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Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules
Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules | Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg
#1 International BestsellerThe 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. "
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Kshakal
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Have you read these yet? I bought them but of course I haven‘t gotten to them 🤦🏻‍♀️ 7mo
Kshakal @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I have read the first one and enjoyed it but haven‘t read any of the others! 7mo
Eggs Brilliant 🖤🧡 7mo
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
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Has anyone read these?! They look good!!

#withold
#Temptingtitles

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Eggs ❤️💙💛 I haven‘t read them but maybe I should now bc I‘m old 11mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs you‘re not old!! ❤️❤️ 11mo
TheBookgeekFrau I started the little old lady who broke all the rules a while ago and bailed bc my mood just wasn't right for it at the time. At some point I'm going to give it another try 11mo
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dabbe The covers are awesome! 🤣💙🤗 11mo
marleed No, but I had to snapshot your post so I could look at the hilarious covers! 11mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @TheBookgeekFrau let me know if you do!! I‘m not in a hurry to move them up! 11mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @dabbe for read!! 😂 11mo
dabbe @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Sheer awesomeness. 😎💙🤣 11mo
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Gissy
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Mehso-so

Martha, at age 79, wants some changes in her life and decides to commit a white collar crime with her friends at the retirement house who will help her. The scenes were unrealistic, absurds, but funny. However, I think it was too long with unnecessary scenes. Sometimes i just felt bored. 3 ⭐️

Gissy #BookSpinBingo @TheAromaOfBooks
#TheForgottenBookClub
#MarvellousMay @Andrew65
#GR2022ATY (GoodReads 52 Books Around The Year 2022) prompt #50 A book related with aging
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TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2y
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Gissy
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#ThoughtfulThursday
📖 The tagged book is a physical book. I really don‘t like to read ebooks unless is necessary, like sometimes there are novellas in a series that only comes in ebook. But besides that situation, I don‘t like to read ebook.
📖 ⭐️ ⭐️ 2.5 to 3
📖Yes, I highlight with tabs and sticky notes. I used to write the books but not anymore. I mark in sticky notes or tabs phrases or parts I like.

Thank you @Bklover for tagging me🥰

MoonWitch94 Thanks for playing ☺️📚 2y
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itsjustme40something
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Krystle13
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September Book Club Book!

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Hooked_on_books
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Pickpick

Martha is astonished to see that prison conditions appear to be better than those in her Swedish retirement home after watching a documentary. So she and her friends decide to commit a crime to try to get into prison. This is rather slow to start, but it ended up being a fun, funny book that my mom and I enjoyed together—I read it to her in installments.

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JoyBlue
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Bailedbailed

Bailing at 20%. Based on the reviews of others, this may be a case of being lost in translation. I'm just so horribly bored. The one part I found really funny is when the MC talks about how she wanted her friends group to buy an old mansion with a moat for their retirement. That way, when the police or family members came to pester them, they could just lift the drawbridge.

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NovelGirl82
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Hi all!! Just wanted to say hello! I‘ve only been popping on social intermittently, as school & work have been crazy. It‘s an insane time to be a healthcare family with both being in school full-time! I passed a final tonight, so I‘m giving myself some pleasure reading time. I hope you‘re all safe & healthy!!

Texreader Congrats but take care of yourself!!! 4y
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Timidmagick
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Pickpick

It‘s sad when prisons are better than retirement homes. These 5 feisty seniors are a riot

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HeleneH
Kaffe med rn | Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg
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Lite tokig och små rolig bok om smarta pensionärer

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Pandalibrarian
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Mehso-so

This one took me a while to get through. I kept putting it down between chapters and not really excited to pick it back up. Glad I finished it as it reminded me of our time in Stockholm and on the ferry between Finland and Sweden - minus the crimes. As I was reading it, we were visiting my MIL in a nursing home and wishing she had the same level of energy as Martha.

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AshleyC816
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Bailedbailed

I couldn‘t finish this one. It‘s about a group of older people who try to do crime to prove they‘re smart, but they‘re just written as being so silly that I can‘t follow it. I think it‘s just not for me.

BookNAround I didn‘t like this one much either, nor did most of my book club. 5y
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BookishMarginalia
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Pickpick

#ChipmunkCat agrees: this is a fun read! So suspend disbelief about the ability of seniors to pull off improbable heists flawlessly, and just let the merriment ensue. #CatsofLitsy

Dragon 😻 5y
Texreader Look at all those pops!!! 💜❤️😻 5y
JoScho What a great picture ❤️ 5y
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SarahHarts_books Such a beautiful kitty 🐱 5y
EH2018 So pretty 💕 5y
LeahBergen Look at that pretty face! ❤️❤️ 5y
JennyM So beautiful 😍 5y
Naj Sooo pretty 😻😻 5y
Gissy 😻❤️❤️❤️ 5y
Purrfectpages I ❤️ this picture! 5y
akaGingerK That face! 5y
Nerdfins I love those shelves and the Pop collection! And pretty kitty too. 5y
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BookishMarginalia
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#TrickyCat has decided reading is overrated and petting must be done! #CatsofLitsy

