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the mistletoe mystery

This was a short story from the Molly the Maid series. It was pretty good but predictable. At 116 pages, it did not take long to read. Since it had a Christmas theme, I was compelled to read it now. The final book in the series is coming out this …

the city of mirrors

This was the final installment in The Passage trilogy. I don’t know what it was about this series–I couldn’t put it down when I was reading about the present day, but the stuff that happened in the future was kind of blah. It got a little interesting towards the end …

thelma

This was a pretty good movie about a 93-year-old grandma who gets scammed and goes on a Mission Impossible-type adventure to reclaim her money. The movie was—you guessed it—based on a true story about the director’s grandmother. It was an enjoyable movie to watch. It is not so much “laugh …