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The Little Old Lady Who Broke All The Rules (2012)

by Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg(Favorite Author)

3.19 of 5 Votes: 4

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Pan Macmillan AU

review 1: If you have been smitten by The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Dissappeared, this book is suitable for you. This time, they had a lady and her group of oldies from the crumbling nursing home. Follow their journey to liberation from inconsiderate nurse, nasty nursing home director, bad food and poor condition of their abode. You will somehow feel liberated when you read how brilliant they were in the case of hiding Monet's painting and enjoying their freedom far away from the nursing home. I barely able to separate myself from this book. The moment they smuggled the painting outside from the museum, I jumped from my couch to the bed. When they stashed the cash somewhere in the pipe, I started to roll left and right in my bed due to the excitement. Needless ... moreto say, I barely leave my bed for the whole day. Read it, and you will definitely love its absurdity.
review 2: The Little Old Lady Who Broke All The Rules is the first book in the Senior League series by Swedish author, Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg. As the director and his nurse begin to cut corners to cut costs at the Diamond House aged care facility in Stockholm, the residents are increasingly dissatisfied. Martha Andersson sees a program on conditions in prisons and is soon planning with her four friends in the Vocal Chord choir, Christina, Anna-Greta, Brains (Oscar) and Rake (Bertil) to change their lives. They intend to carry out victimless(??) crimes aided by ingenuity and Zimmer frames.This translated novel is somewhat amusing, but rather slow-moving and is padded with unimportant details (and therefore far too long); the plot so far-fetched, it is not even vaguely believable. The main characters are all in their late seventies, quirky, but resourceful: soon they are partaking in jewellery theft, art theft, security van theft, ransom demands, and eventually, some prison time. The police and the Serbian Mafia look like idiots as they tangle with the League of Pensioners. The translation by Rod Bradbury is almost flawless (plumply is NOT an adjective), but if you thought Jonasson’s Hundred Year Old Man was only OK, don’t bother with this one, it’s not as good. Not as funny as it sounds. less

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