Love To Read? Book Reviews with Amber at The Mewton-Clawson Library #182 featuring **The Time-Travelling Cat and the Great Victorian Stink** by Julia Jarman PLUS Friendly Fill-Ins

Hello gorgeous library guests 

and 

Welcome to the Mewton-Clawson Library at BBHQ 

Thank mew for joining me in the stacks today, and what a week it's been. We've had back to back storms in the U.K. for the last couple of weeks, and it's been quite cold.

So I decided the best place to be was snuggled on the sofa with the P.A., I don't know about mew but I love snuggling with my meowmy, even at my age.

Today the P.A. is also joining in Friday Fill-ins Blog Hop with the pawesome 15 & Meowing and Four-Legged Furballs.

1. My biggest pet peeve at Christmastime is ________________________.

2. _________________ is on my list to Santa.

3. My Christmas to-do list still includes _________.

4. A random piece of Christmas trivia that I know is _________.

The P.A.'s answers are...

1. My biggest pet peeve at Christmastime is how some peeps are so ungrateful for the presents they've received. It doesn't matter what the gift is, or how much it cost, what matters is the thought. There are many, many peeps and children who have nothing and receive nothing, it's a sad time of year for a lot of families and peeps all over the world. 

2.  Peace, goodwill, good health and many blessings to all is on my list to Santa. We don't buy presents, we donate to charities and food banks instead and try to spread a little joy where it's needed most.

3. My Christmas to-do list still includes putting up all the BBHQ decorations, but that doesn't happen until the third week of December.

4. A random piece of Christmas trivia that I know is-----. Sorry, I can't think of any random festive trivia to share! LOL

Let's see what I've got to show mew this time!

This week's top book pick is...

Mewton-Clawson Library Copy

The Time-Travelling Cat 

and the Great Victorian Stink

by 

Julia Jarman

       Here's a little snippet of the book blurb:      

Topher's amazing cat, Ka, has time-travelled again and left him yet another mysterious clue. Following his nose, Topher finds himself in Victorian London where disease is rife and the Thames is clogged with stinking sewage!

There he discovers a plot to kill Joseph Bazalgette, the man who is trying to save the city. Determined to foil this foul plan, Topher must first escape from an arch-criminal and his den of thieves.

I didn't realise that I'd reviewed the furst book in this series a few years ago, and it was only as I snuggled down in front of the fire and began reading this one that it dawned on me, yes I had a mental sunrise at 5pm in the afternoon, as I recognised the characters.

Anyhoo this is the 6th book in The Time Travelling Cat series, so I'm now going to have to catch up on books 2 to 5, and I just checked and Audible has them, so I'll treat myself for Catmas once I locate Parsley's credit card.

As I said in my previous review, these are kids books but don't let that stop mew from reading them. This is an action-packed adventure full of historic mewsings, some of which aren't so nice, though it is quite thrilling and the pace is full throttle for the most time, although mew know I don't do spoilers.

I enjoyed this one more than the furst, but that's because I was already familiar (pardon the pun) with the characters.

This series would make a great gift, but also what I like is they can be read as stand-alone books.

A top paw read and a great addition to the Mewton-Clawson Library, and I'll get the others in the series and let mew know my thoughts on those in 2022, so there's something to look forward to already.

• Publisher: ‎Andersen Press
• Paperback: ‎160 pages

My Ratings Scale

Ratings of:

The Time-Travelling Cat  and the Great Victorian Stink

Overall Enjoyment

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I really hope mew enjoy the book as much as I did if mew decide to read it.

It's time for me to say BFN or bye-fur-now as mew know the drill, so many books, so little time and I'll be back next week with another specially paw-picked book just for mew, and don't furget that all my previous reviews can be found on my Book Review page.

Until next time...

Keep calm and read more books

Amber 

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Wordy on Wednesday with Biblio-Kitty Amber #38 featuring The Time-travelling Cat and the Egyptian Goddess

Welcome To

With Amber ~ The Self-Appointed Biblio-Kitty

Supurr salutations fellow biblio-cats

*waves paw*

Hi guys, it was a bit sunny on the weekend, so the P.A. insisted I get out of my bed and get some fresh air. Even though it was sunny, the breeze was chill and rather fresh.

Aftur a 2 minute and 47-second excursion on the new patio and a full lap around the new pond I deemed that was enough fur me.

Howeffur the P.A. had other ideas.

I pootled my furriness to the patio door, peered in and upon seeing the P.A. I scratched on the door until she opened it.

"I'm done!" I said.

The P.A. looked down at me. "Amber it's not even been five minutes, I think you need a bit longer."  And she promptly closed the door leaving me out on the patio.

Can mew believe it?  Seriously, I was completely speechless that she left me on the patio to get some extra fresh air! 

Like WTF was that????  

I mean my bed was getting colder moment by moment and it would take me a least an hour to get it back to the purrfect just-right 'Goldilocks' temperature.

At the four-minute mark I began to panic.

At this point, I'm losing body fat and feel weak with hunger, and then I had a brainwave, I plastered the most pitiful expression on my furry chops that I could muster and pressed my nose on the glass.

Within five seconds the door was open and I hurtled to my bed, all the while thinking 'Mew fell fur that hook line and sinker! MOL  

Honestly, I really don't understand what all the kerfuffle about the great outdoors is, me purrsonally I like my bed in the great-indoors with a food source within fifteen paces.

I just hope the P.A. doesn't think that this outside thing is going to become a regular occurrence, unless it's 25C outside I'm not interested.

 And now I think it's time fur this weeks book, so let get to it...

This week on book reviews with Amber, I'm sharing

The Time-travelling Cat and the Egyptian Goddess 

by

Julia Jarman

Here's a little snippet of the book blurb:

Topher and his father are trying to get over the death of Topher's mother, an Egyptologist, when they take in a stray cat. This cat bears an uncanny resemblance to a cat ornament given to Topher by his mother and so they name it 'Ka', meaning 'double'. Topher becomes very attached to Ka and is puzzled by her mysterious absences. 

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Although this is a kids book I really, really did enjoy enjoy listening to it.   It's fun, but it's also bit sad as Topher lost his mother, his new best friend is deaf and his new cat keeps going missing.

Ka the cat talks, which in my humble opinion makes fur a much better read than when the cat is just a cat.  The story rattles along a a great pace, and although the book is not very long the story is still detailed enough to bring maximum enjoyment.

There wasn't anything I didn't like and am looking forward to listening to the next in the series.  

My advice is try it, as mew know sometimes kids books are the best!  

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• Paperback: 112 pages
• Audio: 2 hrs 54 mins

The Amber Biblio Rating System Fur Offurall Enjoyment:

Ratings of:

The Time-travelling Cat and the Egyptian Goddess 

Plot

Characters

Story

Narration

Offurall Enjoyment

I hope mew enjoy this book if mew do take the plunge and buy it... and if mew've read it already, tell me what did mew think?

Sadly it's time fur me to say BFN or bye-fur-now as mew know the drill, so many books, so little time and we'll be here again on Friday with the Pet Parade!

Happy reading or listening

Bestest biblio purrs

Amber xox

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