Michael
@mchap.bsky.social
English Teacher, AHT: CPD, curriculum, pedagogy. Likes: literature, music, film, art, Liverpool Football Club. Mainly posting pictures of books. Own views.
I remember really enjoying A Glasgow Gang Observed by James Patrick: participant observation of gangs in 1960s Glasgow.
October 8, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I remember really enjoying A Glasgow Gang Observed by James Patrick: participant observation of gangs in 1960s Glasgow.
Rest in power, Tony Harrison.
![The text of Them and [uz] by Tony Harrison.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cfqevpntlihpwnsh4ommwycy/bafkreibeoqwosa4cof4b7d6mkk6dbujxfa4rjkuivdk3egplinx3lso4y4@jpeg)
September 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Rest in power, Tony Harrison.
If you see this, repost with a vampire that is not Dracula.
September 6, 2025 at 6:46 PM
If you see this, repost with a vampire that is not Dracula.
June's book pile. Enjoyed them all. Of the two International Booker nominees, I preferred Perfection but both were excellent. Read and thought a lot about character and place (Grindrod and Baron interesting side by side). Found Markovits a bit unconvincing in the end. Salter great. Onwards. #booksky
June 30, 2025 at 4:59 PM
June's book pile. Enjoyed them all. Of the two International Booker nominees, I preferred Perfection but both were excellent. Read and thought a lot about character and place (Grindrod and Baron interesting side by side). Found Markovits a bit unconvincing in the end. Salter great. Onwards. #booksky
Saw Bruce Springsteen on Saturday and this resonates. His show is both an assault on Trump's fascist authoritarianism and a celebration of the redemptive power of art. Bruce is also not fucking around. He is not going to take it any more and it is exhilarating and energizing.
June 11, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Saw Bruce Springsteen on Saturday and this resonates. His show is both an assault on Trump's fascist authoritarianism and a celebration of the redemptive power of art. Bruce is also not fucking around. He is not going to take it any more and it is exhilarating and energizing.
Waiting for the Boss (and, fingers crossed, Macca).
June 7, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Waiting for the Boss (and, fingers crossed, Macca).
May's book pile. Probably enjoyed Heat Wave and The Empusium the most. Second Manchette after The Mad and the Bad and nowhere near as good. Solenoid is a demented phantasmagoria - weirdly addictive, despite its longueurs. #booksky
June 1, 2025 at 7:27 AM
May's book pile. Probably enjoyed Heat Wave and The Empusium the most. Second Manchette after The Mad and the Bad and nowhere near as good. Solenoid is a demented phantasmagoria - weirdly addictive, despite its longueurs. #booksky
Bad things are plainly in store for Wojnicz here, but life in an early 20thC German sanatorium sounds absolutely amazing. More sheep cheese than I would ideally want, but otherwise I am fully on board.
May 17, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Bad things are plainly in store for Wojnicz here, but life in an early 20thC German sanatorium sounds absolutely amazing. More sheep cheese than I would ideally want, but otherwise I am fully on board.
The Easter break meant April was a bumper month for reading. Lots of great things here.
May 1, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The Easter break meant April was a bumper month for reading. Lots of great things here.
March reading. Really enjoyed Elkin and Szalay; Stamm underwhelming - a pity as I really rate him.
April 5, 2025 at 1:07 PM
March reading. Really enjoyed Elkin and Szalay; Stamm underwhelming - a pity as I really rate him.
Very late, but February's books. Work very much in the way so a poor return. The plan was to box off Knausgaard over half term but still going; March unlikely to break any records either.
March 9, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Very late, but February's books. Work very much in the way so a poor return. The plan was to box off Knausgaard over half term but still going; March unlikely to break any records either.
Shakespeare's birthplace this afternoon.
February 18, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Shakespeare's birthplace this afternoon.
It's not on BBC sounds currently but Sian Thomas, who read his mum's letters in the BBC serialisation when Dear Tom was published, was terrific. It is a lovely book.
February 15, 2025 at 12:21 PM
It's not on BBC sounds currently but Sian Thomas, who read his mum's letters in the BBC serialisation when Dear Tom was published, was terrific. It is a lovely book.
Liverpool, Thursday night.
February 6, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Liverpool, Thursday night.
January's reading. All good but enjoyed Wild Twin, Fools of Fortune and Territory of Light most. Onwards.
February 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
January's reading. All good but enjoyed Wild Twin, Fools of Fortune and Territory of Light most. Onwards.
A wonderful piece of writing about memory and loss that deserves all the acclaim it gets. In 2023, in the same town, the same thing was happening to our family. I have never had a reading experience like the final part of this book. Haunting. Beautiful. @wildtwin.bsky.social
January 13, 2025 at 10:34 PM
A wonderful piece of writing about memory and loss that deserves all the acclaim it gets. In 2023, in the same town, the same thing was happening to our family. I have never had a reading experience like the final part of this book. Haunting. Beautiful. @wildtwin.bsky.social
Crosby beach this afternoon.
January 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Crosby beach this afternoon.
Back to work tomorrow so here is the reading pile from Christmas. All enjoyable; All My Precious Madness the pick though - a really terrific book.
January 5, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Back to work tomorrow so here is the reading pile from Christmas. All enjoyable; All My Precious Madness the pick though - a really terrific book.
Have bought an old music magazine just for one specific article (David Kavanagh on Ian McCulloch). This might be a very slippery slope. Also, I am a boring old man now.
November 25, 2024 at 8:41 PM
Have bought an old music magazine just for one specific article (David Kavanagh on Ian McCulloch). This might be a very slippery slope. Also, I am a boring old man now.
This Life, which seems so fair.
November 17, 2024 at 7:16 PM
This Life, which seems so fair.
Determined to do some actual term time reading for pleasure this year and this, belatedly, is half term one. Enjoyed them all.
November 10, 2024 at 3:23 PM
Determined to do some actual term time reading for pleasure this year and this, belatedly, is half term one. Enjoyed them all.