Sophie Archives

Bookseller, stock buyer, display maker & Girl Friday at ABC The Hague & ABC Leidschendam. Has been at ABC since almost the last millennium. Current sections under her care are YA, Politics & Current Affairs, Sports, Prizewinners, and Staff Choices. Loves any book that makes her think, learn, and look at life from a new angle, whatever genre. Cat person, feminist, easily bribed with Nutella, preferred state of being = barefoot in the garden.

Staff Picks: Gift Edition 2023

Written by Lília Winter and Gift Season have arrived in our part of the world, so it’s time to talk about special editions and new titles to up our present ante! We have a huge pile of recommendations and also some advice: get your books and presents ASAP. The [...]

Lilia2023-12-03T15:51:47+01:00Tags: ABC, Art, Best of Lists, Biography, Crafts, Driver's Test, EmmaV, Floris, General Fiction, Holland, Iris, Juvenile Fiction, Kids, Luke, Music, Photography, Poetry, Romantic Fiction, Shirley, Sophie, Staff Picks, Tom, Traffic Manual, Travel Literature, Young Adult, Zeynep|

Staff Choices: what we’ve read and loved – Part 5

Put together by Lília Written by Jouke, Martijn, Chiara, Sophie, Iris and Simone Warbreaker - Brandon Sanderson Jouke: Two sisters, captive gods, an ingenious magic system featuring breath and colors, and a talking sword. I love Warbreaker and I have no idea why I waited 11 years to [...]

Lilia2023-11-29T15:46:15+01:00Tags: Best of Lists, Book Reviews, Crime Fiction, Dark Fantasy, Fantasy, Greek Mythology, Iris, Jouke, Lília, Martijn, Mythology, Science Fiction, Simone, Sophie|

Always Coming Home

A rich and complex interweaving of story and fable, poem, artwork, and music, it totally immerses the reader in the culture of the Kesh, a peaceful people of the far future who inhabit a place called the Valley on the Northern Pacific Coast. The author makes the inhabitants of the valley as familiar, as immediate, as wholly human as our own friends or family. Spiraling outward from the dramatic life story of a woman called Stone Telling, Le Guin's Always Coming Home interweaves wry wit, deep insight and extraordinary compassion into a compelling unity of vision. Ursula K. Le Guin's Always Coming Home is a major work of the imagination from one of America's most respected writers. More than five years in creation, it is a novel unlike any other.

Lilia2025-02-12T17:49:13+01:00Tags: Book review, Book Reviews, Science Fiction, Sophie, Ursula K. Le Guin|

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|

Lessons in Chemistry

Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing. But it's the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute take a very unscientific view of equality. Forced to resign, she reluctantly signs on as the host of a cooking show, Supper at Six. But her revolutionary approach to cooking, fuelled by scientific and rational commentary, grabs the attention of a nation. Soon, a legion of overlooked housewives find themselves daring to change the status quo. One molecule at a time.

Lilia2025-02-12T17:49:15+01:00Tags: Bonnie Garmus, Book review, Book Reviews, Science Fiction, Sophie|

Translation State

The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple effect across galaxies in this powerful new novel by one of the masters of modern science fiction. Translation State is at once a sweeping space adventure and a brilliant exploration of how in order to belong, we must first become.

Lilia2025-02-12T17:49:24+01:00Tags: Ann Leckie, Book review, Book Reviews, Science Fiction, Sophie|

Staff Choices: what we’ve read and loved – Part 1

Put together by Lília Written by Bob, IrisW, Jonna, Naomi, Tiemen, Sophie, Jitse, Júlia and Lília Some of these titles were chosen by one or more ABC colleagues, and everyone gives their own reasons to have loved them. Take a look at what we say about our personal favorites. You might [...]

Lilia2023-07-22T12:28:25+02:00Tags: Bob, Essays, Fiction, Global politics, Iris, Jonna, Júlia, Lília, Naomi, Romantasy, Romantic Fiction, Science Fiction, Sophie, Tiemen|

Machinery of Empire series by Yoon Ha Lee

Written by Sophie Ninefox Gambit, Raven Stratagem, Revenant Gun and Hexarchate Stories by Yoon Ha Lee. I find it very hard to review this series of books because despite it being one of my favorite science fiction series, it is also one of the strangest. As in, [...]

Lilia2023-06-22T10:16:56+02:00Tags: Book Reviews, Science Fiction, Series, Sophie, Yoon Ha Lee|

Trust

"Even through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; she is the daughter of eccentric aristocrats. Together, they have risen to the very top of a world of seemingly endless wealth, all as a decade of excess and speculation draws to an end. But at what cost have they acquired their immense fortune? This is the mystery at the center of Bonds, a successful 1938 novel that all of New York seems to have read. But there are other versions of the tale of privilege and deceit..."

Lilia2025-02-12T17:49:31+01:00Tags: Book review, Book Reviews, Fiction, Pulitzer Prize 2023, Sophie|

ABC Mothers: What We Read to Our Kids

To celebrate Mother's Day, we show 3 ABC moms talking about their favorite books they read to their kids. Sophie "What my daughter and I loved about Sandra Boynton's books is that the rhythm of the text works so well together with the words. The Going to Bed [...]

Lilia2024-05-08T11:55:45+02:00Tags: ABC, ABC Moms; Mother's Day, Lília, Renata; Board Books; Picture Books, Sophie|

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