Chris Mills

LATEST ARTICLES ( 249 )

• 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

• Cold War Publishing: The Zhivago Affair

  

  A recent library visit found me as usual scanning the ‘New Titles’ and ‘Just Returned’ shelves for any likely contenders for a bedside table slot. Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Culture Club at Liberties Upstairs

  

  I have borrowed my post from the Members’ Blog on Writing.ie, in which I talk about a new venture that I am involved in organising for Liberties Press In Dublin. Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• My Nerdish ‘Book of Books’

  

  Recent thoughts of belatedly backing up blog content have led to my pondering nostalgically about the books I have read over the past few years. Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Yes, We Have No Oranges (Nor Bananas)…

  

  Last year author Juliet Greenwood (We That Are left, Honno Press)) wrote a guest blog post on the topic of producing and preparing food for the Home Front durin... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Reading Somerset Maugham on Emily Brontë

  

  I have been reading some of the literary criticism essays in Somerset Maugham’s book (mentioned in a recent post), beginning obviously enough with those about... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Sheep, Sheep Everywhere….

  

  This blog post is going to feature several sheep. Yes, that’s right I do mean the woolly, grass eating sort (as if there were any other). Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• A Landing Word Blight

  I have been struggling to keep motivated with my Landing Book Shelves project lately, as you might have noticed. There has been a distinct lack of words... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Month of Letters Update

  

  I have written about tackling the February ‘Month of Letters’ challenge before on The Landing and on Writing.ie, so I thought that I would give you a progress... Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Interview With Two Editors

  

  Chris Mills:As I attended the successful launch of Love on the Road last night, I thought I would re-blog Daniel Seery’s interview with the editors of the... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Maugham on Fiction: An Inspiration for an Essay Reading Challenge

  

  An early career author pictureAs I mentioned in my last post, I have been reading some of William Somerset Maugham’s essays from Ten Novels and their Authors... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Serendipity: Jane Austen, a Family Letter and Somerset Maugham

  

  While I was over visiting my parents before Christmas, I had my usual riffle through their bookshelves in search of old friends. I came across a book that I... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE