Holly Reads Too Much

Tag: books

  • The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey

    ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ This is probably my favorite book of the 2025. That might be recency bias talking, or it might be because Harriet the Spy was one of my defining childhood reads. Either way, I can’t remember another book this year that made me feel quite like this one did. Set in…

  • The Railway Conspiracy by John Shen Yen Nee

    ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ For fans of Sherlock Holmes, this series is a refreshing homage to the legendary detective duo. While Dee and Lao’s relationship pays tribute to Holmes and Watson, the writing adds layers of richness and depth that surpass the original tales. Set in 1924 London, The Railway Conspiracy unfolds against the backdrop…

  • Murder at Gulls Nest by Jess Kidd

    This was soooo good I almost want to listen again just to be able to spend more time with Nora 🥰. She is a former nun who goes looking for her missing pen pal. Fantastic audiobook narration.

  • January 2025 Reading Recap

    34 😱 for January, made possible by reading through 2 established series that were all available from the library.Only 4 newly published books10 rereads The Kay Scarpetta series started out strong but I’m getting increasingly annoyed with all of the main characters and how they act towards each other and how highly they think of…

  • The Dark Half by Stephen King

    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Creepy sorta precursor to The Outsider. The pen name of an author somehow starts murdering people.

  • Christmas Crimes at the Mysterious Bookshop – Otto Penzler

    This is a fun collection of twelve Christmastime stories written for the Mysterious Bookshop in NYC. The requirements to be included in the collection are as follows: be set at Christmastime, involve a crime of some kind, or the suspicion of one, and be set at least partially in the Mysterious Bookshop. I had a…

  • The Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2024 – Penzler

    This collection of stories is more gritty/realistic than my usual favorite type: cozy British person solving a mystery. But it’s still a very good collection of mystery stories that I would recommend any fan of the genre to read. I was super excited that one of the narrators is BJ Harrison, who narrates the Classic…