Chris Mills

LATEST ARTICLES ( 249 )

• 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

• Splitting Books, Not Hairs: It’s Back to School Again!

  

  Back to school bagI’m finally back on The Landing after the summer hiatus. That time of year always has a strange effect on my routine and good intentions and... Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• What’s Your First Draft Like? – Louise Phillips

  

  Chris Mills:I’m re-blogging this piece from Rebecca Bradley’s crime blog since I’ve recently finished Louise Phillips’ Last Kiss. Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Not So Quiet by Helen Zenna Smith

  

  While I was working on Juliet Greenwood’s guest material, I was reminded of a short review that I wrote of Not So Quiet by Helen Zenna Smith (my edition is... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Landing Author: Juliet Greenwood on WWI Food

  

  As I promised here is Juliet Greenwood’s guest post. Picking up on my interest in the theme of growing and preparing nutritious food during the war, I asked... Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Introducing Landing Author Juliet Greenwood

  

  As there are still plenty of summer days left for reading (albeit that you might be reading in mac and wellingtons) I thought I would feature one of my recent... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Summer of Heritage 2014: Tours Of Dún Laoghaire Rathdown

  

  Chris Mills:I wrote this piece for the Irish News Review this week after having a tour round Cabinteely House, so I thought I’d re-post this here in case... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Leskov and Shostakovich on The Landing

  

  Following on from the Landing Book Shelves foray into Russian literature, with Tolstoy and Pasternak, we have Nikolai Leskov (1831-1895) with The Enchanted... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Summer at the Bookshop: It Started with a Sketch…

  

  In honour of bookselling summers gone by (and fellow booksellers), I am re-posting an edited version of a blog article that I originally wrote for Writing.ie... Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Cranford on the Small Screen

  After reading Cranford recently, The Bookworm and I decided to indulge in a DVD binge and we watched the entire BBC Cranford production from 2007 in one day of... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Ladies Who Take Tea: Cranford

  

  Over the last wee while, I have been reading Mrs Gaskell’s Cranford aloud to the Bookworm (usually on a Sunday morning for some reason) and we are now roughly... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Words on the Street: Literary Dublin

  It’s been a while since I featured anything of an excursionary (I think I made that word up) nature on The Landing so I’m taking the opportunity offered by... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE