimes and overcooked veggies, this group of feisty seniors sets about to regain their independence, improve their lot, and stand up for seniors everywhere.
Their solution? White collar crime. What begins as a relatively straightforward robbery of a nearby luxury hotel quickly escalates into an unsolvable heist at the National Museum. With police baffled and the Mafia hot on their trail, the League of Pensioners has to stay one walker’s length ahead if it’s going to succeed….
Told with all the insight and humor of A Man Called Ove or Where’d You Go Bernadette?, The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules is a delightful and heartwarming novel that goes to prove the adage that it’s not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years.
Fun, sassy I thought this to be a delightful read. Fun, sassy, a quirky romp. It was a fast read; I found myself zipping through the pages, cheering the elderly characters fighting for independence and reveling in mischief.... However, being of the age considered "elderly" myself, I had to laugh at the "old lady" on the cover, and at the age the author describes as "old." Catharina Ingleman-Sundberg must be so young that anyone over 60 is, in her eyes, seen as being somewhere in their 80's... But I loved it all, anyway. A gifted writer, and a charming story.I was so bored I skimmed the last half I really hate to pan a book, but this one was painful to read. It sounded so promising and had the potential to be sweet and funny. But it was so long and drawn out. And it was not funny. As I was reading, I kept thinking that this may have been better as a 90 minute movie with a lot of slap stick comedy and quirky character actors.Martha Andersson and her four friends live in a retirement home that is more interested in saving money than in caring for the residents. Fed up with budget cuts, Martha and her friends decide to escape. They lodge at a very fancy hotel and plan a robbery at a nearby art museum. Their goal is to ransom the paintings. Their other goal is to get caught and spend some time in prison, where they believe the conditions are better than at the retirement home. All goes mostly as planned except they lose the paintings and half of the ransom money. There are multiple mishaps and something involving the Yugoslavian mafia, a hotel maid, and the nurse at the retirement home. Once the mafia surfaced, I started skimming.I bought this book because it was compared to A Man Called Ove, Where’d You Go Bernadette, and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. This book is none of those things. It is a very watered down version of A Man Called Ove at best. The writing is basic, the story is not interesting, it was not funny, and I could have edited out about 200 pages. For wit, insight, and charming characters you would be better off reading anything by Fredrik Backman.Living Life Dangerously Taking into account that this is translated from Swedish, it was a delightful read with Seniors living life to the max. The retirement home was cutting corners and leaving the elderly residents to live a boring life. The Choir decided to get away and live a little dangerously. Doing their best to not hurt anyone but dip into the criminal life, and live the good life. I enjoyed the imagination and skill they used to get away with a first class crime. It was in their favor that no one would suspect a bunch of seemingly old, decrepit seniors.
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