Books - Time Travelling with a Hamster by Ross Welford

[byslantedlight]

Mount TBR so far = 3/24

I suppose if you'd asked me before, I'd have said a time machine might look something like a submariine? Or perhaps a space rocket. Instead I'm looking at a laptop and a tin tub from a garden centre. This is my dad's time machine. And it's about to change the world. Well, mine, at any rate.

Al Chaudhury has a chance to save his dad's life - but to do it he must travel to 1984...

I am so good at choosing books to read this year! Okay, well last year actually, which was when I bought this one (which means it qualifies for Mount TBR as well as fitting my bingo card). Time Travelling with a Hamster is the first book I've read this year by a male author, and it's another blinder. In theory it's a children's book, and Al is in fact twelve years old, but it's one of those books that are really ageless. The characters are all excellently drawn and real, Al is fab, as are his dads and granddads in particular, and there was a fab feel of the north-east of England too, which is where this is set. It makes a nice change to feel the region even though it's just background, too - that can be missing from English books. It's a cracking story too - I won't spoil it for you, but absolutely, definitely worth a read if you see it around!

And whee - I have two squares marked in the same row, and actually the book I'm reading now also fits that row, so... well we'll see what happens. *g*

Booklist 2019
1. Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift (bookgroup)
2. You take the Hippy, I'll take Goldilocks by Gil Hale (fanfic re-read)
3. In a Land of Shadows by Gil Hale (fanfic re-read)
4. The Dressmaker by Rosalie Ham (MountTBR, LjBookBingo)
5. A Walk on the Beach by E.T. (fanfic re-read)
6. Chasing the Light by Jesse Blackadder (Mount TBR, LjBookBingo)
7. November by Sebastian (fanfic re-read)
8. Time Travelling with a Hamster by Ross Welford (Mount TBR, LjBookBingo)

Comments

[stellar_raven]

Yay for enjoying all your books so far this year!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Not a single duff one yet - well, maybe the very first I read for book group, but even that was okay. *g* Hope yours are going well too!

[stellar_raven]

So far so good!

[macklingirl.livejournal.com]

That sounds interesting. I think I must go and have a look if I can get it in German.

At the moment I'm reading the German version from Chris Bunch's Dragonmaster series. It is one book that containes all three of them and so I have to read nearly 1500 pages and the paperback is really heavy. But it is a nice read especially because I love dragons. :-)

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

It was a fun read - I hope it is in Germany for you! *g*

Dragons are excellent things to read about. Have you read the Temeraire books by Naomi Novik? (Maybe we've already talked about this!)

[macklingirl.livejournal.com]

Yes, I've read the most of Temeraire. I think I have two more to go. I like them but my alltime favourites are the first dragonbooks I've read. That's the Pern series from Ann McCaffrey. Domyou know them?

[heliophile-oxon.livejournal.com]

That does sound like an absolute charm! :-)

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Charming is a perfect word for it, in many ways! *g*