Holly Reads Too Much

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  • Every Time I Go On Vacation Someone Dies by Catherine Mack

    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies What a fun premise! A mystery author (Eleanor) wants to kill off her main character, who is based on a real person. But when someone tries to kill him for real, all sorts of funny things happen. Some of the chapter names are call backs to…

  • March 2024 Reading Recap

    29 books: 2 missing from the pictures: (the second Vicky Bliss completed yesterday) and Kill for Me Kill For You

  • Olivetti by Allie Millington

    ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ Olivetti is a smart little typewriter that remembers what people have typed on him. When his owner (Ernest’s mom) takes him to a pawn shop and then disappears, Ernest discovers Olivett’s magic and has to figure out where she is based on what Olivetti types up. Very well written and…

  • The Murder of Mr. Ma by John Shen Yen Nee & SJ Rozan

    What a fun mystery story set in London 1920s about two Chinese men who are trying to solve the murders of other Chinese men. I loved the interaction between the two main characters. The book also gives light to the racism experienced by the Chinese people in England during this time. One of the funniest…

  • The Fiction Writer by Jillian Cantor

    This was a very meta modern day retelling of Rebecca with Malibu in place of Manderley. Therefore I really enjoyed it 😊

  • February 2025 Reading Recap

    Fifteen books for February, plus I re-listened to The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes to prepare for Sunrise on the Reaping on 3/18. I finally got caught up on all the current Kay Scarpetta books, even though they got harder to read towards the end. Favorite: Finlay Donovan Digs Her Own GraveLeast favorite: Dust

  • Extinction by Douglas Preston

    Think Jurassic Park but it’s not only dinosaurs that have been resurrected. 🦣🦖🦕🦥🧟‍♂️ The book begins with a (pregnant) newlywed couple being murdered inside a fancy resort. The resort has managed to clone wooly mammoths and other extinct species. The Colorado Bureau of Investigation is brought in to investigate and things get weird… I think…

  • February 2024 Reading Recap

    23 books for February – the picture is sorted from most liked at the top to least liked at the bottom Ripley’s Game (Ripley, #3) by Patricia HighsmithFirst Lie Wins by Ashley ElstonThe Case of the Missing Marquess (Enola Holmes, #1) by Nancy SpringerThe Lola Quartet by Emily St. John MandelTwenty-Seven Minutes by Ashley TateThe…

  • A Trace of Hares by Sarah Yarwood-Lovett

    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Dr Nell Ward, our favorite ecologist, is in Ireland for the wedding of her friend Conor when a body is discovered in the nearby bog. The chemistry of the bogs preserves bodies for an extremely long time. Some bodies discovered there are over 2000 years old 😱, and have been sort of mummified by…

  • Starter Villain by John Scalzi

    Stop what you’re doing and listen to this audiobook for a very funny story about sentient cats and dolphins and super villains.