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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 [...]

Lilia2026-08-10T20:23:12+02:00Tags: Lília, Mother's Day, Picture Books, Renata, Sophie|

ABC Staff Picks: March 2023

by Lília Surrounded by chocolate and tea, our Luke and Iris talked books on this month’s ABC Staff Picks livestream on YouTube. This time around, they (with a little help from their ABC friends) pointed us to fantasy, science fiction, some artistic and non-artistic self-help tomes, and a history book with [...]

Lilia2026-08-15T17:50:51+02:00Tags: ABC Staff Picks, Best of Lists, EmmaV, Fantasy, History, Iris, Jouke, Lília, Luke, Science Fiction, Self-Help, Tom|

Book review: The Dead Romantics

"A disillusioned millennial ghostwriter who, quite literally, has some ghosts of her own, has to find her way back home in this sparkling adult debut from national bestselling author Ashley Poston."

Lilia2026-08-24T22:05:17+02:00Tags: Ashley Poston, Book review, Book Reviews, Lília, Romantic Fiction|

ABC Staff Picks: February 2023

by Lília We start this ABC Staff Picks with an unusual choice: a cookbook! In recent years, we’ve seen many fandom cookbooks showing up on our shelves, and even though we might be a bit skeptical, many are actually quite good. Think about cookbooks based on TV series, games and, yes, [...]

Lilia2026-08-24T22:04:37+02:00Tags: ABC Staff Picks, Betty, Biography, Cookbooks, EBM, Fantasy, Graphic Novel, Iris, IrisM, Jesmae, Jonna, Lília, Luke, Science Fiction, Shirley|

Book review: Shades of Milk and Honey

"Jane Ellsworth and her sister Melody's lives still revolve around vying for the attentions of eligible men. While Jane's skill with glamour is remarkable, it is her sister who is fair of face, and therefore wins the lion's share of the attention. At the ripe old age of twenty-eight, Jane has resigned herself to being invisible forever."

Lilia2026-08-24T22:04:04+02:00Tags: Book review, Book Reviews, Fantasy, Lília, Mary Robinette Kowal|

Notes from a sewist: 7 Books on Mending, Upcycling and Repurposing those clothes you love

by Lília We all have T-shirts with tears, socks with holes in the heel, jeans torn from the friction between our thighs... You get the idea. Most of the time, the garments we’ve loved to death are all still very wearable, if not for those pesky details. So what can we [...]

Lilia2026-08-10T14:09:29+02:00Tags: Best of Lists, Crafts, Lília, mending, Sashiko, sewing, sustainability, tailoring, upcycling|

Book-to-screen adaptations: the love edition

by Lília With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, we thought we’d home in on screen adaptations of romantic fiction. Because who hasn’t heard of or watched – maybe many times! –adaptions of Jane Austen’s books such as Pride and Prejudice and Emma, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre or Emily Brontë’s Wuthering [...]

Lilia2026-08-21T22:48:02+02:00Tags: adaptations, Best of Lists, Book to Movie, Book to Screen, Book to Series, Ester, Lília, Romantic Fiction, Sophie|

Book review: Vagina Obscura

"A myth-busting voyage into the female body. A camera obscura reflects the world back but dimmer and inverted. Similarly, science has long viewed woman through a warped lens, one focused narrowly on her capacity for reproduction. As a result, there exists a vast knowledge gap when it comes to what we know about half of the bodies on the planet. That is finally changing. Today, a new generation of researchers is turning its gaze to the organs traditionally bound up in baby-making―the uterus, ovaries, and vagina―and illuminating them as part of a dynamic, resilient, and ever-changing whole. Welcome to Vagina Obscura, an odyssey into a woman’s body from a fresh perspective, ushering in a whole new cast of characters."

Lilia2026-08-15T17:47:45+02:00Tags: Book review, Book Reviews, Lília, Non-Fiction, Rachel E. Gross, Vagina Obscura|

How we work

by Lynn & Lília The book buyer: Lynn Kaplanian-Buller interviews Lília Visser Lilia is a seasoned ABC book buyer. Asked how she would define a good one, she says the most important characteristic for book buyers is listening to customers. Besides that, a book buyer must keep an eye [...]

Lilia2026-08-15T17:47:38+02:00Tags: ABC Staff, interviews, life as a bookseller, Lília, Lynn|

Conversations with customers: Marie

Marie is a good example of a “growing up with ABC” customer: niece of our Sophie, she has known the ABC since she was born. Her ABC store may have changed from The Hague to Amsterdam, where she moved to study and work, but her loyalty remains the same. [...]

Lilia2026-08-15T17:46:50+02:00Tags: ABC Birthday, Conversations with Customers, interviews, Lília, Sophie|

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