Archive for the ‘Klaartje’ Category
Wednesday, November 14th, 2012
Let us be your personal shoppers!
ABC’s booksellers don’t just sell books: as well as being voracious readers, almost all ABC staff members are personally responsible for buying the books for one or more sections in the stores. That means you’ll always find someone who can put exactly the right book in your hands when you need it. We asked our buyers for their tips for the best gifts for the upcoming holiday season, and they came up with some great ones: new books, classic books, magazines, games, merchandise, and stationery.
Today you’ll find gift ideas for Animals, Nature & Gardening and Travel & Living Abroad as supplied by Klaartje, Ester and Tom.
Even more gift ideas can be found here and here!
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Tags: animals, Ester, gardening, gift ideas 2012, Klaartje, nature, Tom, Travel
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Friday, May 11th, 2012
The past 2 weeks saw 3 events happening around the ABC stores. Here’s a quick recap of two of them!
Note: If you want to be informed about our upcoming events, sign up for the monthly Events Mailing here, or regularly check the Events List.
About 20 people heard Reif Larsen speak on visual storytelling at the ABC Treehut in The Hague on April 27th. Mr. Larsen was a very engaging speaker, bandying about such terms as “info-erotic” when talking about charts and visual data, and he made us all laugh repeatedly. He admired Glen Baxter (Colonel Baxter’s Dutch Safari) for his visual gags, and mentioned Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics as a great source of information about visual storytelling. He also urged everyone to see the exhibition The Printed Book: A Visual History at the UvA (May 13th is the last day, so I’m afraid you’ll have to be quick…). After his talk, Mr. Larsen answered questions, admitted that a movie is in the works and signed books. Photographer Henry Arvidsson filmed it all; a link will appear to his work as soon as it’s done. All in all, a great evening was had! – Sophie.
About 17 people came to the ABC Treehouse in Amsterdam on May 3rd for Jacob Vossestein’s talk on the geography of the Netherlands and the need for water control. Mr. Vossestein was friendly and enthusiastic and his talk was well-received. Happily not just Dutch people came to the talk! With a bit of luck, Mr. Vossestein will appear at the ABC Treehut in The Hague at a future date, so keep an eye out on our Events List or the Treehut website. – Klaartje.
Tags: ABC Meets, event report, Events, events recap, jacob vossestein, Klaartje, reif larsen, Sophie, treehouse, treehut
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Friday, April 27th, 2012
Tags: Ester, Hans, Hayley, Ilse, Jeroen, JeroenW, Jesse, Jilles, Jitse, Karin, Klaartje, Lynn, Maarten, Marten, Nadine, Nicki, Nyjolene, peterH, Renate, Sander, Sara, Sigrid, simone, Sophie, Steven, Tom, What We're Reading
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Friday, December 9th, 2011
Is it really December already? Even worse, halfway through December already?
Well, I guess it must be time for our Favorite Reads of the Year posts then!
Let’s start you off with the favorites as handed in by our Barry, Klaartje, and Simone. Barry is one of the pillars of ABC The Hague (as is his Bernese Mountain, Nelson!), and the buyer for the History/Politcs/Current Affairs and Travel Literature sections. Klaartje is both stores’ secretary and Girl Friday, and ABC Amsterdam’s buyer for the Local Interest section to boot. Simone is one of ABC The Hague’s store managers, and Fiction, Cookbooks and stationery buyer.
We would love to hear about what YOUR favorite reads of 2011 were, too! They don’t have to be books published in 2011, just read in 2011. Please send your top 5 to blog@abc.nl, and be sure to include your mailing address so we can send you an ABC gift voucher as a thank you. We’ll be publishing your Top 5s at the beginning of 2012, so you have a month to hand them in.
And now, without further ado… the lists!
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Tags: Barry, best of 2011, Children's Books, current affairs, Dutch fiction, Fiction, juvenile fiction, Klaartje, memoirs, mythology, Science, simone, Social Science, travel literature
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Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Ah yes, it’s December, the time of looking over the past year and deciding what was great, what was so-so, and what could be done better next year. In what is now very much a tradition, the ABC staff has been rootling through the books they read over the past year to decide what were the proper gems and what were the baubles. Over the next few days and weeks Hayley and I will be posting their favorites.
Which reminds me: we would love to know what your 5 favorite reads of the past year were (they don’t have to be books published in 2009). Please send them to blog@abc.nl (it’s not too late!)(really!), and please include your mailing address so we can send you an ABC gift voucher as our thank you.
In this penultimate edition you’ll see what Klaartje, Sander, and Ward loved reading this past year. Fair warning: they’re a talkative lot! So who is thinking about joining a new church started by demons? Who’s an RPGer (and soon to join me as a level 80 in WoW!)(and no, I will not mention what kind of a day it was today for him 
)? And who’s not fond of a writer’s bag of tricks?
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Tags: classics, crime fiction, dark fantasy, dutch books, Fiction, Food & Cooking, game novels, History, Klaartje, Languages, Mysteries & Thrillers, nature, Psychology, rpg, Sander, Science, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Social Science, Ward
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