Lília Archives

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.

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.

Lilia2025-02-11T15:05:02+01:00Tags: Book review, Book Reviews, General Fiction, Japanese Fiction, Lília, Satoshi Yagisawa, Translated Fiction|

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, [...]

Lilia2024-10-01T12:46:19+02:00Tags: ABC, ABC interview, Autism, board books, Fantasy, Fashion, Lília, magazines, Nalini Singh, Psychology, S.K. Dunstall, Science Fiction, Sexuality, Ursula K. Le Guin|

Series Spotlight: The Five Packs by Cate C. Wells

By Lília It’s always a bit weird to start a book with “rejected mate” in the title, but this series is quite entertaining and much deeper than its titles suggest. Cate C. Wells has created an interesting world and lore with this series, in which wolf changelings are a reality but [...]

Lilia2024-10-09T17:47:30+02:00Tags: Cate C. Wells, Fated Mates, Five Packs series, Lília, Romantasy, Series Spotlight|

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.

Lilia2025-02-12T17:28:29+01:00Tags: Book review, Book Reviews, Gay Romance, Lília, Nicolas Didomizio, Romantic Fiction, Romcom|

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.

Lilia2025-02-12T17:28:35+01:00Tags: Book review, Book Reviews, Chris Broad, Cutlural Shock, Life in Japan, Lília|

The inside scoop: Where have all the magazines gone?

If you’ve been to our Amsterdam store recently, you may have noticed our magazine section has been reduced by half. Things have been less dramatic in The Hague, but the number of magazines on offer there has also been steadily decreasing. Many magazines still being printed are coming out less often [...]

Lilia2024-08-14T13:13:45+02:00Tags: ABC, ABC interview, Lauren, Lília, magazines|

The Seven Year Slip

An overworked book publicist with a perfectly planned future hits a snag when she falls in love with her temporary roommate…only to discover he lives seven years in the past, in this witty and wise novel from the bestselling author of "The Dead Romantics."

Lilia2025-02-12T17:28:41+01:00Tags: Ashley Poston, Book review, Book Reviews, Lília, Magical Realism, Romantic Fiction|

Interesting books on Autism

Written by Lília As the mother of a neurodivergent girl who discovered her neurodiversity in her late teens, I suddenly saw myself with this big hot potato in my hand: how to help my kid navigate life better without having to drown herself in the demands of daily life? How to [...]

Lilia2024-07-22T12:51:38+02:00Tags: Autism, Books on Autism, Childcare, Lília, Neurodivergency, Neurodivergent, Psychology|

Farewell ABC Staff Picks

By Lília All good things must come to an end. And so, we say goodbye to our ABC Staff Picks on YouTube. Thanks to everyone who watched us over the years. A big thanks to hosts Luke and Iris and all our expert booksellers who have given [...]

Lilia2024-06-24T15:30:14+02:00Tags: Alexis Hall, Business, David Van Reybrouck, Else, EmmaV, Fantasy, Fiction, General Fiction, History, Iris, Japanese Fiction, Jeroen, Lília, Luke, Matty, Nghi Vo, Pierce Brown, Poetry, R. B. Lemberg, Rohinton Mistry, Romantic Fiction, Science Fiction, Simon Sinek, Sophie, Toon Hezemans, Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Travel|

Happy Pride Month!

By Lauren and Lília It’s Pride Month, celebrated every June to commemorate the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York, when the gay community protested against its treatment by police. These days, June is a month of celebration and awareness about the LGBTQ+ community worldwide, but it’s especially marked in the US. [...]

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