Jennick2004 So sweet 💙💜 5y
Slajaunie Looks just like my Rex. Beautiful! 🥰 5y
Dragon 😻 5y
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BookishMarginalia
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So far so fun! #ImmersionReading — that‘s #MiaCat nearby. #CatsofLitsy

Dragon 😻 5y
MaggieCarr Literally snorted a few times enjoying this book. Of you continue on with the series, I'm curious if they are equally as good. 5y
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Tonton
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Pickpick

I have to finish my library books before starting on the new Marlon James! Finished this call to arms for independent seniors disguised as a caper comedy. A group of disgruntled but very genteel seniors at an old age home revolt against cutbacks in staff and services. Their solution: kidnapping Rembrandt and Monet paintings for ransom, bank robberies and high jinks to create a fund so that retirement homes have as high standards as Scandi prisons!

rockpools This sounds fun! 5y
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mountainsandlace
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Early mornings at the airport.
I'm not sure how I feel about this one...not sure if it's the translation, but the writing isn't that great to me

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TorieStorieS
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Mehso-so

After loving Ove but discovering that he was younger than I thought, I listened to this book with five friends from a nursing home who embark on a life of crime. They are all over 70- so I feel better about completing this prompt of #Booked2018 !! Unfortunately, the book wasn‘t as hilariously charming as I expected... but it was fun to #audiocolor in my Golden Girls coloring book while listening! 😊

JoScho Lol I knew instantly that this was Sophia‘s purse! 5y
tpixie I agree I thought Ovi was so much older then when he ended up being! 5y
TorieStorieS @JoScho 👏👏👏 Yay for my favorite Golden Girl! For St Nicholas Day, my husband got me a chia Sophia! I‘m so sorry excited to grow her hair!! 🤣🤣🤣 5y
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TorieStorieS @tpixie I know!!! I listened to the audio and I nearly stopped my car when they said he was only 59!!!!🤣🤣🤣 5y
Cinfhen Congrats!!!i love how dedicated you are 🏆too bad about this book - sounds so cute! I‘ve just unstacked 😂 5y
JoScho @TorieStorieS that is very cool! 5y
TorieStorieS @Cinfhen My pleasure to help out!!! And yes, I read recently that oldest children tend to be rule followers so I had to find older MCs!! 🤣 5y
TorieStorieS @JoScho Yes!! It was a great surprise- looking forward to starting to grow it after Christmas (we host Christmas Eve so I wanted to wait till after that to set it up in case it starts out messy!) 5y
tpixie @TorieStorieS oh fun!!! 5y
tpixie @TorieStorieS me too! I wonder if people act older in the country the authors from. Or just that Ovi is crotchety?!!! 5y
TorieStorieS @tpixie Thanks! Yeah- I think Ove is just particularly crotchety!!! Even in the younger memories, that seems clear! 🤣🤣🤣 5y
tpixie @TorieStorieS 😃😆😂 5y
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KelseyPek
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I needed something to pick up my mood, so I picked up a book (of course). The dog thinks it‘s the right choice.

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Kshakal
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Pickpick

What a fun book about a group of senior citizens who come to realize that it is never to late to wreak a little havoc! Very heartwarming and many laugh out loud moments! #mcover70 #Booked2018 @Cinfhen @BarbaraTheBibliophage @4thhouseontheleft

CouronneDhiver Yes please. I‘ve never been much into fluffy/funny reads but, lately, it‘s my jam. I‘m in! 6y
BethM That sounds good! 6y
Cinfhen I wasn't sure I'd like this book but your review makes me want to try!! #stacked 😁 6y
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KelseyPek
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Are dogs as good a judge of literature as they are of character? If they are, this is bound to be an enjoyable read.

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KB253
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OMG, this was so good! Look out world, senior citizens are a force to be reckoned with😀
Martha and her singing cronies, the Vocal Chord AKA The League of Pensioners are fed up with Nurse Barbara and her miserly ways. They have some really good ideas on making life better for themselves and other retirees. They inspire the others of Diamond House to live better. I like them and look forward to reading more about their adventures.

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Booksnchill
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Pickpick

Love these Pensioners from Sweden who decide they need fun, rebellion and money to live comfortably! They pull off heists, set things to rights and survive harrowing situations because no one thinks the oldies are capable! Such fun as an audiobook- I will be reading the next 2 #24in48 @24in48

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Booksnchill
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#24in48 3 hours in to this audiobook and loving the narration and what entertaining senior citizens! Great choice for a start! Using a countdown timer this time so set it for 12 hours today! @24in48

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FantasyEmma
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I'm excited to start this series. It looks awesome.

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MaggieCarr
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Pickpick

Honestly, I only picked this up to complete a task on the #readharder challenge, I never expected to enjoy it so much. Listening to it as an audiobook, the readers accent added so much to the story, in my opinion. So much fun and the League of Pensioners fought a fight worth having and bringing attention to all around the world. It's ridiculous the money spent on jails when education and the elderly see so little.

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xicanti
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My afternoon work plans changed, so I went to McNally Robinson and bought my brand new book for March. It's Swedish and I've never heard much about it despite its bestseller status, so it fit my mission parameters. I'll share it with my dad when I'm done.

