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Bookbits for 5 February 2024

By Sophie Let's start off with some award winners: this year's Newbery Medal (for best US children's book, basically) was won by Dave Eggers for The Eyes and the Impossible (illustrated by Shawn Harris). The Caldecott Medal (for best illustrations of a children's book) was awarded to Vashti Harrison for Big. [...]

Sophie2024-02-05T15:50:15+01:00Tags: ABC Events, Awards, Black History Month, Bookbits, Bookish News, Sophie|

Staff Choices: romances we’ve read and loved

Put together by Lília February is seen as the Love Month, so we've chosen some of our most loved reads from our romantic fiction sections for your delight. We love romance and it shows! Night Shift - Annie Crown Naomi: This is a romcom as it should be: [...]

Lilia2024-01-25T15:08:15+01:00Tags: Best of Lists, Book Reviews, Ester, Lília, Naomi, Natalia, Pleun, Romantic Fiction, Sophie|

Bookbits for 11 January 2024

Written by SophieHeyo! Happy 2024, first of all, may it be a very bookish and kind year to you and yours. To celebrate this new year we're bringing back an Olde Blogge favorite (to write, in any case): the Bookbits, bookish news in small bites. We hope you'll enjoy them throughout the [...]

Sophie2024-01-13T09:59:59+01:00Tags: ABC Events, Best of 2023, Best of Lists, Bookbits, Bookish News, Sophie|

III: ABC Top 5 2023 Edition: Steven, Sophie and Bob

Here we go again with our 5(ish) favorite reads of 2023! We try very hard to keep it to five, but it’s not always possible. So, there may be five or six suggestions, an A and a B list, memorable reads or just plain marvelous books. This year we’re presenting [...]

Lilia2023-12-21T19:49:07+01:00Tags: ABC Top 5, ABC Top 5 2023, Best of Lists, Biography, Board Games, Bob, Crime Fiction, Fantasy, Games, General Fiction, Science Fiction, Sophie, Steven, Young Adult|

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|

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|

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|

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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