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Michael Brown

@mabrownstuff.bsky.social
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Book, film and language lover, eager to travel to where good people and wine can be found and where MAGA is just a memory. Currently in Accrington.

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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
September's best read. This from @janicehallett.bsky.social. As with her equally highly enjoyable The Twyford Code, a complex but riveting story, full of mystery and mayhem, readable,twisty and often highly amusing.
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
There's no way a book about the development of European porcelain would be particularly gripping, right? Wrong. Here it is. Turns out the story is absolutely off the chain. It's genuinely nuts and startling, and all true.
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
August's best reads. From Mary Rickert and Ben Reeves. Can't split them so choosing both, two very beautifully written and moving books teeming with life, death and more than a little of the otherworldly.
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Who is this Shaun Muprhy of whom they speak...?
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Whitby, last Sunday afternoon. Difficult not to imagine the ghosts of the Elizabeth Dane approaching....
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Whitby. Yesterday evening. No notes.
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
You've got to feel for the spectators though...
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
It's not even surprising any more. The sheer stinky malice of the man, the irredeemable slime that is all of him. Perhaps the moron even knows how very little he'll be missed.
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Tomorrow apparently. But surely this counts for the whole year so far.
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
This is not the most helpful review I ever saw.
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Looks like I annoyed someone in the other place. Hope it was something I said.
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
A vase at the National Museum of Scotland that really caught my attention.
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Seen in Edinburgh. If the TARDIS were a library.
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
This does not sum me up at all.
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Here's one for the hanami lovers, a very pretty tree.
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
It's fun, standing at the bus-stop, trying to imagine the who, why and where of this.
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
This is quite encouraging. Vonnegut is wonderful and when you read him he makes it look so easy, but this is what he thought of doing it.
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Not my pet precisely but turns up so often I feel I'm more than a little acquainted with the fluffy bundle. Apparently handy with a fistbump too by the looks of it.
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
January's best read. A story that if it weren't demonstrably true would barely be believable. Nevertheless, absolutely startling and terrifying and full of sinister notes that still feel all too real.
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Nice of my laptop to remind me how early I got up this morning. But I think I already knew.
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
When's the best time to read a book set in the cripplingly cold Antarctic? Probably not during a spell of icy times. But I just did. This by @unheimlichmanvr.bsky.social. Under the chilly circumstances, not quite escapism, but it is wildly immersive, very tense and wonderfully eerie. 💙📚
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
When a football match looks like it's being played by Romans.
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
December's best read. For all its seriousness, a jaunty and entertaining book too with a nifty turn of phrase. A story of arrogance, hubris, lies and the downright offensively criminal...all too familiar. 📚💙
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Begin again. Hope it's joyous for everyone.🎆
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
More curious stuff found being used as a bookmark, and what was written on the back.💙📚
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
My desk calendar is once again being very proactive with its advice. A very happy Christmas to everyone.🎅
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
The highest scoring partnership in the history of England women's cricket was in 1935. And sounds like the makings of a quirky Christmas film.
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
This a nice reading milestone as of this morning. It's only taken 43 years. 💙📚
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
A shop in Murder She Wrote. Ant and Dec for short.
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Here is my visitor cat, Muffin the mad. Trying for a fist bump. Crazy animal, but deeply pleasing. Hope you're having a good day, Heather.
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
November's best read. A peculiar concoction. A jaunty, intelligent, highly amusing and absolutely informative book about the circumstances and peripherals of the first three Presidential assassinations. Sounds weird even to describe it, but it's genuinely marvellous. #booksky 📚💙
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Another curiosity found as a bookmark in a secondhand book. The unusual writing of the date, the charming handwriting, the spelling error, I love it all. Can't even recall what the book was, but the possible backstory here is intoxicating all by itself.💙📚
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I may live in a small town in Lancashire, but my desk diary is giving me some mad skills.
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
How books travel. This, in the secondhand book I'm reading, used as a bookmark: a sales receipt from Ann Arbor, Michigan. I'm in Lancashire, England. Nice to meet you, Michigan bookshop. 📚💙
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Muffin the exorbitantly fluffy visiting cat, looking a whole lot warmer than I felt.
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Start the day with a wonderful bit of Ray Bradbury. This is one of my favourites. Though it also makes me seethe with envy.
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
In honour of the chill, this piece of genius from Gary Larson to warm the cockles.
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Dazzling Escher-esque sycamore carpet, brightening an otherwise grey old day.
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