The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules: A Novel (League of Pensioners) *ePub
#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. Read more
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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.
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