#Ross Welford

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It's your dream, Dream-boy. No one else is in charge. Just like life.

Ross Welford, When We Got Lost in Dreamland

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Title: What Not to Do If You Turn Invisible | Author: Ross Welford | Publisher: Schwartz & Wade (2018)

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Yay I got tagged (≧∇≦)ﾉ Thanks @moonbiscuitsims for tagging me 🐹🧡🧡

So ( •̀ ω •́ )✧

3 FAVOURITE SHIPS: (Cyberpunk 2077) Yes Takemura me too!! xD plus it would be mega-interesting to see how Johnny would react if V is with Takemura xD Also kinda wish female V could be with Panam, and male V with River, seriously when I first saw Kerry did that naked jump-spin during the love scene I was like wtf...anyway...does this counts as 3 ships already? 🤔 xD

LAST SONG: [I promise I'm not just ONLY listening to LoL music...xD]

LAST MOVIE: Avengers: Age of Ultron. I'm currently on a Marvel movie marathon...

CRAVING: Curly fries...

CURRENTLY READING: "Time Travelling with a Hamster" by Ross Welford. I bought it 'cause I thought it's about a time travelling hamster, turns out it's not quite it...kept reading it because it's not bad either xD

FAVOURITE COLOUR: Crimson #BE0032

RELATIONSHIP STATUS: Single ( •̀ ω •́ )✧ no energy, time nor money to be in any relationship at the moment _(:з」∠)_

LAST THING I GOOGLED: "Griselda" because of the Netflix show...xD I love Sofia Vergara but the show is not quite of my usual interest _(:з」∠)_

CURRENT OBSESSION: my hamster...I haven't hug my hamster for over a week now...I NEED MY HAMSTER..._(:з」∠)_ xD

I tag @anyone_who_wants_to_play_the_tag xD 🧡

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Read 30 books this year with me

Completed (7/30):

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy

The Land of Stories by Chris Colfer

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

The Vendor of Sweets by R.K. Narayan

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

RIP (Reading in Progress) (3/30):

The Thousand Year Old Boy by Ross Welford

Not Dead Yet by Phil Collins

Never by Ken Follett

Books to Read (14/30):

Sleepers by Lorenzo Carcaterra

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang

Love, Rosie by Cecelia Ahern

Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

Red Dragon by Thomas Harris

The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Intensity by Dean Koontz

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

Sharp Objects" by Gillian Flynn

[bermudianabroad]

2023 Reading Roundup

Everything what I read in 2023

I read a whole bunch.

Heartily Recommend Visceral Bleh Reread *Audiobook*

Fiction

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens (where is the fucking humidity in your swamp, Delia??)

Days Without End by Sebastian Barry

Lot by Bryan Washington

Mr. Loverman by Bernadine Evaristo

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas

Trust by Hernan Diaz

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway

The Unquiet Dead by Ausma Zehanat Khan

It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover

By Nightfall by Michael Cunningham

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantell (but everyone is called Thomas)

Verity by Colleen Hoover (awful but wacky and hilariously awful)

Katalin Street by Magda Szabo

The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell

Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng

Animorphs #24 The Suspicion by KA Applegate (a trip)

Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli

The Island of Forgetting by Jasmine Sealy

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

The Trio by Johanna Hedman

At the Bottom of the River by Jamaica Kincaid

The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera

Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenidge

Silence by Shusaku Endo

When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill

Babel by RF Kuang (was so disappointed by this one)

The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld

Island by Siri Ranva Hjelm Jacobsen

The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles by Giorgio Bassani

Must I Go by Yiyun Li

The 1,000 Year Old Boy by Ross Welford

She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker Chan

Ariadne by Jennifer Saint

The Singer’s Gun by Emily St. John Mandel

Memphis by Tara M Stringfellow

The Whirlpool by Jane Urquhart

Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert

A Country of Eternal Light by Paul Dalgarno

Yellowface by RF Kuang

The Country of Others by Leïla Slimani

The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing

American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld

All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West

The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng

Game Misconduct by Ari Baran

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

Uprooted by Naomi Novik (sorry Naomi :/ )

