Chris Mills

LATEST ARTICLES ( 240 )

• 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

• The Magi: in Art and Poetry

  

  To mark the end of the Christmas season, I have returned to one of The Landing’s poetry collections for a suitable verse. You might recall that Read Me: A Poem... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Chimes by Charles Dickens

  

  I have The Chimes on The Landing Book Shelves, in two editions. The one that I have had for the longest time is an abridged version contained within The... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Getting Carried Away with Christmas Cards

  

  Christmas does seem to have passed The Landing by this year, but as we are still within the Twelve days of Christmas I am going to try to squeeze in a couple... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• A New Reading Challenge?

  

  Tantalising GlimpseI have been thinking about ways of revitalising my Landing Book Shelves challenge for 2015 and beyond. Many books remain to be read,... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• When is a TBR Pile Not a TBR Pile?

  

  As I wandered around the library recently, browsing the ‘just returned’ and the ‘new titles’ shelves, I spotted a couple if books that had been on my mental... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Mary Wollstonecraft by Claire Tomalin

  

  Old Penguin edition, now re-jacketedI have recently been re-reading a biography of Mary Wollstonecraft (1759 -1797) by Claire Tomalin that I bought some years... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Enchanted Wanderer: Adventures Aplenty

  

  Simple and Elegant…After becoming very sidetracked on a previous post on Nikolai Leskov, I am going to stick to my original intention of discussing The Enchante... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Fantasy Art Buying at the Sculpture in Context Exhibition

  

  During our visit to this year’s Sculpture in Context exhibition at the National Botanic Gardens, the Bookworm and I decided to indulge in a little harmless... Read more

  Posted on 12 October 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• A New Book from #LandingAuthor Louise Phillips: Last Kiss

  

  Regular readers of The Landing Book Shelves will know that Louise Phillips was a guest here after the publication of her last book The Doll’s House in 2013. Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE