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Help! I’m in a reading slump and I can’t get out!

By Naomi We've all been there: happily reading, devouring books left and right, until one day, uh-oh! You don't really feel like reading anymore. Maybe you are a mood reader, and nothing is just right. Maybe your last book was so great, you don't know if anything will live up to it [...]

2025-08-11T17:33:22+02:00Tags: |

ABC Bestsellers – July 2025

by Sophie Welcome to the middle of the summer, up here in the Northern Hemisphere at least. Like last month, escapism reigns supreme, with lots of Romance, Romantasy, and Fantasy titles making a (re)appearance - local author Rachel Lynn Solomon's What Happens in Amsterdam is just flying off the shelf in [...]

2025-08-09T17:59:06+02:00Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

Book Review: Orbital

In Orbital, six astronauts rotate in their spacecraft above the earth. They are there to collect meteorological data, conduct scientific experiments and test the limits of the human body. But mostly they observe. Together they watch their silent blue planet, circling it sixteen times, spinning past continents and cycling through [...]

2025-08-07T12:31:05+02:00Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

Pride and Prejudice and Pretty Covers

By Naomi July might just be over, but we'll be celebrating 250 years since Jane Austen was born all year long! We've already done a deep dive into Jane Austen's enduring popularity in this blogpost, and we looked at many, many, many retellings of her books here. All of Jane Austen's [...]

2025-08-01T13:59:39+02:00Tags: , |

Jane Austen Retellings

By Naomi We're continuing to celebrate 250 years since Jane Austen was born! Jane Austen has inspired many, many authors over the years. Her work is still relevant and influential to this day. You can read more about the enduring appeal and influence of her work here. In this blogpost, we [...]

2025-07-21T15:16:57+02:00Tags: , |

D&D Evening in The Hague

by Damla Roll for initiative! Last Thursday, our store in the Hague hosted its first Dungeons and Dragons game night in collaboration with Dobbelgangers, a group of Dungeon Masters dedicated to bring the magic to wherever they go. For those who are new to the role playing games scene, Dungeons and [...]

2025-07-24T13:32:50+02:00Tags: , , , , , |

250 Years of Jane Austen

By Naomi 2025 is a very special year, because 250 years ago, on December 16, 1775, the author Jane Austen was born! She passed away on July 18, 1817, so we’re celebrating the whole month of July with some blogposts about the enduring appeal of her work and writing. In [...]

2025-07-24T11:23:44+02:00Tags: , , , |
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