The Foot of the Cherry Tree by Ali Parker

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

Matrix by Lauren Groff

The Twilight World by Werner Herzog

Wild by Kristen Hannah

*The Fraud by Zadie Smith*

The Mountains Sing by Nguyen Phan Que Mai

The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende

Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

This Other Eden by Paul Harding

The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham (weirdly, one of the best depictions of a marriage I’ve read)

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

Against the Loveless World by Susan Abdulhawa

North Woods by Daniel Mason

Shadows on the Rock by Willa Cather

The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obreht

Animorphs: The Hork-Bajir Chronicles by KA Applegate

Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri

Animorphs #13 The Change by KA Applegate

Animorphs #14 The Unknown by KA Applegate

Animorphs #20 The Discovery by KA Applegate (snuck in two more under the wire… #20 is when shit REALLY kicks off. From there it gets darker and darker).

Poetry

Black Cat Bone by John Burnside

Women of the Harlen Renaissance (Anthology) by Various

The Analog Sea Review no. 4 by Various

The World’s Wife by Carol Ann Duffy

Non-Fiction

Besieged: Life Under Fire on a Sarajevo Street by Barbara Demick

Atlas of Abandoned Places by Oliver Smith

Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe

Wanderers: A History of Women Walking by Kerri Andrews

City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in Eighteenth Century London by Vic Gatrell

The Lazarus Heist: From Hollywood to High Finance by Geoff White (fully available as a podcast)

The Entangling Net: Alaska’s Commercial Fishing Women Tell Their Stories by Leslie Leyland Fields (very niche but fascinating. Transcribed interviews)

Free: Coming of Age at the End of History by Lea Ypi

Hijab Butch Blues: A Memoir by Lamya H.

Freedom by Margaret Atwood (just excerpts from novels repackaged)

*Born a Crime by Trevor Noah* (Noah’s narration is superb)

The Slavic Myths by Noah Charney and Svetlana Slapšak (was expecting stories, but it was mostly academic essays)

Manga, Comics, Graphic Novels

Safe Area Goražde by Joe Sacco

The Way of the House-Husband, vol. 1 by Kousuke Oono

SAGA vol. 1-6 by Fiona Staples and Brian K Vaughan

Top of the Top:

Born a Crime was probably my favourite non ficition, and most of that probably is due to Trevor Noah's narration skills. It was very entertaining and heartfelt.

Less uplifting but just as gripping in a different way was Empire of Pain. Excellent book that went deep into the why and what and hows of Purdue Pharma. Anger inducing.

Lazarus Heist is great and available as a podcast. The book is more or less the podcast word for word.

Fictionwise: I read Trust at the start of the year and it was a bit soon to declare as favourite of the year, but it's stil made the final cut. Just very imaginative and intriguing. Just my kind of MetaFiction. Clever without being cleverclever.

Demon Copperhead I read right off the back of Empire of Pain so maybe that coloured my experience. I've not read any Dickens so loads of references no doubt flew past me, but the language was acrobatic and zingy. I loved it.

Wrapped up the year on a high with North Woods. That was so unexpected and entertaining. Again with the playful language, memorable characters and a unique approach to tying all the various stories together. One that sticks in the mind and makes the writer in me wonder how I can replicate his style (with my own personal twist of course.)

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2024 read

January

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

The Chalice of the Gods by Rick Riordan

February

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

March

Heartstopper: Volume One by Alice Oseman

The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen

April

A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse by Beatrix Potter

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

May

A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L'Engle

A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle

June

Many Waters by Madeleine L'Engle

An Acceptable Time by Madeleine L'Engle

The Reptile Room by Lemony Snicket

The Wide Window by Lemony Snicket

The Miserable Mill by Lemony Snicket

The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien (reread)

The Tale of Little Pig Robinson by Beatrix Potter

July

The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien (reread)

The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien (reread)

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien (reread)

