Holly Jolly by Mark Voger
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Publication Date: November 2020
I finished reading Holly Jolly a couple weeks ago (I bought it last year, shortly after it came out, but waited until this holiday season before immersing myself in it), and I couldn’t be more pleased with this delicious coffee table book of Christmas nostalgia. From cover to cover, it’s chock-full of Yuletide cheer, featuring art, advertising, Christmas cards, books, decorations, toys & games, periodicals, music, movies, television, and more. For people of a certain age, such as myself, this book is the perfect way to get ready for the holiday.
While some may purchase this treasure and use it as a prop in the family room, I implore you to read it…you won’t regret it. And don’t skip the introduction, as Mark Voger shares some of his wonderful Christmas memories.
My earliest memory – my very first memory of life – came a few days before Christmas in, I’m guessing, 1960. I would have been going on 3 (it’s a very foggy memory), putting my sister Bobbi at 3 months and my brother Brian as yet-to-come.
My parents had stashed all of our Christmas toys into the downstairs powder room, where they’d be handy to put under the tree on Christmas Eve. One afternoon that week, I was wandering around the house, when I stumbled into this room full of toys.
Whoa! My young eyes had never seen anything like this. Toys everywhere! I was in a fantasy-land.
Personal stories of Christmas really bring the season alive, and I can’t tell you how much I appreciate the way Mark reminisces about some of his early Christmas experiences.
Holly Jolly is available from the good people at TwoMorrows Publishing, a niche publishing company that puts out great quality books and magazines. One of the truly neat things is the way they allow you to preview a number of pages of their publications, and you can do this with Holly Jolly by clicking in the center of the book cover at this LINK. But I’m going to warn you: once you click and start exploring Holly Jolly, you’re probably going to want your own copy.
The back of the book also has some great pictures and a nice description of what you’ll find inside this magical journey.
This book is so fun that only a Scrooge (a pre-ghostly visited Scrooge) would sneer at it! I love my copy so much that I sent Holly Jolly to both of my sisters.
If you’re like me, seeing these images from yesteryear is making you a bit misty-eyed for those Christmases of long ago. Which reminds me of a really fun short film I’d love to share with you:
Merry Christmas to all!
Stay tuned for Page 27, coming soon!
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