Tiemen Archives - ABC Blog

Tiemen has been a bookseller at the Amsterdam store for over a decade.
He is the buyer for the Science-Fiction & Fantasy section and as such has turned his hobby into his job. When not helping customers and ordering books, Tiemen helps organize events like the ABC pop-up store at the Heroes Dutch Comic Con and author events both in the store and online via Zoom.

In his spare time he likes to garden, play indie and strategy games on the PC, boardgames with his friends and of course reading books. His favorite part of being a bookseller is when a patron comes up to him and asks: “Can you recommend me some books?”.

You can find Tiemen on twitter @tiemenzwaan

What we’re reading, watching, and listening to

by Damla It's that time again that we'd like to share what we're currently reading, watching, and/or listening to with you, no matter how unhinged. This is a safe space. We hope that you enjoy our choices, and maybe find something new to discover. We have a lot of cool things [...]

Damla2026-08-23T22:09:15+02:00Tags: ABC Staff, Damla, Else, Iris, IrisM, Lília, Naomi, Read/Watch/Listen, Renata, Sigrid, Sophie, Tiemen, Yannis|

Book Review: Dungeon Crawler Carl – part II

Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman In a flash, every human-erected construction on Earth collapses in a heap, sinking into the ground. The buildings and all the people inside have all been atomized and transformed into the dungeon: an 18-level labyrinth filled with traps, monsters, and loot. Only a few [...]

Damla2026-08-23T16:40:36+02:00Tags: ABC Events, Book review, Book Reviews, Humor, Jurgen, Martijn, Matt Dinniman, Science Fiction, Tiemen|

Staff Top 5s of 2025: Jouke, Melissa, Klaartje, Isabelle, and Tiemen

Hooray! It's time for our favorite reads of the year! We love putting these posts together, so grab a hot beverage of your choice, find a comfy couch or chair or nook to settle into, and be ready to explode your TBR with all these scrumptious personal recommendations. These are the best [...]

Sophie2026-08-14T14:47:20+02:00Tags: ABC Top 5, ABC Top 5 2025, Biography, Business, Comics, Crime Fiction, Current Affairs, Essays, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Isabelle, Jouke, Klaartje, melissa, Our Top 5, Picture Books, Politcal Science, Psychology, Science, Science Fiction, Staff Top 5 2025, Thrillers, Tiemen|

What we’re reading, watching, and listening to

by Sophie Every so often we want to share what we're currently reading, watching, and/or listening to. We hope you'll enjoy our choices! Tiemen: Reading: I'm currently reading part 4 of The Dungeon Crawler Carl series to my wife. Every evening I read about half an hour of DCC before [...]

Sophie2026-08-22T22:29:13+02:00Tags: ABC Staff, Bella, Damla, Else, Iris, Jilles, Jurgen, Klaartje, Lynn, Read/Watch/Listen, Renata, Sigrid, Sophie, Steven, Tiemen|

Coffee bar, dead cat, happy end: our Bella interviewed for NRC

On Saturday 5 July, Dutch newspaper NRC published an article on Cozy and Healing Fiction (Koffiebar, dode kat, happy end) (please note, article in Dutch and may be behind a paywall), in which they interviewed our Bella, with a cameo by Tiemen! We're posting an English translation of the part of [...]

Sophie2026-08-24T22:09:49+02:00Tags: Bella, Cozy Fantasy, cozy fiction, Healing Fiction, interviews, nrc, Tiemen|

ABC in the Wild: FACTS 2025 (Spring edition)

by Else Two weeks after Heroes Made in Asia we traveled to another convention to set up our pop-up bookstore: this time in the lovely Ghent at FACTS, Belgium’s largest Comic Con. This means a group of four very nerdy booksellers (Tiemen, Sywert, Jonna and myself) made a road trip from [...]

Sophie2026-08-19T17:36:39+02:00Tags: ABC Events, ABC in the Wild, Else, FACTS, FACTS 2025, Jonna, Sywert, Tiemen|

Book review: Blood Over Bright Haven

Blood Over Bright Haven by M.L. Wang Magic has made the city of Tiran an industrial utopia, but magic has a cost—and the collectors have come calling. An orphan since the age of four, Sciona has always had more to prove than her fellow students. For twenty years, she has [...]

Lilia2026-08-19T17:16:52+02:00Tags: ABC Staff Choice, Book review, Book Reviews, Else, Fantasy, Iris, M.L. Wang, Tiemen|

ABC’s 100 Top Tips, part 5

by Sophie ABC's 100 Top Tips, part 5: Robinson – Zusak To celebrate our birthday this year (officially on 21 April, but we're celebrating it on the weekend of 12 and 13 April) we decided to ask all of the ABC staff what their most memorable books were of the past [...]

Sophie2026-08-19T14:18:33+02:00Tags: ABC Birthday, ABC Staff Choice, ABC's 100 Top Tips, Art, Autobiography, Bruna, Carla, Comics, Damla, Else, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels, Isabelle, Jilles, Jouke, Lília, living, Manga, Martijn, Matty, Music, Nature, Nicki, Philosophy, Psychology, Science Fiction, Simone, Sophie, Tiemen, YA fiction, Young Adult|

ABC’s 100 Top Tips, part 4

by Sophie ABC's 100 Top Tips, part 4: McCarthy – Reid To celebrate our birthday this year (officially on 21 April, but we're celebrating it on the weekend of 12 and 13 April) we decided to ask all of the ABC staff what their most memorable books were of the past [...]

Sophie2026-08-19T14:17:51+02:00Tags: ABC Birthday, ABC Staff Choice, ABC's 100 Top Tips, Autobiography, Comics, Damla, Economics, Else, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels, Humor, Iris, Jitse, Juno, Jurgen, Matty, Poetry, Renata, Science, Shirley, Simone, Sophie, Tiemen|

ABC’s 100 Top Tips, part 3

by Sophie ABC's 100 Top Tips, part 3: Jimenez – Martine To celebrate our birthday this year (officially on 21 April, but we're celebrating it on the weekend of 12 and 13 April) we decided to ask all of the ABC staff what their most memorable books were of the past [...]

Sophie2026-08-19T14:17:03+02:00Tags: ABC Birthday, ABC Staff Choice, ABC's 100 Top Tips, Bob, Bruna, Comics, Else, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels, Iris, Jilles, Jonna, Juno, Matty, Nature, Romance, Science Fiction, Shirley, Sophie, Tiemen|

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