I also got ink for my fancy fountain pen. They had over a dozen colours for under $10, so I'm sure I'll be back for another bottle as soon as this one runs out.

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Soubhiville
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I love sunny #yellow books. They feel so cheerful to me. #ReadingResolutions ☀️💛

ephemeralwaltz 😍😍 6y
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tracyrowanreads
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My book buying hiatus didn't even last the month. This one sounded irresistible to this old lady, as did the collection of Obama's speeches, both on sale today.

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Lisaw13
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Taking a break from #letsgetgraphicweeklongmarathon ... this quote spoke to me.

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Clwojick
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#day2 for the #survivingDecember photo challenge.

This is me breaking all my rules about how I'm not going to spend more than X amount of money, or buy anymore things for so and so, or ONLY get what's on the list. Yeah right. 😂😂 I always break my shopping rules.

ptkpepe98 I didn't realize my mother had written a memoir.😉 6y
Clwojick @ptkpepe98 😂😂😂😂 6y
CoffeeK8 That cover though! 😎👍 6y
SandyW Rules were made to be broken. 6y
bookaholic1 I thought it was a cute book and have the second one now 6y
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BookishTrish
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Minutes away from hosting my first book club #eveninglibrarian

Sassy_Steph That will be me one day, the little old lady who broke all the rules!! 6y
kspenmoll Enjoy!!! 6y
Blueberry I hope you had fun !! 6y
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LeahBergen 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 6y
BookishTrish @Sassy_Steph sounds like a plan! 6y
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BookishTrish
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Have to finish this today so I can write discussion questions tomorrow #bookclublibrarian #suggestionswelcome

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BookishTrish
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Finally #weekendlibrarian comes home to read

Lindy Yay! And a nice fireside spot. 6y
EvieBee Looks so cozy! 6y
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AmyStewart
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LOOK at this novel I found at Third Place Books! A Scandinavian novel about a woman in a nursing home who goes on a crime spree. If it's half as good as the cover, I'm in for a treat. And there are two more!

Texreader Looking forward to this review!! 6y
Cathythoughts Thais looks great 👍 keep us posted 6y
TNbookworm Love the cover! Can't wait for your review on it. 6y
Gissy Did you like it? 6y
AmyStewart @Gissy You know...my interest faded. Great premise but didn‘t quite hold me. Might be the translation 6y
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Haweller
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Mehso-so

Spurred on by a feisty octogenarian a group of retirement home friends manage to steal valuable works of art, ransoms it back to the museum, run away from their facility and rob an armored truck. Just slightly fanciful but a quick mindless read if that is what you are looking for in the moment.

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Sharpeipup
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With my power out, there's no wifi which means no working from home so I feel like I'm breaking some rules today too.

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KrystleTheBookSlayer
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Mehso-so

This book is about senior citizens who turn to crime after getting sick of the declining quality of their retirement home (really, that's the type of senior I aspire to be one day). I wanted to love this book & I did like it in a way, but ultimately I had difficulty getting into the story (perhaps due to the translation). The middle of the book also got pretty dull & I had a hard time believing that any police dept. is that incompetent.

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Sharpeipup
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With a #libraryhaul like this, you know it's going to be a great day!

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HardcoverHearts
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This audiobook is a delight. I see my future and I'm taking notes. 😂🤣😂

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iread2much
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Panpan

I was disappointed in the writing and the plots. It might be a translation thing for the writing, but I found the plot holes irritating. I read through half the book and then skimmed my way to the end. The book actually has 3 heists, and only one of them really works. The main characters are ok; but the side plots are kind of just tacked on and there's no emotional investment into the side characters.

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SassyGirlReading
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"Now everything is sold on the Internet and anybody at all who doesn't know a thing can give their opinion."

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SassyGirlReading
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From the back of the book: Fed up with early bedtimes and over-cooked veggies, a group of feisty seniors set out to regain their independence, improve their lot, and stand up for seniors everywhere. Their solution? White-collar crime.

Who among us can resist a description like that? #currentlyreading

RadicalReader @SassyGirlReading could very well be the sequel to the Little Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly 7y
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silentrequiem
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This is wonderfully ridiculous! Just perfect with a gin and tonic.

lynneamch Sounds good. Reminds me of another feisty older woman in this book I enjoyed 7y
silentrequiem @lynneamch Thanks for the rec! 7y
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silentrequiem
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And a revolutionary pensioner is born.

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silentrequiem
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President's Day reading, because Swedish lit doesn't have to be dark and serious.

Daisydo I saw this at the used book store this weekend, and thought about picking it up. I'm interested to hear what you think! 7y
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ShelfSpaceLimited
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I am so excited about all the gifts from #cupidgoespostal. I started reading the Little Old Lady Who Broke All The Rules and it is hilarious!! Really looking forward to reading the other two and I adore the bookish gifts. Thank you so much @NerdyRev I love everything!! Happy Valentine's Day! ❤😊

NerdyRev You're welcome! I hope you enjoy them all. Happy Valentine's Day! 7y
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SassyGirlReading
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Got this one from the library today! I'm going to read it as soon as I finish "History of Wolves." This looks so funny!

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