Hornblower, Still Under Full Sail- December 26, 2005 An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable andor neglected books from the past.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/25/LI2005032502370_xml/~3/24... Getting Their Donder Up- December 13, 2005 THE WORST NOELhttp://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/25/LI2005032502370_xml/~3/24... Jonathan Yardley- December 11, 2005 On May 2, 1952, 7-year-old Martin Booth set sail from England with his mother and father on the month-long voyage to Hong Kong aboard a ship called the Corfu. His father, Ken, a civil servant in the Admiralty, was to assume a post there as "Deputy Naval Stores Officer," serving "upon a Royal Fleet Auxiliary naval supply ship plying between the British crown colony and the Japanese military dockyard of Sasebo." His mother, Joyce, who had worked as a telephone operator in Britain, was along for...http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/25/LI2005032502370_xml/~3/24... The Son and the Fury- December 6, 2005 THE AMERICANhttp://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/25/LI2005032502370_xml/~3/24... Jonathan Yardley- December 4, 2005 Readers of Book World who browse elsewhere in this massive newspaper are perhaps aware that I write an irregular column for the Style section called Second Reading, in which I reconsider "notable andor neglected books from the past." To date, something on the order of 90 percent of the books discussed there have been works of fiction, and almost all of those are books that I admire or even love. By contrast, the "literary" fiction being written in this country nowadays strikes me as so jejune,..http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/25/LI2005032502370_xml/~3/24... |