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Book review: Baron 1898 - Jacques Vriens

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3/5: Nothing special, just a pretty fun expansion of the story of the rollercoaster with the same name in the Dutch Efteling theme park. A quick read that you will probably forget about soon after fin...
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February 3, 2026 at 3:04 PM
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Book review: Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors - Matt Parker

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4/5: A well-written, funny overview of the impact that math errors can have in real-life situations. The author clearly explains for each situation what happened and which chain of events could have l...
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January 30, 2026 at 12:55 PM
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Book review: All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr

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5/5: A fascinating read from two different perspectives during World War II. We see what that terrible series of events did to two very different children in France and Germany, with some connective t...
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January 23, 2026 at 10:02 AM
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Book review: Gose: Brewing a Classic German Beer for the Modern Era - Fal Allen

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4/5: Great overview of the style and all that it encompasses. There might big a bit too much generic explanation about the brewing process in general - let's just focus on gose in a book about gose - ...
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January 9, 2026 at 12:50 PM
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Book review: Yumi and the Nightmare Painer - Brandon Sanderson

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Yumi and the Nightmare Painter (Hoid's Travails, #2)
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January 7, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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Book review: Onderweg: Migraties die de wereld veranderden - Aimée de Jongh & Tina De Gendt

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5/5: Incredibly relevant, moving, and beautifully executed. Tina De Gendt and Aimée de Jongh have captured the concept of migration in all of its difficult facets, via well-written texts by the former...
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December 31, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Book review: The Tales of Beedle the Bard - J.K. Rowling

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Ramon van Dam's review of The Tales of Beedle the Bard (Hogwarts Library, #3)
3/5: A short collection of fairy tales in the magical world of Harry Potter. The stories themselves are pretty bland, but the notes by Dumbledore that accompany them are what makes this interesting. T...
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December 27, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Book review: The Shape of Brewing: A Guide For the Mindful Brewer - Jorge Tomé

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3/5: Hmmm, bit of a mixed bag I'm afraid. Jorge Tomé is obviously a very creative and skilled brewer, but the same amount of talent isn't present when it comes to writing. So many sentences just don'...
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December 25, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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December 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Book review: Bier!? - Maarten Weyn

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3/5: A nice addition to the Nerdland book series, this time around the fascinating topic of beer. It's pretty broad, but for my taste the section about the history of this amazing brew took up too muc...
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December 23, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Book review: Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution - Neil deGrasse Tyson & Donald Goldsmith

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4/5: A fun introduction into a lot of interesting concepts, in the style of the best popular science books. Anybody that knows Neil deGrasse Tyson a bit will know exactly what to expect from this. It'...
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December 15, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Book review: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus - Mary Shelley

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Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
Mary Shelley's seminal novel of the scientist whose cre…
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December 9, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Book review: Sprookjes uit het Efteling Grand Hotel - Ad Grooten

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November 30, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Book review: The Secrets of Master Brewers: Techniques, Traditions, and Homebrew Recipes for 26 of the World’s Classic Beer Styles, from Czech Pilsner to English Old Ale - Jeff Alworth

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Ramon van Dam's review of The Secrets of Master Brewers
4/5: An interesting book about homebrewing, in which the author goes into the history of a nice set of styles with recipes for each that seem very solid. Doesn't really add a lot to the vast list of b...
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November 28, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Book review: Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain - Lisa Feldman Barrett

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4/5: A very interesting collection of essays about the human brain. It's pretty high-over, but the author goes deep enough to give a good explanation of the topics she covers and to make you think abo...
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November 18, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Book review: The Secret of Secrets (Robert Langdon #6) - Dan Brown

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Ramon van Dam's review of The Secret of Secrets (Robert Langdon, #6)
3/5: Entertaining, but also quite frustrating at times. We all know the formula: Dan Brown researches a topic and a location and sends Robert Langdon on a quest from puzzle to puzzle to hunt down som...
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November 15, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Book review: Maskerade (Discworld #18) - Terry Pratchett

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Ramon van Dam's review of Maskerade (Discworld, #18; Witches, #5)
4/5: Once again it took me a bit to get into the story, but once the witches reached the opera and all the shenanigans ensued I really dug it. The many references to this subculture were lovely, as al...
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October 31, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Book review: Meer Sprookjes Van de Efteling - Ad Grooten & Martijn van der Linden

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4/5: Another great collection of Efteling fairy tales. Although this one doesn't have illustrations by the great Anton Pieck, they still look lovely and have their own style that fits the overall look...
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October 27, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Book review: Jij hebt Stijl! 10 jaar pionieren in de bierwereld - Anneke Geraads-Broeren

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Ramon van Dam's review of Jij hebt Stijl! 10 jaar pionieren in de bierwereld
4/5: What a nice, little read about a Dutch brewery that has chosen to stop their activities at the end of this year. I've read quite some books about breweries and most of them are very similar, but ...
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October 17, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Book review: Biertypenboek - Derek Walsh (Dutch)

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4/5: A complete rehaul of the current list of beer styles, from a Dutch perspective. This impressive work not only contains descriptions of dozens of styles, but for each one the author has included o...
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October 13, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Book review: The Impossible Fortune (The Thursday Murder Club #5) - Richard Osman

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Ramon van Dam's review of The Impossible Fortune (Thursday Murder Club, #5)
4/5: Another lovely adventure by our favorite murder-solving old-timers. To start with some small criticism: it didn't grab me immediately this time around, to be honest. It took me until about the h...
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October 9, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Book review: Microbrewed Adventures: A Lupulin Filled Journey to the Heart and Flavor of the World's Great Craft Beers - Charlie Papazian

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2/5: I've really enjoyed Charlie's other books on homebrewing, but unfortunately this one was a bit of a slug to read. It's mostly a list of his beer related travels and they have quite some overlap. ...
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September 29, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Book review: The Secret History - Donna Tartt

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5/5: When I read Donna Tartt's debut novel as a teenager it immediately struck me and stayed with me, so I decided to get a copy as a gift to my wife over a decade later in our twenties and read it ag...
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September 9, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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Book review: The New IPA: Scientific Guide to Hop Aroma and Flavor - Scott Janish

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Ramon van Dam's review of The New IPA
4/5: A great collection of tips, tricks and summaries of research papers for brewers that want to improve their IPAs, especially the New England IPA sub style. There are so many contradicting advices...
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August 23, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Book review: En ze leven nog lang en gelukkig: sprookjes van de Efteling - Ad Grooten & Gerrie van Dongen

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Ramon van Dam's review of En ze leven nog lang en gelukkig
4/5: Another nice collection of fairy tales related to the Dutch Efteling theme park, with the same pros and cons as the "Sprookjesboek van De Efteling" book. My biggest gripe is that there's a huge o...
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August 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM