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Book-to-screen adaptations: Manga edition

Written by Naomi Manga is by nature a very visual medium, which means it’s excellent source material for movies and tv series. Adaptations are either animated (anime) or live-action. There have been many adaptations of manga (Japanese), manhwa (Korean) and manhua (Chinese) series. Given that there are many manga series in [...]

Lilia2023-10-11T22:13:16+02:00Tags: Best of Lists, Book to Movie, Book to Screen, Book to Series, Manga, Naomi|

And the 2023 Nobel Prize goes to…Jon Fosse

Written by Lauren Norwegian author, poet and playwright Jon Fosse has won this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature for what the Swedish Academy called his "innovative plays and prose which gives voice to the unsayable." The 64-year-old's major works, written in the Nynorsk variation of Norwegian, include the Septology [...]

Lilia2025-07-24T11:51:33+02:00Tags: Jon Fosse, Lauren, Nobel Prize Winner, Norwegian author|

6 books under 200 pages to wrap up your reading challenge

Written by Natalia There are many reading challenges out there, with the most well-known ones on Goodreads or The StoryGraph. You can set your own goal to read a certain number of books or pages by the end of the year or challenge yourself to read more classics, more female authors [...]

Lilia2023-09-28T16:37:11+02:00Tags: Best of Lists, Fantasy, Fiction, Natalia, Romantic Fiction, Science Fiction|

Dutch youngsters are reading more, thrillers top the genre list

Dutch youngsters are more likely to pick up a book and read than they were five years ago, according to new research by book industry body KVB Boekwerk (article in Dutch). The organisation says almost half of 12 to 25-year-olds will now read a book at least once a week, compared [...]

Lilia2023-10-01T11:07:57+02:00Tags: Lauren|

Best business books of the year

Written by Lauren The Financial Times and Schroeders Group (investment managers) just announced the shortlist for their 2023 Business Book of the Year. The six finalists, awarded to the author(s) of the book providing the “most compelling and enjoyable” insight into the most pressing business issues of the day, include works [...]

Lilia2023-09-28T15:13:04+02:00Tags: Best of Lists, Business, Financial Times, Lauren|

Nina Siegal on Banned Books

Written by Lauren Author and New York Times culture writer Nina Siegal has written four books, three novels including The Anatomy Lesson, and most recently, the nonfiction The Diary Keepers, the story of World War II as told through the words of ordinary Dutch residents who lived through it. A native [...]

Lilia2025-07-24T11:51:44+02:00Tags: ABC, Banned Books, Interviews, Nina Siegal|

Book-to-screen adaptations: The nonfiction edition

Written by Lília I’m not the biggest nonfiction fan, but some stories are so compelling they expand my genre-reading. The following books, all which deal with pressing issues of our times, have been turned into some pretty incredible movies. Whether you prefer to read about them (like me), or see them [...]

Lilia2023-09-18T14:27:28+02:00Tags: Best of Lists, Biography, Books to Movies, Lília, Nonfiction|

The King is back

And so is Holly! After playing a crucial second fiddle to Bill Hodges in the Mr. Mercedes trilogy and an impressive part in The Outsider, one of author Stephen King's favorite characters now has her very own book! Just released, the book takes place during Covid. When Penny Dahl calls [...]

Lilia2023-09-11T13:02:55+02:00Tags: Crime Fiction, New Title, Stephen King|

Romy’s Reviews September 2023: Our YA reviewers’ latest reads

My name is Romy, and I am 13 years old. Me in a bookstore is like a kid in a candy shop—I adore reading. (I might even want to become an author later on…) I’m really into dancing, fashion and playing the saxophone, and I love cats. My favorite genres [...]

Lilia2023-09-07T14:13:20+02:00Tags: Book Reviews, Fiction, Romantic Fiction, Romy|

Staff Choices: what we’ve read and loved – Part 3

Put together by Lília Written by Renata, Martijn, Lília, Jouke, Sophie, Simone, Jonna and Natalia In this Part 3 of our Staff Choices the titles below were chosen by one or more ABC colleagues, and everyone has their own reasons for loving them. Read on to see what they are. You [...]

Lilia2023-08-22T11:26:08+02:00Tags: ABC, Best of Lists, Fiction, Greek Mythology, Jonna, Jouke, Lília, Martijn, Mythology, Natalia, Renata, Romantic Fiction, Science Fiction, Simone, Sophie|

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