Rebuilding Blocks: How the Game of Kubb Put My Life Back Together

by Garrick van Buren

A stressed out and overworked small business owner and father is introduced to the traditional Swedish lawn game of kubb. Though training for the highly competitive US kubb tournaments in Wisconsin and Minnesota he finds the life lessons hidden within this simple game. These lessons become a catalyst for a personal transformation that dramatically improves his relationship with his work, his family, and himself.

110 pages, Paperback

First published December 4, 2014

Reviews

[Julio Ojeda-Zapata · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'd never heard of kubb, a lawn game of Swedish extraction, until reading about it in a new book by local Internet guru Garrick van Buren.

Garrick educates readers about the cool game, but "Rebuilding Blocks" isn't just about that.

He also describes how the game helped him recalibrate an impossibly busy, badly prioritized, depression-tinged professional life that was slowly destroying him.

Therein lies a paradox: How on Earth did he find time for kubb? That he was able to do so is a fascinating tale in itself.

With precise yet poetic prose, Garrick weaves together stories of his increasingly proficient kubb matches with analyses of how the lawn sport ... saved him.

This is not a long book; you can power through it an evening, and you'll likely be the better for it. In fact, it could change your life.