Chris Mills

LATEST ARTICLES ( 249 )

• The First Bulletin on War and Peace

  

  As I’m sure my readers will be pleased to know, my War and Peace challenge is making relatively good progress. Note that I’m hedging a bit here by using the wor... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• A Witchy Halloween Poem

  

  This is my small contribution to the Halloween festival, in the form of a poem taken from a poetry book called The Story Witch and Other Rhymes that my sister... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Tolstoy: The Next Landing TBR Pile Challenge

  

  Cover shows detail from ‘The 1812 Retreat – The Battle of Borodino’ by VereschaginI promised you an announcement on the next stage of the Landing Book Shelves... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Finally There: The Frontenac Mystery by François Mauriac

  

  An evocative scene..‘Before beginning a novel I re-create inside myself its places, its milieu, its colours and smells. I revive within myself the atmosphere... Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Open House Dublin: #LandingExcursion Time Again

  

  As fellow fans of architectural Dublin will know, Open House Dublin fell in the first weekend of October (Friday 4th – Sunday 6th). Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• A Landing Bonus Book: The Herbalist by Niamh Boyce

  

  He just appeared one morning and set up shop in the market square. It was drizzling. Everything was either a shade of brown or a shade of grey. He was the... Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Catching up with Naipaul: In a Free State

  

  Next choice…In this country in Africa there was a president and there was also a king. They belonged to different tribes. The enmity of the tribes was old, and... Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Landing Eight Re-Visited

  

  It has now been at least a year since I began reading through what came to be known as the Landing Eight selection. If you remember, (assuming that you have bee... Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• #LandingAuthor: Louise Phillips

  

  A Brace of ThrillersHere as promised is Louise Phillips to add a touch of darkness to The Landing as she answers a couple of my questions about delving into los... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• #LandingAuthor Expected: Louise Phillips

  

  In the next couple of days, The Landing is moving away from the foggy distant past and right bang up to date with a new #LandingAuthor guest spot. Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Swerve: Philosophical Dynamite

  

  How the Renaissance BeganAs I think I have mentioned before, I have had The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began (Stephen Greenblatt) on my bed side table for a fe... Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Marc Chagall: Modern Master

  

  The Landing Bookshelves have been rather quiet of late for one reason or another I’m afraid but I hope to shake off my dose of ‘Blogger’s Block’ as soon as... Read more

  Posted on 13 August 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• From Cakes to Books: a Snatch of Memoir

  

  An edible report card…At the end of the last school term I put my cake decorator’s hat on and made a cake to celebrate the end of primary school for my... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The BookCrossing Experience

  

  My apologies for the long gap between the last blog post and this one; I resolve to be a  better blogger over the remainder of the summer months. Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• #PoetryinJune: Anonymous ?

  

  For the last of my #PoetryinJune features I thought that I would feature a poem from that ever prolific versifier Anonymous (often shortened to Anon). Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• #PoetryinJune: Ogden Nash

  

  Now that school’s out for summer, I think that we should have another beach related poem to nudge us a little  nearer towards the end of the month. Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• #PoetryinJune: George Mackay Brown

  

  The school summer holidays are now almost upon us, so today’s poem from Orcadian poet George Mackay Brown (1921-1996) is meant to encourage you to think of beac... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2013 BOOKS

• #PoetryinJune: David Marcus

  

  My poet today is David Marcus (1924-2009), a poet (also editor, translator and novelist) whom I only discovered in the last couple of years. Read more

  Posted on 26 June 2013 BOOKS

• #PoetryinJune: Stevie Smith

  

  I chose Fairy Story by Stevie Smith (1902-1971) because I felt that the woodland scene would follow on well from yesterday’s Kipling verses. Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• #PoetryinJune: Kipling

  

  This week sees the last of our daughter’s primary school career so I am posting The Way Through the Woods by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936by in honour. Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE