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Goodbye, Christopher Robin

                 While I expected Loving to be a terribly sad movie and it wasn’t, the opposite turned out to be true for Goodbye, Christopher Robin .   It was a very sad film, but still one worth seeing.                         Playwright A.A. Milne (Domhnall Gleeson) is struggling with the horrors he experienced during the first world war.   His wife, Daphne (Margot Robbie), doesn’t understand what he’s going through, nor does she even want to attempt to.   A self-absorbed woman, life does not exactly go smoothly for Daphne and Milne.   When Daphne becomes pregnant, things become even worse.                 The delivery of her son, Christopher, was difficult.   Then, out of fear of losing someone she loves, Daphne declares she will not have any more children.   Nor will she become close to the one she does have.   All the care Christopher needs will be handled by a nanny.                 At first the Milne family and their nanny, Olive (Kelly Macdonald), live in London.   W

First Frost: A Novel by Sarah Addison Allen

                       I didn’t know there was a sequel to Garden Spells until my mother told me.   The funny thing is, I told my mother about Garden Spells .   Now she’s the one to tell me about the sequel.   Sometimes things just work out that way.                                It’s been years since Sydney Waverly returned to her hometown of Bascom, North Carolina.   Now she’s married to her childhood friend, Henry, and is desperately trying to have a baby.   She’s also trying to understand her teenage daughter, Bay.   While Sydney desperately wanted to fit in as a teenager, being part of the popular crowd is not something Bay cares to do.   That does not keep her from having an interest in the most popular boy in school, though.   She feels they belong together.   How exactly, she’s not fully sure.   All she knows is that somehow they do.                 Across town, Sydney’s sister Claire has put her catering business aside in order to run a candy making business.   She’s

Better Late Than Never: A Library Lover’s Mystery by Jenn McKinlay

                    Finally!   Lindsey and Sully have been battling their relationship for a while, but in this book they finally figure it out.   It’s about time.                 As Library Director, Lindsey Norris thought it would be a good idea to have an amnesty day.   All overdue and damage fines would be forgiven as long as the book was returned.   The oldest book to take part of this program was a copy of The Catcher in the Rye that was checked out twenty years ago.   It was checked out by a teacher, Candice Whitley, the very day she was murdered.   Her death is an unsolved case, and Lindsey has the strange feeling the returned book is somehow a clue.                 Looking into the case isn’t easy, though.   Everyone Lindsey mentions it to has a very strange reaction because of the many bad memories it brings up.   During the time of the murder, some people were even chased out of town as people were desperate for someone to blame.   That’s why talking about it so man

In Like Flynn: A Molly Murphy Mystery by Rhys Bowen

                 What is with the men in the books I have been reading ?   In this series the men keep saying they love Molly for who she is.   Then they tell her to not be who she is.   In addition, they hide the relationship they have with her.   And they wonder why Molly gets mad.                 Private Investigator Molly Murphy thinks she’s doing the right thing when she reports a purse snatcher to the police.   Unfortunately, the snatcher is part of a dangerous gang.   Now that she has reported one of them, Molly’s previous boyfriend, Captain Daniel Sullivan , is worried about her safety.   To keep her away from the gang, he finds an opportunity for Molly to go undercover.   It will also get her away from the typhoid that is going through the city.                 Of course, things do not go the way Daniel expected.   His intent was for Molly to unmask two spiritualists who have been invited to a prominent family’s country home.   That is all she is supposed to do.   He