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Book Review: Girl on Girl

Girl on Girl by Sophie Gilbert When did feminism lose its way? Sophie Gilbert provides one answer, identifying an inflection point in the late 1990s and early 2000s when the energy of third-wave and “riot girl” feminism collapsed into a regressive period of hyper-objectification, sexualization, and infantilization. Gilbert mines the darker [...]

Damla2026-03-09T16:35:01+01:00Tags: Book review, Damla, Feminism, Nonfiction, Social Science, Sophie Gilbert, Women's History Month|

A Guide to Slow Living

By Naomi Maybe you've seen the trend on social media (oh, the irony), but currently slow living, or analog living, is what lots of people are talking about. It's more than a trend, though. It's a response to people realizing that being chronically online is not making them happy. Doomscrolling is [...]

Naomi2026-03-06T12:54:22+01:00Tags: Crafts, Games, magazines, Naomi, Psychology|

Women’s History Month: our favorite female authors

by Iris In honor of Women's History Month, which is observed annually in March, we thought we'd take a moment to shout out our favorite female authors for your consideration. Who knows, you might take some inspiration from this varied list of names! Sophie I love so many women authors! [...]

Iris2026-03-12T19:42:11+01:00Tags: favorite authors, International Women's Day, Iris, Women's History Month|

2026 Olympic Gold Winners: A Reading List

by Damla The 2026 Winter Olympics might be over, but we are still riding the high from witnessing all the wildly impressive human feats and the feeling of international cooperation and friendly competition in the air. And as a tribute to these fantastic athletes and the countries they represent, we have [...]

Damla2026-03-09T14:20:13+01:00Tags: Best of Lists, Damla, Fiction, General Fiction, Olympic Games, Translated Fiction, winter olympics|

From screen to books: the Star Wars success story

By Lília We think nothing of making a film or a series based on a book -all the material is already there to be used as we'd like- but having books written about a series of films? And becoming a successful cartoon series as well? There might not be many, but [...]

Lilia2026-03-05T12:55:58+01:00Tags: Art, Lília, Science Fiction, Screen to Book, Star Wars|

ABC Bestsellers – February 2026

by Damla February might be a short month, but it was packed with some strong bestsellers. At the top of the list in all our stores once again, we have both installations of Rachel Reid’s hockey romance about Hollander and Rozanov, Heated Rivalry and The Long Game. This is certainly no [...]

Damla2026-03-06T12:19:32+01:00Tags: ABC Bestsellers, Art, Classics, Damla, Dystopian, Fantasy, film and TV tie-ins, General Fiction, LGBTQIA+, Memoirs, Mystery, Romance, Science Fiction, Thriller|

Bookbits for March 2026

by Damla and Sophie Spring is springing! The world may be going crazy, but the sun is reminding us that she is still here, ready to warm our fortunate faces in this peaceful country after a long and dreary winter. - First off, happy Women's History Month! And where would the [...]

Damla2026-03-04T16:02:26+01:00Tags: ABC Amsterdam, Awards, beautiful bookstores, Bookbits, Damla, Dutch Fiction, Fashion, Interviews, RIP, Sophie, wandering librarian, Women's History Month|

Book Review: In Ascension

In Ascension by Martin MacInnes Leigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as an escape from her unhappy home life. Enchanted by the undersea world of her childhood, she excels in marine biology, travelling the globe to study ancient organisms. When a trench is discovered in the Atlantic [...]

Damla2026-01-19T11:20:25+01:00Tags: Book review, Book Reviews, Fiction, Martin MacInnes, Molly Quell|

Book-to-screen: Heated Rivalry

By Naomi Heated Rivalry has been everywhere. The book was published in 2019, and while it has been a steady recommendation in gay sports romance, it didn't really make its way to wider readership until a few months ago. It took almost everyone by surprise. While fans of the book had high [...]

Naomi2026-02-13T16:55:17+01:00Tags: Book to Screen, LGBTQIA+, Rachel Reid, Romance, Sports Romance|

Author Spotlight: Ada Limón

by Sophie Ada Limón, the 24th U.S. Poet Laureate, and the first Latina to hold the position, will be visiting Amsterdam in March. Our partners the John Adams Institute will host her for an evening, exploring how poetry can hold space for both love and critique, and how words can [...]

Sophie2026-02-23T12:48:35+01:00Tags: ada limon, amanda gorman, Audre Lorde, John Adams Institute, mary oliver, Poetry, Sophie|

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