August

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

The Austere Academy by Lemony Snicket

The Ersatz Elevator by Lemony Snicket

The Vile Village by Lemony Snicket

The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien

The Hostile Hospital by Lemony Snicket

The Carnivorous Carnival by Lemony Snicket

The Slippery Slope by Lemony Snicket

The Grim Grotto by Lemony Snicket

The Penultimate Peril by Lemony Snicket

The End by Lemony Snicket

Hamlet by William Shakespeare (reread)

September

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (reread)

Who Could That Be at This Hour? by Lemony Snicket

Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl

When Did You See Her Last? by Lemony Snicket

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

October

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

Time Travelling with a Hamster by Ross Welford

The Vampire Armand by Anne Rice

Shady Hollow by Juneau Black

What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher

currently reading

N/A

DNF

In Memoriam by Alice Winn

2024 to-read

Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

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Συγγραφέας: Christopher Edge Μετάφραση: Αγγελική Δαρλάση Εκδότης: ΜΕΤΑΙΧΜΙΟ ISBN: 978-618-03-1580-6 Αριθμός Σελίδων: 176 Εξώφυλλο: Μαλακό εξώφυλλο Διαστάσεις: 14 Χ 20,5 Γλώσσα Γραφής: Ελληνικά Έτος Έκδοσης: 2018

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Συγγραφέας: Christopher Edge Μετάφραση: Αγγελική Δαρλάση Εκδότης: ΜΕΤΑΙΧΜΙΟ ISBN: 978-618-03-1580-6 Αριθμός Σελίδων: 176 Εξώφυλλο: Μαλακό εξώφυλλο Διαστάσεις: 14 Χ 20,5 Γλώσσα Γραφής: Ελληνικά Έτος Έκδοσης: 2018

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Συγγραφέας: Christopher Edge Μετάφραση: Αγγελική Δαρλάση Εκδότης: ΜΕΤΑΙΧΜΙΟ ISBN: 978-618-03-1580-6 Αριθμός Σελίδων: 176 Εξώφυλλο: Μαλακό εξώφυλλο Διαστάσεις: 14 Χ 20,5 Γλώσσα Γραφής: Ελληνικά Έτος Έκδοσης: 2018

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The 1,000-year-old Boy by Ross Welford, please!

Incoming 🐐

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RAZREADS’ RECMAS 2023

December 12th ~ A middle-grade book: When We Got Lost in Dreamland by Ross Welford

“It's your dream, Dream-boy. No one else is in charge. Just like life."

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Title: The 1,000 Year Old Boy | Author: Ross Welford | Publisher: HarperCollins (2018)

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Who wrote the children's novel 'Time Travelling With A Hamster'?

Ross Welford, a former journalist turned author, released his debut novel 'Time Travelling With A Hamster' in 2016. The story follows the extraordinary journey of twelve-year-old Al Chaudhury, who discovers a time machine hidden in his deceased father's belongings. Determined to right a wrong from the past, Al embarks on a thrilling adventure through time, accompanied by his trusty pet hamster, Alan Shearer.

Welford seamlessly blends science fiction, family dynamics, and the challenges of growing up to create a captivating narrative. He also tackles complex emotions and themes with sensitivity and authenticity. In 'Time Travelling With A Hamster,' he explores grief, loss, and the importance of family bonds.

'Time Travelling With A Hamster' is just one of Welford's many literary achievements. His subsequent novels, including 'What Not To Do If You Turn Invisible' and 'The 1,000-Year-Old Boy,' have further solidified his reputation as a master storyteller. Welford's books have been praised for their ability to entertain, educate, and inspire young readers, making him a favourite among parents, teachers, and librarians alike.

Beyond his literary accomplishments, Welford's dedication to promoting literacy and encouraging young readers is commendable. He frequently visits schools and libraries, engaging with children and inspiring them to explore the wonders of literature.

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DELVING INTO THE MAGIC WORLD OF BOOKS AND AUTHORS The students of the Senior school visited the Sharjah Children's Reading Festival and had a wonderful interaction with the renowned author Ross Welford . A day of learning and discussions on the life and journey of an author. #best #school#aspam #schoollife