Once again, we’ve arrived at this week of the year, which was one of my favorite weeks when I was a child, except for maybe the week around my birthday and the time of Sinterklaas. The kinderboekenweek started last Wednesday, which is a week which is focused purely on one of my favorite things as a kid: books. As a kid I loved spending time reading books and absorbing the stories in those books.

I can’t even guess how many books I have read when I was young. What I can say, is that it has significantly decreased since I am a student. When I started my studies here in Eindhoven, I...