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Lília

Lília was born in Brazil, worked there as a translator and moved to the Netherlands for love. It was her love for books that brought her to the ABC in July 2000. First buying Romance novels, then Children’s and YA books, then back to Romance and into new adventures about Fashion, Sewing, Psychology and all the magazines. 

In the Netherlands she also found love for sewing, is a certified seamstress. She makes bookmarks and booksleeves that are sold at the ABC under Lília’s Atelier brand.

She still loves reading and Romance, Science Fiction, Fantasy and books about Fashion and Sewing are always on her TBR list.

ABC Bestsellers – January 2025

January has come and gone, and it's time for our monthly list of ABC Bestsellers. These titles are taken from the sold-books data across all 3 ABCs, and gives us an insight into the books you love (to buy, at least ;-)). The highly anticipated Onyx Storm finally arrived and became [...]

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Lunar Year of the Dragon: ends and beginnings

By Lília As the Year of the Dragon comes to an end, we think of all the books about or with dragons that we would have liked to read or recommend during the year, even if we might not have the time to read them all. We have our preferences, but [...]

2025-01-28T11:58:00+01:00Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Poetry year-round

By Lília I’ll tell you how the Sun rose by Emily Dickinson I’ll tell you how the Sun rose – A Ribbon at a time – The Steeples swam in Amethyst – The news, like Squirrels, ran – The Hills untied their Bonnets – The Bobolinks – begun – Then I [...]

2025-01-05T17:28:54+01:00Tags: , , , |

Gift Editions: Children’s Books

By Lília en Renata Colleague Renata and I put our heads together to make a list of beautiful, attention-worthy children’s books that have heirloom potential. These stunning editions have sprayed edges or amazing illustrations and can be read to and for children and adults alike. The Grumpus [...]

2024-12-13T13:09:32+01:00Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

XI: ABC TOP 5 2024: Naomi, Sophie and Lília

We are back with our 5(ish) favorite reads (and games) of 2024! We try very hard to keep it to five, but it’s simply not always possible. So, per staff member there may be more or less than five titles, but there can also be an A and a B list, [...]

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Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

The Japanese bestseller: a tale of love, new beginnings, and the comfort that can be found between the pages of a good book. When twenty-five-year-old Takako's boyfriend reveals he's marrying someone else, she reluctantly accepts her eccentric uncle Satoru's offer to live rent-free in the tiny room above his shop. Hidden in Jimbocho, Tokyo, the Morisaki Bookshop is a booklover's paradise. On a quiet corner in an old wooden building, the shop is filled with hundreds of second-hand books. It is Satoru's pride and joy, and he has devoted his life to the bookshop since his wife left him five years earlier. Hoping to nurse her broken heart in peace, Takako is surprised to encounter new worlds within the stacks of books lining the shop.

2025-02-11T15:05:02+01:00Tags: , , , , , , |

ABC Interview: Lília

We decided to play the Q&A game with the ABC staff, and asked all sorts of bookish questions. In the coming weeks we will be posting their (sometimes cheeky!) answers here on the blog, so you can learn a little more about us. Enjoy! This time around we talk to Lília, blogmistress, [...]

2024-10-01T12:46:19+02:00Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

The Gay Best Friend

As a people-pleasing gay man, thirty-year-old music lawyer Domenic Marino is an expert at code-switching between the hypermasculine and ultrafeminine worlds of his two soon-to-be-wed best friends: handsome sports attorney Patrick Cooper and glamorous beauty editor Kate Wallace. But this summer—reeling from his own failed engagement and tasked with attending both their bachelor and bachelorette parties at the Cooper family’s idyllic shoreline estate in Mystic, Connecticut—Dom is anxious about having to play both sides.

2025-02-12T17:28:29+01:00Tags: , , , , , , |

Abroad in Japan

When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a huge mistake. With no knowledge of the language and zero teaching experience, was he about to be the most quickly fired English teacher in Japan's history? "Abroad in Japan" charts a decade of living in a foreign land and the chaos and culture clash that came with it.

2025-02-12T17:28:35+01:00Tags: , , , , , |
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