Chris Mills

LATEST ARTICLES ( 240 )

• Culture Night: Owt for Nowt?

  

  Our passport to culture!Last Friday evening saw yours truly, accompanied by The Bookworm heading into Dublin’s city centre for some more Culture Night activity. Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• E F Benson: Mapp and Lucia Revisited

  

  In the last few months I have been becoming reacquainted with Emmeline Lucas (Lucia) and Elizabeth Mapp. A Christmas present of the complete 1985/6 London... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• A Library Digression

  

  An old print of Harborne LibraryWith all of the debate about the future of libraries going on after huge service cuts in Britain, (though Ed Vaizey says it’s no... Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• A Library Digression

  

  An old print of Harborne LibraryWith all of the debate about the future of libraries going on after huge service cuts in Britain, (though Ed Vaizey says it’s no... Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Trinity Book Sale Buy: The Tiger in the Smoke

  

  The Tiger in the Smoke by Margery Allingham (originally Chatto and Windus, 1952) is yet another of my Trinity Book Sale purchases (TBS Purchases). Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Arabella Stuart and Bess of Hardwick

  I mentioned in the last post immersing myself in some dubious sixteenth century doings. Wreath for Arabella by Doris Leslie (Hutchinson 1948) was the book that... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Book Shelves on the Move: A Reading Renaissance?

  

  A Fresh Reading Start?The Landing Book Shelves (the actual shelves that is, as opposed to the blog) have had a bit of a shake-up in recent weeks, because of som... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Jane Austen: Letters to Cassandra

  

  While continuing to keep up with the A Month of Letters challenge (now successfully completed), I have been browsing the bookshelves to remind myself what lette... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Penguin Postcards for ‘A Month of Letters’

  

  100 cards to choose from…Longstanding readers of The Landing will know that February is the time for my contribution to the Month of Letters Challenge... Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Penguin Books ‘Great Loves’ Series: Leo Tolstoy and The Kreutzer Sonata

  

  Today’s post on Leo Tolstoy means a return to my occasional Russian theme, though yet again it is a digression from the TBR Pile. Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Romans on The Landing: Ecce Romani

  

  Today’s post is about a studious little side-project to my TBR Pile endeavours, though I am not sure whether it will be a long-lasting one or not. Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• New Year, Not So New Literary Challenge

  

  My literary blogging (and to some extent, the background reading also) has been somewhat sporadic of late, leading to a sad lack of posts in November and... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Gladys Mitchell Crime Capers

  

  I’m afraid that today’s post about Gladys Mitchell (1901-1983) is going to be another digression from my mammoth Landing Book Shelves task. It is I admit a... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• JB Priestley: A Yorkshire Grumbler’s Delights

  

  1894-1984After my break from reading essays to tackle Vanity Fair (inspired by the John Sutherland essay collection), I am now reading yet another essay... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Vanity Fair and Queen Semiramis

  

  Original title pageI was all prepared to give the readers of The Landing blog my thoughts upon reading Vanity Fair, when one of the minor female characters, Mis... Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Vanity Fair: Next on the List

  Here is a little holding post while I finish reading Vanity Fair, (William Makepeace Thackeray) which I mentioned in a previous post as a future TBR Pile target. Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Book Temptation in Blessington

  

  This will be a brief post, its purpose to illustrate just how difficult my task of reading around the Landing Bookshelves is going to be. Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Puzzling Over Literature: John Sutherland on C19 Fiction

  

  This blog post returns to the subject of essays, literary essays in particular, in the shape of John Sutherland’s collection of pieces delving behind the... Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Landing Author: Caitriona Lally on Writers, Rituals and Routines

  

  The launch of ‘Eggshells’Here as promised on Thursday, is Caitriona Lally’s guest post for The Landing Book Shelves, marking my 200th blog post:I tend to get... Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Introducing Landing Author Caitriona Lally and ‘Eggshells’

  

  Published by Liberties Press, 2015. Cover design by Karen Vaughan.After quite a long gap, I am pleased to be hosting another Landing Author guest post. Read more

  Posted on 16 July 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE