Sophie Archives

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|

Summer in the City of Roses

"All her life, seventeen-year-old Iph has protected her sensitive younger brother, Orr. But this summer, with their mother gone at an artist residency, their father decides it’s time for fifteen-year-old Orr to toughen up at a wilderness boot camp. When their father brings Iph to a work gala in downtown Portland and breaks the news, Orr has already been sent away against his will. Furious at her father’s betrayal, Iph storms off and gets lost in the maze of Old Town. Enter George, a queer Robin Hood who swoops in on a bicycle, bow and arrow at the ready, offering Iph a place to hide out while she tracks down Orr. Orr, in the meantime, has escaped the camp and fallen in with The Furies, an all-girl punk band, and moves into the coat closet of their ramshackle pink house. In their first summer apart, Iph and Orr must learn to navigate their respective new spaces of music, romance, and sex-work activism—and find each other before a fantastical transformation fractures their family forever."

Lilia2025-02-12T17:49:46+01:00Tags: 1990s, Book review, Book Reviews, Fairy tale, Magical Realism, Mythology, Sophie, YA fiction, Young Adult|

ABC Staff Picks

Luke and Iris W. are back with our first ABC Staff Picks of 2023. Think cozy titles, biographies, science fiction novellas, a YA horror title and much more…. As the books buyer for Amsterdam’s film section, Luke chose two quite different memoirs from two famous authors. Both have similar themes about [...]

Sophie2023-04-06T12:02:20+02:00Tags: Bella, Fantasy, Fiction, General Fiction, Horror, Iris, Jouke, Luke, MariaS, Reinoud, Science Fiction, Simone, Sophie, Sports, Staff Picks, Tiemen, Young Adult|

Book-to-screen adaptations: The love edition

written 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 [...]

Sophie2023-02-08T12:46:58+01:00Tags: Best of Lists, Book to Movie, Book to Screen, Book to Series, Ester, Lília, Romantic Fiction, Sophie|

Our Share of Night

“Gaspar is 6 years old when the Order first come for him. For years, they have exploited his father’s ability to commune with the dead and the demonic, presiding over macabre rituals where the unwanted and the disappeared are tortured and executed, sacrificed to the Darkness. Now they want a successor.”

Sophie2025-02-12T17:49:51+01:00Tags: Book review, Book Reviews, Horror, Sophie|

Conversations with customers

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. [...]

Sophie2023-01-07T13:40:18+01:00Tags: Interviews, Lília, Sophie|

ABC Top 5: 2022 Edition

Here we go again with our 5(ish) favorite reads of 2022. We try very hard to keep to 5, but it’s not always possible. So, there may be 5 or 6, an A and a B list, memorable reads or just plain marvelous books. We hope you enjoy it and [...]

Sophie2024-11-29T15:14:53+01:00Tags: Bella, Best of Lists, Board Games, Bob, Crime Fiction, EmmaS, EmmaV, Fantasy, Fiction, Japanese Fiction, Jelle, Jitse, Jonna, Jouke, Klaartje, Lauren, Lília, Lynn, Maarten, MariaS, Martijn, Natalia, Nature, Non-Fiction, Our Top 5, Philosophy, Romantic Fiction, Science Fiction, Sigrid, Simone, Sol, Sophie, Steven, Sywert, Tiemen, Young Adult|

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